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As the days get colder and shorter, it’s a great time to get cozy with a book and invest in your learning! The 10 titles below cover a wide variety of topics including career coaching techniques, wayfinding, migration and career development, and escaping work overload. Let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below!
Career Coaching Techniques: A Guide for Instructors – Rob Straby
This Open Educational Resource is a guide for instructors who teach career coaching and counselling courses. It takes the reader through various steps in the career coaching process, from initiating the relationship with the client to helping them explore career options. It ends with a chapter on decision-making, where the client has chosen a potential career pathway.
Career on Course: 10 Strategies to Take Your Career from Accidental to Intentional – Scott Miller
Career on Course unpacks the 10 steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional. Drawing upon insights and best practices from three decades in professional and leadership development, Scott Jeffrey Miller shares his proven process for creating a plan that empowers people to take control of their careers.
Career Wayfinder – Andrea Fruhling and Dr. Norm Amundson
When we find ourselves in a new place or are feeling lost, we look for directional signs, recognizable landmarks and more to help us find our way. Whatever situation you find yourself in, this workbook will give you the resources you need to understand yourself in the context of your personal career development and the tools to communicate who you are to the people with and for whom you work.
For the Public Good: Reimagining Arts Graduate Programs in Canadian Universities – Loleen Berdahl, Jonathan Malloy and Lisa Young
Arts graduate education is uniquely positioned to deliver many of the public good needs of contemporary Canada but must fundamentally change to achieve this potential, the authors argue. They outline how reformed programs that equip graduates with advanced skills can address Canada’s most vexing challenges and offer an evidence-based vision for reimagining arts graduate education.
Holland’s RIASEC Hexagon: A Paradigm for Life and Work Decisions – Emily Bullock-Yowell and Robert C. Reardon
This book examines John Holland’s theory of vocational personalities and work environments and extends it to other life decisions that involve effectively matching individuals with their life and work options. It intends to refresh the thinking of career counsellors, advisors, managers, coaches and others working in the area of life and career decision-making.
It’s Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult – Kat Brown
Once associated more with hyper boys than adults, ADHD is now recognized as a condition that affects people of all genders and ages in a multitude of ways. In this enlightening and definitive layman’s guide, Kat Brown cheerfully smashes the stereotypes with scientific evidence, historical context and practical support for ADHD minds across areas that can cause problems, from finances to work to self-esteem.
Migration and Wellbeing: Towards a More Inclusive World – Edited By Deirdre Hughes, Füsun Akkök and Gideon Arulmani
This volume examines the social, economic and cultural dimensions of migration, uncovering stories of migrants and the transformative potential and hardships their journeys often entail. The contributors examine policy, practice, research and professional development across various international settings, all viewed through the perspective of career guidance and counselling.
Rethinking Adult Career Development: A Critical Perspective – Laura L. Bierema
This book explores the challenges, transitions, learning and change adults experience as they navigate careers across their lifetimes. It considers what happens when adults realize they have chosen the wrong career, lose their jobs, experience injustice and discrimination, or are forced to make career shifts for which they are underprepared.
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout – Cal Newport
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken, and the world of work is due for a new revolution. From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.
The Future-Proof Career: Strategies for thriving at every stage – Isabel Berwick
The Future-Proof Career looks at the new way of working in a post-pandemic world and shows you how to make work work for you, no matter what stage of your career you’re at. Packed with expert analysis and ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, this book looks at the big ideas shaping the world of work today and the old habits we need to lose.
