Jobs & Career

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Career One Stop provides current information for job seekers looking to try a new career.

Learn about a career, take an occupational practice test, or learn how to create an eye catching resume through the Learning Express Career Preparation Center.

Use this resource to prepare for graduate school admissions exams. Materials include practice tests and exercises for the GRE, MCAT, and LSAT and include practice materials to help you brush up on your math, grammar, reading, and writing skills.

Update your computer skills with this resource. Take self paced courses on a variety of popular software tools, including Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Design products, and more.

Locates information about a business based on the business name, SIC, or category of business. Includes small local businesses as well as national companies. Information provided includes the name of the business, location, number of employees, owner(s), subsidiaries and other data.

Access is for personal, non-commercial use only. This resource was formerly called ReferenceUSA.

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Driving-Tests.Org offers free access to exam materials and handbooks that will help new drivers study for their Louisiana driver's license exam. Materials include the car, motorcycle, and CDL study guides and practice tests, as well as basic information about the permit and driving test. Practice tests and exams are online only, however, all handbooks are printable.

If you're thinking about starting a business, the entrepreneurial mindset course will help you to think like an entrepreneur! You'll learn how to discover opportunities that are hiding in plain sight; how cash-strapped entrepreneurs manage to identify, evaluate, and transform their ideas into a sustainable success; and how to develop a success network to help you avoid costly mistakes.

The course is self-paced and provides 10 hours of lectures, reflection assignments, and a printable completion certificate.

Search an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This resource is provided by EBSCO.

Gale Business: Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.

This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID. 

Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month. Topics include:

• Accounting and Finance
• Business
• Computer Programs
• Healthcare and Medical
• Language and Arts
• Law and Legal
• Personal Development
• Teaching and Education
• Technology
• Writing and Publishing

This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card. 

OneFile: Vocations and Careers provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

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Gale Power Search allows you to search through thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other content available through multiple Gale databases. This resource provides a variety of credible, up-to-date information from the following sources:

• Gale OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile
  • Gale General OneFile
  • Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
  • Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture
  • Gale OneFile: High School Edition
  • Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
  • Gale OneFile: Information Science
  • Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
• Gale In Context
  • Gale In Context: Biography
  • Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
  • Gale In Context: Science
  • Gale In Context: U.S. History
  • Gale In Context: World History
• Gale Literature
  • Scribner Writer Series
  • Twayne's Authors Series
• Gale eBooks

This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID. 

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep accommodates users of all ages with a resource for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting college and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, exploring career paths, help with creating a résumé, and more.

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Gale Presents: Udemy offers thousands of on-demand video courses for self-paced learning to empower patrons to achieve both personal and professional growth, pursuing skills in business, technology, and personal interests. Courses are offered in a variety of subjects, including leadership, IT, AI, wellness, language, marketing, and data science. Also included are more than 15,0000 courses taught by native-speaking instructors across 14 different languages, allowing patrons to take courses in their preferred language. Learn how to code, prep for IT certifications, sharpen leadership skills, produce a podcast, increase office productivity, tap into your creativity, explore new ways to be happy and healthy, and much more.

This resource provides tech tutorials and life skills lessons that are available for free.

• Live Online Tutor
• Skills Builder
• Homework help and tutoring for K through basic college level
• Writing Center
• Career Center
• Adult Education Center

Explore career paths, find jobs and internships, create a resume or cover letter, and find potential colleges and scholarship opportunities through this resource.

A comprehensive interactive learning platform of tests, courses, software tutorials, and career preparation for students and adults. This resource includes:

• Adult Core Skills Center, opens a new window
• Career Preparation Center, opens a new window
• College Admission Test Preparation Center, opens a new window
• College Students Center, opens a new window
• Computer Skills Center, opens a new window
• High School Equivalency Center, opens a new window
• Job & Career Accelerator, opens a new window
• Recursos Para Hispanohablantes, opens a new window
• Student Success Skills Center, opens a new window

LinkedIn Learning lets you select courses relevant to your current career or the career that you want to pursue.  You have access to courses in areas like business, technology, and marketing, or courses to help you sharpen your job search and interview skills. You can also pursue other passions! With courses on financial literacy, social media, drawing and music theory, you’ll be able to grow and develop in the areas you care about both at and outside of work. Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts all while learning at your own pace. Get started with your library card.

Find sample test questions, register for testing, or get up to date information about the Louisiana civil service exams.

Resources and information for those seeking a civil service job with the State of Louisiana.

LAJaCC pulls together resources for those seeking new careers, changing jobs, needing a little extra help preparing for the job market, online one-on-one tutoring and access to free workforce development classes.

Helping Louisiana citizens find jobs.

Mango empowers you to communicate with confidence, preparing you for uncharted experiences with language and culture. Powered by intelligent technology and an adaptive algorithm, lessons involve a rich mix of listening and reading activities, so you can make sense of written and spoken contexts. Challenge yourself to discover a new language. Log in with your library card and start learning with three easy steps: (1) create a profile (2) select your language course (3) download the app for learning on the go. 

Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this resources provides information on a wide variety of careers.

Provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry related periodicals.