So You Want to Be a Counselor?, by Barbara Nefer

This book is a comprehensive guide for anyone considering a career in professional mental health counseling. It covers every step of the journey, from choosing a school and program to earning state licensure to the ongoing responsibilities of a counseling practice.

Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0, by Jay Conrad Levinson

This new Third Edition features the latest job-hunting strategies for the Information Age. You'll discover key techniques to reach hiring managers at the employers you want to work for most. New chapters integrate using social media and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo in your job search.

The Medic's Guide to Work and Electives Around the World, by Mark Wilson

This is a motivational and practical guide to making the most of your time abroad, whether as a student taking a medical elective, or a medical professional looking for a longer term change in scene.

Cleaning Up for a Living, by Don Aslett

A comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the building services contractor business. Written in a down-to-earth, lively style that makes even the most technical subject easy to grasp and understand.

McGraw-Hill's LSAT, by Curvebreakers

The LSAT guide created by top students at Harvard Law School to help you achieve your dream score! Members of Curvebreakers have been where you are--preparing for the LSAT, hoping to get a score that leads to admission to one's first choice of law school--so they know what it takes for success.

International Student Handbook 2012: [for students seeking to study in the U.S.]

This book is the only book exclusively for foreign students! It has information on 2,900 colleges, including each school’s “international profile.” This guide covers financial aid, Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) requirements, housing availability, and special services for international students.

Step-By-Step Resumes, by Evelyn U. Salvador

A guide to building a resume includes a collection of thousands of resume keywords to make one's resume stand out in electronic databases and a section on integrating a resume into one's social-networking strategy.

Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career, by Jay Conrad Levinson

This book is an honest, practical, and hard-hitting guide for career success in perpetually uncertain times.

Cracking the GED, by Geoff Martz

If you need to know it, it’s in this book!

Cracking the LSAT, by Adam Robinson

Cracking the LSAT with DVD, 2012 Edition includes everything you need to know to master the Arguments, Logic Games, Reading Comprehension, and Writing sections of the exam.

New! The Calgary Public Library is excited to share reviews of its print and electronic career resources. These reviews are written by local career practitioners and will give you the inside scoop on some of the Library's best resources for job search and career planning. The following book is available through the Library's website as an eBook: see below for instructions.

Social Networking For Career Success 2011: A Choice Works Book Review

If you are looking for a user-friendly, systematic narrative on how to leverage online tools to grow your professional network, generate job search momentum, manage your online identity or craft your personal brand, then this book is well worth your time. Miriam Salpeter provides refreshingly clear and focused guidance for job seekers. With Social Networking for Career Success 2011, you can begin to explore the value of incorporating social media into both active and passive stages of work search. This is an excellent resource designed to educate and inform. It avoids tacky self-promotion and succeeds in meeting the dynamic needs of recent graduates, experienced professionals, career explorers, small business owners, consultants and those considering encore careers.

Packed full of relevant sources for readers to explore in depth, this book also offers time saving tips gained from the practical experiences of the author. Expect to find how-to segments to begin using Linked In, Twitter, Facebook, Blogging and Social Bookmarking, strategies for crafting your Personal Brand, methods to manage your online identity and introductions to many other online tools. Challenging the belief that social media is merely the latest way to damage your professional credibility and get yourself fired, Salpeter causes readers to rethink career possibilities and evaluate their own attitudes toward social media’s transformation of our society. I consider this book a must-have, big-picture gem for those interested in capturing the best of what the online world has to offer.

By: Samantha Schellenberg, Alberta Employment & Immigration Career Development Workshop Facilitator, Designer and Presenter. Director, ChoiceWorks Rehabilitation Solutions Ltd.

Note: This book is one of many career books available as electronic books (eBooks) from one of the Library's subscription databases called Learning Express. You can download these books for free onto your home computer. Click here to learn how to access these publications.

Your First Year as a Nurse: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional by Donna Cardillo

New to this revised is discussion of professional issues related to standards of care and nursing ethics, job-hunting challenges and solutions for handling quandries such as delayed career start and nontraditional practice.

Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G. Boldt

This book goes beyond inspiration, providing a proven formula for bringing creativity, dignity, and meaning to every aspect of the work experience.

Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters by Martin Yate

Highlights four types of cover letters and how to write each one.

Knock 'em Dead 2011: The Ultimate Job Search Guide 25th Anniversary Edition, by Martin Yate

The classic guide to job searching now includes new information on where to find jobs, how to pinpoint which job openings offer the best chance of success, and what answers to interview questions will most impress interviewers.

Law School Essays That Made a Difference by Eric Owens

Contains 70 real application essays as well as interviews with admissions pros and with students who've been through the process and made it to law school.

Making a Living in Your Local Music Market: Realizing Your Marketing Potential by DickWeissman

Describes types of music work and discusses starting a band, making demos, finding and booking work, becoming versatile, understanding musicians unions and other organizations and producing a record.

In Fashion: From Runway to Retail, Everything You Need to Know to Break Into the Fashion Industry by Annemarie Iverson

Packed with insightful tips, along with advice from leaders at Michael Kors, Bergdorf Goodman, Conde Nast, and more, "In Fashion"offers straightforward, honest, and insightful advice to land a dream job in fashion.

Nusring Fundamentals Demystified by Bennita Vaughans

This book offers a fast and interesting way for you to understand the foundational concepts and information that will be the cornerstone of your entire nursing education and career.

Green Careers in Building and Landscaping: The Indispensable Guide for Students and Career Changers by Margaret Moran

This Peterson's guide is a one-stop resource for entry into the burgeoning green building sector.

MCAT Premier: Your Complete Interactive MCAT Program by Rochelle Rothstein

Features include four full-length MCAT practice tests, a full-color portable study guide featuring charts, graphs, and diagrams, online teaching videos for every chapter, and effective tips and strategies for test-day success.

50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked For Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice