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5 Steps to Rapid Employment: The Job You Want at the Pay You Deserve
by Jay A. Block
In 5 Steps to Rapid Employment, veteran career expert Jay Block reveals his proven system for finding and getting the job you want, whether you're just out of college or transitioning into a new career. Follow Block's simple process to manage fear and negative emotions that impede success, define clear job and career goals, create high-impact self-marketing tools, develop strategic action plans and take action, and master self-marketing skills.
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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 and Elisabeth Harney Sanders-Parks
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." As a self-instructional workbook, this helpful companion enables career builders to learn valuable lessons at their own pace and apply them to their own unique circumstances. 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 Great Job: A Library How-To Handbook
by American Library Association
In a book that highlights the free resources at one's public library, the experts at the American Library Association explain how to conduct proper research, build networks, draft a great resume, prepare for an interview, negotiate a salary and much more.
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Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
by Daniel J. Ryan
This extensive handbook shows people with disabilities how to overcome obstacles they encounter when searching for employment. Readers learn how to identify their strengths, explore career options, and navigate the hidden job market. They also gain tips for writing resumes, cover letters, and other forms of job search communication, as well as guidance for performing well in interviews. Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities features helpful information on employment laws and the rights they provide. It teaches readers when and how to disclose disabilities to a potential employer and lends additional guidance for success on the job. This new edition has been updated throughout to include new information on assessment instruments, social networking, and the Job Accommodation Network. It also provides new information on online resources and up-to-date job search techniques.
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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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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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Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You
by Harvey Mackay
This well-reviewed book by bestselling author Harvey Mackay draws on real-life stories to explain how to rebuild confidence in oneself, take advantage of the way hiring decisions are made, and blend the latest online tools with old-fashioned face-to-face networking. Starting early in the process (one chapter addresses the seven danger signs of impending job loss), Mackay's useful advice is appropriate for job seekers of any age or experience level.
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Weddle's Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet
by Peter D. Weddle
A guide to the job sites, career portals, and resume databases operating on the Internet provides information as to the number and kinds of jobs posted on each site, the salary levels of posted jobs, and services offered.
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What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
Thoroughly revised for 2011, 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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Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger
This book leads readers step-by-step through the process of determining and verifying Personality Type. Then it identifies occupations that are popular with each Type, provides helpful case studies, and offers a rundown of each Type's work-related strengths and weaknesses. Focusing on each Type's strengths, Do What You Are uses workbook exercises to help readers customize their job search, ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time.
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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 cover the top nine resume strategies for getting noticed and getting interviews; plus format and presentation standards, step-by-step writing instructions with examples, techniques for choosing the best resume type for your situation, tips to use technology effectively in your job search, including scannable and electronic resumes, and an extensive directory of job search resources on the Web.
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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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The Sequel: How to Change Your Career Without Starting over
by Laurence Shatkin
Making a career change? Don t start over! Redirect your career using what you already know. This new book explains how to leverage your skills, experience, and education in a fresh direction. Dr. Laurence Shatkin opens your eyes to many options in promising fields available to people with your background and traits. You'll gain a new perspective on valuing your work history while redefining your career path. You've invested time in your career, so make the most of this knowledge by rerouting instead of restarting.
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What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
Thoroughly revised for 2011, 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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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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I Just Graduated ... Now What?: Honest Answers from Those Who Have Been There
by Katherine Schwarzenegger
Graduation is a time of tough questions whose answers we don’t—and sometimes can’t—know the day we receive our diploma. Katherine Schwarzenegger embarked on a yearlong quest to gather the best guidance possible from more than thirty highly successful people working in fields like business, media, fashion, technology, sports, and philanthropy. Along the way, Katherine uncovered the essential and often surprising advice they have for graduates.
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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. Terhune, a recent college graduate, and Hays, a college professor, provide honest, humorous, and helpful suggestions to help readers successfully transition into this new stage of their lives. Focusing on more than just success in the workplace, 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.
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
by Liz Wiseman
In a rapidly changing world, experience can be a curse. Careers stall, innovation stops, and strategies grow stale. Being new, naïve, and even clueless can be an asset. For today’s knowledge workers, constant learning is more valuable than mastery. Leadership expert Liz Wiseman explains how to reclaim and cultivate this curious, flexible, youthful mindset called Rookie Smarts. She argues that the most successful rookies are hunter-gatherers—alert and seeking, cautious but quick like firewalkers, and hungry and relentless like pioneers. Most importantly, she identifies a breed of leaders she refers to as “perpetual rookies.” Despite years of experience, they retain their rookie smarts, thinking and operating with the mindsets and practices of these high-performing rookies. The answer is to stay fresh, keep learning, and know when to think like a rookie.
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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
A digital executive shows millennials how to excel in a corporate environment still dominated by an older generation, while remaining true to their personal values. 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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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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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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Eliminated, Now What?: Finding Your Way from Job-Loss Crisis to Career Resilience
by Jean Baur
Eliminated! Now What? teaches people how to view their job loss as an opportunity, rather than a crippling dilemma. It explains what to do in the first days following a layoff, how to talk about unemployment with others, and which actions and thoughts will help readers maintain a positive attitude. Baur dispels myths and lies associated with job seeking and provides case studies of real people who achieved success after losing their jobs. She equips readers with action steps to overcome obstacles and teaches them how to be resilient in any economy no matter their age or experience.
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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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Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success
by Rick Newman
In Rebounders, Rick Newman examines the rise and fall—and rise again—of some of our most prolific and productive figures in order to demystify the anatomy of resilience. He identifies nine key traits found in people who bounce back that can transform a setback into the first step toward great accomplishment. Newman turns many well-worn axioms on their head as he shows how virtually anybody can improve their resilience and get better at turning adversity into personal and professional achievement. In this uncertain and unstable time, Rebounders lays out the new rules for success and equips you with the tools you need to get ahead and thrive.
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The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success
by Megan McArdle
Most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? What separates those who keep treading water from those who harness the lessons from their mistakes? Megan McArdle takes insights from emergency room doctors, kindergarten teachers, bankruptcy judges, and venture capitalists to teach us how to reinvent ourselves in the face of failure.
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Job Seekers with Disabilities
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Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
by Daniel J. Ryan
This extensive handbook shows people with disabilities how to overcome obstacles they encounter when searching for employment. Readers learn how to identify their strengths, explore career options, and navigate the hidden job market. They also gain tips for writing resumes, cover letters, and other forms of job search communication, as well as guidance for performing well in interviews. Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities features helpful information on employment laws and the rights they provide. It teaches readers when and how to disclose disabilities to a potential employer and lends additional guidance for success on the job. This new edition has been updated throughout to include new information on assessment instruments, social networking, and the Job Accommodation Network. It also provides new information on online resources and up-to-date job search techniques.
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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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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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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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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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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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