LibGuides: Career Choice & Change: Job Hunting, Internship Seeking & Discovering Your Career Path: Career Exploration

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Triton Career Guide
The latest edition covers career choices, finding jobs and internships, and resume and interviewing tips.
RAND reports on Occupations & Careers
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.

The Work: searching for a life that matters by Wes Moore
Call Number: F189.B153 M67, Geisel 6th fl.
ISBN: 9780812983845
Publication Date: 2015
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.
Overnight Career Choice by Laurence Shatkin; Michael Farr
Call Number: e-book & print (Geisel 6th Fl., HF5381.5 .F37)
ISBN: 9781593578107
Publication Date: 2011 (e-book), 2006 (print)
100 Conversations for Career Success by Miriam Salpeter
ISBN: 9781576859353
Publication Date: 2012
Learn how to put social media to work for you. This book provides instructions for job search and networking communication with various resources, including LinkedIn and Twitter.

Check out other great library resources on social media and careers.
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability by Pamela Block, Devwa Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida & Nick Pollard (Editors)
Call Number: Springer e-book
ISBN: 9789401799836
Publication Date: 2015
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.

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Facts About the Job

The following websites provide information about jobs, including skills required, pay and job outlook.

Occupation Outlook Handbook
The data on this website are organized by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to provide the most recent and relevant information for job searchers.
Career Explorer
Career Explorer is available through UC San Diego Career Services Center. Career Explorer allows you to look up different jobs and learn about different careers, such as relevant skills, projected growth, and education requirements. The source of Career Explorer information is the U.S. Department of Labor's O*Net Online.
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.
Climbtheladder
Climbtheladder provides career guides for thousands of professions created by experienced recruiters and industry leaders.

Social Media and Job Searching - Articles

There are tons of great articles in the Business Source Complete and Business Insights: Global. Try searches that use both job hunting and social media as search terms. Some examples:

Tressie McMillan Cotton's informal advice to job-seekers
The sociologist and writer Tressie McMillan Cotton wrote a series of tweets June 2018 describing her advice to social sciences undergrads soon to be on the job market. These suggestions stand well for a broad range of fields. Here's a static PDF of that feed.

Social Media and Job Searching: Books

Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies by Waldman, Joshua
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781118678572
Publication Date: 2013
Harness social media to land your dream job For anyone looking for a first job, exploring a career change, or just setting up for future success, social media sites are proven platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing the job.
Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3. 0 by Jay Conrad Levinson; David E. Perry
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781118019092
Publication Date: 2011
Strategies for job hunters are revealed in this new Third Edition. New chapters integrate using social media and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo in your job search, along with case studies from successful guerrilla job hunters that detail what works in today's hyper competitive job market with commentary from America's top recruiters.
Social Media in Human Resources Management by Tanya Bondarouk & Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan (Editors)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781781909010
Publication Date: 2013
Want to know how employers are using social media when they're looking at you?
Cracking the New Job Market by R. William Holland
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780814417348
Publication Date: 2011
The rules for finding professional work once seemed clear and unwavering: capture career highlights in a resume, practice answers to standard interview questions, and do lots of face-to-face networking. Cracking the New Job Market shows how these rules have changed and delivers new job-hunting strategies that actually work.