Databases with Career Advice & Job Search Tools Available from Home
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Brainfuse JobNow provides support for job-seekers through live resume building, career coaching, interview preparation, and so much more. Sign in with your library card, and get direct support from Live coaches who provide expert analysis to aid you in your career endeavours.
Coursera partnered with The New York State Department of Labor in order to provide FREE unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers with free access to 4,000 courses, programs, and professional certificates in business and technology.
Career Cruising offers resume samples, career guides, access to college and scholarship information, and ways to assess your transferable skills and learning styles.
Career Insider (Vault) offers career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, articles, resume guides, and more. Find industry overviews, career paths, salary ranges, industry outlooks, and more. Temporary remote access with a library card. Premier career and job resource. Note:Library users must create an account with their name and email address.
Career Services LibGuide is designed to assist you through career planning with helpful links to online resources. This is a one-stop guide that provides resources to help with job searching, resume building, interview skills, and more!
The Chronicle of Higher Education is a top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is an online library of reference titles for multidisciplinary research, including texts relating to American and world history, biography, health, the arts, business, travel, religion, and multicultural studies.
Learning Express provides online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help patrons of all ages in job search and workplace skills improvement; building skills in reading, writing, math, and basic science; career certification; licensure exam prep; college and grad school entrance test prep; G.E. D® test prep; and more.
LinkedIn Learning provides video training tutorials in various skills, including Microsoft, Adobe, HTML, resumes, salary negotiation, interviewing skills, business writing, and many more. Using this service will allow access to over 16,000 courses. LinkedIn Learning includes courses in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese.
Occupational Outlook Handbook offers information on hundreds of different types of jobs, and the training or education required to do them.
Reference USA provides addresses, sales information, executives, for over 11 million U.S. Now includes job listings. **Patrons should read the FAQ of this resource before searching.
Vocations and Careers OneFile (Gale) aids users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, searching for jobs, and maintaining a career.
Visit the Career Services Facebook page to view previously recorded career/job search seminars offered by industry experts. You don't have to join Facebook to view the recordings.
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Career Services at NYPL
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