Cabrillo College Library

Fast Track To Work

Fast Track To Work blog

What's on this page

Books 

Articles: Magazines; Newspapers

Labor Market Info

Education pays

Internet Sites

Bulletin Board

Getting to This Page on the Internet

   

name__________________________ 

Find Books in the Library
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  2. Click on Library Catalog

pointLook for a book on resumes

From the list of books, click on one of the titles to get more information about it. Notice that the most recently published books are at the top of the list. Some of the books are electronic -- available online.

    Book title_________________________________

    Year published____________ 

    Number of pages_______________ 

pointTo get access only to electronic books:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down, on left)
  3. Under General (top left), click on NetLibrary e-Books (if you are off campus, type in your library card number)

    Search the electronic books for one of these topics:

  • "job shadowing"
  • "career ladders"
  • "workplace etiquette"

    Use quotation marks to keep the words next to each other, in that order.

What did you find?

Title________________________________

Year published______________

 

 Find Articles in Magazines

Academic Search Premier provides access to information about articles published in approximately 8,000 periodicals.  For just over half of those, full text copies of the articles are in the database. 
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles
  3. Under General (on the left), select Academic Search Premier (if you are off campus, type in your library card number)
  4. On the next screen, click to go to the Advanced search interface. 


    With this advanced search screen, you can most efficiently search more than one term at a time.
  5. Click on the little box next to the word Full Text to limit your search to full text articles on the database. 



  6. Type in your search terms and hit the SEARCH button. For example, here's a search for full text articles about careers and community college.


point Use Academic Search Premier to identify a periodical article on a topic of interest to you.

From the results list, click on the article title to get to the screen with more information    

Article title_______________________________________

Periodical title (look where the screen says Source

   ______________________________________________ 

Date of periodical__________________ 

You can easily email the article to yourself. And WOW! you can click to cite it!!


Find Newspaper Articles

Proquest Newspapers
is a database that includes articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles 
  3. Over on right, under News, click on Proquest Newspapers

pointFind an article on either one of these topics

  • "career development"
  • "job shadowing"


  • Title of article ____________________________________________

    Newspaper ______________________________________________ 

    Date of article _________________________ 

    Notice that you can email the article, and even click to find a citation for it.

Labor Market Information for Santa Cruz County
  1. Go to Labor Market Information for Santa Cruz County from the California Employment Development Department.
  2. Click on Local Area Profile

What is the unemployment rate in Santa Cruz Country ____%

Scroll down to table labelled Occupations with Fastest Job Growth (% change)

Over the period 2004-2014, the number of home health aides in the country is projected to grow by

what percentage? ______%

Does it Pay to Get an Education?

Click to go to Education pays from the U.S. Dept. of Labor.

What does the chart tell you about the relationship between earnings and level of education?

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Internet Sites about Finding a Job

Go to one of the Web sites listed below and explore what is offered.

After you have read through the information offered,

Go to the bulletin board for this class. Click on and type in your name. Then, in two or three sentences, tell us something you learned or found interesting in this session.

How to Get to This Page on the Internet
  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Counseling, and, under Course-Related Materials, select CG 190 WR

 

C. Rubach and T. N. Smalley, 09/08