This guide has been designed to assist you in navigating the library's collections. Unfortunately, the pandemic has necessitated a shift in how the college and library operate. To this end, the library's online collections have been given more prominence in this guide. While print offerings are still present in the guide, they are not accessible at this time. The library is actively exploring avenues to broaden access, such as investigating provisions for curb side pick up. As these processes evolve you will be kept informed as changes develop. Please feel free to contact me for library and research assistance. rsims@centennialcollege.ca Thank you, and happy studying!
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game by The Financial Advisor's Success Manual: How to Structure and Grow Your Financial Services Practice
By David I. Leo and Craig Cmiel
"Do you want to become a million-dollar financial advisor, boost client satisfaction, and dramatically expand your business? The Financial Advisor's Success Manual provides all the answers and strategies you need to do just that. Complete with proven techniques, expert insights, and practical tips to maximize your profitability, this one-stop guide will show you how to break the cycle of moderate growth by teaching you how to:• Develop a differentiation strategy• Define and implement your six core client-facing processes• Balance the cost of services with the value delivered• Enhance client loyalty• Perfect your personal marketing and sales approach• And more! You didn't start your financial services firm with a goal of modest gains. So don't settle for that! By implementing the methodologies and strategies in this manual, you can grow your business beyond your wildest expectations--all the while serving your clients better."
Innovation in Financial Services: A Dual Ambiguity
By Anne-Laure Mention and Marko Torkkeli
"This book gathers together some of the most up-to-date thinking in the growing field of innovation in services and more particularly, in financial services. It explores the peculiarities of innovation in financial services firms and surrounding market players, discusses the open nature of the innovation process, and analyses its success factors and its interplay with strategy and performance. This book provides topical insights on the challenges facing the financial industry, such as the convergence with other sectors, and the increasing regulatory burden. By combining multidisciplinary approaches and by selecting a number of cutting-edge research models, theories, empirical findings and practitioners' insights, it offers unique, contemporary and multidimensional perspectives on innovation for a sector of paramount importance for the running of economies around the world."
If you somehow missed the MEGA search box (Search the Library Collections), don't worry.
ProTip: Everything begins here: library.centennialcollege.ca
It's time to activate Plan B, and open up the E-Resources tab.
If you think of the Internet as a pile, the library, on the other hand, is a collection. We specialize in collecting quality resources for student success. The E-Resources tab is your gateway to selecting and entering the name of the resource(s) you need.
There are several points of entry into the collections: Search Keywords box, A-Z list, Media Type filter, and the School List filter.
ProTip: The Search Keywords box allows you to search for a collection, a resource. It is not designed to search within the collection.
Once you select a collection (Business Source Complete, for example) you are almost ready to work!
Not sure what's inside a collection (database)? Before opening the database, each collection comes with a short description of what you can expect to find. For example:
Business Source Complete
Full text business scholarly journals, magazines, country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. Includes full text of the Harvard Business Review, and Datamonitor country, company, and industry reports.
Working off-campus, you may be asked to login. Simple: just use your myCentennial login credentials.
Next box...
If you are looking for information sources describing company data, industry information, and market area facts, there is a guide just for you!
Because many of our journals and magazines are collected together in aggregated databases, adding and mixing several titles and publishers, searching is usually a matter of entering words and phrases that describe your topic, at least in the beginning.
(Begin here, just to get the hang of it!)
You can explore the magic of these selected collections:
Business Source Complete
ABI/INFORM Collection
CBCA Complete
Sage Premier
ScienceDirect College Edition
Business Insights Global
LexisNexis Academic
Academic Search Premier
Research Library
From time to time, a professor, here and there, may recommend a favorite journal or magazine, suggesting a title that is perfect for your research report! With over 150 discrete collections within our online library, how will you ever find it?
The short answer is to summon the magazine/journal searching tool, with the obvious name: Full Text Journals. This tool, located on the library's homepage, below the Library Guides link, directly links to individual magazines/journals within our collection, no matter which database(s) it resides in.
Try it, and see for yourself.
Example: MIT Sloan Management Review... shows up in few places, including here!
You may want to practice with a few of these titles!
Finance and Financial Services
Journal of Financial Economics
Journal of Financial Services Marketing
The purpose of this guide is to provide a "toe-dip" into the library's collections as they pertain to Financial Services students. If you want to drop deeper into the bottomless pit of research, check out these other two guides:
Fundamentals of Business & Business 119
While these guides are "for" these courses, their real purpose is to open up the library to students in new ways, covering journal and magazine discovery and evaluation, search strategies, along with navigating the streamed audio-visual experiences, and giving a little head-space to APA.
Capital markets : evolution of the financial ecosystem by 
Essential advisor : building value in the investor-advisor relationship by 
Finance for normal people : how investors and markets behave by 
Investing with impact : why finance is a force for good by 
Market masters : proven investing strategies you can apply : interviews with Canada's top investors by 
Careers in financial services by 
Heard on the street : quantitative questions from Wall Street job interviews by 
Reach the top in finance : the ambitious accountant's guide to career success by Looking for:
►career exploration resources
►resume and cover letter advice
►interviewing tips
►career search guidance...
Check out my Career Info for Students: keeping ahead of the competition! (guide)
And don't forget: Careers for New Canadians: get in the game!