Penn State Resources
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Career Support Across Penn StateLinks to university-wide, college-specific, and campus-specific career services offices
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Nittany Lion CareersRecruiting platform for students, alumni, and employers
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PSUL Resources for Career Readiness
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SAGE Skills Business This link opens in a new windowDesigned to help students develop and practice professional skills. Module topics include:
- Data Analytics
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance Basics
- Leadership
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Organizational Communication
- Professionalism
- Workplace Conflict & Negotiation
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Harvard Business Publishing Collection This link opens in a new windowCollection of business and management e-books. Includes titles on career readiness competencies including communication; critical thinking; equity & inclusion; leadership; teamwork; and more.
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Business Expert Press Digital Libraries This link opens in a new windowCollection of ebooks on business and related topics. Browse the BISAC categories Business & Economics and Self-Help for titles related to career readiness topics.
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Featured Books
Ebooks
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Personal and Career Development: A Workbook on Self Leadership
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This workbook will help readers identify their strengths, interests, and priorities to take ownership of their life and career decisions. The authors provide a framework to reflect on several questions that are becoming increasingly important among the 21st-century leaders―how to create an authentic leadership style, define one's values, and align vision-values career. Readers are given an extensive number of tools for defining their purpose, creating a plan, and are being encouraged to take it into action. Coaches, mentors-trainers who help others achieve their aspirations will benefit from the contents of this book. It is also very valuable for first-time and mid-level managers, recent graduates, and newly established entrepreneurs looking for tools to create a roadmap for their life and career planning.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781637420294Publication Date: 2021 -
Campus to Corporate
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the techniques of coping with the challenges of transitioning from student life to a professional corporate environment. It presents an integrated approach and a workable plan for students to pursue and add value to their careers by developing life and business skills that could be seamlessly woven into a well-rounded personality. This book has been designed to help students stand out in terms of knowledge, skills and attitude. It delineates the transition needs (from classrooms to workplace) with clearly defined end results, imparting skills required to excel individually and as part of a team, as a matter of regular practise while working in the corporate world. The primary aim of this book is not just to place graduates in the corporate world but also to enhance their employability skills to make them globally employable in diverse disciplines. Replete with easy-to-use tips and tools with real-world applications, this book will be of immense value to final year graduates and post-graduate students, as well as placement officers of higher education institutions looking to achieve a good placement record.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 1040345468Publication Date: 2025 -
Writing on the Job
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Writing is an essential skill in today's workplace. From messaging platforms and social media to traditional forms of communication like memos and reports, we rely on words more than ever. Given how much reading we do on mobile devices, being able to write succinctly is critical to success. Writing on the Job is an incisive guide to clear and effective writing for professionals. Martha Coven begins with the basics, explaining how to develop a professional style, get started on a piece of writing, create a first draft, and edit it into a strong final product. She then offers practical advice on more than a dozen forms of writing, from emails and slide decks to proposals and cover letters. Along the way, Coven provides a wealth of concrete examples and simple templates that make the concepts easy to understand and apply. Based on Coven's popular writing classes and workshops at Princeton University as well as her decades of experience in the public and private sectors, Writing on the Job addresses the real challenges professionals face in today's digital age, and shares essential practices that can improve the performance of any organization.
Call Number: HF5718.5.C69 2022 (Lehigh Valley; Shenango; University Park)ISBN: 9780691229959Publication Date: 2022
Print Books
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Getting from College to Career
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The third edition of the essential guide for college students and recent graduates to help you prepare for starting your career--now revised and updated for Gen Z to reflect the realities of the current job market How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job It's the question virtually every college student and recent graduate faces. With the rise of hybrid work, advances in artificial intelligence, and ever-shifting economic circumstances, the situation for aspiring Gen Z professionals has never been more challenging. But there is help. Getting from College to Career is the definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need to tackle today's fast-moving job search, offering action-oriented tips and strategies ranging from the simple to the expert. Revised with new material, this third edition includes up-to-date advice on how to: Use the best digital and mobile tools-- including AI--for career prep and job hunting E-mail, text, and Zoom like a professional Interview in person and virtually Reskill and upskill for "jobs of the future" Manage your mental health through career ups and downs And more Getting from College to Career gives you the cutting-edge information and guidance you need to get your foot in the door of the real world. Don't start your first job search without it!
Call Number: LB2343.P57 2024 (Harrisburg - Leisure Reading Collection - 2nd Floor)ISBN: 9780063349384Publication Date: 2024 -
Bet on Yourself: recognize, own, and implement breakthrough opportunities
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Take charge of your career and create a life full of learning, adventure, joy, and success utilizing these never-before-shared leadership principles Ann Hiatt learned working alongside the world's top tech CEOs--Google's Eric Schmidt, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Yahoo!'s Marissa Mayer. Whether you're stuck in your current job, starting your first job and wondering how you can use it as a steppingstone towards your dream career, or mid-career and wanting to finally be recognized for promotion or a leadership role, this book is for you.
Call Number: HF5381.H444 2021 (University Park - Paterno - 3rd Floor)ISBN: 9781400220267Publication Date: 2021 -
Recalculating: navigate your career through the changing world of work
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A leading workplace expert provides an inspirational, practical, and forward-looking career playbook for recent grads, career changers, and transitioning professionals looking to thrive in today's rapidly evolving workplace.
Call Number: HF5382.5.U5P56 2021 (Lehigh Valley - Skills Studio)ISBN: 9780063067707Publication Date: 2021
