Overview
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Career Planning
Listed here are a few articles and videos on career planning. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
Career Planning Articles
Career Planning Sites
- Career Profiles Career Planning and Development
- CareerExplorer is a free platform that helps you find your ideal career.
- College Raptor features a free finder of in-demand careers with top colleges for particular careers.
- JOBehaviors provides job-specific pre-hire assessments for dozens of jobs in a variety of industries.
- Occupation Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides career information on hundreds of occupations.
- O*NET OnLine provides broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information.
- Pymetrics is a neuroscience-based career discovery platform matching job-seekers with best-fit jobs.
- The Career Project is an interactive career profile database for job seekers and students.
- UpScored uses data science to connect you with jobs suited specifically to your career interests.
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Career Advice
Listed here are a few articles and videos on career advice. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
Career Advice Articles
- The Balance Careers - Use these job descriptions, career quizzes, and other resources and tips to help you make critical decisions around your career.
- Naukri Blog - Want some crucial tips regarding your career? Start here. We have put together the best possible career advice and tips from the industry for you.
- Proclinical : Career Advice
- The Muse : 45 Pieces of Career Advice That Will Get You to the Top
- Tufts University : Career Center - Mr. O’Brien gives great advice for any engineering students to create career.
- Job Search Advice: Fact or Fiction?
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Job Searching
Listed here are a few tips for job searching, job search sites, notification databases, articles and videos on career advice. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant resources for your research.
Preparing for a Job Search
- Preparing for Your Job Search - This publication created by UC Berkeley provides practical tips for preparing for a job search.
- 12 Ways to Prepare for Your Job Search- 12 practical steps for preparing for the Job Search. Created by Florida International University.
- 15 Tips for Getting Ready to Job Search
Job Searching Sites
Notification Databases
Job Search Articles
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Resume Writing
Your resume must clearly, concisely and strategically present your qualifications to get a recruiter interested in meeting you. Here are some resume writing tips and templates for your good career.
Resume Writing Tips and Resume Design Templates
- Resume Writing Tips - This page is designed for undergraduate students from all kinds of majors and provides introductory advice on how to write a resume.
- Resume and Cover Letter Guide - This publication from the University of California at Berkeley contains information on how to write a resume and cover letter and samples to review.
- How to Write the Best Resume or CV - Gulf News article about writing resumes.
- Visual CV - A curated list of all the best job search articles and websites, so your focus can be on looking for the right job instead of looking for the right tools.
- GCF Global : Developing Your Resume - In this free tutorial, learn the process of creating a professional resume that stands out from the crowd.
- Business News Daily : Tips for Creating a Great Resume -
- Indeed : 10 Resume Writing Tips To Help You Land a Job - Employers use resumes throughout the hiring process to learn more about applicants and whether they might be a good fit.
- Govt. of Canada : Resume Writing Do’s and Don’ts - An updated modern resume is the key to a successful job search. Here are some do’s and don’ts of how to write a good resume and what to include.
- Work It Daily : Is Your Executive Resume Too Wordy? - Work It Daily is an online learning platform that provides trusted, easy-to-use career support for people who want more out of their careers.
- The Muse : 43 Resume Tips That Will Help You Get Hired
- Zety : 40 Best Resume Tips 2022: Great Tricks and Writing Advice
- Resume Genius : Resume Tips & Tricks: 50 Insider Secrets
- The Balance Career : Tips for Writing an Exceptional Resume
- Canva Pro : Design winning resumes
- Henhancv : Your resumes get people hired at top companies
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Career Development Skills
Listed here are a few articles and videos on career advice. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research. Essential Skills for good career development of all engineers.
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Reading Comprehension
Soft Skills
Coding Skills
Presentation Skills
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Body Language Tips
Listed here are a few articles and videos on body language. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
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Group Discussions Tips
Listed here are a few articles and videos on group discussion. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
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Interview Tips
Listed here are a few articles and videos on job interview. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
Articles
- Career Center : Guide to Interviewing from UC Berkeley - This guide from UC Berkley provides tips for successful interviewing
- Princeton University : Preparing for a Job Interview - 7 step interview prep plan from Princeton University
- AMCAT : 15 Successful interview tips straight from the experts - Over 3,00,000 interview calls are sent through to students who take the AMCAT each month, and if you are one of them then it’s time you implemented these tips.
- Built In : 30 Great Job Interview Tips From the Experts - Here you’ll find expert interview tips and how to successfully prepare for your next job search.
- Become : Job Interview Do’s and Don’ts: Expert Advice & Resources - Don’t let your nerves get the best of you on interview day. Learn tips, do’s and don’ts to nail your next job interview
- Zety : 50+ Best Job Interview Tips & Tricks That Get Jobs - Zety is about to give you the best interview tips on the planet.
- Indeed : 21 Job Interview Tips: How To Make a Great Impression - Below, we provide an overview of how to succeed in an interview along with a detailed discussion surrounding each point.
Videos
- Here’s How To Ace The Interview Question, “Why Do You Want This Job?” - Advice from television commentator and business journalist Suzy Welch
- Job Interview Questions and Answers - “If you are wondering how to prepare for an interview, this video will give you some excellent advice on how to ace a job interview”
- How to Communicate Your Strengths in a Job Interview - “Doing well in an interview is an important aspect of getting a job, this video will provide accurate information on how to have a successful interview”
- Job Interviews: After the Interview
- Bayt.com Interviews: Tips and Advice to get that Perfect Job with Ruchika Dhawan
Career Management
Listed here are a few articles and videos on career management. Try exploring the articles’ parent site to find relevant articles for your research.
- Education Scotland : Career Management Skills - This is one of a suite of learning resources which provides support to develop practice related to the Career Education Standard (CES). This resource, ‘Introduction to Career Management Skills (CMS), helps to familiarize yourself with CMS and how this can be used to support learning and career education. It is structured to begin to inform and to help you reflect on your existing practice.
- Skills You Need : Career Management Skills - SkillsYouNeed contains a numerous pages that may be helpful in career management, across personal skills, interpersonal skills, and learning skills.
- Career Contessa : Level Up Your Career In Just 10 Minutes - A Weekly Podcast Helping You Become More Fulfilled, Healthy, And Successful at Work.
- Forbes : 11 Helpful Strategies For Navigating Office Politics - 11 members of Forbes Human Resources Council share their thoughts on how employees and leaders can manage office politics effectively, whether they’re working in the office or remotely.
- Forbes : Grow People’s Skills Through Effective Career Management - People don’t just move on. It’s up to you to make your company the place where people thrive and choose to build their careers.
- Business Daily News : Are Workplace Politics Destroying Your Business? Here’s How to Fix It - Learn how to properly identify and overcome office politics in your workplace.
- iED : 12 Career Management Skills and How to Measure Them - Those skills are vital to allow them to navigate their lives and careers in these turbulent times safely. So, what are these competencies, and what makes them so important?
- My World of Work : Career Management Skills and how they can help you - The world of work is changing fast and help you understand yourself and the world around you, and take control of your career with all its potential opportunities.
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Emerging Trends
Listed here are emerging trends articles and videos on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, 3D Printing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Cloud Computing.
Artificial Intelligence
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Machine Learning
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Cyber Security
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3D Printing
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Cloud Computing
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Useful Blogs
Listed here are a few useful blogs. Try exploring the blogs to find relevant articles for your research.
- Career Savvy - Topics: Job hunting and interviews, career development, money saving, self employment, student and graduate advice.
- G2 Career Advice Learning Hub - Topics: Job hunting and interviews, career development, leaving your job.
- The Daily Muse - Topics: Job search and interviewing, career development, management, break-room.
- Reed.co.uk - Topics: Job search and interviewing, career development, salary search.
- Student Job - Topics: Job search and interviewing, career development, current affairs, ethics, leadership, employee engagement, well-being.
- The Undercover Recruiter - Topics: Job search and interviewing, career development, social media and technology.
- The Bubble Blog - Topics: Job search and interviewing, graduate advice, digital marketing.
- Jobsite - Topics: Job search and interviewing, career development, personal development, redundancies, workplace issues, salaries.
- Career Geek - Topics: CVs, career development, education, entrepreneurship.
- 4 Critical Foundations For A Successful Job Search
- Jobmob
- Career Guide
- Career Sidekick