Resources

CareerGenerations’ Favorite Books

for gaining perspective, ideas, next steps …

Topics include: Assessment Related Books (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Strong Interest Inventory, the Enneagram), Career Exploration, Career Management, Confidence Building, Entrepreneur/Freelance, Interviewing, Resources for Introverts, Job Search Strategies, Negotiating, Networking, LinkedIn/Networking Online/Social Media, Occupation Research, Personal Branding, Reinvention, Resumes/Cover Letters, Retirement (We call it Protirement!) Planning, Skills Identification, Team Building, Transitions, Women-focused, Work Issues and Trends, and more …

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Assessment Related Books

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Do What You Are
• What’s Your Type of Career?
• Type Talk at Work (Revised): How the 16 Personality Types Determine Your Success on the Job
• Please Understand Me
• Was That Really Me?: How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality
• Just Your Type

Strong Interest Inventory

• www.onetonline.org
• 50 Best Jobs for your Personality
• 10 Best College Majors for your Personality

Enneagram

• The Career Within
• The Enneagram of Love and Work
• The Enneagram: Understanding yourself and the others in your life
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
• The Essential Enneagram
• The Enneagram Made Easy
• Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success
• And for parents: Enneagram of Parenting and Enneagram of Teens

Career Design / Inspiration

• Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness – and a New Freedom – at Work
• Wishcraft
• I could do anything if I only knew what it was
• Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• What Color is your Parachute?
• It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now: How to create your second life at any age
• Test-Drive Your Dream Job
• Work with Passion
• Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
• Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
• When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Career Design – Specifically for People in their 20s and 30s

• Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness – and a New Freedom – at Work
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• The Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Invent Your Own Path, Find Meaningful Work, and Build a Life That Matters
• The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now
• Now What? The Young Person’s Guide

Career Management / Moving Ahead at Work

• Bringing Out the Best in Yourself at Work: How to Use the Enneagram System for Success
• The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Rise: 3 Practical Steps for Advancing Your Career, Standing Out as a Leader, and Liking Your Life
• HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
• Climbing The Corporate Ladder
• Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You to Know—and What to Do About Them
• Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn’t, and Why, Second Edition: 12 Things You’d Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead
• The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength
• Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead

Confidence Building

• Calm: The harmony and serenity we crave (Lessons for Life) from the School of Life in London
• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
• How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism
• Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
• Confidence: 100 Quick Tips – How To Be More Confident, Build Self-Esteem And Gain Self-Confidence Fast
• Magnetic Charisma: How to Build Instant Rapport, Be More Likable, and Make a Memorable Impression – Gain the It Factor
• Rejection Reset: Restore Social Confidence, Reshape Your Inferior Mindset, and Thrive In a Shame-Free Lifestyle
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
• Relaunch Your Life: Break the Cycle of Self Defeat, Destroy Negative Emotions and Reclaim Your Personal Power

Entrepreneur/Freelance

• The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
• Job Free: Four Ways to Quit the Rat Race and Achieve Financial Freedom on Your Terms
• Becoming an Entrepreneur: How to Find Freedom and Fulfillment as a Business Owner
• Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
• The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Crossing the Chasm
• Inside the Tornado
• The Innovator’s Dilemma
• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Interviewing

• 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
• 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions
• Get That Job!: The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview
• Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job
• 101 Toughest Interview Questions
• 60 Seconds & You’re Hired!

Introverts

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
• Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead
• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
• The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength
• Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength
• Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected

Job Search

• What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here! 44 Insider Secrets and Tips that Will Get You Hired
• Job Search Strategies: Get a Good Job… Even in a Bad Economy
• The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster
• What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here! 44 Insider Secrets and Tips that Will Get You Hired
• Knock ’em Dead 2017: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
• 60 Seconds & You’re Hired!
• The Secret to Getting a Job after College: Marketing Tactics to Turn Degrees into Dollars
• When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want

LinkedIn/Networking Online/Social Media

• The Social Media Job Search Workbook: Your step-by-step guide to finding work in the age of social media
• Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies
• Advanced LinkedIn: For Your Job Search, Business, and Career
• The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster
• The Power Formula for Linkedin Success: Kick-Start Your Business, Brand, and Job Search
• Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0: How to Stand Out from the Crowd and Tap Into the Hidden Job Market using Social Media and 999 other Tactics Today
• How to Write a KILLER LinkedIn Profile… And 18 Mistakes to Avoid
• Windmill Networking: Understanding, Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn

Negotiating

• Secrets of Power Negotiating, 15th Anniversary Edition: Inside Secrets from a Master Negotiator
• Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

Networking

• Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital Worlds
• Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
• How to Create Your Own Luck: The “You Never Know” Approach to Networking, Taking Chances, and Opening Yourself to Opportunity
• How to Work a Room, Revised Edition: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing
• Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job
• Perfect Phrases for Professional Networking: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Meeting and Keeping Helpful Contacts Everywhere You Go
• Networking for the Novice, Nervous, or Naïve Job Seeker
• The World’s Worst Networker: Lessons Learned by the Best from the Absolute Worst!
• Make Your Contacts Count
• Never Eat Alone
• Use Your Head To Get Your Foot In The Door

Occupation Research

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• www.onetonline.org

Personal Branding

• Impressions: The Power of Personal Branding in Living an Extraordinary Life
• Branding Pays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand
• Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future
• Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand
• Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success

Reinvention

• The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
• The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy
• Retire & Thrive
• My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades after Fifty
• The Third Shift: Managing Hard Choices in Our Careers, Homes, and Lives as Women
• Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50
• RightSizing: A SMART Living 365 Guide to Reinventing Retirement
• The Encore Career Handbook
• Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement
• Second Acts: Creating the Life You Really Want, Building the Career You Truly Desire
• Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50
• Work with Passion in Midlife and Beyond
• Encore: Finding Work that Matters
• It’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now: How to create your second life at any age
• When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn’t the Life You Want

Resumes/Cover Letters

• Knock ’em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets More Job Interviews
• Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer
• Resumes for Dummies
• Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book
• Complete Guide to Writing Effective Resume Cover Letters: Step-by-Step Instructions
• Please also review books about LinkedIn (in an above section).

Retirement (We call it Pro-tirement!)

• Live Smart After 50!
• How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
• The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed and Overworked
• You’re Only Old Once!: A Book for Obsolete Children (Classic Dr. Seuss)
• 65 Things to Do When You Retire, 65 Notable Achievers on How to Make the Most of the Rest of Your Life
• Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Good Life
• The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement
• Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
• The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life
• Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement
• Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy … And Pays the Bills
• The Retirement Boom: An All Inclusive Guide to Money, Life, and Health in Your Next Chapter
• The 5 Years Before You Retire: Retirement Planning When You Need It the Most

Skills

• Strengths Finder 2.0
• Go Put Your Strengths to Work
• Work Your Strengths: Work Your Strengths: A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match Them to the Best Career for You

Team Building

• Quick guide to the 16 personality types and teams: Applying Team Essentials to create effective teams
• Understanding Yourself and Others: An Introduction to the Personality Type Code
• Team-building toolkit: Tips and tactics for effective workplace teams
• Work it out: Using personality type to improve team performance
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues
• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Transitions

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
• Who Moved My Cheese?
• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
• Time Off! The Unemployed Guide to San Francisco
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Women Focused

• Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
• The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
• The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement

Workplace Issues

• The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
• Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best… and Learn from the Worst

Work Trends

• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
• Made to Stick
• What I Wish I knew When I Was 20
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference