Career Planning Resources: Recommended Books and eBooks
Key Takeaways
ECPI University Library offers comprehensive career planning ebooks covering health care, technology, culinary arts, criminal justice, and business. Titles like 'Branding Yourself' and 'Top 100 Health Care Careers' provide guidance on emerging tech fields, job hunting, resume writing, certifications, and online presence building written by top career experts for diverse job seekers.
- 'Branding Yourself' guides readers through social media steps to build online presence and personal brand
- 'Top 100 Health Care Careers' covers training, outlook, resume writing, job hunting, and certifications comprehensively
- Career handbooks address emerging tech fields: cloud, social technologies, mobile, and analytics
- Subject coverage includes computer science, culinary arts, electronics engineering, business, criminal justice, health sciences
- Professional librarians available daily through campus libraries and 'Ask a Librarian' web form for research assistance
Handbooks help job seekers find jobs in the emerging fields in tech disciplines such as cloud, social technologies, mobile, and analytics. Other titles cover a broad range of fields and occupations of computer science, culinary arts, electronic engineering technology, business, criminal justice, and health sciences. The books are written by top career experts who offer their unique experiences to aid all types of job seekers from undergraduate students and change-of- career students to military students making the transition to the civilian work force. Tips include how to stay employable and managing a career for long-term success.
Identifying the best companies is easier with these how-to guides, and making the most of the latest technology such as online assessments and interactive video interviews, will improve the outlook for finding a great job. The following is a list of suggested titles:
Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) leads students to follow 11 steps including the 75/25 rule (75 percent thinking, 25 percent doing) and how to use new media to prepare for their career.
Out of Uniform: Your Guide to a Successful Military-to-Civilian Career Transition (Potomac Books, 2012)
Sams Teach Yourself LinkedIn in 10 Minutes (Sams, 2010) offers practical answers, shortcuts and solutions to generate the best results on LinkedIn.
Tech Job Hunt Handbook: Career Management for Technical Professionals (Apress, 2012) offers keys to job satisfaction and long-term career happiness.
Unlock the Hidden Job Market (FT Press, 2010) with tops how to uncover the hidden opportunities in the job market.
The following books are also available as eBooks from the Online Library at http://ecpi.ent.sirsi.net:
Branding Yourself: How to Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (Quiz-Biz Tech, 2012) helps guide the reader with easy steps to build an online presence.
Top 100 Health Care Careers: Your Complete Guidebook to Training and Jobs in Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine and More (JIST, 2011) is a comprehensive look at the new jobs, training and outlook, resume writing, job hunting, and certifications recommended by professional organizations.
You can also learn about more resources and career planning help by visiting the Career Services portion of our website.
Submitted by: Library Director Rebecca Tabakin
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