Use this Center. Career site to assess your interests, use assessment tools and learn about different careers, such as relevant skills, projected growth, and education requirements. The source of some career information is the U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net Online.
The Occupational Information Network is an online database that contains hundreds of job definitions to understand today's world of work in the United States.
RAND is a policy research agency that produces reports on a range of topics. It strives to produce objective, factual analysis for decision making. This page focuses on current topics in careers. There are also sections on employment and unemployment, occupational training and many other wide-ranging topics that address the workforce management, both in the U.S and internationally.
An all-in-one guide to writing resumes, cover letters and interviewing.
101 Career Myths Debunked: the ultimate career planning workbook by Elizabeth L. CampbellThis book presents leading-edge, empirically based facts to ease career fears in a way that readers can understand and professionals can trust. This workbook has guided activities and response prompts, which make it ideal for career counseling, self-study, or as a course text.
Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path. The author delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work, drawing on her extensive, two-decade career in which she's helped clients find their dream jobs.
This book helps professionals navigate common "internally disruptive" career experiences, such as harassment and bullying, imposter syndrome, membership in an underrepresented group, toxic workplaces, discrimination, and more. Dr. Helen Ofosu draws on twenty years of talent scouting and coaching professionals through difficult career choices, unpacking these layered and complicated issues in an easy-to-follow way.
The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons--about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking--that led him to a new definition of success for our times.
This book explores the concept of "occupation" in disability well beyond traditional clinical formulations of disability: it considers disability not in terms of pathology or impairment, but as a range of unique social identities and experiences that are shaped by visible or invisible diagnoses/impairments, socio-cultural perceptions and environmental barriers and offers innovative ideas on how to apply theoretical training to real world contexts.