Careers and Employment Subject Guide
Careers in a Particular Field
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This site for applicants and employers include faculty, research, post doc, adjunct, administrative, and senior management positions at (community) colleges, universities, and research institutes around the world.
Business Communications, the Real World, and Your Career
HF 5382.5 .U5 S43 2000 (Reference)
This book guides you on how to make good decisions in the workplace, how to communicate, be a team player, and handle conflict. It recommends that you know the history of your industry and your company and that you join a professional organization. The last chapter lists resources such as professional organizations, trade organizations, Web sites, and company directories.
Career Insider (formerly Vault Career Library)
An online career library where you can: conduct employer research, find details on top career paths and detailed insider information about potential careers, read about job responsibilities for occupations that interest you, hiring/education requirements, lifestyle, compensation, and advice for newcomers in a particular career path, obtain overviews on 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing, and research salary ranges.
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This site contains information about business careers in such fields as finance, accounting, and management-everything from skill requirements needed to trends in the industry. Also includes business job listings, links to additional information for your career.
Provides information on careers in all fields of education from teaching K-12, college, school administration, special services, adult and continuing education, business and industry, and careers in governance. Includes responsibilities, opportunities for advancement, and salaries. Must search by title within NetLibrary.
Details the responsibilities, education and training required, and employment outlooks for the nursing as a career.
Careers in Social Work
HV 10.5 .G55 2001 (Reference)
The audience for this book is people who are considering social work careers or who are already studying for a professional career in the field. It is written from a practical perspective-where to go to find a job, how to evaluate a job, how to decide if the job, or even the field of social work, is for you. It also deals with applications, licenses, credentials, salaries, benefits, and working conditions.
Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher
Gives a step-by-step guide to becoming a middle or high school teacher, as well as discusses important issues surrounding American education. This book offers many resources such as salaries from state to state, education associations, and accredited institutions of higher education.
Great Jobs for Accounting Majors
Part one begins with all the parts of the job search, including the resume and cover letter, interviewing, job offer considerations and more. Part two discusses the various accounting career paths available to someone with an accounting degree.
Great Jobs for English Majors
HF 5382.7 .D43 2000 (Reference)
The chapters cover all aspects of the job search such as self-assessment, researching careers, resume and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and English career paths.
QE 34 .C36 2000 (Reference)
The chapters cover all aspects of the job search including graduate school choice and geology career paths. Appendices list professional associations and geology web sites.
Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Marketing
HF 5415.35 .M36 2001 (Reference)
Provides insights on career self-assessment for those considering marketing. In addition, a diverse group of companies, recognized for their marketing strengths, profile marketing careers in their respective organization.
Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job
HF 5382.75 .U6 G37 2000 (Reference)
Chapters include getting started, selecting references, resumes, effective job search letters, planning and executing a search campaign, job search strategies, interviews, negotiating job offers, and final job search tips.
Many paths, one purpose: career paths for social work and human services majors
HV 10.5 M35 2006 (General stacks)
This book identifies fifteen different career tracks in social work and human services and presents testimonials from professionals in each track.
To help attorneys, paralegals, law school students, and legal professionals develop their careers and find legal jobs in law firms, corporations and other employers of legal talent. Inlcudes resume and letters, job alerts, and career resources. Employers post job openings.
Psychology Major : Career Options and Strategies for Success
BF77 .L26 2000 (Reference)
Provides an overview of the discipline of psychology, career options (both with and without a graduate degree), strategies for success in and out of the classroom, and coverage of critical issues in psychology.
Seeking Employment in Criminal Justice and Related Fields
HV8143 .H327 2000
CD-ROM (Waldo Library, Permanent Reserve & Reference Collection)
The book addresses both the public and private sector. It discusses career opportunities throughout the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the practice of law, courts, corrections, and related local, state, and federal agencies.