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The 6 Reasons You'll Get the Job: What Employers Look for Whether They Know It or Not
by Debra Angel MacDougall
In a difficult job market, competition for limited jobs can be intense, so it's important to present yourself in the most appealing way possible. If you need help figuring out what characteristics employers are looking for, you may want to check out this book by two long-time career coaches. It clearly and thoughtfully explains the six criteria -- presentation, ability, dependability, motivation, attitude, and network -- that employers consider when selecting future employees. The authors also describe the different ways that employers assess each criterion, and present strategies for targeting your job search, making this a useful source for job seekers.
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Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Hired, and Rewarded at Work
by Jessica Kleiman
Shows anyone looking to land a new job, attract freelance assignments, stay essential in a current position, or get that coveted promotion by using public relations skills to achieve his or her goals. Be Your Own Best Publicist will teach you how to set a personal PR strategy that gets results, build key message points and deliver them with style, craft the perfect "pitch" for each situation, network and develop relationships that will help you get ahead, and use creativity to stand out from the competition.
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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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Cracking the Hidden Job Market: How to Find Opportunity in Any Economy
by Donald Asher
Counsels job-seekers of all ages and levels of experience on how to craft a focused and successful job-searching strategy, challenging conventional beliefs on such topics as the opportunities of the present economy and the benefits of contingent jobs. By the author of Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why.
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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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Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
by Daniel J. Ryan
A complete career-planning and job-search guide for people with physical and mental disabilities explains how to identify strengths, explore options, find jobs, write resumes and perform well in interviews.
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Knock 'Em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide, 2013
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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Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search when Times Are Tough
by Duncan Mathison
More than 70% of today’s job opportunities come through the “hidden job market”: they’re never advertised, assigned to search firms or internal recruiters, or displayed at job fairs. What’s more, as employers cut recruiting costs, the proportion of “hidden” job opportunities is actually growing. Now, two career experts reveal the hidden job market, and show how to use it to dramatically improve your chances of landing a job that fits your passions and skills perfectly.
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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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Dream Year: Make the Leap from a Job You Hate to a Life You Love
by Ben Arment
The head of the Dream Year coaching organization outlines a one-year process for enabling radical changes in one's personal and professional arenas, outlining practical steps for identifying, financing and executing sustainable dream projects for greater fulfillment.
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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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Resumes for the Rest of Us: Secrets from the Pros for Job Seekers with Unconventional Career Paths
by Arnold G. Boldt
Veteran resume writer Arnold Boldt shares his professional knowledge and experience to help you prepare a resume that will effectively and positively capture the attention of your targeted employers--even if you have an unconventional work history. Specific and proven advice is offered to job seekers in a broad array of categories, including return-to-work moms, people with gaps in their work histories, blue collar workers, young-at-heart retirees pursuing new careers, ex-offenders, recent immigrants, the formerly self-employed, career changers, managers without college degrees, ex-military personnel, and personal assistants, nannies, and other domestic workers. Sample resumes prepared by leading resume-writers and career consultants illustrate how to address problem areas and make your resume shine.
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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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Dig this Gig: Find Your Dream Job -- or Invent It
by Laura Dodd
Though aimed at the 20-something crowd seeking their first jobs out of college, this unusual job-search book may be helpful for anyone considering a change, for like Studs Terkel's Working, it introduces a vast array of career options. Consisting of biographical entries on a variety of dynamic young people, Dig this Gig provides firsthand views of entirely different career paths in eight broad industries (such as "health care" or "entertainment"). In addition to the stories of those still in their twenties, author Laura Dodd includes insights and lessons learned from established individuals like Dan Rather and Jeffrey Sachs.
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How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work
by Megan Hustad
Based on the experiences of twenty- and thirty-somethings, as well as the advice of experts ranging from Andrew Carnegie and Emily Post to Napoleon Hill, Helen Gurley Brown, and Stephen Covey, a hip and practical guide explains how to negotiate the often difficult ins and outs of office life with wise and whimsical advice on how to move up in the world.
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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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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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Teens and Career Choices
by Hal Marcovitz
Provides educational and vocational guidance for teenagers, and provides stories of the different ways teenagers can prepare for their future.
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Resources for Experienced Job Seekers
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Finding Work After 40 : Proven Strategies for Managers and Professionals
by Robin McKay Bell
Outlines a tested job-search program for mature professionals that explains how to reassess one's midlife career goals, providing coverage of such topics as handling key areas of redundancy, effectively evaluating one's skills and analyzing a market for age-related factors.
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Resources for Ex-Offender Job Seekers
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Best Jobs for Ex-Offenders
by Ron Krannich
Ex-offenders face difficulties in finding and keeping jobs with a promising future. Often young, inexperienced, and living in a world of illusions, most ex-offenders lack knowledge about appropriate opportunities. This book profiles 101 opportunities (job outlook, nature of work, qualifications, earnings, contacts) that are open to ex-offenders. It also identifies various jobs closed to ex-offenders.
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The Ex-Offender's Guide to a Responsible Life: A National Directory of Re-Entry Tips and Resources
by Harvey E. Shrum
Going beyond mere survival issues, this incredibly detailed and user-friendly resource helps ex-offenders stay out for good by focusing on many key ingredients that lead to a responsible life. The directory identifies important support services and common sense tools for dealing with the day-to-day realities of finding a job, locating housing, maintaining good health, controlling anger, handling addictions, avoiding relapse, managing money, and becoming a good parent.
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Resources after Involuntary Job Loss
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Eliminated, Now What?: Finding Your Way from Job-Loss Crisis to Career Resilience
by Jean Baur
Teaches the unemployed how to view their job loss as an opportunity, explaining what to do in the first days following a layoff, how to maintain a positive attitude, how best to look for a new job and more, in a book that includes case studies of real people who lost their jobs, yet went on to successful careers.
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Get a Great Job When You Don't Have a Job
by Marky Stein
A compendium of three books by the author--Fearless Resumes, Fearless Interviewing, and Fearless Career Change demystifies the job-hunting process, helping readers turn past duties into sizzling accomplishments, dazzle interviewers within twenty seconds, and transition to a new career with minimal stress or personal expense.
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The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success
by Megan McArdle
Outlines counter-intuitive assessments of the sources of success, drawing on a broad range of disciplines to explain how to harness the learning experiences associated with failure in order to promote professional growth.
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Resources for Job Seekers without a Degree
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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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Resumes for the Rest of Us: Secrets from the Pros for Job Seekers with Unconventional Career Paths
by Arnold G. Boldt
Veteran resume writer Arnold Boldt shares his professional knowledge and experience to help you prepare a resume that will effectively and positively capture the attention of your targeted employers--even if you have an unconventional work history. Specific and proven advice is offered to job seekers in a broad array of categories, including return-to-work moms, people with gaps in their work histories, blue collar workers, young-at-heart retirees pursuing new careers, ex-offenders, recent immigrants, the formerly self-employed, career changers, managers without college degrees, ex-military personnel, and personal assistants, nannies, and other domestic workers. Sample resumes prepared by leading resume-writers and career consultants illustrate how to address problem areas and make your resume shine.
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Resources for Transitioning Military Personnel
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150 Best Jobs for the Military-to-Civilian Transition
by Laurence Shatkin
Veterans face many challenges as they seek civilian jobs. This book helps today's returning military find the best job matches for their training, interests and more. With 45 best-jobs lists and 150 detailed job descriptions, the book covers the best-paying and fastest-growing occupations held by recent veterans. Veterans can transition to these jobs mainly using the skills learned in military service; some occupations may require additional training, and this information is explained as well.
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Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Transitions
by Wendy S. Enelow
Shows military veterans how to market their skills and experience and translate them into language that resume-reading prospective employers will understand, in a book that offers job strategies, tips on electronic resumes, resume-writing advice and 180 pages of sample resumes.
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Life after the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans
by Janelle Hill
Hundreds of thousands of military members are making the transition to civilian life each year. This transition is a move into unfamiliar territory and can be an extremely uncomfortable process. However, there are resources in place that can relieve much of the stress of the challenging situations that may arise. The book discusses the many issues that transitioning veterans are faced with such as finding employment, going back to school, managing finances, special benefits available to veterans, and a host of other issues. It also discusses the emotional and psychological challenges that come with leaving the military and settling into life as a civilian.
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Resumes for the Rest of Us: Secrets from the Pros for Job Seekers with Unconventional Career Paths
by Arnold G. Boldt
Veteran resume writer Arnold Boldt shares his professional knowledge and experience to help you prepare a resume that will effectively and positively capture the attention of your targeted employers--even if you have an unconventional work history. Specific and proven advice is offered to job seekers in a broad array of categories, including return-to-work moms, people with gaps in their work histories, blue collar workers, young-at-heart retirees pursuing new careers, ex-offenders, recent immigrants, the formerly self-employed, career changers, managers without college degrees, ex-military personnel, and personal assistants, nannies, and other domestic workers. Sample resumes prepared by leading resume-writers and career consultants illustrate how to address problem areas and make your resume shine.
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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 Cynthia McKinney, 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.
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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
219-873-3044
http://mclib.org/
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