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Job Search & Career Training
Job Search & Career Training Research Materials
AtoZdatabases
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, or finding friends and relatives.
Financial Literacy Basics
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Easy-to-understand guides on how to manage your finances, including budgeting, student loans, how to start a checking account, and how to start a 401(k)
Gale Ebooks – Picking a Career
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations.
Enjoy this specially curated selection of career and employment guides.
Gale Online Learning Portal
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Determine which online learning platform is right for you based on your goals, whether it’s test prep, career growth, or learning a new skill. Contains links to Gale Courses, Peterson’s Test & Career Prep, and Udemy
HelpNow from Brainfuse
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Get live, one-to-one, Illinois-aligned, skill-building, homework and test preparation help for everyone, from kindergarteners to adults. English as a second language and Spanish foreign language assistance are included, as well as Microsoft Office help and Career Resources. Available seven days a week, from 2PM-11PM with 24-hour access to Writing Lab, SkillSurfer and more.
Learning Express – Career Preparation
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Learn more about various career fields, improve your interview and job search skills, and prepare for many career certification tests such as NCLEX and Praxis.
Learning Express – Recursos Para Hispanohablantes
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Mejore sus habilidades escritas, orales y gramaticales, sea mejor lector, desarrolle sus habilidades matemáticas, prepárese para el examen de GED®, sea ciudadano estadounidense.
LinkedIn Learning
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Our library code is “scpld” (all lowercase).
Peterson’s Test & Career Prep
Use at Home? Yes
Description:
Description: Test and career prep software to help you practice for the GRE, GMAT, SAT, ACT Assessment, ASVAB, TOEFL, and more.
In addition to our core products for college search and selection, test preparation, and financial aid, Petersons offers online services for career exploration as well as resume writing.
Skills First (formerly Optimal Resume)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Create resumes, cover letters, online portfolios and career documents. Practice interviewing skills and even create a video resume. Log in with your Optimal Resume credentials to transfer your documents over to the updated Skills First platform. Association code is “20053”.
Udemy
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Nearly 20,000 up-to-date online video business and technical courses, including 7,000+ courses taught by native speakers in more than 12 different languages. Udemy takes a learner-first approach so that users can select the instructor and content that best addresses their skills need and learning preferences.
Job Search & Career Training Websites
Local Organization Websites
General Job Search and Career Training Websites
- CareerOneStop
- Chicago Jobs.com
- Chicago Recruiter
- Credential’s Center from CareerOneStop
- Get the right job for you – training from LinkedIn
- Glassdoor
- Job Accommodation Network – resources for disability accomodations in the workplace
- NAMI – Succeeding at Work
- O*NET OnLine
- Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor
- TheProfessional.Me
- What Can You Do? The Campaign for Disability Employment