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  • Realizing Potential, Developing Capacity in Community and Individuals
 
  • Ron Irvine. is an independent consultant doing business as Career Development Services
  • Please contact me if you are in need of services.
 
Job Search Resources

Need a job?

                  Need a better job?

                                     Where are you going to start???

 

The place to turn first is Michigan Works! Your One-Stop Career Center . Click here for the 1, 2, 3 of job search and tips for youth (and the rest of us)

 

 
bullet Job postings: local businesses: education, government, non-profit, for-profit
   
bullet Grand Rapids' largest employers--check out their job postings!
   
bullet Top 85 employers in West Michigan with contact info
   
bullet Job-seeking websites distributed by Michigan Works!
   
bullet Search for local jobs on-line
   
bullet Websites of temp services in Michigan
   
bullet Employment services--need extra help finding a job? Check these out
 

Career Development Resources
bullet Career Development Process using the Guideposts for Success
bullet The Guideposts for Success is a document of research-based activities that improve outcomes for youth. This document integrates the Guideposts into a career development process.
bullet Career Development Process
bullet This shows two examples of the process of career development. Developing ourselves and our careers is an on-going, life-long process that we must work at if it is to bring us satisfaction.
bullet Career Development for Meaningful Life Work
bullet This is an article about the important of aligning our "work" or "career" with our core values. As is so aptly stated in the article: "Finding meaningful work involves listening for those internal signals that signify 'deep interests' and then allowing the interests to lead to work that is aligned with a 'core self.'" So often we chase after a career that brings us external satisfaction. This articles begins us thinking about a career motivated by internal values. It is very idealistic, but a worthy lifelong pursuit.
bullet Career Development Paradigms
bullet A paradigm is a "perspective" or a "way of looking" at something. Careers have changed over the years as the economy has changed and as peoples values have changed. This chart captures the old way of looking at careers and the new, ever-changing way of looking at careers.

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  Top Ten In-Demand Job Skills

Employability Skills

   

National and State

Career Resources

bullet Career One Stop
bullet This is a national career resource that links to all of the major government sponsored career information sources in the nation. · You can post your resume, take the skills profiler, research careers, and try some career assessments.
   
bullet CareerVoyages.gov
bullet Check out all of the on-line career videos
   
bullet O’NET--ONLINE
bullet National occupational information portal
   
bullet Michigan Apprenticeships
bullet Check out information on “the other four year degree” ·
bullet http://www.aboutmasci.org/
bullet http://www.michigan.gov/careers/0,1607,7-170--60356--,00.html
   
bullet Michigan Career Portal
bullet Developed by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth · Links to all kinds of career information
   
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Job Hunter’s Bible by the author of “What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers" is the best-selling job-hunting and career-changing book in the world.

   
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 Youth Exploring Careers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

   
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College Financial Aide Information (FAFSA)
   
 

Capacities clamor to be used

and cease their clamor

only when

they are well used.

~Abraham Maslow
To be what we are

and to become

what we are capable

of becoming,

is the only end of life

~Robert Louis Stevenson

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