Research Guides: Political Science: Job and career resources

CCC: Career resources

CCC Career Center
Connect with a CCC Career Coach, take a career assessment, learn about work experience through CCC, learn about local job finding websites, and much more.
CCC Writing Center
CCC's Writing Center helps with cover letters and resumes. Make a free 1:1 appointment with Writing Center staff to get help on these important written first impressions!

Online tools: Learn about careers, training, and job outlooks

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations. In other words, what education do you need to be able to do a certain job?
Career Search Skills (Northstar Digital Literacy)
Career Search Skills teaches you about preparing for a job search, searching for jobs, preparing documents like resumes and cover letters, applying and interviewing for jobs, and what to do after an interview. Requires a free Northstar account.
Career Preparation (LearningExpress)
Explore career paths, build workplace skills, and access study material for various professional licensing exams.
Job and Career Accelerator (LearningExpress)
Create a resume and cover letter, find job and internship opportunities, assess career alternatives and master interviewing skills.

Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile) aids users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. Vocations and Careers offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals ranging from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
How to search Vocations and Careers

Books: Job searching, cover letters, and resumes

New print books and eBooks coming soon! (January 2024)

Hover over each book's title to read about it. Print books have call numbers which indicate where you can find them in CCC Library. eBooks have call numbers that say "online."

What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard N. Bolles
Call Number: HF5382.7 .B643 2022
Publication Date: 2022
Modernize Your Resume - 3rd Edition by Wendy Enelow; Louise Kursmark
Call Number: coming soon
Publication Date: 2023
Resume and LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates by Jan Melnik; Louise Kursmark
Call Number: coming soon
Publication Date: 2023
Job Interviewing for Dummies by Pamela Skillings
Call Number: online eBook - coming soon
Publication Date: 2023
Why You, Why Me, Why Now by Rachel Toor
Call Number: coming soon
Publication Date: 2024