Resources for Students: Transfer/Career Success
Resources for Students: Occupations & Careers | Careers by Major |
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The Global Workplace
Subscription Resources (databases)
- Academic Search Complete
How-to use Academic Search Complete video here.
(EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects. - Associations Unlimited A directory of approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
- Business Insights: Essentials Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Formerly known as Business and Company Resource Center.
- Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Some full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
- Career Insider Comprehensive online career resource. Powered by Vault.com, with access via LaGuardia' Employment Services Center. Registration required.
- Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Provides information on jobs and industries as well as information on resume writing, interviews, scholarships, schools and internships.
- Job & Career Accelerator
- LearningExpress Online tests and tutorials for a variety of tests and subjects, including the firefighters exam, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), TOEFL, Basic Writing Success Skills, U.S. citizenship, and GED.
- LexisNexis Academic
How-to useLexisNexis Academic video here.
Full-text access to newspapers from around the world. Also contains legal and business information. - Research Guide: Career Research — Experiential Education & Internship Programs
Internet/Web Resources (unlicensed)
Transfer
LaGuardia Transfer Services: This website provides complete information on LaGuardia transfer services and information about CUNY, SUNY, and private colleges.
Career Success
Career Success sites provide tips on how to be more effective so that your good work is noticed. Learn how to solve everyday problems, too, such as dealing with a difficult co-worker.
- Black Collegian Online
- BusinessWeek Online - Careers
- CareerJournal (from the Wall Street Journal)
- CollegeJournal (from the Wall Street Journal)
- Computer World - Careers Knowledge Center
- Entrepreneur.com
- Fast Company
- Forbes.com
- Fortune
- Inc.com
- Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- Saludos.com
- U.S. News Online - Work & Career
Books
Transfer
Following is a list of some of the books on this topic available in the library. You can find more books in the library stacks under these general call numbers: L 901
You can also find more books by searching the library catalog, CUNY +, using the keywords below:
- transfer students
- colleges and universities
Barron's profiles of American colleges / Hauppauge, N.Y. : Barron’s Educational Series, Inc.
REF L 901 .B33 2003
The College handbook for transfer students. New York : College Entrance Examination Board.
REF L 901 .C7438 1997
CUNY transfer guide / New York : Office of Admission Services, City University of New York.
REF LD 3835 .T72 2000
Peterson's 4 year colleges. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides.
REF L 901 .P447 2004
Peterson's guide to colleges in New York. Princeton, N.J. : Peterson's Guides
REF L 903 .N7 P47 1997
Career Success
Following is a list of some of the books on this topic available in the library. You can find more books in the library stacks under these general call numbers: HF 5381, HF 5382.5
You can also find more books by searching the library catalog, CUNY +, using the keywords below:
- career success
- job tips
- career development
Carter, Carol. The career tool kit: skills for success / Carol Carter. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1998.
HF 5381 .C366 1998
Citrin, James M. The five patterns of extraordinary careers : the guide for achieving success and satisfaction / James M. Citrin and Richard A. Smith. New York : Crown Business, 2003.
HF5381 .C657 2003
Fisher, Anne B. If my career's on the fast track, where do I get a road map? : surviving and thriving in the real world of work / Anne Fisher. New York, NY : Quill, 2002.
HF5381 .F483 2002
Fuller, George T. The workplace survival guide: tools, tips and techniques for succeeding on the job / George Fuller. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c1996.
HF 5381 .F795 1996
Hargrove, Robert A. Your coach (in a book): mastering the trickiest leadership, business, and career challenges you will ever face / Robert A. Hargrove. San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
HD 57.7 .H3653 2004
Holton, Ed. How to succeed in your first job: tips for new college graduates / Elwood F. Holton III, Sharon S. Naquin. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2001.
HF 5382.5 U5 H637 2001
Johnson, Michelle T. Working while black : the black person's guide to success in the white workplace / Michelle T. Johnson. Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, 2004.
HD8081 .A65 J64 2004
Ludden, LaVerne. Job savvy : how to be a success at work / LaVerne L. Ludden. Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, 2003.
HF5381 .L747 2003
Sears, Susan Jones. Building your career: a guide to your future / Susan Sears. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2002.
HF 5381 .S449 2002
Stevenson, Ollie. The colorblind career: what every African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American needs to succeed in today's tough job market / Ollie Stevenson, with Dana Huebler. Princeton, NJ: Peterson's, c1997.
HF 5381 .S775 1997
Media
VHS 786 MANAGING A DIVERSE WORKPLACE: UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT CULTURAL VALUES AND STYLES, color, 1990, 56 min.
Refutes the melting pot theory, explaining that employees do not – and should not be expected to – set aside their particular cultural values when they come to work.
VHS 845 MANAGING CONFLICT IN THE WORKPLACE, color, 1990, 27 min.
Typical conflicts between peers and between bosses and employees are discussed.
VHS 313 STARTING YOUR NEW JOB, color, 1987, 19 min.
Six important attitudes and behaviors vital to job success: dependability about time, following instructions, accepting constructive criticism, personal relations, customer and co-worker courtesy, and personal appearance and grooming.
VHS 600 YOUR NEW JOB, color, 1985, 17 min.
Young men and women on the first day of employment.
VHS 953 YOUR ROLE ON THE OFFICE TEAM, color, 1994, 14 min.
The importance of teamwork in today's work world, including appropriate attitudes and work habits.