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Build Your Networking Skills to Learn about Careers, Companies, and Jobs

• Networking Smart: How to Build Relationships for Personal and Organizational Success by Wayne E. Baker. iUniverse.com, 2000.
• Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need by Harvey Mackay. Doubleday, 1999.
• Power Networking: 55 Secrets for Personal and Professional Success by Donna Fisher and Marilyn Hermance. Bard Press, 1992.
• The Pocket Guide to Making Successful Small Talk: How to Talk to Anyone Anytime Anywhere About Anything by Bernardo J. Carducci. Pocket Guide Publishing, 1999.
• Audiotape: The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start a Conversation, Keep it Going, Build Rapport - and Leave a Positive Impression by Debra Fine. CareerTrack Publications, Inc., 1997.

Research Careers

• online.onetcenter.org - There are several ways to use this:
  • Under "Find Occupations" you can "Browse Job Families" to get an idea of careers in a particular area, such as "Architecture & Engineering."
  • Skills Search: You could also take a skills survey and then review and research a list of careers that use those skills.
  • Under "Find Occupations": Key in a job title you are interested in
    (e.g., designer) and then research the occupations that are listed
    (e.g. interior designer, graphic designer, etc.)

• www.wetfeet.com
  • See "Careers & Industries" and "Insider Guides

• www.review.com/career
  • This is the Princeton Review website, a major publisher in career and study books
  • Click on "Investigate careers"

• www.vault.com/bookstore/orderform/jsp

Research Companies

• www.hoovers.com
• www.wetfeet.com
• www.vault.com/bookstore/orderform.jsp

Articles on interviewing, career change, and other topics

• www.businessweek.com/careers/
• www.quintcareers.com
• www.wetfeet.com