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Lose the Resume: Land the Job
by Gary Burnison
At every level today, you need to "lose the resume" in order to land the right job. In other words, you have to learn to tell a story about yourself that speaks to your competencies, purpose, passion, and values. Lose the Resume, Land the Job shares the new rules of engagement: How you must think, act, and present yourself so you can win. The book gleans insights and stories (the good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly) from Korn Ferry recruiters across the globe who work with thousands of candidates each day. It helps you gain a deeper perspective on who you are, what you're passionate about, the cultures in which you fit, the kind of bosses you should work for, and where you can bring the most value to organizations.
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Job Applications in a Week
by Patricia Scudamore
Takes readers step-by-step through the job application process, covering such topics as presenting an appropriate image, getting and going for interviews, and landing on the shortlist.
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Knock 'em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
by Martin Yate
The newest edition of this classic guide to job searching now includes new information on where to find jobs, how to pinpoint which job openings offer the best chance of success and what answers to interview questions will most impress interviewers.
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Overcoming Employment Barriers: 127 Great Tips for Burying Red Flags and Finding a Job That's Right for You
by Ronald L Krannich
Millions of job seekers face employment barriers. Some barriers may be caused by other people (discrimination) or circumstances beyond one's control (chronic health issues or natural disasters), while other barriers represent red flags created by poor choices, questionable skills, sketchy experience, and difficult personalities. Most self-inflicted barriers pose challenges that require changes in attitudes and mindsets - renewed understanding, purpose, determination, and the drive to succeed. This user-friendly guide, overlaid with a strong cognitive therapy theme, initially profiles each barrier as a series of introspective questions and then provides descriptions and analyses followed by sound advice on how to best overcome the particular barrier.
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The Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks : How to Build a Résumé, Conquer the Interview, and Land Your Dream Job
by Brenda Bernstein
"In The Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks, experienced job-hunting professionals offer detailed advice on every step of the job-hunting process. From how to navigate the interview process, to how to create the perfect resume, this book will help you stand out from your competitors. With a new introduction by John Henry Weiss, president of a recruitment firm, that contextualizes the current economic state as a result of COVID-19, this book offers hundreds of practical tips for those laid-off, fired, or new toenter the workplace"
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Coming Back : How to Win the Job You Want When You've Lost the Job You Need
by Fawn Germer
"A street smart, inspiring, practical and utterly honest book for renewing or resuming your career. Millions of mid- and late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school. Our unemployment rate is more than three times the national average. It takes twice as long to get hired, usually for far less money than we were making. Is it age discrimination? Maybe. But it's not that simple. So many of us have lagged on skills and technology, shrugged off social media, or ignored the rate of change and let younger people become the face of our profession's future. Our "track record" really doesn't matter. We want to come back, but we aren't ready. Coming Back offers clear advice, including: -Make yourself visible and relevant by sharing articles and information on your field with colleagues and on social media. -Use LinkedIn to build your network in your industry and identify decision makers. -Tell interviewers about what you will do-don't rely on what you have done. -Stop grousing about "those millennials" and start working with them. -Volunteer strategically to build leadership skills and networks. Coming Back showshow you can save a career if still employed or get one back if cast out. Fawn Germer, one of the nation's most popular leadership experts and global motivational speakers, has personally interviewed more than 300 CEOs, senior executives, professors, lawyers, organizational experts, industry leaders and professionals. The result is a tactical, tough-love call to action: to learn, re-tool, connect, grow, and get ready to work again"
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How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume: 50 Tips to Reaching Your Job Target
by Brenda Bernstein
Drawing on more than two decades of helping job seekers, a career and professional development counselor and author of the best-selling How to Write a Killer LinkedIn Profile presents an empowering step-by-step resource for creating an effective resume. Includes tools, checklists and sample resume.
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Modernize Your Resume
by Wendy S Enelow
Based on real-world job search trends and filled with nearly 100 sample resumes from professional resume writers, this book shows job seekers how to craft winning job search documents for today’s competitive and technology-driven employment market. Updated with new chapters for special circumstances (Return to Work, Career Change, Military-to-Civilian Transition), the 2nd Edition covers 18 key principles for writing tight, clean, attractive, laser-focused resumes that succeed with both hiring managers and electronic resume scanning technology.
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Rip the Resume: Job Search & Interview Power Prep
by Torin Ellis
Offers advice on resume building and job searching, including resume deconstruction techniques, effective job search preparation, and making a lasting impression during an interview.
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Ultimate Interview: 100s of Great Interview Answers Tailored to Specific Jobs
by Lynn Williams
A resource for job seekers explains how employers decide what they are looking for in a job candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why employers conduct interviews and what's likely to happen at the average interview. Williams gives all of the background information that candidates need as well as essential practice. Uniquely among interview guidebooks, this book organizes common interview questions according to specific job types, such as management, sales and marketing, clerical, and more. Each section looks at the thinking behind the questions, and suggests an effective method of answering.
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For Entry-Level Job Seekers
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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization
by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
Think and Grow Digital teaches young talents how to align with company "seniors" without giving up their ideals. The author explains how readers can help companies focus on moon shots: things really worth going for that help both the company and the world. Readers learn how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.
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Land Your Dream Career in College: The Complete Guide to Success
by Tori Randolph Terhune
Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Authors Tori Randolph Terhune, a gainfully-employed young college graduate herself, and Betsy A. Hays, a college professor, show readers what they can do in college to successfully pave the way for future employment in Land Your Dream Career. The authors provide eleven easy-to-follow strategies for effectively using time on campus to start building a career.
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For Job Seekers Changing Careers or Re-Entering the Workforce |
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Lifeboat: Navigating Unexpected Career Change and Disruption
by Maggie Craddock
Today's hardworking professionals are navigating sudden waves of financial stress, management shakeups, and downsizing. Using the experiences of Titanic survivors as a powerful metaphor, executive coach Maggie Craddock offers lessons for a transformative approach to our professional lives, one that recognizes that "every man for himself" doesn't work long-term. Lifeboat is organized as a series of key questions we all need to ask ourselves when facing unexpected career disruption or difficult changes at our existing jobs. These questions help readers clarify their authentic priorities, assess the group energy that guides a particular workplace, and identify the type of job that will help them reach their true potential.
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The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success
by Megan McArdle
Outlines counter-intuitive assessments of the sources of success, drawing on a broad range of disciplines to explain how to harness the learning experiences associated with failure in order to promote professional growth.
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Moms for Hire: 8 Steps to Kickstart Your Next Career
by Deborah Jelin Newmyer
A guidebook for moms who want to re-enter the workforce and amp up their professional mojo is packed with creative exercises, advice and anecdotes from well-known working moms that will keep them motivated and inspired.
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Career Change in a Week
by Patricia Scudamore
Presents a guide to planning a career change in a week, providing coverage of assessing the risks, mobilizing talents, and approaching the internal and external job markets.
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Moving Forward in Mid-Career: A Guide to Rebuilding Your Career After Being Fired or Laid Off
by John Henry Weiss
Losing a job is one of the most devastating events one can experience. Moving Forward in Mid-Career is a guide for workers who have been fired or laid off and are in process of rebuilding not only their careers, but also their personal identities independent of a job title. Moving Forward addresses challenges that are unique to the mid-career job seekers, such as perceptions of overqualification and the need to keep with advances in technology, provides job hunting rules, gives tips on staying up to date on competitive skills, and provides practical information for rebuilding wealth.
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Personality Style at Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) Anyone
by Kate Ward
Make every workplace interaction positive and productive. Personality Style at Work outlines the four principal personality styles--Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. It explains how to determine which one describes you and shows how to use this knowledge to interact more successfully with others.
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Give and Take : A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by Adam M. Grant
An award-winning researcher and consultant explains how effective networking, influence and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers and givers that dramatically shape success rates, citing the essential roles of behind-the-scenes contributors to famous organizations while outlining a revolutionary approach to networking and productivity.
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The Power Playbook : Rules for Independence, Money and Success
by La La Anthony
The actress, TV personality, entrepreneur and best-selling author married to an NBA star offers advice for women looking to define goals, succeed and follow their dreams interspersed with personal stories of her own triumphs and travails.
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Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different
by Sunny Bonnell
In this book, you'll come face-to-face with seven controversial virtues that are typically seen as ladder-burning, career-ending personality traits that - convention says -- keep mavericks, oddballs, and visionaries from getting along, getting buy-in, and getting ahead.
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The Right and Wrong Stuff : How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade
by Carter Cast
Drawing on his own experiences, as well as meticulous research, the author, a former rising star at a Fortune 100 company whose career was derailed by his attitude, shows readers how, through five defining archetypes, they can recognize blind spots that can lead to downfall and provides new ways for readers to take charge of their careers.
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Develop : 7 Practical Tools to Take Charge of Your Career
by Ted Fleming
The head of talent development for CVS Health, based on his more than 20 years of experience, offers a practical guide filled with actionable tools and step-by-step techniques for taking charge of your professional life and achieving your career goals. Appendix.
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Fully Alive : Using the Lessons of the Amazon to Live Your Mission in Business and Life
by Tyler Gage
"In the spirit of Adam Braun's The Promise of a Pencil and Blake Mycoskie's Start Something That Matters, Fully Alive tells the story of an astoundingly successful young entrepreneur's immersion in Amazonian indigenous spirituality and how he integrated the lessons he learned to build a successful, socially responsible company, live a purposeful life, and make a difference in the world. In Fully Alive, Tyler Gage shares his spiritual adventures and the business savvy that helped him create RUNA, a tea and energy drink company that collaborates with the indigenous people of Ecuador to harvest the "master plant" guayusa, revealing a centuries-old guiding philosophy for building a sacred way of living that he discovered through Amazonian shamanism. Following these teachings, what began as a humble start-up has now grown into a thriving, multi-million dollar company, selling products in more than 10,000 stores across the United States and Canada. With the help of collaborators like Channing Tatum, LeonardoDiCaprio, and Olivia Wilde, RUNA has created a sustainable source of income for the 3,000 farming families in Ecuador who grow guayusa organically, while also establishing a nonprofit organization dedicated to positively impacting the issues that affect these indigenous communities. Packed with practical and inspiring lessons, this book offers a comprehensive examination of how we too might become "fully alive," both in business and as individuals"
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Getting to Like: How to Boost Your Personal and Professional Brand
by Jeremy Goldman
In the last decade alone, the face and nature of the job market has evolved dramatically. It's now a given that personal branding will have a significant impact on your professional opportunities. Getting to Like is a practical, actionable guide to anticipating and staying one step ahead of the curve--and your competition.
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What Motivates Me: Put Your Passions to Work
by Adrian Robert Gostick
The best-selling authors of The Carrot Principle and All In aim to help readers align the work they do every day, for the rest of their lives, with what truly motivates them, in a book that includes access to an online assessment and thought-provoking exercises.
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The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity into a Career
by Jason Oberholtzer
In The Hustle Economy, we give you 25 essays from founders, writers, producers, game makers, artists, and creative types from every path who share one common trait - they are all self-made hustlers who have managed to turn their creativity into careers.
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Master of None : How a Jack-Of-All-Trades Can Still Reach the Top
by Clifford Hudson
A thought-provoking memoir from the former CEO of Sonic discusses whether or not mastery is necessary to succeed, theorizing that expertise is risky and can lead to over-confidence and instead promotes embracing variety and versatility. 25,000 first printing.
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Joy At Work : Organizing Your Professional Life
by Marie Kondō
The best-selling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and the psychologist author of Stretch share anecdotes, studies and strategies for promoting workplace fulfillment through focused organization and productivity. One million first printing.
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Stretch : How to Future-Proof Yourself For Tomorrow's Workplace
by Karie Willyerd
In a resource filled with advice, anecdotes, insights and recommendations, two established experts, and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning, offer evidence-based guidance and five practices to help readers start, enhance and lengthen their careers by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment.
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Make Your Mark: The Smart Nonprofit Professional's Guide to Career Mapping for Success
by Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen
Make Your Mark guides those who want to change their career route to create an empowering, re-warding, and fulfilling journey towards having a job they love. For over fifteen years talent management and staffing expert Nurys Harrigan-Pedersen has helped professionals create career maps that have dramatically changed the course of their lives with the belief that everyone deserves to have a job they love. Follow the insightful and practical steps outlined in this guide and create a unique map that will make your life soar to unprecedented heights.
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Designing Your Life
by William Burnett
The executive director of the Design Program at Stanford and the co-founder of Electronic Arts outline strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.
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Negotiating 101
by Peter J Sander
An easy-to-understand guide to navigating the business world details such core concepts as negotiation, expense monitoring, and personnel decisions.
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Unapologetically Ambitious : Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
by Shellye Archambeau
"Full of empowering wisdom from one of high tech's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for readers of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success"
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Huddle : How Women Unlock Their Collective Power
by Brooke Baldwin
The Peabody finalist CNN Newsroom anchor and creator of the American Woman digital series explores the powerful phenomenon that enables activist women of all backgrounds to work collaboratively and effectively for positive change. 100,000 first printing.
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Rise and Grind
by Daymond John
The best-selling author of The Power of Broke and star of Shark Tank explores the importance of courage, persistence and old-fashioned hard work in every successful business and individual, tracing the story of his own rise from obscurity while citing the examples of professionals who achieved their goals through a determined work ethic.
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How to Get a Good Job After 50: A Step-by-Step Guide to Job Search Success
by Rupert French
Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace because of their experience, skills, reliability and sense of responsibility before going on to show how to demonstrate these qualities to prospective employers. It encourages people to adopt a pro-active, ‘self-employed' approach, building self-esteem and promoting a time-efficient, self-managed job search program, and outlines proven job searching techniques.
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For Ex-Offender Job Seekers
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Post Office Jobs: The Ultimate 473 Postal Exam Study Guide and Job Finder
by Dennis V Damp
Post Office Jobs provides an overview of what jobs are available, including many that don't require written tests and how to apply for them. You will also find a comprehensive 473/473E study guide with helpful test taking strategies that could dramatically improve many applicant's exam scores. Seven other sample postal exams are included in this new edition for maintenance, clerical, technician, and other major occupations.
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Becoming a Real Estate Agent
by Tom Chiarella
Esquire writer Tom Chiarella explores the requisite skills needed to thrive in various real estate scenarios: a static buyer's market in rural Indiana, a booming seller's market in Seattle, and the incredibly high-end market of Chicago's luxury high-rises. What Chiarella discovers is that great real estate agents devote themselves to the job with a sense of craftsmanship. Showcasing the individual tools used to develop a successful real estate career, Becoming a Real Estate Agent profiles individuals who live a life of thrilling improvisation, action, and instinct--a life in which excellence is sometimes gauged by the ability to walk away from a commission when circumstance demands it.
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The Artist's Compass : The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts
by 1964- Moore, Rachel
"An inspiring, real world guide for artists in the classic bestselling tradition of What Color Is Your Parachute? that shows how to build a successful, stable career in the performing arts, from the President and CEO of the Los Angeles Music Center who has carved her own success through her creative talent and business skill. While performing artists have many educational opportunities to perfect their craft, they are often on their own when it comes to learning the business skills necessary to launch their careers. At the end of the day, show business is, well, a business. In The Artist's Compass, Los Angeles Music Center CEO Rachel Moore shares how to make life as a performer more successful, secure, and sustainable by approaching a career in the artslike an entrepreneur. A former dancer in the American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet, Moore knows firsthand what it's like to struggle and succeed as an artist. Now in an offstage role as CEO, Moore shares the hard-won lessons she's learned about making one's own success and encourages every performer to develop creative talent alongside marketable skills. With testimonials from artists like Lang Lang, Sigourney Weaver, and Renee Fleming, plus inspiring anecdotes from Moore's own journey in the arts, The Artist's Compass teaches aspiring performers how to think like an entrepreneur to create their own brand and marketing platform to achieve personal and professional success. In an engaging, realistic, and authoritative voice, Moore combines her artistic and corporate experience to address the finer points of building a career in a challenging industry, teaching young performers how to achieve financial independence so that they might have creative independence"
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So You Want to Be a Cop: What Everyone Should Know Before Entering a Law Enforcement Career
by Alley Evola
As a retired police officer, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer. From recruitment, life at the academy, patrol and eventually promotion, she provides a helpful understanding of what you can really expect. She also looks at the current issues, including race and gender, and how these have shaped certain expectations from the public that a police officer needs to be prepared for when working in this field. When you're young and dreaming, you don't think about the process it will take to become a police officer. And it's also not evident until after the police academy the many challenges and issues you will face in the field. So You Want to Be a Cop is for everyone who secretly wishes they were a police officer, or is pursuing their dream in hopes of transforming it into reality.
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The Art and Business of Teaching Yoga: The Yoga Professional's Guide to a Fulfilling Career
by Amy Ippoliti
Thousands of yoga lovers take teacher training courses each year, hoping to share what they learn with others. Many want to make yoga teaching their full-time career, but most training programs fall short in covering business acumen, and they may not equip graduates with the entrepreneurial skills and savvy they need to make a go of it. This indispensable and inspiring book guides both new and established professionals toward maximizing their impact as teachers and achieving their career goals.
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Job Search & Career Info
Find resources to help you get a job, create a resume, file for unemployment, or improve your work skills.
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WorkOne
WorkOne provides information on current job openings, resume assistance, workshops, skills assessments, training, and special programs for veterans, dislocated workers, job seekers over 55, job seekers with disabilities, and more.
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The Learning Center
The library offers free tutoring in basic skills, pre-GED and GED, reading, math, and other coursework for adults and children. Students are matched with a tutor who is knowledgeable or trained to work with their needs and able to meet at mutually agreed upon times. For more information and to set up an appointment, contact Jessica Hoffmaster, Literacy Supervisor, at 219-873-3043
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Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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