Snow got you stuck at home? We’ve got you covered! These five recently published books on job search and career development may be of interest to career professionals or the students, professionals and jobseekers they support.
Designing Your New Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness – and a New Freedom – at Work – Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
This new edition demonstrates how to transform your uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. Burnett and Evans share tools, tips and design ideas to help create new possibilities even when our lives have been disrupted.
New Rules for the 6-Figure Job Search: How to Position Yourself for Success – Trish McGrath
Executive career coach Trish McGrath teaches executives how to navigate the hidden job market and network their way to a great new job. McGrath outlines how to find a role that aligns with the reader’s professional goals and pays them what they’re worth.
Ready Aim Hired: Job Search Tactics That Really Work! – Fred Coon and Conne Reece
Ready Aim Hired provides step-by-step instructions for jobseekers at all career levels to develop personal brands, write resumes and cover letters that get interviews, build a powerful online presence, research target companies and hiring authorities, ace interviews, and negotiate better salary and benefits.
The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality – Erin A. Cech
Probing the ominous side of the career advice to “follow your passion,” this data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender and race. The book suggests how we can reconfigure our relationships to paid work.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022 – Richard N. Bolles with Katharine Brooks
This new edition of this classic careers book has been revised for 2022 by Vanderbilt University Career Center director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with advice on the job-hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools and acing virtual interviews.
