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Need a job? What your are now doing just isn't working for you??? Check out these local resources in Grand Rapids, MI, where you can go get help. The web is now used by almost all companies to post jobs. Here are a few places to actually find local jobs that are posted on-line. Links to on-line career resources There is a wealth of information on every topic imaginable on the World Wide Web. Career information is no different. Here are a few sites that will bring you a lot of career information. You'll find topics like self-assessment, career exploration, labor market information, and employment trends. Check out the following for information about Career Development and its importance in our lives: This is a description 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. Career Development for Meaningful Life Work 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. 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. Links to some key national and state career resources 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.· Check out all of the on-line career videos · National occupational information portal Check out information on “the other four year degree” · http://www.michigan.gov/careers/0,1607,7-170--60356--,00.html Developed by the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth · Links to all kinds of career information |
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Capacities clamor to be used and cease their clamor only when they are well used. ~Abraham Maslow |
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To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life ~Robert Louis Stevenson |