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Occupational Outlook HandbookA free database from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Can be especially helpful when choosing a career. Includes median salary, outlook, responsibilities, and more.
Vocations and Careers CollectionThis link opens in a new window"Vocations and Careers Collection 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 current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals."
Career & Technical Education DatabaseThis link opens in a new windowProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
The Artist's Guide by Jackie BattenfieldA comprehensive guide for both emerging and mid-career artists to pursue a career in the visual arts. Providing real-life examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Battenfield offers readily applicable advice on all aspects of the job. Along with tips on planning and assessment, she presents strategies for self-management, including marketing, online promotion, building professional relationships, grant writing, and portfolio development. Each chapter ends with an insightful "Reality Check" interview, featuring advice and useful information from high-profile artists and professionals. The result is an inspiring, experiential guide brimming with field-tested techniques that readers can easily apply to their own career.
Call Number: N 8350 .B38 2009
ISBN: 9780306816529
The Successful Artist's Career Guide by Margaret PeotArt is one of the best parts of your life...are you ready to make it your living? Whether you are an art student, an aspiring artist or a longtime hobbyist, Margaret Peot offers experienced advice and empowerment for taking that next step. Chapter by chapter, she'll help you map out a personalized route toward the creative life of your dreams. Get real-world advice on everything from bidding on jobs and promoting yourself to filing taxes and getting health insurance. Worksheets help you refine your goals, price your work with confidence, write an artist's statement and more. Interviews with successful artists in a range of professions reveal how they "made it," complete with advice on how you can, too. In a world where artists are stereotyped as struggling and starving, this upbeat, down-to-earth guide will help you shape your goals, identify opportunities and earn a productive, joyful living with your artwork. Embrace your passion and shape your every day into a work of art!
Call Number: N 8350 .P46 2012
ISBN: 9781440309304
Great Jobs for Art Majors by Blythe CamensonThese books answer the perennial question, What can I do with a degree in...? These are handy guides for those who are wondering how to translate their major into a career. This book is designed to help college students put their majors to work. It offers suggestions and profiles of career paths and general information about conducting an effective job search in the field specific to their major. This is thoroughly revised and updated edition.
Call Number: N 6505 .C33 2003
ISBN: 9780071409032
Burn Your Portfolio by Michael JandaIt takes more than just a design school education and a killer portfolio to succeed in a creative career. Burn Your Portfolio teaches the real-world practices, professional do's and don'ts, and unwritten rules of business that most designers, photographers, web designers, copy writers, programmers, and architects only learn after putting in years of experience on the job. Michael Janda, owner of the Utah-based design firm Riser, uses humor to dispense nugget after nugget of hard-won advice collected over the last decade from the personal successes and failures he has faced running his own agency. In this surprisingly funny, but incredibly practical advice guide, Janda's advice on teamwork and collaboration, relationship building, managing clients, bidding work, production processes, and more will resonate with creative professionals of all stripes.