by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
In this second of three posts outlining help from The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, we look at books. All are available online, but the library will lend them to you for free. Just get them back on time.
The books, below, include career guides and cover job searching, networking, interviewing, resumes, and cover letters. More important, the recommendations come from Career Center librarians, who have had lots of experience dealing with books and the people who use them. To speak with a librarian, see Locations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book, Cover Letters, interviewing, Library, networking, resumes
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
If you’re not an avid public library patron, you may think libraries just lend books. But they do that and a whole lot more. For example, The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County houses a Career Resource Center to help you in your job search efforts.
In this post, I’ll let you in on what the Cincinnati Library offers in the way of expensive and short-lived reference books. While you may be able to obtain some of these books faster online, the library holds many job search volumes that you probably don’t want to buy. Some because they cost thousands of dollars and others because they’re not only expensive, they go out of date quickly. The Public Library holds these books and will let you use them, but it does not lend them out.
In subsequent posts, I’ll write about the Library’s job search book and online resource recommendations. If you’d rather not wait, call they Cincinnati Main Library or you local branch. See Locations. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book, job search, Library
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
There may be no better job-hunting adviser than Richard Bolles, author of the best-selling and most widely acclaimed book on the subject, What Color Is Your Parachute? The most recent edition is titled, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.
The 2009 edition of the job-seeker’s favorite may be overshadowed, however, by the more recently released (and less expensive, $9.99 vs. $14.86 on amazon.com) The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide: How to Find a Rewarding Job Even When “There Are No Jobs.”
In “Author Urges Job Seekers to Go Beyond Web,” Washington Post reviewer Vickie Elmer says that Bolles’s latest is more focused on the day-to-day realities of finding employment today, in this stinking recession. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: book, book review, Job Hunter's Survivial Guide, Richard Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute?
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