Delgado Community College Libraries: College Success Skills: Résumés

Career & Résumé Databases

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Looking to change your career? Careers Internet Database can help you decide what your next step might be. It gives detailed reports on 21st-century professions from accountants to zoologists. Careers Internet Database also permits browsing for career personality traits such as creating, helping, organizing and more. It even features a brief, basic career test that will match interests to specific professions. In addition, it links to salary calculators and education planners.
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LearningExpress Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.

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Online Resources

Microsoft Word Résumé and Cover Letter Templates

My Perfect Résumé

Action Verbs for Resumes

Next time you update your resume , switch up a few of those common words and phrases with strong, compelling action verbs that will catch hiring managers’ eyes. Check out the list and get ready to make your resume way more exciting.

Resume Videos

Here are some videos about Resumes from our Films on Demand databse. Search it for more!

Career Guidance Videos
These five videotapes were developed for use with the CEPP Career Exploration and Assessment materials to deal with the topics of Career Exploration, Interests, Temperaments, Aptitudes, and Educational Planning. They also may be effectively used with other related Career Guidance materials and most state Career Information Delivery Systems. The User’s Guide provides the purpose, content overview, key concepts, and discussion questions/answers for each of the videotapes. A Meridian Production.
Career or Job? Planning for More
When you close your eyes and dream, what do you see yourself doing to provide for your family? The first step to achieving your career goal is looking forward to where you want to be. The next, listing the steps it takes to get there. In this film, we will unpack what it takes to get the future you want, how to divide up the steps to get there, and how to start.
Graduate Interview Skills
Today’s reality is that for every internship or job a new college graduate is interested in, there are likely to be a many, many other smart people trying for the same position. And with recruiters increasingly saying that grads, although having strong academic records, are weak on interviewing technique, it’s more important than ever to improve face-to-face communication skills. This video brings together recruiters and employers to give viewers the inside track on what they’re looking for at an interview…and a glimpse of some of the many mistakes they’ve witnessed. Also known as Graduate Interviews. (45 minutes)
Making Great Career Choices
Deciding on a career path is a complex task. The activities you enjoy, your abilities, personal values, personality type and working style all influence the career that would be most suitable for you. In this Australian-made, curriculum fit program we look at some strategies to help you identify your work options, particular skills, and areas of interest and ability. We also help you make good use of your educational opportunities and of the experiences and wisdom of others who are already in the workforce. Finally we identify specific attitudes, values and personality traits that affect how you perform as a worker.
Vocation, Vocation, Vocation
Deciding on a career can be daunting. Should you follow your heart, or focus on salary? In this ten-part series, career specialist Ann Duff and life coach David McQueen challenge teens to match their interests, personality, and skills with hands-on experience at a variety of jobs in and around London to see what each actually has to offer—and whether the young people would indeed be happy working in that profession. Combining career-planning advice with realistic assessment, the series emphasizes the difference between getting a job and finding a vocation. 10-part series, 26 minutes each.

Campus Resources

Office of Career Services: Career Services provides students and alumni with information regarding full-time and part-time jobs and offers them assistance in developing effective job search skills and strategies. You are encouraged to take full advantage of all of the resources and services on offer, including individual career guidance as well as help beginning a specific job search. Gain assistance organizing your résumé and get advice on how to prepare for your upcoming interview.
College Central Network Services: Delgado Community College student and alumni online network designed to aid students looking for employment as well as employers looking for hires. Includes features such as résumé assistance, a portfolio builder and job search educational materials.

Books on Résumé Writing

Get more résumé resouces by looking through our online library catalog.

Expert Résumés for Managers and Executives by M. Farr; Louise M. Kusmark; Wendy S. Enelow
ISBN: 9781593578855
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Gallery of Best Cover Letters by David F. Noble
ISBN: 9781593579173
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Gallery of Best Resumes by David F. Noble
ISBN: 9781593578589
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Preparing a Resume/ Not Her Job (Job Skills) by M. G. Higgins; P. J. Gray
ISBN: 9781630788094
Publication Date: 2017-03-30