Whether you’re looking to pick up some new workplace relationship-management tips, reflect on the future of career education or examine models for the hybrid workforce, you may want to add these 2022 titles to your reading list. While some are written for career practitioners, others may also be of interest to jobseekers, students and professionals.
Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest – Keith Ferrazzi, Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich
This book aims to show leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. It is based on a global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems and cultures.
Creating Sustainable Careers in Student Affairs: What Ideal Worker Norms Get Wrong and How to Make It Right – Edited by Margaret W. Sallee
This book argues that the current structure of student affairs work is not sustainable, as it depends on the notion that employees are available to work non-stop without any outside responsibilities – that is, the Ideal Worker Norm. The authors in this book use theories to interrogate the impact of these expectations on student affairs staff across functional areas, institutional types, career stage and identity groups.
Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) – Amy Gallo
Work relationships can be hard. In Getting Along, workplace expert Amy Gallo identifies eight familiar types of difficult coworkers – the insecure boss, the passive-aggressive peer, the know-it-all, the biased co-worker and others – and provides strategies tailored to dealing constructively with each one.
Irresistible: The Seven Secrets of the World’s Most Enduring, Employee-Focused Organizations – Josh Bersin
Industry analyst Josh Bersin shares seven practical yet profound management principles that help business leaders create organizations that thrive. Bersin shares eye-opening examples from his consulting work with HR and executive teams around the world, along with tips and discussion questions to bring the lessons to life.
Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future – Omar Garriott and Jeremy Schifeling
Written by two former LinkedIn employees, Linked aims to demystify LinkedIn and empower every professional, from the newly minted college graduate to the mid-life career-changer, with the most important strategies to win the job search game.
Love + Work – Marcus Buckingham
Most of us don’t know the real truth of what we love – what engages us and makes us thrive – and workplaces, jobs, schools, even family members, are focused instead on making conformity. Author Marcus Buckingham shows the reader how to break free from this, and how to decode their own loves and turn them into their most powerful expression.
Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education: Equitable Career Learning, Development, and Preparation in the New World of Work – Edited By Melanie V. Buford, Michael J. Sharp and Michael J. Stebleton
This book explores current trends and future possibilities for undergraduate career education, the nature of the changing workplace, and its impact on students in colleges and universities. The editors investigate multiple critical issues facing career educators: preparing students for the future of work; experiential learning; innovative paradigm shifts in career education; and strategies for equity-focused and inclusive programming.
Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive – Julie Winkle Giulioni
The time-honoured tradition of defining career development exclusively in terms of promotions, moves and title changes is dead. Author Julie Winkle Giulioni offers a new approach for developing employees’ careers and helping them thrive in a company when promotions are not readily available.
Smoke & Mirrors: The Illusion of the Employment Services Sector – Sarah Delicate and Angela Hoyt
This book pulls back the curtain on what the authors describe as the dark side of outcome-based, government-funded employment services. Despite the billions of tax dollars invested, the sector itself has become a significant barrier to employment for under-represented groups, the very populations it is funded to serve.
The Next Great Step: The Parents’ Guide to Launching Your New Grad into a Career – Beth Hendler-Grunt
The straightforward college-to-employment pipeline that parents followed no longer exists. Filled with tips, job aids and insightful stories about how to successfully guide young adults through the transition from college to career, The Next Great Step aims to support parents looking to help their student launch from college to the real world.
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future – Julia Hobsbawm
Julia Hobsbawm envisions a world in which a hybrid home/office model is the new normal. She contends that corporate offices will need to become more geared to networking and “learning, training and development,” rather than impressing clients and encouraging “presenteeism.”
Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley – Carolyn Chen
Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.
