Resources
Library Resources
Public Service Sectors
Alternatives to the Peace Corps
Provides information about global volunteer opportunities.
Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact
Designed to help guide people along a service career path. This book includes recollections from Echoing Green Fellowsabout their experiences.
Bond Buyer's Municipal Marketplace
Directory providing detailed information about the professionals and firms in the domestic municipal bond industry.
Book of U.S. Government Jobs
Where they are, what's available and how to get one.
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Outlines the master plan for the Brooklyn Bridge Park site.
Career Guide for the Health Services Manager
Learn the professional and personal skills necessary to succeed as a healthcare executive.
Careers in Fundraising
Provides guidance on professional opportunities in the field of fundraising, including topics on professional development and on-the-job issues.
Careers in Healthcare Management: How to find your path and follow it
Provides information about where you can work, types of management positions, and the skills you will need to be successful.
Careers in International Affairs: 6th Edition
Designed to provoke thought about possibilities, this book offers an introduction to and an overview of a wide variety of employment opportunities around the world.
Careers in International Business
Will guide you toward finding and keeping a job in international business that's right for you.
Career Opportunities for American Planners in International Development
The American Planning Association (APA) discusses different aspect of international planning.
Career Opportunities in Politics, Government, and Activism
A complete guide of more than 70 exciting careers.
Career Worth Planning
Dispenses practical career advice for beginner and veteran urban planners.
Community Planning
Walks the reader through the planning process and clearly demonstrates what planners do.
Complete Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century
Includes fishery and wildlife management, parks and outdoor recreation, land and water conservation, and more!
Directory of Jobs and Careers Abroad
A guide to launching a successful overseas job search, including recommended skills and opportunities in over 50 countries.
Early-Careerist: MGMA Smart Pack
A collection of practice management articles and papers.
Effective Health Care Supervisor
Packed with strategies, techniques and tools to build your management skills.
Financial Resources for International Study
A guide for students and professionals with detailed descriptions of 700 grants and fellowships.
First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
This book introduces a framework enabling new government leaders at all levels to accelerate their transitions by addressing nine key challenges.
From Making a Profit to Making a Difference
This book is useful for people changing from business to nonprofits. Also helpful for those working in nonprofits who are exploring career options.
Give and Take: A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy
A candid look at the factors that make for a successful giving program.
Global Resume and CV Guide
Provides information on 40 different countries, including the U.S. Includes job sources, Internet sites, work permit/visa requirements, interviewing and cultural advice.
Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs
A comprehensive study of the largest international relief and development NGOs.
Good Works: A Guide to Careers in Social Change
A national directory of social change organizations with career opportunities for people who want to be pioneers of a just society.
Guide to America's Federal Jobs: A Complete Directory of Federal Career Opportunities
A comprehensive resource on federal employment for job seekers and federal employees.
Guide to Careers in Community Development
Describes everything you need to know about community development.
Guide to Graduate Environmental Programs
Presents specific data on graduate environmental programs across the United States, with more than 160 in-depth profiles that provide information on: Admission and degree requirements, Areas of Specialization, Enrollment, Tuition and more.
Handbook on Private Foundations
Addresses the most compelling issues facing the foundation community.
Harvard Business Review on Nonprofits
Explores all aspects of the work of modern nonprofit organizations.
Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Finance
Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students provide insider perspective on finance and career advice. Mostly corporate finance, minimal public finance.
Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting
A complete guide to careers in management consulting.
Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector
Discusses all types of nonprofits.
Harvard College Guide to Grants
This book lists funding sources for internships, graduate study, overseas study, purposeful travel, and research.
Hope for the Future: A Career Development Guide for Physician Executives
Book and cassette discuss future job possibilities, networking, negotiating salary and more.
How to Get a Job in Congress (without winning an election)
An essential tool for job seekers wanting to work for Congress on Capitol Hill. Also discusses alternative careers around Capitol Hill.
How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job
A complete guide to opportunities, internships, resumes and cover letters, application essays (KSAs), interviews, salaries, promotions, and more.
Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers
Provides an overview of the nonprofit sector and talks about tools of the job search and challenges of the job market.
Industry Insider: Ace Your Case!
A management consulting workbook designed as a tool to help job seekers better understand prospective employers.
Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America
Discusses careers in the Foreign Service.
Insider Guide: Careers in Management Consulting
Guide to careers in management consulting.
Insider Guide to Jobs on Capitol Hill
Designed as a tool to help job seekers better understand prospective employers.
InterAction Member Profiles
Highlights the collective contribution of over 160 mostly international private voluntary organizations. Includes a searchable CD-ROM.
International Careers in Urban Planning
A collection of interviews with planners working throughout the world. Profiles international planners' career paths, including education, current jobs, and career advice.
International Jobs Directory
1001 international employer profiles and tips for success.
International Jobs: Where they are, How to get them
A comprehensive resource book on International Jobs.
Introduction to Healthcare Delivery Organizations
Provides a concise overview of the activities, management, personnel, and interrelationships found in healthcare delivery organizations.
Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System
Guide to how U.S. health care works.
Investing in Low-wage Workers
The book explores lessons from Family Child Care in Rhode Island.
JobBank Guide to Health Care Companies
This book is a directory of health care employers and how to get a job with them.
Jobs and Careers with Nonprofit Organizations
Includes insights, tips, sample resumes, contact information, recommended resources and websites.
Making a Living While Making a Difference, The Expanded Guide to Creating Careers with a Conscience
Shows how imaginative others have been in making creative career choices and what they have done to succeed.
More than a Market, Making Sense of Health Care Systems: Lessons from community voices, Health care for the underserved
This book offers a look at providing health care to underserved populations.
Net Impact: Social impact Career Handbook
Designed to be a supplement to the Career Services resources.The book discusses areas such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Microfinance, Nonprofit management.
Non-Profits and Education Job Finder
Includes tools for finding jobs and getting hired in education and the rest of the non-profit sector.
100 Best nonprofits to work for
A directory of nationwide nonprofits that are doing well and are good to work for.
Opportunities in Hospital Administration Careers
Advice on how to get started in some of the fastest growing jobs in hospital administration including salary statistics and a listing of professional societies.
Peace Corps: The Great Adventure
A compilation of volunteer stories of life overseas and information on how to become a volunteer.
Physicians in Managed Care: A Career Guide
Discusses managed care organizations, career paths, management positions and more.
Planning for a New Century
A discussion by "leading thinkers" of important policy issues in planning.
Planning in the USA, Policies, Issues, and Process
Outlines land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies.
Practical Guide to Global Health Service
This book profiles approximately 300 organizations that place health service volunteers.
Practice of Local Government Planning
A discussion of issues in local government planning.
Public Finance Criteria
Standard and Poor's updated overview of public finance criteria.
Readings in Planning Theory
Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
Savvy Networker
This book reveals the key skills and behaviors of savvy networkers.
Search: Winning strategies to get your next job in the nonprofit world.
Job searching from A to Z.
Ten Steps to a Federal Job
Helps applicants slash the red tape and access thousands of jobs vital to running the government.
2000 Prune Book: How to Succeed in Washington's Top Jobs
Includes "detailed position profiles for 56 [federal government] leadership positions."
Transitioning to the Nonprofit Sector
An overview of the various professions in the nonprofit sector.
Tyler's Guide: The Healthcare Executive's Job Search
A guide for any healthcare executive planning or making a job change.
Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms
Gives the inside scoop on the top consulting firms and how to land the most sought after consulting jobs.
Volunteer America
A comprehensive national guide to opportunities for service, training and work experience.
WetFeet.com Insider Guide to the Mutual Fund Industry
Overviews everything from the ins and outs of the industry to getting hired.
What Planners Do: Power, Politics and Persuasion
A comprehensive look at planning.
Work Abroad
The complete guide to finding a job overseas.
Working for Change: Making a Career in International Public Service
Explores career paths in international public service, focusing on development management positions.
