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Job Hunter's Bible
The Companion Site to the Best-Selling Book “What Color is Your Parachute?” This is a great site with invaluable exercises and resources on what steps to take on your path to finding the next great career for you.
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Career Voyages
Go to the link for “Career Changers” and you can find out about all the different career options out there that will suit you, whether you need to further your education, and what the hottest fields are right now.
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Career One Step
Has tools to assess yourself and explore career options.
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Checkster
For job seekers, this site allows you to discover your key strengths and find the optimal job fit.
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About.com Job Searching
Comprehensive site that covers the basics: how to find a job, best job sites, how to apply for a job, etc.
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Vault
Chock-full of information on salaries for different jobs, reviews of companies, blogs about job searching, how to craft the best resume, going to graduate school, etc.
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O*NET Online
An amazing tool for career exploration and job analysis; provides detailed descriptions of job possibilities
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The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World By Aaron Hurst Elevate, 2014
If you are a purpose driven person, this book will help you with ideas and up-to-date resources; the “what” and the “how” to go about pursuing a purpose driven life and work.
view more view lessAmazon says:
“Like the Information Economy, which has driven innovation and economic growth until now, Hurst argues that our new economic era is driven by connecting people to their purpose. It's an economy where value lies in establishing purpose for employees and customers through serving needs greater than their own, enabling personal growth and building community. Based on interviews with thousands of entrepreneurs, Hurst shows this new era is already fueling demand for a whole host of products and services and transforming how millennials view their careers. A new breed of startups like Etsy, Zaarly, Tough Mudder, Kickstarter, and Airbnb are finding new ways to create value by connecting us with our local communities. At the same time, companies like Tesla and Whole Foods are making the march from just appealing to affluent buyers to becoming mainstream brands. Hurst calls these companies, along with the pioneering entrepreneurs who founded them, the Purpose Economy's taste-makers.”
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Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment By Mark Gafni Integral Publishers, 2012
A unique book about identifying and distinguishing between our Higher Selves and our Unique Selves (specific to each one of us which guides our life and career choices).
view more view lessFrom the author:
“We once believed that to be enlightened was a process of evolving beyond your experience of being a skin encapsulated ego, your separate self, in order to realize your essence as indivisible from the seamless coat of the universe. This is actually the first stage of a much greater journey. What unfolds next is the realization of your true uniqueness as the highest expression of enlightenment. Your Unique Self offers a paradigm-shifting investigation into the nature of spiritual awakening and the underlying purpose of human existence. This book speaks dangerous words -- dangerous to your sense that you are small -- to your feeling that you are invisible or alone. Your Unique Self dares you to listen dangerously -- to embrace your greatness and open to the infinite love intelligence that yearns to enter the world as you.”
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The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions By Richard Strozzi-Heckler, North Atlantic Books, 1997
Amazon says:
"The body’s innate capacity for feeling, intuition, and compassion can enable us to heal our physical and emotional wounds."
view more view less"In The Anatomy of Change, Richard Heckler draws on Aikido and Lomi Body Work to demonstrate how a set of practices can bring new awareness and choice into our daily life."
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers By Richard N. Bolles, Ten Speed Press, 2014
Amazon says:
“What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide."
view more view less"Now, no matter what your circumstances, every job-hunter can find help with up-to-the-minute information on what has changed about the job-market, plus strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. And if you are a returning vet, there is a new twenty-page appendix this year, specifically addressing your unique needs.”
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In Transition: From the Harvard Business School Club of New York's Career Management Seminar By Mary Lindley Burton and Richard Wedemeyer, HarperBusiness, 1992
Amazon says:
"For the past ten years Mary Burton and Kick Wedemeyer have conducted their personal seminar on career management for the Harvard Business School Club of New York, helping more than a thousand Harvard Business School graduates advance their careers and enhance their lives."
view more view less"With In Transition, the expertise of these two seasoned career consultants is finally available to all managers not completely satisfied with their jobs and life situations."