Professional Careers Sourcebook

This resource book profiles 119 professional and technical occupations. Each profile lists up to 11 categories of career information: job descriptions; career guides; professional associations; standards/certification agencies; test guides and certification examinations; educational directories and programs; awards, scholarships, grants, and fellowships; basic reference guides and handbooks; professional and trade periodicals; professional meetings and conventions; and other sources of interest to professionals. Each entry also includes, as appropriate: organization, association, or publication name; contact information, including address, phone, toll-free, and facsimile numbers; author/editor, dates, and frequency; and brief description of purpose, services, or content--Highlights (p. vii).

A must-have guide of professional development resources for library staff at every phase of their career—from those just entering the field, to paraprofessionals building a career trajectory, to seasoned librarians looking to explore additional career options. Thousands of students graduate with a Master of Library and Information Science degree every year. Unfortunately, budget cuts at libraries diminish available job opportunities and prompt administrators to hire less qualified—and less expensive—professionals. However, armed with the right information, library science professionals can successfully build and sustain a resilient library and information science (LIS) career inside—or outside—the traditional library setting. LIS Career Sourcebook: Managing and Maximizing Every Step of Your Career provides a chapter-by-chapter overview of key career stages and strategies, and identifies for each the best information resources to help readers develop a successful LIS career. The author lays out the typical stages that workers are likely to encounter as they move through their professional life, highlighting important issues associated with each stage and providing insights and resources for making smart career choices along the way. Covering the entire career lifespan from entry level to retirement, the resources cited will help readers make informed choices about career options, professional development, and personal career satisfaction.

Picking up where the Occupational Outlook Handbook leaves off, this text directs users to career information sources related to specific professions, such as civil engineering, psychology, law, public relations, dance and choreography, and more. It also provides a listing of US state professional and occupational licensing agencies and occupational rankings and statistics.

Where to find help planning careers that require college or technical degrees.

"Job seekers and career planners can turn first to Professional Careers Sourcebook to locate essential career planning sources. Profiled are 129 professional and technical occupations, ranging from account and architect to visual artist and writer. In addition to job descriptions and contact information" -- publisher website (October 2007).

Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic, Glaser gathered from the literature of occupational sociology those studies that bear most directly on organizational careers. His objective was to provide the first survey of the substantial body of data on the subject and to place this data in a framework that illustrates its significance for the development of theory. In an extensive introduction, the editor explains the several purposes of the book and describes in detail the process of comparative analysis through which sociological theory on organizational careers can be generated. Organized around general themes such as recruitment, motivation, commitment, mobility, and succession, the writings of prominent sociologists--including Riesman, Caplow, Hughes, Becker, and Wilensky--form the content of the book and systematically cover every important facet of organizational careers. The editor's introductions to each section of the book alert the reader to the general phenomena--such as processes, conditions, categories, hypotheses, and properties--that crosscut and are generally relevant to all organizational careers and are, therefore, the raw material of theory. These introductions also suggest questions and problems for further analysis and research. This book as a whole stands as a demonstration of the contributors' method of how the sociologist, working from the data of research, can generate grounded, formal theory on this or any social phenomenon. This book also presents a vital body of data on organizational careers and a guide to further research that will be of great use both to occupational sociologists and to all those involved in the study of organizations.