Job searching help is available
Nearly all job listings and applications are now on-line. The job search is often difficult because most job hunters do not have experience working on computers.
Employment help is available at Racine Public Library on Wednesdays. One and a half-hour appointments are available for crafting a new resume, updating a current resume and receiving basic computer skills on how to search for jobs.
On-line options for job searching are web sites for:
- Companies. Many companies prefer that people search for job openings and make application for those jobs on their web sites.
- Placement agencies. These used to be called temporary agencies, but they are mostly used by companies to do the hiring and vetting of new employees.
- Job aggregators. These web sites seek out all kinds of on-line job listings and present them on a single site, with search capabilities that allow you to narrow your search to a specific type of job/job title, geographic area (city, state, etc.), types of employment (full/part time, temporary/permanent/seasonal), and more
The process is simple.
- Call Racine Public Library Reference Desk to make an appointment - 262-633-9217
- Visit our Library to make an appointment - 75 Seventh Street, Downtown.
- Prior to your appointment, please gather the following information. If you do not have all of the details about the locations and telephone numbers of your previous jobs, we are most likely able to find them on-line during your appointment. Bring this information to your appointment.
- The name, address and telephone number of each of your previous jobs for the past ten years. We can help you with the addresses and phone numbers during your appointment.
- The date that you began working at a particular company and the last day that you worked there.
- Your job title.
- Your job duties.
- Your volunteer experience. Keep in mind that we know most people do not have time in their busy lives to volunteer, but if you have done so, please bring that information along with you. Service to your faith community may also be considered volunteer experience if it is of long and regular duration.
- Your educational experience, which includes military service, significant trainings, certifications and more. Bring it all along, because we never know what we will find in that.
- Try to think about the large body of skills that allow you to do your work. Our tasks and duties for a job are important, but the larger skills that allow us to perform those duties and tasks is more important.
- Skills do not have to come from particular jobs, but can come from other areas of your life, such as hobbies, things you do because you are simply interested in them and ways that you are of help to your community.
