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Career Guides in Libraries
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What Color is Your Parachute? Richard Bolles. Annual. [What Color is Your Parachute? Job Hunting Online gives job search tips and links to websites from the latest edition of What Color is Your Parachute?]
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow.
Discover What You're Best At.
Work with Passion: How to Do What You Love for a Living.
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was.
Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design. |
There are so many of these! Electra will weasel out and pass along tips for finding the guide you need.
Guides to Guides to Careers
(Librarians LOVE this sort of thing):
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Job Hunter's Sourcebook: Where to Find Employment Leads and other Job Search Resources. Titles, dates and summaries for career guides in 165 different occupations. Use the section for each occupation called "Sources of Help-Wanted-Ads" to identify the trade publications in your field.
U.S. Dept. of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook.
Professional Careers Sourcebook.
Vocational Careers Sourcebook.
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UNTIL NOW!
Some public libraries and career centers now have subscriptions to EUREKA: The California Information System and Microskills for you to use free of charge. Call your library and ask!
EUREKA is a 21-item computer questionnaire that matches your responses to those of 400 occupations. You can also select level of education and beginning wage levels. Another flick of the keyboard and you can explore each of the occupations: pay and employment outlook, national and international settings, preparation or licensing and which industries employ that occupation. EUREKA is a California product, produced in Richmond, and it contains data specific to California and updated every year.
Microskills is a related program (from the EUREKA folks) for the experienced worker. Are you thinking of a career change? You can select and rank the skills you enjoyed in past jobs (and might find enjoyable in a future job.) Microskills will then select jobs that require a similar pattern of skills. Microskills can help you strengthen your resume too! Once you know the desirable skills you bring to your new career, you can highlight them on your resume, cover letters and in interviews.
PERSONAL NOTE: Electra has taken lots of these computer tests! EUREKA and Microskills did NOT suggest she become a yak-trainer or a college football coach! Her results showed, that in addition to being a librarian, she might enjoy (and do well at) market research, college teaching, computer consulting and nonprofits management. Electra loves what she does...but if she were looking for a change this might be where she'd look.