The purpose of this post is to convince you to add one belated resolution for 2016: bookmark the link to SIBL's programs and classes in your favorites. Why?

The Science, Industry and Business Library is renowned in the NYC metro area as the site for continuous education in those areas crucial to every New Yorker: money and work. SIBL offered 320+ sessions in 2015, repeating frequently those most in demand. The retrospective round up below captures SIBL's year-round cavalcade of career and job, financial management, and entrepreneurship and small business offerings, many of which, as you will see recur frequently. Look for these in 2016 so you can plan ahead.

January

• “Introduction to Trademarks (presented ten times)
• New Resolutions for Your Career: Establishing and Maintaining Career Momentum in 2015
• Budgeting: Cash & Credit
• It's Never Too Late to Start Investing (presented twice)
• Maximizing Your Return
• How to Build Your Brand and Keep it in the Black: A Workshop for Entrepreneurs
• Writing a LinkedIn Summary (presented twice)
• Harnessing the Power of LinkedIn as a Research Tool
• Marketing Yourself with Confidence (presented four times)
• Your Job Search is A Full Time Job. How to Manage Your Job Search (presented twice)
• Critique Your Resume (presented twenty-one times)
• Investing in Stocks: The Basics (presented eighteen times)
• Online with MorningStar & ValueLine (presented fifteen times)
• Health Care Reform: What It Means To You (presented three times)
• Mutual Funds & ETFs (presented thirteen times)
• Career Resources (presented twenty times)
• Dare to Change
• Researching the 5 Ps of Your Marketing Plan (presented ten times)
• Bonds & Bond Mutual Funds
• LinkedIn Best Practices (presented twice)

February

• Interview Intervention: The Self Recruiter® Interview Checklist (presented four times)
• Dominate Your Fate℠: 3 RED keys to change to your choice career, not to allow your career to change your choices
• Avoiding the Common Mistakes on Wills (presented twice)
• Getting Started in Export Research (presented ten times)
• Self-Recruiter® Career Evolution: Preparing For Your Career's Next Leap with Social Media Marketing (presented four times)
• 4 Keys to Success: Credit, Cash Flow, Customers and Cons (presented twice)
• Job Search Fundamentals
• Deliver Powerful Presentations that get RESULTS!
• Career Management for Introverts
• Starting a Small Business (presented twice)
• Planning for Retirement and College
• Who Are You and What Are You Supposed to Be Doing with Your Life? (presented twice)
• Global Business News & More Using Factiva (presented thirteen times)
• Life Skills: Budgeting, Credit, & Debt (presented eight times)
• Resume & “Pitch” Intensive: Craft Messages that Land Interviews and Offers
• Self-Recruiter® Communications Mastery in Job Search: How to Engage Hiring Managers (presented twice)
• Broker, Financial Planner, or Investment Advisor: How to Pick (presented twice)
• Self-Recruiter® Resume Renovation (presented three times)
• Creating a Personal Brand
• Is Your Resume Promoting You or Hurting You?
• Bonds Basics (presented fourteen times)

March

• The Networking Meeting: Getting the Most Out of Your Contacts
• Self-Recruiter® Lecture Series: Building Your Professional Network with LinkedIn & How To Use It In Your Job Search (presented six times)
• Getting Hired Using Online Social Media
• Real Life Financial Advice for Young Investors
• Best Practices in Your Job Search (presented eleven times)
• The Paradigm Shift in Job Search: Marketing Yourself to the Decision-Maker (presented three times)
• Smart Social Security Strategies (presented twice)
• Job Seekers: Download a Customized Company List for Contacts (presented ten times)
• Quickbooks Workshop
• Business Start-up Resources & Services
• Turn Job Interviews into Offers
• Writing a Winning Resume
• Get Tips and Advice from Employers Who Hire!
• Smarter Social Security: Strategies to Maximize Spousal Benefits
• Authentic Branding: Letting the Real You Shine in Any Situation (presented twice)
• Online Funding for Business (presented twice)
• Staying Positive during a Difficult Job Search
• Freedom of Information Day lecture
• Acting Improvisation for Leadership Presence

April

• Planning for a Successful Retirement (presented five times)
• Negotiating: The Bottom Line for Your Job Campaign
• The Truth in Retailing: Why E-tailing Doesn’t Work
• Are you ‘fluent’ in LinkedIn? (presented thirteen times)
• Living Large On Less in NYC
• Facebook for Business (presented five times)
• Interpreting Financial Statements (presented seven times)
• Advanced LinkedIn: Jump-start Your Career
• Investment Choices: What is Right for me?
• Jump Start Your Job Search (presented twice)
• Financial Planning Before and During a Divorce
• Using Social Media to Find a Job
• Promotions and Planning for Your Business (presented twice)
• Beyond the Basics: The ABC’s of ETFs,Vas, & Other Financial Products
• What Are You Saving For?
• The Role of the Federal Reserve in the Economy
• Medicare 2015
• Wills & Advance Directives
• Brokers, Financial Advisors, & Financial Planners: How to Pick One?
• The Importance of Asset Allocation in Building a Diversified Portfolio
• How to Give a Powerful Elevator Pitch
• Home Buyer Workshop
• Social Security: What You Need to Know About Retirement
• Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning
• Investing Basics: Make Informed Investment Decisions & Avoid Fraud
• Are You Branding Yourself to be Remembered?

May

• Imports and Exports: The Cost of Ignoring Business Risks
• Five Plastic Money Cards - The Good, Bad and Ugly
• Become the Perfect Candidate: Tap into the 'Hidden' Job Market (presented twice)
• Customs and Border Protection: Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the Centers of Excellence and Expertise and Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS)
• Elevator "Pitch Perfect!"
• The Key to a Dream Retirement
• Should I Throw Away My Resume?
• Customs and Border Protection: Customs-Trade Partnership against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Update
• Self-Recruiter®Resume Renovation (presented three times)
• Imports and Exports: The Cost of Ignoring Operational Risks
• How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions (presented twice)
• Social Security: How it Will Fit in Your Retirement (presented eight times)
• Customs and Border Protection: Foreign Trade Zones
• Meet Your International Trade Expert Network in New York
• Effective Strategies for Conducting a Successful Job Search
• Thinking through the Job Interview
• Returning To the Workforce after a Long Break or Sabbatical
• How to Absolutely, Positively Ace Your Job Interview
• Writing a LinkedIn Summary (presented five times)
• Is What You Do Right For You? A Holistic Approach to Assessing Career Fit

June

• Broker, Financial Planner, or Investment Advisor: How to Pick One
• Business Communications for Your Career
• Self-Recruiter® Lecture Series: Organizing and Managing Your Job Search (presented five times)
• Managing the Head Game in Your Job Search
• Crash Course in Interviewing (presented twice)
• Keep the Momentum Going
• Maximizing Your IRA & 401(k)
• Presentation Skills for Job Seekers
• Shall We Wed? Financial Planning and Same-sex Households
• Summer Pitch: How to Talk About Your Career in Any Setting
• Getting a Bank Loan for Your Business
• Stocks and Stock Mutual Funds
• Reinvent Your Career (presented twice)
• For Seniors Only: Wills and Advance Directives
• For Seniors Only: Investing for Seniors
• For Seniors Only: Identity Theft
• Writing a LinkedIn Summary
• NYC Local Law 87
• It's Not About Age: Tips to Conduct a Successful Job Search No Matter Your Age
• Introduction to Medicare

July

• A Seminar in Resume Problems
• Career Finder’s Club (presented four times)
• Powerful First Impressions: How to Find and Get the Job You Really Want (presented seven times)
• Planning and Organizing a Job Search Campaign
• Constructing a Diversified Portfolio for Beginners
• Refining Your Personal Brand: Using Marketing Principles to Ace "Tell Me about Yourself"
• Attitude is The Key to Successful Job Search
• Live Within Your Means: The ABCs of Budgeting
• Networking to Your Next Job/Career

August

• Networking: Building and Maintaining Your Visibility
• Crafting an Elevator Pitch
• LinkedIn for Business - How to Use Its Social Media Marketing To Reach Your Business Goals
• Identity Theft: What’s Happening Now
• Branding from Both Sides Now — Creating & Trademarking Your Identity
• Crafting an Elevator Pitch (presented twice)

September

• Positive Strategies to Help Achieve a Less Stressful More Successful Job Search
• Targeting a Great Career: Achieve Satisfaction in Your Next Job
• Writing a LinkedIn Summary (presented twice)
• College Funding Awareness Program
• Debunking LinkedIn Myths for Job Seekers (and Entrepreneurs)
• Why Don't I have a Job Yet?
• Advertising Research for Your Business
• Reinvent Your Career
• Not a US Citizen? What you Need to Know
• Dominate Your Fate℠: 3 RED Keys to Catapult Up The Career Curve, Not Let Your Career Keep You Down
• Digital Resources for the Growing Your Fashion Business
• How To Create Your Own Best Job Search Strategy

October

• Career Management for Introverts
• Building Your Professional Network with LinkedIn & How To Use It In Your Job Search
• Technology! How It Can Help You to Bank and Budget Better
• Is What You Do Right For You? A Holistic Approach to Assessing Career Fit
• De-Mystifying Twitter for Small Business: Tweeting Towards Sales
• Creating a Social Media Marketing Campaign for Your Business on LinkedIn
• Resume & “Pitch” Intensive - Craft Messages that Land Interviews and Offers
• From Pins to Profits: Using Pinterest for Your Business
• Strategies for Smart Savings and Investing
• Medicare 2015
• FINRA Tools: Investor Resources at Your Fingertips
• What You Need to Know About the Small Business Marketplace of the NY State of Health
• What You Should Know About Long Term Care Insurance
• A Talk with the Tax Guy: Questions Your Accountant Didn't Answer During Tax Season
• 401(k)s, 403(b)s… Optimizing Your Retirement Plan at Work
• Stop! Thief! How to Spot & Stop Identity Theft
• Wills and Advance Directives
• How Indexing Provides an Intelligent and Effective Way to Invest
• Essential Tips for Financing an Affordable College Education
• Maximizing Interpersonal Relationships
• Introduction to Patents (presented thirteen times)

November

• Investing! What Your Money Can Do for You (presented thirteen times)
• Proven Interviewing Strategies to Get the Job Offer
• Turn Job Interviews into Offers
• Crafting an Elevator Pitch five times
• How to Maintain Momentum in Your Job Search
• The Self‐Recruiter® Interview Checklist
• Optimizing Your Budget & Cash Flow (presented twice)
• Money Matters Military. Returning to the Civilian Workforce
• Effective Online Job Search & Interviewing Techniques
• Keep the Momentum Going
• Market/Industry Research in SIBL

December

• How to Get Health Insurance for Your Small Business through the NY State of Health
• Money Matters Military. Found Money: Optimizing Budgets and Cash Flow
• AARP Back To Work 50+ Virtual Career Network (presented fifteen times)
• Basics of On-Line Market Trading with T3 Live On-Line Resources for Libraries
• Free Small Business Risk Education Workshop (presented three times)
• Starting a Small Business (presented twice)
• Creating a Memorable Branding Statement
• How to Use Recruiters, Ads, Social Media and Letter Campaigns To Your Best Advantage In Your Job Campaign (presented twice)
• Staying Motivated Throughout the Job Search Process (presented twice)
• Interview with Confidence (presented twice)
• What Makes a Good Financial Plan? (presented twice)
• Year End Tax Tips
• From Broadway to Business: Lessons from the Stage for Leadership Success