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The Career Fitness Workbook: How to Find, Win & Hold Onto the Job of Your Dreams
by Peter Weddle
This guide provides an engaging way for job seekers to rethink their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and goals, and challenges and opportunities in the new world that has emerged after the "Great Recession." It compares the principles of developing a strong career to the practices of building a healthy body. Exercises and worksheets cover topics such as discovering individual talent, setting goals, nurturing the facets of a healthy career, how to define personal victories, and getting back on track.
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How to Get a Good Job after 50: A Step-by-Step Guide to Job Search Success
by Rupert French
Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace because of their experience, skills, reliability and sense of responsibility before going on to show how to demonstrate these qualities to prospective employers. It encourages people to adopt a pro-active, ‘self-employed' approach, building self-esteem and promoting a time-efficient, self-managed job search program, and outlines proven job searching techniques.
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How to Get a Great Job: A Library How-To Handbook
by American Library Association
In our difficult time, or at any time, knowing how to find a great job is a necessary skill. All the resources you need for a successful job search are at your fingertips-and completely free-at your public library. It can be a daunting task, so here is expert advice on how to conduct proper research, build networks of friends and colleagues, put together a great resume, research industries that are constantly changing, prepare for an interview, negotiate a contract or a salary, and more. This could be the turbo-boost your job search needs.
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Knock 'Em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
by Martin John Yate
The newest edition of this classic guide to job searching now includes new information on where to find jobs, how to pinpoint which job openings offer the best chance of success and what answers to interview questions will most impress interviewers.
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Knock Em Dead Social Networking: For Job Search & Professional Success
by Martin Yate
New York Times bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to use his proven social networking strategies to build your brand and market your skills across an ever-growing network. Today, most employers use popular social media platforms like LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter for recruitment. With millions of professionals also social networking, it's essential to create a brand that stands out. With Knock 'em Dead Social Networking, you can learn how to integrate social networking into every aspect of your job search. You'll learn how to create compelling social media profiles that dramatically increase your visibility, how to build professionally relevant networks, and how to reach out directly to the hiring managers who can most influence your career. You'll develop networks that help you navigate a long work life, and gain greater control over your professional destiny.
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What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
Thoroughly revised, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, career searching online and more, in a guide that reflects the current market.
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Resources for Changing Careers
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Expert Resumes for Career Changers
by Wendy S. Enelow
For most people, the hardest part of writing a resume is getting started. In this book, professional resume writers and career counselors Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark give you the help you need to start and pull together a stunning resume with ease. Includes the top nine resume strategies for getting noticed and getting interviews; plus format and presentation standards, step-by-step writing instructions, and tips to use technology effectively in your job search.
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New Resume New Career
by Catherine Jewell
Explains how to transform standard chronological resumés into functional ones that highlight skills and experiences for jobs of the future, and features 50 job-seeker profiles with "before" and "after" versions of transformed resumés to use as examples.
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Paint Your Career Green: Get a Green Job without Starting Over
by Stanley Schatt
Profiles green certificate programs that offer short-term retraining opportunities, sharing guidelines for researching environmentally friendly careers and employers while outlining strategies for how to avoid starting over a career or taking severe pay cuts, in a resource that also outlines tips for managing finances during transition times.
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What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
Thoroughly revised, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, career searching online and more, in a guide that reflects the current market.
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Resources for Entry-Level Job Seekers
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I Don't Want to Go to College: Other Paths to Success
by Heather Z. Hutchins
Provides career alternatives to attending college, discussing the advantages of entering the workforce without a college education, explaining the value of technical training, and detailing careers that do not require a college degree.
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Land Your Dream Career in College: The Complete Guide to Success
by Tori Randolph Terhune
Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Authors Tori Randolph Terhune, a gainfully-employed young college graduate herself, and Betsy A. Hays, a college professor, show readers what they can do in college to successfully pave the way for future employment in Land Your Dream Career. The authors provideeleven easy-to-follow strategies for effectively using time on campus to start building a career.
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Life after College: Ten Steps to Build a Life You Love
by Tori Randolph Terhune
Whether employed or not upon completing their college degree, most people experience a significant “culture shock” while transitioning from student to professional life. In Life After College: Ten Steps to Build a Life You Love, authors Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy A. Hays show recent, and not so recent, college graduates what they can do to successfully transition into this new stage of their lives. Terhune, a recent college graduate, and Hays, a college professor, provide honest, humorous, and helpful suggestions to help readers thrive. The authors offer ten easy-to-follow strategies and practical advice for all points of life—from time management at home and at work to making friends in a new city to budgeting. The book also covers key generational differences, the magic of mentoring, and the millennial validation vacuum. Life After College will help any recent grad build a fulfilling life—in and out of the office.
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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization
by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
Think and Grow Digital teaches young talents how to align with company "seniors" without giving up their ideals. The author explains how readers can help companies focus on moon shots: things really worth going for that help both the company and the world. Readers learn how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.
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Job Search & Career Info
Find resources to help you get a job, create a resume, file for unemployment, or improve your work skills.
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WorkOne
WorkOne provides resources to help you plan your career, including information on current job openings, resume assistance, workshops, skills assessments, training, and special programs for veterans, dislocated workers, job seekers over 55, job seekers with disabilities, and more.
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The Learning Center
The library offers free tutoring in basic skills, pre-GED and GED, reading, math, and other coursework for adults and children. Students are matched with a tutor who is knowledgeable or trained to work with their needs and able to meet at mutually agreed upon times. For more information and to set up an appointment, contact Jessica Hoffmaster, Literacy Supervisor, at 219-873-3043
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Grace Learning Center
Grace Learning Center provides assistance in developing the skills necessary to get entry level and more advanced level jobs. The center provides literacy and pre-GED training through a partnership with A.K. Smith, and offers workshops on a number of financial, technical, and career topics. Grace Learning Center is a WorkOne access point, and provides assistance with computer-based job searches.
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Testing & Education Reference Center
Includes a virtual career library, tutorials on job-related skills, online resume builder, information on accredited schools, and over 100 practice tests and courses for the PRAXIS, ASVAB, ASE Automotive tests, medical and nursing exams, firefighter and law enforcement exams, GED, SAT, ACT, and more. Log in with your library card number.
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A.K. Smith Career Center
The A.K. Smith Career Center offers a comprehensive program in Adult Basic Education for adult learners who have not completed high school and high school graduates who need remediation in basic skills. Classes are conducted in reading, writing, math, English as a Second Language, and GED test preparation.
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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