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Career and Employment

Print & eBook resources about resumes, interviews, career development, and more.

Print books

The links below take you to the library's Discovery Search for a list of print books that you can check out on that topic. Feel free to limit by date range. 

eBooks

Links below are lists of eBooks from the library's Discovery Search that you read or download (checkout) online 24/7. Feel free to limit by date range. Learn more about eBooks here.

A Sampling of Books about Careers and Vocations

Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A killer resume gets more job interviews!

Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. The new edition of this classic guide includes dozens of sample resumes as well as cutting-edge advice on resume-writing tactics.

Knock em Dead Secrets & Strategies For Success in an Uncertain World

This title is a unique integration of job search tactics and long-term career management strategy.

Knock em Dead Secrets & Strategies For First Time Job Seekers

Live life on your terms It's tough landing your first job out of school and starting that climb up the ladder of success in such an uncertain world. In "Knock 'em Dead: Secrets & Strategies," you will learn how to make sense of the world of work.

Knock em Dead Job Interview: How to turn job interviews into a paycheck

If you are like 99.9% of all other professionals, you have less experience turning job interviews into job offers than you have with any other essential professional skill. Knock 'em Dead Job Interview will turn this weakness into strength, 

Bring Your Brain to Work

Bring Your Brain to Work focuses on three essential elements of a successful career--getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position--and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements. Many of the hurdles you face throughout your career are, first and foremost, psychological challenges, and Markman shows you how to use your different mental systems--motivational, social, and cognitive--to manage them more effectively.

Don't Get a Job...Make a Job: How to make it as a creative graduate

Knowing what you want from your design career and being able to adapt your strategy to suit is basic and vital--just like in the wild, designers need to evolve. The book celebrates the various strategies that students and graduates are taking to gain exposure, while also including interviews and inspirational advice from those who are now enjoying success as a result of their creative approach to employment.

Cracking the Tech Career: Insider advice on landing a job at Google, Microsoft, Apple or an top tech company.

In this book, the author shares her perspectives on what works and what doesn't, what makes you desirable, and what gets your resume saved or deleted. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are coveted companies in the current job market. This book is the complete guide to becoming the candidate they just cannot turn away. Find ways to make yourself stand out from the hordes of other applicants. Understand what the top companies are looking for, and how to demonstrate that you're it. 

Becoming a Nurse

A revealing guide to a nursing career written by esteemed reporter Sonny Kleinfield and based on the real-life experiences of the celebrated emergency room nurses of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital--required reading for anyone considering a path to this profession. Becoming a Nurse takes you behind the scenes to find out what it's really like, and what it really takes, to become a nurse.

101 Careers in Social Work (2nd Edition)

The authors do an excellent job of illustrating the uniqueness, diversity, and richness of the profession. What do documentary filmmakers, conflict mediators, forensic social workers, researchers, mental health practitioners, human services administrators, medical social workers, and policy advocates have in common? They are all potential careers for social workers.

The Career Coward's Guide to Career Advancement

The Career Coward's Guide to Career Advancement empowers readers to step outside their comfort zone by breaking down the career advancement process into small, attainable goals. aders achieve their full career potential. This resource teaches readers how to define goals, master the art of negotiating with bosses and decision-makers, develop ordinary jobs into extraordinary career opportunities, and implement small career improvements that yield significant results.