Career Transitions: A Gateway to Success

Posted by jwelborn on 18 December 18

Gale’s Career Transitions provided to you free through our website is an extremely useful starting point for any person seeking a job. This step-by-step electronic tool gives users hands-on guidance to support their job searching. It also provides high-quality tutorials and advice articles for resumes, cover letters, and interviews. Through Career Transitions, you can receive immediate help with both job-seeking and navigating the economy. When it comes to job-seeking, this resource provides insight on making resumes, writing cover letters, and applying for job positions as well as offering interactive interview practice. If you are undergoing career exploration, this resource actually helps you through providing ways in which you can discover your career interests. It tailors the experience to you by identifying new opportunities based on your past work or military experience. Not only that, but it also allows you to explore growing career paths and find education and training for the path you are interested in.

Powerful job search functions, guided resume and cover letter creation, interview preparation, and interactive practice activities are just a few of the features and benefits that Career Transitions offers. In addition to this, it helps users identify measurable details about their own personal accomplishments and successes that may help them when looking and applying for a certain position. Internships and entry-level jobs can be found through multiple job-search options and job tracking. Education and training options are available and sorted by career, program, and location. Hundreds of career overview videos can be found through the resource, including a series that features real people working in various occupations. All of these features are constantly kept up to date with expert advice and industry-leading content.

Career Transitions gives its users the best insight possible through visual reports that detail what features users find to be the most valuable. This service works closely with libraries in order to improve their ability to help each of their users. The Career Transitions resource is conveniently located under the “Learn” tab on the Campbell County Library website. This tool’s slogan, “Helping people find their life’s work,” rings true by its innovative, accessible, and unique approaches to helping users find the most rewarding and sustainable employment possible. Let Career Transitions help you navigate through the difficult employment environment today!

Credo: Giving Wings to Your Research

Posted by jwelborn on 09 May 18

Credo, formerly known as Literati, is an online reference service that provides the perfect starting point for any researcher. Credo’s system is easy to navigate and learning how to use it is fast and simple. The Campbell County Public Library System, through the Library of Virginia, has access to over 1,000 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and documents from over 100 publishers of reference content – and all of this content is accessible and searchable to you in a search box through Credo! All content is full text and includes a full citation, ensuring that you are getting reliable resources. Content is fitting to anyone from age nine all the way to adulthood.

With the Credo Online Reference Service, you can find many sources; from books used to help kids with homework, to articles that can be used to fact check your research. The credibility of the resources and publishers partnered with Credo make it the perfect place to build background information for those beginning research.

You can also treat Credo like a bookshelf. It has over 1,000 references that are updated automatically to save you the hassle of finding the latest edition. Credo is very simple to navigate: it’s homepage offers topic pages that go directly to articles relating to a certain topic. If your topic can not be found within the topic pages, Credo’s search bar offers options such as basic search, image search, and title search to help you narrow down your options within the four-million full text articles they provide. The service offers “Mind Map” which is a visual search tool, and standard tools like saving, sharing, and downloading.

Along with all of these resources, Credo offers an amazing service called “Homework Help”. Homework Help is accessible through the Credo website and serves as an after school tutoring service from state certified teachers. It is offered Mondays through Thursdays from 3 PM to 9 PM. With this service, any child from 3^rd grade to 12^th grade may receive help with math, reading, writing, science, and even SAT preparation. Summer Hours are Monday through Thursday from 9 am to 3 pm.

The Credo Online Reference Service is located here. With Credo, researching is made simple with millions of organized credible sources at your fingertips. The Campbell County Public Library System encourages you to give wings to your research with this wonderful and easy to use resource. Happy researching!