6 Career Advice Books Every Job Seeker Should Read
Job seekers need to make sure they’ve mastered the basics of networking and interviewing, but they also need to stay up to date on the latest techniques that will give them an edge.
So, whether you’re looking for a new job or just wanting to move up in your current career, here are 6 career-related books with helpful advice on landing your dream job.
1) Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace by Karie Willyerd, Barbara Mistick, Joseph Grenny
Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace gives you the confidence and knowledge you need to achieve your goals in an ever-changing world. The book offers 5 practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow’s work environment.
To remain relevant you need to know how to:
- Learn in any situation
- Open your thinking to a world beyond where you are now
- Connect to the people who can help you make your future happen
- Seek experiences that will prepare you for tomorrow
- Stay motivated through the ups and downs of a career so you can bounce forward
2) Best Job Ever!: Rethink Your Career, Redefine Rich, Revolutionize Your Life by Dr. CK Bray
Best Job Ever!: Rethink Your Career, Redefine Rich, Revolutionize Your Life is the ultimate guide to creating your dream career and increasing your financial success by providing you with valuable and insightful career information, personal stories and examples of others who have successfully created their best job ever. This book gives you a clear action plan with step by step guidance to help you build the career and life you want.
3) Career Grease: How to Get Unstuck and Pivot Your Career by Alison Cardy
This book gives you a clear action plan with step-by-step guidance to help you get through career changes. The book contains engaging case studies, do-it-yourself exercises, encouraging guidance to get you started on the right path for you and also flags common pitfalls, misleading career myths.
4) Introduction to Personal Branding: 10 Steps Toward a New Professional You by Mel Carson
In this Introduction to Personal Branding you will get a short crash course into what personal branding is, how to take your first steps toward perfecting your personal brand, and you will learn some actionable tactics you can employ immediately in order to start becoming more memorable within your career niche.
5) Cracking the Code: A Practical Guide to Getting You Hired by Molly Mapes
Cracking the Code: A Practical Guide to Getting You Hired is filled with tools, insights and stories to take charge, re-invent and re-invest in yourself, your career and ultimately your life.
In Cracking the Code you will learn:
- How to get clarity on who you are and what you want.
- How to build your resume so it reflects who you are and what you want.
- The 4 ways people get hired and what you can do.
- Best practices for interviewing, salary negotiations and offers.
- Why it sometimes isn’t about finding a new job!
6) Fire Your Boss: A Manifesto to Rethink How You Think About Work by Aaron McHugh
This book is the string leading you to the exit door out of the maze of your own career dissatisfaction to a better way of experiencing work. It is a disrupting alternative for a better way to work.
After reading this manifesto, you’ll be able to:
- Establish new strategies for interacting with your boss and company.
- Know how to obtain the freedom to offer your best in any job.
- Receive the attention and recognition you deserve.
- Understand why quitting your job won’t necessarily help you.
Originally published at alexajobs.tumblr.com.
