Job & Career

At Bentonville Library, we want to help you develop career-specific knowledge, job skills and improve your opportunities. We offer a wide variety of resources for lifelong learners, plus customized assistance with your résumé, training with online job searches and interview tips.

If you have questions or need assistance with your résumé, online job searches or interview skills, please contact BPL’s Reference Librarian, Heather, at 479-271-5976 or email hhays@bentonvillear.com.

Online Resources | Magazines | Newspapers | Websites

 Featured Online Resources

  • Job & Career Accelerator
    Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username
    Job & Career Accelerator™ combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. Explore your career or learn how to break into a new field, apply for jobs, practice interviewing and much more! To begin using Job & Career Accelerator, set up a profile to track your success and access Learning Express Library. Hint: use your library barcode as your username.
  • Learning Express Library
    Registration Required: Use Library Barcode as Username
    Perfect for high school and college students and adults! Includes practice exams for GED, ACT, SAT, GRE plus CDL, ASVAB, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, Firefighter, EMS and US Citizenship. Plus, math, science, reading and other subjects for younger students. To begin using Learning Express, set up a profile to track your success and access Job & Career Accelerator. Hint: use your library barcode as your username.
  • Mango Languages
    Login Required Offsite
    Learn a new language in the comfort of your own home! Choose from 39 foreign languages and 18 English as second languages. Popular courses include: French, German, Italian and Spanish. Use the translate tool, start learning immediately or set up a profile to track your progress.
  • Universal Class
    Registration Required
    From professional development to personal growth to continuing education, learn something new today! Universal Class offers hundreds of online classes facilitated by real instructors teaching courses on almost every imaginable subject, such as: accounting, business management, interview skills, medical courses, legal training, computer classes, project management, wedding planning, grant writing, nutrition and wellness information, plus more. 
  • Vocational & Career Collection (Ebsco)
    Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry-related periodicals.
  • Vocations and Careers Collection (Gale)
    300+ largely full-text journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

About Online Resources
BPL is everywhere you are! If you like to learn, about any subject, from your computer or mobile device, visit BPL’s Online Resources.

 Magazines

  • Entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur magazine is for businesses owners, offering inspiration and information on marketing, management, technology, the latest trends and strategies.
  • Money
    Helps readers make better decisions, not just in their investment portfolio, but everywhere life and money intersects - family, home, health, finances, career, spending and their future.
  • T + D
    Training and Development supports better performance through workplace learning.
  • Working Mother
    The magazine provides advice on child care, children's education, growth and development, health and well-being, personal health, fashion and beauty, career options, work/family issues, family finances, food and nutrition.
  • Writer
    Today's best-selling writers discuss dialogue, plotting, characterization, suspense, romantic fiction; non-fiction writers cover interviewing, research, finding good subjects, how and when to query, turning personal experience into salable articles and books.

 Newspapers

  • Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
    Business and community leaders rely on the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal for the kind of valuable insight and analysis that goes into making critical business decisions.
  • Arkansas-Democrat Gazette
    News, business, sports, feature stories and more in Arkansas.
  • Benton County Daily Record
    News, business, sports, feature stories and more in Benton County.

 Recommended Sites

About Recommended Sites

Our goal is to provide you with educational, entertaining and reliable information on the internet. All web content should be viewed with a discerning eye for accuracy, authorship and currency. Please note, by providing these web links for easy access, inclusion does not imply endorsement by Bentonville Library.

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