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Career Resource Center

 

Stop by the Career Resource Center when you're on the Columbia Campus. The Career Resource Center is located in the Jones Student Center in Room #122. Simply go through the Cafeteria and follow the sign that says, "Career and Testing Services" to the hallway on the right. The Career Resource Center is the last room on the right in that hallway.
Here's a current inventory of the print materials you'll find inside the Career Resource Center

Career Planning

Career Book, Third Edition,
Career Planning For The 21st Century
Discovering Your Career in Business, First Edition
The Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century

“Careers For You “series by Contemporary Books Publishing Company:

Book Worms & Other Literary Types
Computer Buffs & Other Technological Types
Crafty People & Other Dexterous Types
Culture Lovers & Other Artsy Types
Fashion Plates & Other Trendsetters
Foreign Language Aficionados & Other Multilingual Types
Good Samaritans & Other Humanitarian Types
Gourmets & Others Who Relish Food
Health Nuts & Others Who Like to Stay Fit
Kids At Heart & Others Who Adore Children
Music Lovers & Other Tuneful Types
Mystery Buffs & Other Snoops and Sleuths
Night Owls & Other Insomniacs
Number Crunchers & Other Quantitative Types
Shutterbugs & Other Candid Types
Sports Nuts & Others Athletic Types
Travel Buffs & Other Restless Types
Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words

“Great Jobs For ……… Majors” series:Great Jobs for Art Majors

Great Jobs for Business Majors
Great Jobs for Communications Majors
Great Jobs for Computer Science Majors
Great Jobs for Engineering Majors
Great Jobs for Foreign Language Majors
Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors
Great Jobs for Music Majors
Great Jobs for Psychology Majors
Great Jobs for Sociology Majors  

America’s Top Medical, Education, & Human Services Jobs
Career Opportunities in Health Care
Career Opportunities in the Sports Industry
Career Opportunities in Theater and the Performing Arts
Career Success for People with Physical Disabilities
Looking at Type and Careers
The Career Guide for Creative & Unconventional People
The Art of SpeedReading People
Do What You Are
What’s Your Type of Career?
Effective Teaching, Effective Learning
RoadTrip Nation
Career Intelligence
Career Planning
Creating Your Life’s Work Portfolio
Making Good Career & Life Decisions
 

 

 

Job Search 

The Almanac of American Employers
America’s Federal Jobs
The Book of U. S. Government Jobs with disks
Applying for Federal Jobs
Jobs Almanac 1998
Top 2,500 Employers
The JobBank Guide to Computer & High-Tech Companies
Webmaster Career Starter
How to Get a Job with a Cruise Line
How to Get a Job in Europe
The Back Door Guide to Short Term Job Adventures
Get Real Internships
Summer Jobs for Students
The Job Hunting Guide: Transitioning from College to Career
The Tennessee Job Bank, 4th Edition, by Adams Media Corporation
The Over-40 Job Guide
Finding A Job After 50
Network Your Way to Job & Career Success
The Complete Job-Search Handbook, Revised & Expanded Edition
The Very Quick Job Search, 2nd Edition
The Very Quick Job Search Activity Book, Revised Edition
The Job Hunting Handbook, Outlook to 2006
The Job Hunting Handbook, Outlook to 2008
CareerXRoads
Job Search Resources cont.
Cyberspace Resume Kit
Electronic Job Search Almanac
Electronic Resumes & Online Networking
Developing a Professional Vita or Resume
Gallery of Best Resumes for Two-Year Degree Graduates
Job Interview Almanac
Information Interviewing: How to Tap your Hidden Job Market
Negotiating Your Salary, Revised Edition
The Successful Interview & Beyond
Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed
Video Series:  From Pink Slip to PayCheck the Road to Reemployment

Start Planning Your Job Search
Feeling Positive: Coping with Job Loss
Networking:  Connections to Employment
Writing:  Resumes & Cover Letters
Interviewing:  The Key to Employment    

 

 

 

CHOOSING MAJORS AND COLLEGES

4 Year Colleges, 32ND edition
Colleges in the South, 18TH edition
The Fiske Guide to Colleges, 18TH edition
Aviation Careers
The College Majors Handbook
Major Decisions
Making the Major Decision
Guide to Computer Graphics, Animation and Multimedia Careers
Visual and Performing Arts
Index of College Majors
Best Graduate Schools
Graduate Program Series 2004

Arts and Architecture
Biology
Education
Engineering and Computer Science
Health Professions
Physical Sciences
Psychology
Social Sciences

Winning the heart of the College Admissions Dean
Game Plan for Getting into College
Game Plan for Getting into Business School
Game Plan for Getting into Law School
Scholarship Handbook
Barron's Best Buys in College Education
Scholarships and Internships for Latino Students
 

 

Entrepreneur Resources

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Business Management Series:

Starting Your Own Business
Creating a Successful Business Plan
Financing Your Small Business
Successful Sales & Marketing
Entrepreneur Magazine’s Business Magazine’s Small Business Start-up Guide
The Small Business Encyclopedia
Accounting For the New Business
Anatomy of a Business Plan
Becoming Self-Employed
Be Your Own Business!
The Complete Book of Business Plans
Businesses You Can Start Almanac
Buying Your First Franchise
Franchise Opportunities Handbook
Buy Your Own Business
How to Buy a Business
Mind Your Own Business!
The Secrets to Buying and Selling a Business
Small Business Advisor
The Small Business Legal Kit & Disk
The Small Business Survival Kit
Small Time Operator 
Starting & Operating a Business in Tennessee
Starting & Running Your Home based Business
Which Business? 
Wage Slave No More! Law & Taxes for the Self-Employed

Entrepreneur Magazine’s Business Start-up Series:

How to Start a Consulting Service
How to Become an Information Broker
How to Become an Internet Entrepreneur
How to Make Money with Your PC
How to Start a Desktop Publishing Business
How to Start a Herb Farm
How to Start an Import/Export Business
How to Start a Medical Claims Processing Business
How to Start a Specialty Travel & Tours Business
How to Start a Vitamin & Health Food Store           

 

 
   

 

 

Career Services Columbia State Community College
Career Services
Jones Student Center
P.O. Box 1315
Columbia, TN 38402-1315
Phone: 931.540-2573
Fax: 931.540-2577
E-mail: careerservices@columbiastate.edu