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RIASEC at Work: Match Your Personality to Careers
JIST Works, 2010.
DVD, 39 min.
Describes the six personality types devised by psychologist John L. Holland and how they can be used to determine the best career for any person.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5381 .R537 2010

Dress and Groom for Career Success
JIST Career Solutions, 2016.
DVD, 27 min.
This video provides viewers with the dressing and grooming tips they need to be successful during their job search and to stay successful once they are hired. It presents strategies and suggestions for apparel, personal hygiene, and behaviors and mannerisms, all with an eye to looking and acting professional. Numerous examples of what is appropriate and inappropriate are provided to give viewers a clear sense of what it takes to make a positive first impression. The video provides general guidelines for dressing and grooming that will apply to most industries and workplaces.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5387 .D747 2016

Transferable Skills: What They are and How to Get Them
Career Kids, 2012.
5 DVDs, 100 min.
This 5 part series includes 5 DVDs, which will help the viewer identify transferable skills, which ones the viewer currently possesses, and how to feature oneself as a strong candidate for getting that job now and in the future. Viewers learn from workers and the people that do the hiring at IBM, UC Berkeley, US Navy SEALs, and other organizations what skills they are looking for when hiring. Then it helps viewers see if they have acquired these skills and how they could develop them further.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5381 .T735 2012

Getting to Know Your Skills
JIST Works, 2011.
DVD
In planning your career and looking for a job, knowing what you can do well is important; knowing your best skills can help you decide what kind of work is right for you. Part of the Series, Getting the Job You Really Want.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5382.7 .F332 2011 pt.3

Getting to Know Your Job Objective
JIST Works, 2011.
DVD
This video discusss the most important points to consider when forming your job objective. Part of the Series, Getting the Job You Really Want.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5382.7 .F332 2011 pt.4

One Week Job
FilmWorks Entertainment, 2011.
DVD, 76 min.
"After graduating from college, Sean Aiken struggled with the question: 'What should I do with my life?' ... [He] created the One-Week Job Project. His goal: to work fifty-two jobs in fifty-two weeks in search of his passion. He traveled across Canada and the United States, reinventing himself as a firefighter, a stock trader, a radio DJ, a martial arts instructor, an NHL mascot, a snowshoe guide, and more"--Container.
Collection: CCIC
Location: HF5381 .O649 2011

Betty Liu on Career Success
Lynda.com, 2016.
Online, 30 min.

Location: Available on Lynda.com to COD Students and Faculty with a Library Card

Job Hunting Online
Lynda.com, 2014.
Online, 1 hr, 56 min.

Location: Available on Lynda.com to COD Students and Faculty with a Library Card

Writing a Resume
Lynda.com, 2016.
Online, 2 hr, 39 min.

Location: Available on Lynda.com to COD Students and Faculty with a Library Card

The New Rules of Work
Lynda.com, 2017.
Online, 1 hr, 10 min.

Location: Available on Lynda.com to COD Students and Faculty with a Library Card

The Career & College Information Collection (CCIC) provides information on educational opportunities, occupational choices and job-seeking skills. This multimedia collection can assist you in planning for your educational, career and employment goals.

The collection can help you:

• Explore careers
• Obtain occupational information (salaries and outlook)
• Find schools that meet your educational plans
• Write your resume and cover letter
• Discover new job-search methods
• Identify internship opportunities
• Plan for an interview
• Prepare for standardized tests and certification exams

The Collection is available to all visitors whenever the Library is open. Users that have COD Library cards can also check out materials.

Doing research within one's field is usually a very meaningful task since it should be something you are interested. This guide is meant to help you begin research into your individual fields so that you can start to become versed in said field and can start to become aware of the issues and/or trends in that field, constantly updating your knowledge.

For the basics of career research, please consult the College and Career Information collection and guide. This is where you can find information on job outlooks, salaries, work requirements, education requirments, "a day in the life...", and many other types of information. Please note the three section of that guide -- Jobs, Careers, and College. Use all three.

Finding information concerning trends, issues, or controversies within a discipline/field of study requires a different search strategy.

Looking for trends or issues within a discipline

For example, if one were studying to become an architect, one might do this search in Academic Search Premier database: Architecture AND trends. As of this writing, one of the articles in the results is: Sustainable energy performances of green buildings.

Now, without even reading this article, though one could for more ideas, it is possible to glean out a few ideas many architects are possibly considering within their careers – “sustainable energy”, “energy use”, and “green buildings”. The new search could then be a combination of these concepts: Architecture AND energy use. This would produce many articles on the topic of “energy use” and “energy conservation” [another concept to think about].

The key is to skim the results to find different concepts that may interest you and are likely to be researched or discussed inside the discipline/field you are pursuing. Even this topic “energy use” could be a great topic for a budding physicist as well.

The search strategy is to use what you already know about the discipline and use search terms like “trends,” “issues,” “new developments,” “problems,” or “controversy” to start to seek out new ideas. Some topics may be obvious and can just be searched from the beginning, like physics AND energy, but some may not be that obvious, especially if you are new to the field or just selected your major. Remember that these vague terms like "trends" could be used initially, but then dropped as you become more aware of what the actual trends are and search for those trends/issues specifically.

[NOTE: a short video of said search strategy is under construction]