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The Career Expert

Library Career Center

Image of career seeker with counselor and link to our Career Information page

Our Career Center empowers adults by offering resources, expert advice, and counsel. 

Call 216-475-2225 or toll free 800-749-5560. Our Career Center is located in our Maple Hts. Branch Library.
For your convenience, our FREE Career Center is open:

Monday through Thursday—

9:00 AM–9:00 PM

Friday, Saturday—

9:00  AM–5:30 PM


Contact our Career Center to:


Career Counselors

 

Make an appointment to meet one-on-one with one of our professional
Career Center Counselors.  They will familiarize you with the technology
skills needed to compete in today's job market, and will help you...

 • Plan your career
 • Target companies & hot jobs
 • Create resumes & cover letters
 • Prepare for the interview

Take advantage of job seeking guidance from our Career Counselors! While the Career Center is located in the Maple Hts. Branch, counselors often travel to our other library branches.

 

Planning Your Career

Our Career Counselors administer career assessment tests to help you discover the jobs that suit you and your needs.  Counselors will evaluate and assist with career planning.  Our Career Counselors conduct workshops that cover a diverse range of topics, and oversee Job Clubs
that meet at our library branches.

 

Focus Your Job Search

Where to start?  Our Career Counselors will help you target the companies/industries suited to your skills & preferences and the hot jobs in the market.  They will guide you through the...

 

Resumes & Cover Letters

Our Career Counselors are experts on creating cover letters to get you noticed and resumes that are more likely to pass you through to the interview stage.  They'll help find and explain samples of each through our many books and online resources; learn how to use resume templates.

Resume Button and link to OptimalResume

You will learn to take advantage of the online Resume Builder,
FREE to libary card holders, where you can create and save
Cover Letters and Resumes.  Our Career Counselors will show
you how to tailor each to impress recruiters for specific jobs.

 

Job Interviewing Tips & Helps

Our Career Counselors will help you prepare for every type of interview, including telephone screenings, panel interviews, and behavior-based interviews.

Resources at our Career Center include guides to scoring high at the interview, sample interview questions, and questions you can ask to impress.

Try out mock interviews with career counselors, a great way to gain interviewing experience and to learn how to make a good impression— another FREE service!


Career and Job Market Information

 

Job seekers may need to start thinking about other careers or industries where they can use their skills, or about learning new job skills.

Putting the people of Cuyahoga County back to work is one of six priorities of the Library.  Our Career Center maintains a comprehensive career library specializing in specific careers, and our librarians and Career Counselors will help you find what you need.   While the Career Center does focus our Library's resources and staff on-site, all of our branches are dedicated to helping job hunters, free of charge, and can access these services and resources.

Our Career Counselors and librarians will give you information on job training for in-demand jobs of the future, including how to use our online resources.

 

Internet Access

Used a computer in any of our branches for FREE Internet or Wireless Access to...

  • Fill out applications
  • Access resume templates
  • Contact employers
  • Network through sites such as LinkedIn.com
  • Check your e-mail
  • Conduct Company Research through Premium Resources [see below]

 

Online Resources

Our Career Information Page lists many Online Resources, including:

  • OCIS  (Ohio Career Information System)

  • Our Online Cleveland Area Education Directory 
    Information for about 200 colleges, trade schools, tutoring, and community resources
  • Reference USA
    Either version of this Premium Electronic Resource is FREE to library cardholders
    (or access using computers in our Career Center or library branches):
  • Job & Career Accelerator 
      Premium Resource, free to library cardholders
  • Learning Express Library
     Premium Resource, free to library cardholders
  • Our Online Survival Guide 
    Lists the major agencies in the Northeast Ohio area that help the unemployed.

 

Join a Job Club

 

Career Counselor Jim Hansen facilitates the Maple Heights Job Club every Thursday morning 9:30-11:00 AM in the Maple Heights Branch.  It is open to all adults who are job-hunting or who are looking to change careers.

Jim also heads up the Fairview Park Job Club every Thursday afternoon from 1:30-3:00 PM at the Fairview Park Branch.  All job hunters and career changers are welcome.

Job Clubs also meet at our North Olmsted and Beachwood branches. Job seekers can find support and networking opportunities through these groups.

 



Workshops

 

All workshops are FREE and many offer hands-on training but they do require registration since seating is limited.

 

Job Search Workshops

These FREE workshops cover a step-by-step process to help you land that ideal job.  Other Career Center Programs can include Interviewing Workshops, Online Applications, Creating Resume/Cover Letters, and Basic Computer Skills.  See our Online Workshop Schedule.

 

To find and register online for any of our Career Information Workshops, use our Event Finder.  Click on Events+ClassesFrom the drop-down menu under Events+Classes in the bar at the top of any page on our website, choose Event Finder.  Then choose "Subject:Career Information" & "Audience:Adults"; you can also enter Dates and Branch Locations, if needed.

 

Computer/Internet Workshops

Our Library also offers Technology Training, from beginner to advanced classes on computer software programs and the Internet at select branches throughout our system.

To find and register online for any of our Technology Workshops, use our Event Finder.  From the drop-down menu under Events+Classes in the bar at the top of any page on our website, choose Event Finder.  Then choose "Subject:Technology" & "Audience:Adults"; you can also enter Dates and Branch Locations, if needed.


 

Find more about careers on our Career Information page.

 

 

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