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While they might not be your typical beach read, career professionals looking to level up their learning this summer can find some great reads to add to their shelves! The titles below cover a wide variety of topics including career theories, job change, hiring veterans and creative work. Let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below.
Career Development Theories in Practice – Julia Yates
In this comprehensive handbook, Yates demystifies over 20 essential career development theories. She categorizes these theories and pinpoints which ones are best suited for different clients and contexts. Delving into real-world applications, you’ll find inspiring stories of successful practitioners and students who have transformed their practices.
Careers – Rie Thomsen & Tristram Hooley
What does having a career mean, and should we always follow our dreams? This book challenges the myths and ideals surrounding careers. This is not a guidebook but a conversation starter – a reflection on life’s twists, turns and detours.
Cultivating Career Growth: Navigate Career Transitions with Purpose – Michelle Schafer
Are you ready for a career change but don’t know where to start? If you’re feeling stuck, unfulfilled or out of alignment with your current job, Cultivating Career Growth is here to guide you. Career coach and transition expert Michelle Schafer shares a proven system for navigating career exploration and job searching with clarity and confidence.
Higher Education, Place, and Career Development: Learning from Rural and Island Students – Rosie Alexander
This book argues that understanding rural and island student transitions can expose the wider dynamics of place and mobility at play during student and early career experiences. Rosie Alexander encourages readers to consider how career pathways develop across time and across transition points, unsettling the notion of a straightforward transition through university into the workplace.
Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career – Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta
Each year, an estimated 1 billion people switch jobs worldwide. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along our career paths lies with each of us, as opposed to hiring managers or the market?
Juggling Rhythms: Working-Student Life in the 21st Century – Alison Taylor
The majority of undergraduates in Canada work while studying. However, little research has examined how they juggle school and work. This book draws on original research to address this gap. It moves from students’ day-to-day survival strategies to engage larger questions including how students prepare for volatile labour markets and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America – Erik Baker
How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change –not just to do their jobs reliably but to create new opportunities for themselves and for others. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven’t seen commensurate rewards.
The Canadian Guide to Hiring Veterans – Taryn Blanchard and Lisa Taylor
Learn how hiring Veterans can help you meet your talent needs while improving your overall HR practices in today’s challenging and evolving business landscape. In the Guide’s second edition, you’ll find practical hiring tools that improve your recruitment, hiring and onboarding processes.
The Career Development Handbook: The Foundations of Professional Career Practice – Tristram Hooley, Gill Frigerio and Rosie Alexander
Many guides to career development practice focus narrowly on specific aspects of career education and guidance, leaving new learners without a comprehensive overview. This brand-new handbook sets out to change that by combining practical insights, policy contexts and cutting-edge theory.
The Let Them Theory – Mel Robbins
If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words – Let Them – will set you free to create a life you love, this book argues.
Try Hard: Creative Work in Progress – Max Kerman
Funny, conversational and relatable, Try Hard is for anyone looking to make sense of their own creative pursuit or bring more creativity into their life, offering a framework for how to do it and where to begin.
