Welcome back! New websites directory and new arrivals
We are delighted to present our new website directory. Similar to our book catalogue, this filter lets you keyword search our extensive and constantly updated collection of links. We link you to literally hundreds of web resources on dozens of career topics.
We've added new books to our collection. Most items may be
borrowed overnight; please refer to our complete loan policy for more details.
At the Brown Resource Centre:
• Authentic Happiness: Using the New
Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting
Fulfillment
Focus on strengths rather than weaknesses to work towards happiness
and self-improvement.
• The Creative Entrepreneur: A DIY Visual
Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real
Create a visual journal to develop a whole-brain approach to
creative entrepreneurship.
• Cultures and Organizations: Software
for the Mind
Describes a theory of cultural relativism and its applications
based on over 30 years of cross-cultural research.
• Get Paid What You're Worth: The Expert
Negotiator's Guide To Salary And Compensation
Learn to negotiate the best possible compensation package.
• Mindset: The New Psychology of
Success
It takes more than talent and ability to achieve success. Learn to
develop the proper mindset to motivate others and yourself.
• Opposable Mind: Winning Through
Integrative Thinking
Develop the ability to consider opposing ideas simultaneously in
order to reach a creative synthesis.
• Refuse To Choose!: How to Use All of
Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies
Integrate all of your passions and interests to create the career
of your dreams.
• The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in
the Modern World
Defends creativity and its cultural importance. A manifesto for
creatives and thinkers.
• Who Moved My Cheese?
Best-selling parable about how to deal with unexpected changes in
life and at the workplace.
• Working with Emotional
Intelligence
Develop emotional intelligence to improve work relationships.
At the Engineering Career Centre:
• Exceeding Expectations: Success Stories
for Young Professionals
Illustrates through true stories seven main points to ensure career
success.
• Find Your First Professional
Job, 3rd ed.
Explains how to get your first professional job. Includes sample
CVs, interviewing strategies, and tips on how to succeed on the job
and survive evaluation. Contains six appendices, including
worksheets and additional resources.
Other odds and ends:
SWAP offers programs for Canadians who want to go abroad to
work and travel. We have print copies of the latest SWAP brochure
but you can also download it here. If you'd like to speak to someone in person, pay
their co-ordinator a visit at Voyages Campus in the Shatner Building.
Going Global has some new features! Read about how to
use Going Global here.
• The H1B Plus database contains all 405,000
Department of Labor H1B visa records and allows searches by job
title, occupation, employer, location, wage and number of
petitions.
• Canada City Career Guides for Vancouver,
Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto will soon be
available.
• Central American Country Career Guides for
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama are in the works. There
is a possibility that these will be translated into Spanish as
well.
• The Corporate Employer Directory has been
expanded five-fold and now contains more than 150,000 listings
organized by industry and location.
If you have any questions, would like more information or have
purchasing suggestions, don't hestitate to visit, call 514-398-3304
ext. 00950 or send an caps.library [at] mcgill.ca (e-mail).