A book can be a great comfort during stressful times. And – if you’re not overwhelmed by caring duties/homeschooling/WFH – you might be finding yourself with a little extra time on your hands to read these days. While you may not be able to visit your library or local bookstore right now, you may be able to borrow or buy a digital copy, and some booksellers are still doing deliveries. These books – all published in 2019 or 2020 – cover a variety of topics related to careers, and may be of interest to you or your clients/students.
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Career Development Across the Lifespan: Counseling for Community, Schools, Higher Education, and Beyond (2nd Edition) – Edited by Grafton Eliason, Mark Lepore, Jeff Samide and John Patrick
Career Development Across the Lifespan aims to provide a broad and in-depth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in all areas of community counselling, school counselling and higher education. The book will examine some of the field’s major theories, themes, approaches and newest models incorporating chapters from national and international career counselling experts.
Career Rehab: Rebuild Your Personal Brand and Rethink the Way You Work – Kanika Tolver
This book has the tools you need to go from the job you’re in to the career – and the life – you want. In Career Rehab, professional career and life coach Kanika Tolver helps you strip away the fear and doubt holding you back from living your best life and get down to the “good bones” of your resume so you can build your dream career.
Computing Careers & Disciplines: A Quick Guide for Prospective Students and Career Advisors (2nd Edition) – Randy Connolly, Janet Miller and Faith-Michael Uzoka
The field of computing has expanded rapidly over the past 10-15 years, and students need better information about the field and its related careers. This CERIC-supported guide outlines the five distinct computing disciplines identified by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and how the disciplines relate to specific job titles and tasks. It is designed to support prospective students, career practitioners, academic advisors and career counsellors by outlining these five areas of practice.
Fire Your Boss: Discover Work You Love Without Quitting Your Job – Aaron McHugh
Fire Your Boss is the disruptive alternative blueprint for charting a new life-giving career path that gives you control, allowing you to set your own rules for your work life. Provocative and liberating, this book seeks to help readers resolve the deepest root of workplace unrest – namely, fear and self-preservation.
How to Go to Work: The Honest Advice No One Ever Tells You at the Start of Your Career – Lucy Clayton and Steven Haines
How to Go to Work is a practical guide to equip you with everything you need to know to choose and achieve the career you want. The world of work is changing faster than ever before and it can feel overwhelmingly competitive out there. That’s why Lucy Clayton, a founding CEO, and Steve Haines, an education policy advisor, have compiled and distilled the most valuable advice you can get on how to jumpstart your career and shortcut the competition.
Life’s Great Question: Discover How You Contribute to The World – Tom Rath
Life is not what you get out of it … it’s what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life’s work, from resumes to salaries, are devoid of what matters most. This is why the work we do is often bad for our well-being, when it should be making us happier and healthier. What are the most meaningful contributions we can make? This is Life’s Great Question.
Lift as You Climb – Viv Groskop
Part self-help guide, part master class in survival skills for life and work, Lift as You Climb examines what sisterhood looks like these days, asks what you can do to make things better for other women and considers how to do that without disadvantaging yourself.
Masters at Work
This series of guides written by different journalists reveals how experts in their field got to where they are. They impart practical knowledge about the risks and rewards of our dream jobs. There are 23 publications in the series so far, from Becoming a Sports Agent to Becoming a Neurosurgeon, with more in the works for 2020.
Punch Doubt in the Face: How to Upskill, Change Careers, and Beat the Robots – Nicolle Merrill
Grounded in her belief that our careers are like a “choose-your-own-adventure” book – full of possibilities, new paths and the occasional surprise – Merrill helps readers evaluate their careers like mini-futurists. You’ll discover a new career that fits your lifestyle, learn how to attain the skills needed to thrive in the workplace of the future and go on a professional adventure or two – regardless of your age or your industry.
Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development: A Practitioner’s Guide – Dave E. Redekopp and Michael Huston
This CERIC-supported book, available for free download or purchase in print, makes the case that career development practice is a mental health intervention and provides skills and strategies to support career development practitioners in their work. It explores how practitioners do far more than help people prepare for, enter and navigate career pathways – they change people’s lives in ways that improve mental health and overall well-being. The authors also emphasize their focus is mental health, not mental illness, and address this distinction in the book.
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century – Adam Davidson
Contrary to what you may have heard, the middle class is not dying and robots are not stealing our jobs. In fact, writes Adam Davidson, the 21st-century economic paradigm offers new ways of making money, fresh paths toward professional fulfillment and unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers.
The Squiggly Career – Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Today, we’re living in a world of squiggly careers, where moving frequently and fluidly between roles, industries, locations and even careers is becoming the new normal. Squiggly careers can feel stressful and overwhelming, but if you know how to make the most of them, they can be full of opportunity, freedom and purpose.
What Color is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers – Richard N. Bolles
Recent grads facing a shifting economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement and advice on which job-hunt strategies work – and which don’t. This revised edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics.
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