General Career Development
- Get Ahead! Stay Ahead! Learn the 70 Most Important Career
Skills, Traits, and Attitudes to Stay Employed! Get Promoted!
Get a Better Job!; Dianna Booher; McGraw-Hill; $12.95. Emphasizes
two key attributes for job security: marketable skills and
experience. Also covers 70+ elements of career success.
- Great Answers to the Toughest Job Search Problems; Ollie
Stevenson; Career Press; $11.99. Stevenson uses case studies
as illustrations for his points on job hunting.
- Hoover's Top 2,500 Employers; Warner Books; $22.95. Employers
are listed by state and indexed by company name, industry and
metropolitan area. Free CD-ROM edition allows users to search
for specific companies, create mail labels and merge letters.
- Job Hunting for Dummies; Max Messmer; IDG Books Worldwide;
$16.99. Messmer, chairman and CEO of placement firm Robert
Half International, Inc., brings his experience to bear on
mundane examples by using personal anecdotes to make the book
highly readable.
- Job-Hunting Tips for the So-Called Handicapped or People
Who Have Disabilities; Richard Nelson Bolles. Ten Speed Press;
$4.95. A supplement to Bolles's What Color is Your Parachute?
- Kiplinger's the Complete Job Search Organizer; Jack O'Brien,
Mario MacHado (narrator); Dove Audio; $17.95. Advice for finding
a first job or a new one.
- Knock `Em Dead 1997: The Ultimate Job Seeker's Handbook,
10th Edition; Martin John Yate; Adams; $12.95. Gives answers
to interview questions and suggestions for handling drug and
psychological tests.
- Life Is a Contact Sport: Ten Great Career Strategies That
Work; Kenneth Kragen, Jefferson Graham; William Morrow & Company;
$23.00. Kragen, personal manager, TV producer, talent adviser,
deal maker and world-class fund-raiser, draws on his experience
in describing his strategies.
- Network Your Way to Your Next Job...Fast; Clyde C. Lowstuter,
David P. Robertson; McGraw-Hill; $14.95. Describes how to master
the four avenues of networking.
- Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People
Without College Degrees; Charles D. Hayes; Autodidactic Press;
$16.95. A guide for career success and security for employees
lacking a degree.
- Researching Your Way to a Good Job; Karmen N. T. Crowther;
John Wiley & Sons; $14.95. How to research the backgrounds
of prospective employers.
- The Almanac of International Jobs and Careers: A Guide to
Over 1001 Employers, 2nd Edition; Ron Krannich; Impact Publications;
$19.95. A companion volume to the Complete Guide to International
Jobs and Careers, it provides contact information for companies
and employers.
- The Complete Job Search Organizer 1997-'98: How to Get a
Great Job--Fast, 3rd Edition; Jack O'Brien; Times Books; $12.00;
Designed for those beginning their search for employment; includes
prospects for occupations
- The New Rules of the Job Search Game: Why Today's Managers
Hire...and Why They Don't; Jackie Larson, Cheri Comstock; Adams;
$10.95. Professional recruiters Larson and Comstock expose
myths about job hunting and hiring decisions.
- Ways to Get Hired; Max Messmer; William Morrow & Company;
$12.95. Messmer, chairman of a large staffing service, writes
from the perspective of both employer and employee.
- What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job
Hunters and Career Changers; Richard Nelson Bolles; Ten Speed
Press; $14.95. A classic in the genre, now in its 27th edition.
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