LCC Library: finding job search books

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Finding Job Search Books

This webpage provides a way to easily access the LCC Library listings of all the books we own on job search topics. Click on the blue subject heading links that sound the most useful or interesting to you. Note that most resources about job searching typically include material about cover letter writing, resume writing and preparation of applications.

Please ask a librarian for help if you need it!

Cover Letters

Subject Heading: Cover letters

Email Communication

Subject Heading: Electronic mail systems

Interviews

Subject Heading: Employment interviewing

Job Search

Subject Headings:
Job hunting
Career changes
Career development
Vocational guidance

Portfolios

Subject Heading: Employment portfolios

Resume Writing

Subject Heading: Résumés (Employment)

What's a Subject Heading?
A subject heading is kind of like a listing in the yellow pages of the telephone book or a label on a file folder. In a library, if you know the official subject heading, you can find every single book in the library on a certain topic. All libraries in America use the same subject headings.

For example, let's say I wanted to find all the Italian cookbooks in the LCC Library. It might be hard at first, because not all of them would have "Italian Cookbook" in the title. One might say "Memories of Italy," and another might say "Mama Mia!"

So, to find them all no matter what they say, I could do a keyword search for italian cookbook, find one of them, then look at the record of the book I found to see what the official subject heading is for that (cookery -- italian). Then I would click on that subject heading, and there would be a list of all of our Italian cookbooks.

What if I want to find something not on this list?
If you're looking for LCC Library books or videos on different topics, please visit the LCC Library website and use our catalog to do a keyword search. If you still can't find it, then please ask for help from a Librarian!