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Big Sur Career Explorers: Free Reference eBooks for Job Seekers, Students and Advisors
Explore All Jobs That Need the Same Skills and Education
Ordered By Education Level, See How Degrees Stack Into Higher Level Careers
Discover All Careers Within Education Paths Across Degree Levels
Newly looking geologist finds *lots* of jobs options
The InfoSurf Geologist Occupation Profile was put together in literally 10 minutes using 3 InfoSurf eBooks: Career Flow, Job Title Surfer and Shoreline. The geologist found 20+ other jobs he qualified for and more than a dozen other occupation classes that he could move to -- only one would require more schooling.
New Graduate finds more jobs using career exploration books.
"I thought I only had *one* choice, but I see a whole bunch of options that look really good."
Note: In this case, this person recently graduated with a Master's in Communication Disorders and was told that she qualified to be a Speech-Language Pathologist. When she used Shoreline, she saw two additional occupation classes. When she looked those up in the Job Title Surfer, she found almost 20 different job within those occupations.
Future marine biologist finds choices with Shoreline.
"I have more than one choice for a job! And there are more school options than I thought. I'm relieved!"
Note: this person looked at Shoreline to see what occupations were associated with the area she's studying in college, Found more when she looked up related jobs in Step Up! (overlap of skills and knowledge) and Job Title Surfer (same skills and knowledge).
Computer Science Faculty loves new online career center.
"Wow! THIS IS AWESOME!!! I'm going to walk my students through the vast amount of resources available to them in one place. I love the connections to jobs and snapshot of the market, the articles to help identify a path, how classroom skills apply to professional life, and the specific examples of resumes for various occupations from a student perspective. This will be a fantastic resource for advising students as they continue their education and look for direction."
Career Exploration Faculty excited about new online center.
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You lied! I’ve spent the last 15 minutes looking at your resources and have barely scratched the surface. This is something I will definitely utilize extensively next time I teach the career class. Thanks so much for putting it together..."
GED/ESL Director promotes online center to students & staff.
"I’m forwarding the information immediately to everyone in my department. I will also ask our instructors to use it when they talk about careers during class... Really well done. Thanks."
Developed over several years and used to this day, these references guide both new cashiers, managers, buyers and POS techs on how the whole system works, including the unique and powerful tools SMS has to maximize customer buying opportunities.
Free downloads:
Cashier Book: Classic 1/2 page manuscript style, makes learning while working the register easy.
Discount Methods: Reference guide includes in depth explanations on all three ways that SMS allows discounting: Shopper Level discounts on all purchases, Item-level discounts from the Price table, and extensive coupon examples.