Use the Library Catalog to locate books in the library on your topic:
E-Books are available through the OCC Library Databases. To access them, log into Ocean Connect and click on the tab for Library Services. The link EBSCO e-books will open the EBSCOhost eBooks database, which contains numerous career-related books. Perform a search for terms like “vocational guidance” or nursing AND career.
The Library subscribes to several article databases, each suited to different fields and levels of study. If you are away from campus, you will need to access these databases by using your Ocean Connect user name and password. If you are unsure how to do this, please ask a member of the Library’s staff for assistance.
Here are a few databases that may prove useful to your research on careers and vocations:
Do What You Are
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Helps readers discover and identify their personality type and use this information to find the appropriate career.
The Pathfinder
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"Let The Pathfinder guide you to a more engaging, fulfilling work life. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by Rockport Institute, an innovative and award-winning career-counseling network that has changed the lives of over 10,000 people, The Pathfinder offers invaluable advice and more than 100 self-tests and diagnostic tools that will help you choose an entirely new career - or view a current job from a new, more positive perspective. You'll learn how to design your new career direction step by step so that it fits your talents, personality, needs, goals, values, and is, at the same time, practical and attainable; how to deal successfully with the "yeah but" voices in your head that keep you going back to the same old ill-fitting job, day after day; and how to land the perfect job in your new field, plus tips on writing a really exceptional resume, personal marketing, and networking (even for those who hate to network)."--Jacket.
Working Identity
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"In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become." "Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities."--Jacket.
The Ferguson Guide to Resumes and Job-Hunting Skills
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Presents a guide to preparing a résumé and conducting a job search, including information on looking beyond classified ads, creating a résumé, writing cover letters, and interviewing for positions.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2018
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In today's challenging 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 like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.
