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Check Out New Career Books @ the Career Resource Library

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Posted by Libraries, June 15, 2009
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While the sleepy summer months may pass quietly on an empty academic campus, we here in the Career Resource Library are hard at work finding new resources to support your inevitable career search! Find these and many other new titles in June. Enjoy!

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How to be Useful : A Beginner’s Guide to Not Hating Workfound in theCRL Career Development section.

This distillation of one hundred years of success literature, examines the truths and falsehoods behind the world of work. Equal parts historical examination and advice column, this book should guide the uninitiated through the trappings of the working world.

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The Grown-up’s Guide to Running Away from Home: Making a New Life Abroadfound in theCRL Career Transitions section.

A how-to guide for the established adult longing to travel, this book will direct you toward a new life overseas. Whether for temporary travel or all-out expatriation, in this text you will find the steps for starting your second life.

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Working World : Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Developmentfound inCRL International Work section.

Helping you answer the questions of what, where, and with whom, this book serves as a useful career guide and directory for the would-be, international professional.

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The Nurse’s Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Careerfound in the CRL Nursing section.

This nurse’s guide to professional etiquette visits the often forgotten social niceties that will assist you in advancing your career with grace and panache. Please remember that etiquette is not simply for nurses; these lessons are useful for everyone!

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The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World: How to Turn Your Good Intentions into Actions That Make a Difference found in the CRL Social Services/Nonprofits section.

Brought to you by the writers of Idealist.org, this handbook will explain how you can make a positive impact on the world through work. For further learning, visit Idealist.org..

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The Nonprofit Career Guide: How to Land a Job That Makes a Differencefound in the CRL Social Services/Nonprofits section.

This guide serves as a useful introduction to the world of nonprofits and how you can get involved in a job that makes a difference.

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The Boss of You: Everything A Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Businessfound in the CRL Women and Careers section.

A business building guide for the independent, entrepreneurial minded woman, this book will walk you through the process of starting your own business.

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