Career Exploration Links & Job Search Library Resources: Occupational and Career Information

Research shows that at least half of college students are uncertain about their majors, and nearly 40 percent of college students change their major at least once. Decide your right college major with the newest eBook in JIST's Help in a Hurry Series. Why spend months unsure about your major or declare one that leads to a poor career fit? This eBook leads you through an easy method of connecting yourself to a major and a career. Checklists reveal your interests (personality type), skills, and favorite courses. With the author's guidance, you use this information to match yourself to a field that you connect with.
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Jobs That Matter provides the tips you need to land a great job in government (including local, state, and federal), nonprofit, or corporate organizations serving the public good. This book helps you pinpoint the right public service career for your interests and talents, and then helps you land it with key research, networking, resume, cover letter, and interviewing techniques. Along the way you'll read profiles of people in various public service jobs, showing how they got their jobs and what they are like.
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In today's economy many well-educated and culturally savvy young people are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering. In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo examines the lives and workplaces of these people to see how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into 'cool' and highly specialized upscale occupational niches--and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers. Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's ‘postindustrial’ city.
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The comprehensive Occupational Outlook Handbook includes occupational profiles covering hundreds of detailed occupations. Each occupational profile describes: what workers do, where they work, typical education and training requirements, wages, job outlook, state and area data.
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Welcome to the skilled trade field! If you’re interested in a career in the skilled trades, you’ve come to the right book. What kind of skills and educational background do you need to succeed in these fields? What can you expect to make, and what are the pros and cons of these various fields? Is this even the right career path for you? How do you avoid burnout and deal with stress? This book can help you answer these questions and more. This book includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers five main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Electrician, HVAC Technician, Plumber, Construction Laborer, Craftsperson, and Automotive Service Technician/Mechanic.

Many jobs without a four-year degree are growing. Explore 100 careers that don’t require a bachelor’s degree, assess which ones match your skills and interests, and get the job you want with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, outlook through 2018, education, and skills for 100 jobs; match their personal skills to the jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time. This eBook provides--in alphabetical order--thorough, current, and interesting descriptions of 100 jobs that you can get without a four-year degree.
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Explore hundreds of careers, assess your best career fit, and land a job with this extensive, authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything they need to research careers; learn about pay, outlook, education, and skills needed for about 300 jobs; match their personal skills to the jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time. This eBook provides thorough, current, and interesting descriptions for major jobs covering about 90 percent of the workforce.
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In today's job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised edition combines classic elements with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process: writing resumes, interviewing, networking, and expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.

It's vital that we know how to find work that allows us to remain true to who we are, work that connects us to something larger than ourselves—in short, our “calling”. We all have one, and bestselling authors Richard Leider and David Shapiro can help you uncover yours. Through a guided exploration of fifty-two “natural preferences”, Leider and Shapiro give us a new way to uncover our gifts, passions, and values and find work that expresses them. Uncovering your calling enables you to experience fulfillment in all aspects and phases of your life. And here's the even better news: when you choose to do what you are called to do, you're always doing what you want to do. Work Reimagined offers an enlightening, effective, and entertaining approach to discovering ‘what you were born to do’, no matter your age or stage of life.
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At Your Best as a Mason is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as a mason is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

At Your Best as an Electrician is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as an Electrician is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

At Your Best as an HVAC/R Tech is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as an HVAC/R Tech is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

At Your Best as a Painter is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as a Painter is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

At Your Best as a Plumber is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as a Plumber is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

At Your Best as a Welder is your step-by-step handbook to finding if a career as a Welder is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and perhaps moving on to start your own small business in the trades.

Culinary Arts includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers five main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Chefs; Pop-up and traditional restaurant owners; Caterers; Media and art-related careers; and Bakers.

Dental Assistants and Hygienists includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers three main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Dental assistants, Dental hygienists, and Dental technicians.

Education Professionals includes interviews with education professionals in the field, covers three main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, and Secondary Education.

This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers six main areas of health and fitness that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, Recreational therapy, Exercise physiology, Massage therapy, and Athletic training.

Overall job growth in health care has increased dramatically in recent years and shows no sign of stopping. The population in the United States is getting older, and advances in health care mean that people are living longer than ever before. This means that the demand for health care will only increase in the coming decades.

In 2016 the technology industry accounted for 8 percent of all economic activity in the United States, generating more than $1.3 trillion. The number of jobs involving web development, database administration, information security, and other information technology (IT) jobs increased by 3 percent in 2016 alone. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment for information technology professionals is expected to grow 13 percent through 2026.

This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers eight main areas of the medical office professionals field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Medical Records and Health Information Technologist, Optometrist, Pharmacy Technician, Phlebotomist, Sonographer, and Surgical Technologist.