Subject Guide: Career & Employment
AtoZdatabases: Job, Business, People Search - free for Chelmsford residents
Find a job, find a person, find a business! A job search, white pages, and mailing list database that searches more than 30 million businesses and executives, 7 million jobs, 220 million residents, and 7.9 million healthcare professionals. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more! View a tutorial.
Leadership and Management - free anywhere
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics as diverse as 21st century skills, learning disorders, standardized testing, home schooling and more. Updated daily, this resource is useful for researchers or any professional educators interested in professional development.
Niche Academy: Online Learning - free anywhere
Tutorials created by staff in Chelmsford and libraries across the country, focusing on educational topics across a variety of subjects: business, finance, evaluating online information, health, research skills, and more. Click into any tutorial for a step-by-step guide, with text, graphic, and video instructions. We also take suggestions for new tutorials!
Peterson’s Career Prep - free statewide
Discover which careers suit you best, research potential career options, and explore the requirements and outlooks for the occupations you’re interested in. View a tutorial.
Tutorials from Niche Academy:
- Auto Maintenance
- Boundaries
- Customer Service 101
- Disability Etiquette and Awareness
- The Job Interview
- Life Success
- LinkedIn – Social Networking for Job Seekers and Professionals
- Making Employee Training Stick
- Networking, Cover Letters & Resumes
- Searching for Jobs Online with Indeed
- Tabletop Games and 21st Century Skill Development
- Workplace Conduct & Safety
Help Wanted Newspaper Classifieds
Sunday papers are in the Newspaper Room
Interviewing, Resume & Cover Letters, Starting Out/Returning To Work, Industry/Company Research
Check out the Career Resources section, located next on the tables by the Reference Desk
50+ Job Seekers Networking Group of Greater Lowell – Join a professional forum for networking with peers in a safe and comfortable environment conducive to developing new relationships and developing skills and strategies to help in your career transition. Meets first and third Wednesday of each month at 9:30 am.
Career One Stop – Explore careers, training requirements, search for jobs or local resources that can help. Sponsored by the US Dept. of Labor.
Job-Hunt.org – Excellent practical how-to job search advice from genuine experts to help you have a smarter — and shorter — job search
Mapping Your Future - The second edition of Mapping Your Future, National is out! It includes helpful information and advice on topics like employment, healthcare, substance use and more, with resources for formerly incarcerated individuals throughout the US. This new edition includes chapters on LGBTQ+ people, new cannabis laws and an expanded state-by-state resource directory. Created by the Education Justice Project ©2025 by the Board of Trustees, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. Spanish version
MassHire Boston: Boston’s Downtown MassHire location. Find career guidance and resources.
MassHire Lowell: Lowell’s MassHire Career Center. Find career guidance and resources here.
MassHire Lowell Quick Appointments: Schedule a quick phone appointment with a MassHire representative to assist you with unemployment.
MA Department of Unemployment Assistance Call Center: 877-626-6800; 8:30am-4:30pm M-F. Multilingual call agents available.
MA Unemployment: Learn how to apply for unemployment in MA.
MA Unemployment Benefits Fraud – This web portal is for identifying employment benefits scams and reporting fraud to the MA government.
Occupational Outlook Handbook – For hundreds of occupations, research the average salaries, education required, job outlook, work environment, work schedules, etc. for your career search.
Youtube Videos – These recordings are from job search programs the library ran digitally in 2020: