Finding a job is always an anxiety-inducing experience.

When the news about the economy is so frightening, finding a job can seem even more challenging.

Fortunately, help is on the way. Boulder Public Library is once again hosting the annual Rev Up Your Resume workshop from10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1, This year's event is being sponsored by a long list of partners from various local organizations with an interest in helping people find and land good jobs. They're rounding up professional career counselors who will be on hand to give workshop participants free one-on-one help creating or polishing that critical career tool, the resume.

Ahead of the workshop, I thought it might be helpful to compile a list of career-related tips from some of the partners. Those partners are Workforce Boulder County, the Colorado Career Development Association, or CCDA, the YWCA of Boulder County, the Latino Chamber of Boulder County, Boulder Technical Education Center and the Dreamweavers Institute, a local life-planning firm.

The organization with which the CCDA is affiliated, the National Career Development Association, suggests that job seekers who will be meeting with a career counselor ask themselves the following questions to get the most out of counseling sessions.

How satisfied are you with your current job? What are the main satisfactions and dissatisfactions? What are your hopes and fears regarding your current job?

What can you do to make your current job better? How might you change aspects of your job? How might you change work groups or projects? How might you change the meaning of work in your life? If you decided to do so, how might you change jobs?

What are your goals related to work and your career? In the near future? In the long-term future? What are your long and short term priorities for work and your career?

What actions, if any, do you need to take regarding your job and career? Now? In three months? Long term?

The CCDA's Web site,  www.coloradocareerdevelopment.org., provides a list of area counselors, for those who may require more than just the free resume advice that will be available at library in November.

Workforce Boulder County offers much for the self-directed job seeker. The gem of its services is the Resource Center, which includes computers with updated software, Internet access to job-listing sites, access to America's Job Network, resume software, assessment and career information software programs and newspapers, books, periodicals and magazines. In addition, Workforce offers various workshops on topics ranging from networking and interviewing to full-blown career assessment sessions. For an up-to-date list, see www.wfbc.org.

For job seekers who are looking to make over not just their careers but their lives, the Dreamweavers Institute site, www.dreamweaversinstitute.com, suggests that thinking about the various "chapters" of adult life can help clarify goals. Twenty-somethings, for instance, are typically focused on keeping options open and becoming more responsible, while forty-somethings are increasingly seeking to be their own person and focusing on what matters most to them.

On the subject of resumes in particular, Dreamweavers' Amy Lichty, who will be giving the keynote address at our event, says that job seekers need to pay attention both to the needs of the business seeking an employee and to their ability to fill those needs. "The strength of the resume comes from the ability of the applicant to go beyond merely listing experience to communicating 'proven' results," she says. "In addition, does the resume include the 'key words' that will produce an electronic match for the target position? If so, an interview is more likely to occur."

For more, see the "Resources" section of the Dreamweavers site.

Finally, I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't put in a plug for the Boulder Public Library  and our numerous jobs resources. We subscribe to a database called "Learning Express." This subscription site is available to you at home if you have an Internet connection and library card barcode number. It contains practice tests for the academic and vocational exams required for entry into many fields. Examples include the Civil Service Exam, nursing school entrance exams and real estate broker licensing exams, among many others.

If you can't join us on Nov. 1, we have plenty of books offering resume help, too. If you need a computer for actually assembling your resume or cover letters in Microsoft Word or on Google Documents, all of terminals now offer both Word 2007 and the Internet. Come in any time we're open to reserve a terminal.

And we hope to see you at the workshop. Happy job hunting.

Terzah Becker is a reference specialist at the Boulder Public Library. Her column runs every other month in The Business Report. She welcomes comments and questions and can be reached by phone at 303-441-3194 or e-mail at beckert@bouldercolorado.gov.