Maryland Career Resource Center
Career Resource Materials
August 2014
Title
The Attitude Advantage
Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions
Career Choices: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults
Career Cluster Exploration Pathway Exploration ( Multimedia
Pathway Units (MPUs)
Career Development Activities for the Elementary Grades
The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
Career Guide to Industries
Career Planning for the 21st Century
Career Targets Interest Assessment for Middle School
Career Targets Online (Middle School)
Career Tests: 25 Revealing Self-Tests to Help You Find and Succeed
at the Perfect Career
The Career Training Sourcebook: How to Get Free, Low-Cost, and
Salaried Job Training
Career Voyages
Careers for Nonconformists: A Practical Guide to Finding and
Developing a Career Outside the Mainstream
Catalogs from New Mexico colleges and career/technical schools
CLIMB K-5 Online
College Cost & Financial Aid Handbook 2006
Complete Book of Colleges
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Resume – 3rd Ed.
Creating Your High School Resume
Creating Your High School Portfolio
Creative Job Search Guide
Developing Career and Living Skills
Discover What You’re Best At
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the
Secrets of Personality Type—Revised and Updated Edition Featuring
E-careers for the 21st Century
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow
Engage Career Planning Curriculum (lesson plans) for Grades 7-9
Author
Rosemary T. Fruehling & Roberta Moore/Goodheart-Wilcox
DeLuca, Matthew J.
Mindy Bingham and Sandy Stryker
CEV Multimedia
www.cevmutimedia.com/pathways
Miriam McLaughlin and Sandra Peyser
Educational Media Corporation www.educationalmedia.com
Eikleberry, Carol
U.S. Dept. of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics
Donald Blocher, Mary Heppner, Joe Johnston/Love Publishing
Company
COIN www.coin3.com
www.careertargetsonline.com
Louis Janda, Ph.D.
Gilbert, Sara D.
U.S. Dept. of Labor, etc.
Gurvis, Sandra
COIN www.climbk5.com
College Board
Princeton Review
Ireland, Susan
Kathryn Kraemer Troutman/ JIST
Kathryn Kraemer Troutman/ JIST
Minnesota Dept. of Employment & Eco. Dev.
Mary Sue Burkhardt, Barb Terry/JIST Works
Gale, Barry
Tieger, Paul and Barbara
Sinetar, Marsha
Doug Kueker and Scott Stump
www.relevantclassroom.com
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From School To Work
The Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2004-2005
How to Get a Job and Keep It
How to Write It: A Complete Guide to Everything You’ll Ever Write
How to…Career Development Activities for Every Classroom
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Inside Edition: A Job Hunter’s Guide for Adult and Youth ExOffenders
Job Hunter’s Guide
Job Hunting for Dummies
Job Information for the Albuquerque Area
Job Information for the Las Cruces Area
Job Star
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland, Inc.
High School – Curriculum:
JA Banks in Action, JA BE Entrepreneurial, JA Business Ethics, JA
Careers With a Purpose, JA Company Program (Entrepreneurship)
JA Economics, JA Exploring Economics, JA Job Shadow, JA Success
Skills, JA Titan, and JA High School Financial Planning Program
Middle School Curriculum:
JA America Works, JA Economics For Success, JA Finance Park, JA
Global Marketplace, JA It’s My Business
Elementary School – Curriculum:
Ourselves, Our Families, Our Community, Our City, JA More than
Money, Our Region, Our Nation, JA Biztown
Learning For Earning: Your Road to Success
Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work
That You Love
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
Labor Market Report (monthly)
Occupational Wage Survey (annual)
Occupation Employment Projections 2012
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-2007
O*Net: Career Values Inventory
O*Net: Work Values Inventory
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime
of Satisfaction and Success
Author
J.J.Littrel, Annie Hunter Clasen & Peggy Pearson/GoodheartWilcox
Riley, Margaret
Morem, Susan & U.S. Dept. of Labor
Lamb, Sandra
University of Wisconsin/Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Sher, Barbara and Smith, Barbara
New Mexico Department of Labor
New Mexico Department of Labor
Messmer, max
New Mexico Department of Labor
New Mexico Department of Labor
Bay Area Library & Information System
Junior Achievement of Central Maryland, Inc.
www.ja.org
John A Wanat, E. Weson Pfeiffer, Richard Van Gulik/ GoodheartWilcox
Winter, Barbara
Bridges, William
MD Workforce Exchange
https://mwejobs.maryland.gov/vosnet/Default.aspx
MD Workforce Exchange
MD Workforce Exchange
U.S. Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jist Works www.jist.com
Jist Works www.jist.com
Lore, Nicolas
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The Resume Handbook – 4th ed.
Resume Magic
Resumes That Knock ‘Em Dead
Self-Directed Career Planning Workbook
Survival Skills in the World of Work 3rd Edition
Very Quick Job Search: Get a Better Job in Half the Time
What Color is Your Parachute – 2006
What do I like to do?
What Type and I?
Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
The Wizard of Work: 88 Pages to Your Next Job
Work with Passion: How to Do What You Love for a Living
The Young Person’s Occupational Outlook Handbook
Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative
Career Design.
Students with Disabilities Resources
Author
Rosenberg, Arthur and Hizer, David
Whitcomb, Susan B.
Yate, Martin
Gibaldi, Carmine P. and McCarthy, Thom
Fred Pyrczak/Walch Publishing
Farr, Michael
Bolles, Richard
Janet E. Wall
Renee Baron
Sher, Barbara
Gaither, Richard, with Baker, John
Anderson, Nancy
Jist Works www.jist.com
Boldt, Laurence G.
Top Secret Job Skills: Declassified (Interactive CD)
Building Program Capacity to Serve Youth with Disabilities
(Workshop/Training Curricula)
Solving the Employment Puzzle for Youth with Disabilities
(Workshop/Training Curricula)
Transition Trek Game (Board Game)
Websites
www.myfuture.com (career exploration)
Department of Defense Joint Advertising Market Research and Studies
(JAMRS) program
www.mynextmove.org (career interest inventories)
www.humanmetrics.org (personality inventories)
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