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Need to jumpstart your career search? The below books will help you find jobs to match your personality and interests. You may find it's time for a change.




100 Best Careers for the 21st Century
by Shelly Field
IDG Books Worldwide, 2000

This carefully researched guide describes scores of attractive job opportunities in the career areas expected to grow fastest in the first decade of the next century. Labor and economic trends are analyzed, essential job skills are reviewed, and one hundred detailed job evaluations are provided.
   


America's Top Jobs for People Without a Four-Year Degree: Jobs In All Major Occupation And Industries
by J. Michael Farr
Jist Works, 1998

Information on growth, earnings, and trends in major industries are provided in this reference with more than 100 thorough job descriptions. Special sections discuss career planning and job search techniques. An appendix is also included with jobs grouped by education and training required.
   


Career Smarts: Jobs with a Future
by Martin Yate
Ballantine Books, 1997

This carefully researched guide describes scores of attractive job opportunities in the career areas expected to grow fastest in the first decade of the next century. Labor and economic trends are analyzed, essential job skills are reviewed, and one hundred detailed job evaluations are provided.
   


Careers for Nonconformists: A Practical Guide to Finding and Developing a Career Outside the Mainstream
by Sandra Gurvis
Marlowe & Co, 1999

Occupations that require individualism, creativity, and even eccentricity are much more common than most people realize. For people who have never fit the corporate mold and want to go their own route, Careers for Nonconformists is an essential handbook.
   


Coming Alive from Nine to Five: The Career Search Handbook
by Betty Neville Michelozzi
Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999

This comprehensive, accessible source draws together the essentials of career change decision making and helps readers examine the career search process as it relates to their whole life. It's intended for anyone searching for meaningful life activities - from students to retirees and managers of households to managers of corporations.
   


Discover Your Passion: An Intuitive Search to Find Your Purpose in Life
by Gail A. Cassidy
Tomlynn Publications, 2000

Discover Your Passion is a concise, easy-to-read book for readers who are looking for personally-satisfying work. Recent graduates, those dissatisfied with their jobs, those about to return to the job market or retire from it, or those who are already retired will benefit from completing the self-assessment exercises provided.
   


Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron-Tieger
Little Brown, 1995

How well does your personality fit your chosen career? This bestselling career guide shows people how to determine their personality type and explains which jobs are best suited to each type.
   


How to Choose a Career Now That You're All Grown Up: Evaluating Your Interests, Abilities & Goals to Find the Career That's Right for You
by Anna Mae Walsh Burke
Lifetime Books, 1997

This informative, step-by-step guide for career selection and transition shows how to identify new career challenges and goals, get a job after a lifetime of school, and more.
   


Making a Life, Making a Living: Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life
by Mark S. Albion
Warner Books, 2000

This book addresses four major questions to consider when contemplating your career choice: Who are you? What do you want? What can you do? and Where can you go? The author answers those questions using dozens of inspirational stories and aphorisms from sages as diverse as Mother Teresa and Lily Tomlin.
   


Occupational Outlook Handbook 2000-01 Edition
by The United States Department of Labor
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Co., 2000

From aerospace engineer to water treatment plant operator, this latest edition of the respected reference covers approximately 250 different occupations, encompassing a vast amount of data on opportunities, training, qualifications, salaries, working conditions, career advancement and job outlook.
   


The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
by Nicholas Lore
Fireside, 1998

Through more than 100 self-tests, exercises, and other diagnostic tools, this guide helps readers uncover their natural aptitudes, major interests and values, and ultimate goals.
   


What Color Is Your Parachute? 2000
by Richard Nelson Bolles, Dick Bolles
Ten Speed Press, 1999

A brand new edition of "the gold standard of career guides" (Fortune). For nearly 30 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the guiding light for those in pursuit of satisfying and fulfilling employment. This year's edition has been completely revised and rewritten for today's job market.
   


You're Certifiable: The Alternative Career Guide to More Than 700 Certificate Programs, Trade Schools, and Job Opportunities
by Lee Naftali, Joel E. Naftali
Fireside, 1999

The first-ever comprehensive directory of certification programs throughout the country, You're Certifiable provides the essentials on how to get certified in the career of your choice, how long it will take, how much it costs, and what to expect once you start working.
   


Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design
by Laurence G. Boldt
Penguin USA, 1999

An inventive and down-to-earth career guide, featuring 120 easy-to-use worksheets. A new vision of work is proposed, helping people recognize what they really want to do and offering practical suggestions for finding that work.
   

 

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