Career Transitions
Helping people find their true calling
Why Career Transitions?
Employment-related activities are the number one use of public libraries today.
Career Transitions provides hands-on guidance and immediate access to key
employment activities:
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Job-Seeking: multi-faceted job searching and related activities for creating
resumes and cover letters, applying and preparing for interviews
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Career Exploration: discovering career interests; identifying new
opportunities based on work or military experience; exploring growing
career paths, including green and new economy jobs; and finding education
and training
SEARCH JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND MORE
Accessibility: CT users can jump right in to a comprehensive job search from the home
page.
Comprehensive, with laser focus: In addition to the most comprehensive job search
available online, users can choose dedicated searches to limit to internships,
apprenticeships, entry-level or temp jobs.
Convenient job tracking: Busy users can save any posting immediately, as well as save
notes and track application and follow-up dates with the My Jobs feature.
Expert tips & advice: Users have quick access to articles and videos that provide help
with searching, applying, interviewing and more.
WRITE A RESUME AND COVER LETTER
Step-by-step approach: Walks users, especially those who need hands-on assistance,
through compiling each section of a resume and cover letter.
Resume, Cover Letter and Bullet Point examples: Spans 16 career clusters and 3 experience
levels within each cluster. Gives ideas on format, wording and more.
Related articles and videos: Dynamic tips & advice created specifically to cover the most
common questions users have.
INTERVIEW SIMULATION
Interactive approach: Lets users grow more comfortable with the interview process, while
helping them learn how to articulate their experience and qualifications.
Proven method: STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) is a popular and proven method for
preparing for behavioral interviews--the type workers are most likely to face.
Immediate, targeted feedback: Based directly on a user’s responses.
TIPS & ADVICE
12 categories of expert advice: Includes hundreds of targeted articles and videos covering
job search, applying, interviewing, networking, career strategies and more.
Essential guidance: Helps spur and provide context for users’ job and career efforts, with
valuable advice for each step of the employment process.
Dynamic updating: CT editorial team will add categories and content to stay on top of
employment trends.
ASSESS YOUR CAREER INTERESTS
Fun, immersive, fast: Users of all ages/backgrounds get engaged when taking the
assessment, often sharing their observations and results with anyone who will listen!
Pedagogically sound, based on DOL data: Based on the Holland RIASEC psychological model
and on information gathered from workers across the U.S.
Comprehensive career info: Results profiles include tasks, tools, technologies, videos, career
ladders, salary, growth, and job and education searches.
BROWSE CAREER PATHS
U.S. Dept. of Education's 16 Career Clusters: Browsing through the clusters and
pathways introduces users to new career possibilities and over 1,100 careers.
Convenient sorting and filtering: Results are filtered to spotlight pathways, green and
new & emerging careers. Users can filter by salary, growth and employed.
Comprehensive career info: Results profiles include tasks, tools, technologies, videos,
career ladders, salary, growth, and job and education searches.
MATCH EXPERIENCE TO NEW CAREERS
Leverages users’ experience to identify new careers: Simple yet effective way to find new
career possibilities based on jobs or military positions held by users.
Matches skills, knowledge and experience: Mines latest DOL data to find related careers
that cross industries and career types users may not have considered.
Comprehensive career info: Results profiles include tasks, tools, technologies, videos, career
ladders, salary, growth, and job and education searches.
SEARCH SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS
Comprehensive: Search 9,000+ schools and 3,500+
programs by career, program and location. Covers
public, private, and non-profit schools across the
U.S.
Quick comparison: Compare quickly by location,
school type, cost and related programs. Click
through for more details, including websites and
more info.
Continuing education online: Users can also choose
from 300+ instructor-led courses from ed2go, a
leading online provider.
THE “DAILY LEAP” AND FEATURED VIDEOS
The Daily Leap: features advice articles from career and employment experts,
covering a broad range of topics. Several new ones are published each week.
Featured Videos: Cover various career and employment subjects, with new ones
added on a regular basis.
Relevant and current: Job-seekers and people seeking career advice will find fresh
content that's relevant to a variety of interests and life situations.