Job and Career Resources in GALILEO
Are you looking for a job? Or, do you want a better job? Are you trying to figure out what you want to do with your life? GALILEO offers several resources for researching careers and searching for jobs.
Georgia Career Information System (available through your public library) can help you explore occupations, identify occupations based on your skills, locate schools with your program of study, find job opportunities, create resumes and cover letters, prepare for job interviews and more. You will need to log in to GALILEO through PINES or with a public library password, and then you will need to get the GCIS username and password for your library to access the database.
Another Georgia-specific resource is GAcollege411, which provides career and education planning for middle and high school students (and their parents!), college students, and adult learners. Resources include tools for matching students to careers, preparing for college entrance tests, comparing Georgia colleges and universities, applying for financial aid, and more. There is also a My Portfolio feature to help you keep up with all the planning.
NetLibrary offers ebooks on many topics, including ebooks on choosing careers, searching for jobs, writing resumes and cover letters, and handling job interviews. Titles include Haldane’s Best Cover Letters for Professionals, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Interview, and Interview Strategies That Lead to Job Offers.
Career and Technical Education (available through public libraries and most academic institutions) provides articles, book chapters, and other documents related to many types of careers as well as choosing a career and searching for a job.
Business Source Complete offers career guides for countries all around the world as well as articles and book chapters to assist with job hunting. Business Source Complete is also a great source for company information if you want to learn about a company before applying for the job. (And, check out these other resources on finding company information in GALILEO.)
Finally, for students just starting out in career exploration, Encyclopædia Britannica has articles about some professions for students to learn what it means to be a nurse, teacher, police officer, lawyer, astronaut, and more. Book Collection: Nonfiction also provides K-12 students with book chapters on vocational guidance.
Find these and other Career resources in GALILEO Library, GALILEO High School, GALILEO Teen, or GALILEO Scholar.
Georgia citizens can access all of these resources through their public library. Contact your public library for the GALILEO password or log in through your PINES account.
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