Career Guidance and Exploration: Jobs and Employment
Job Banks by State
- Career Onestop: Pathways to Career Success Search for jobs by state. Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals. Everything from resume writing to career planning and green careers.
- CareerConnections Search for employment and Internships, post your resume for employers to review, search the data base for employer contacts, set up a job agent to email you applicable openings.
- Oregon Employment Department, Job Listings Search this Oregon site by occupation, location or job listing. Includes apprenticeships.
- Oregon Labor Market Information System Find out about career and job markets in Oregon. From the Oregon Employment Department.
Databases
- Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowArticles from journals and magazines to help you research a vocation, find a college or school, do a good job search, and maintain a career. Vocations and Careers Collection offers hundreds of current periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
- Vocational and Career Collection This link opens in a new windowArticles from more than 300 trade and industry-related periodicals including Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.
A collection of streaming videos from the library database called Films on Demand.
Job Search for Ex-Offenders
From the U.S. Department of Labor, click on the image below for tips on getting past the barriers to employment experienced by ex-offenders.
Prepare for Your New Career
- Careers & Job Search movies
- Doing the Job: Basic Job Skills movie
- Learning Express Library [website] Interactive practice tests and tutorials to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must sign in before taking a test.
Resume
- Writing a Resume: What's Important (video)7 minutes. Explains how to write a resume.
Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters by Call Number: EbookISBN: 0996662324Publication Date: 2015Step-by-step guide for how write cover letters and every type of letter you will use in a job hunt. How to build, edit and polish professional letters for maximum impact and how to use them to get four times the interviews.
Ultimate Job Search by Call Number: 650.14 W55u 2021 (PCC Rock Creek library)ISBN: 9781398602199Publication Date: 2021Covering everything from looking for jobs online to making a fantastic impression at interview, Ultimate Job Search is everything the ambitious job hunter needs.
