Until you’ve consumed all of the best Career Change books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2018)
- The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) (2012)
- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2019)
- The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do (2015)
- Mid-Life Career Rescue: How to confidently leave a job you hate, and start living a life you love, before it’s too late (The Call For Change) (2015)
- Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! (2013)
- Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type (2014)
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5 (2013)
- Lose the Resume, Land the Job (2018)
- Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life (2017)
- What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens, Third Edition: Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job (2015)
- Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change (2015)
- The Alchemist (2014)
- Career Choices and Changes (2012)
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2018)
In today’s complex job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a changing economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work and which don’t.
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) (2012)
This classic bestseller is THE career-design bible for college graduates and midlife career-changers alike. Now fully revised and updated for the twenty-first century!
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2019)
What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies sold. This newly streamlined edition features the latest resources, case studies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. At its core is Richard N.
The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do (2015)
Jeff Goins, a brilliant new voice counting Seth Godin and Jon Acuff among his fans, explains how to abandon the status quo and live a life that matters with true passion and purpose. The path to your life's work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life's work, that treasure of immeasurable worth we all long for. It's about the task you were born to do.
Mid-Life Career Rescue: How to confidently leave a job you hate, and start living a life you love, before it’s too late (The Call For Change) (2015)
Practical, inspiring and empowering tips and strategies every job hunter and career changer needs to knowAre you showing signs of job dissatisfaction? Did you wake up this morning excited to face the day ahead? Or did the thought of getting up and going to work make you wish you could stay in bed?
Career Change: Stop hating your job, discover what you really want to do with your life, and start doing it! (2013)
Don’t worry, I know how you feel! I used to start every working week saying “I hate my job” and spend every Friday night drinking too much to drown my misery. I was a cubicle worker in large corporates, going to pointless meetings, writing endless documents no one would read, testing computer systems that would soon be obsolete.
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type (2014)
Do What You Are — the time-honored classic that has already helped more than a million people find truly satisfying work — is now updated to include jobs in today’s hottest markets, including health services, education, and communications technology.With the global economy’s ups and downs, the advent of astonishing new technology, the…
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition: DSM-5 (2013)
This new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and hard work have yielded an authoritative volume that defines and classifies mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
Lose the Resume, Land the Job (2018)
“‘Lose the Résumé’ breaks down every aspect of job hunting, explaining what matters and what doesn’t.” – The New York Times Book Review Gone are the days of polishing up your resume and sending it out at random. 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.
Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life (2017)
The 3rd edition of the book is now available. Search for the Kindle edition using “ASIN: B07XLDRPDK” and the Paperback edition using “ISBN-10: 0988700557″When you’re in the second half of life, everything looks different, and your career is no exception. Did you miss the path to a really satisfying career? Is it too late to change? And what do you do about money in the meantime?
What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens, Third Edition: Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job (2015)
No idea what you want to be? No worries! This fun, rewarding guide draws on the time-tested principles of the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? to help you discover your passions, skills, and potential college majors and dream jobs. Why now?
Emergence: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change (2015)
In his bestselling book Emergence, Derek Rydall helps you throw aside the self-help books and recognize one simple, radical truth: the answer is already in you.The harder we try to change, the deeper in the hole we get. We find a new partner but have the same old fights. We strive for an ever-bigger paycheck but end up broke at a higher income bracket.
The Alchemist (2014)
Note: Item has rough Cut edges(Edges are cut improperly intentionally by the manufacturer) A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.
Career Choices and Changes (2012)
From best-selling authors with over 2 million books in print, this new edition of Career Choices and Changes updates and enhances the earlier expert-applauded versions to address the realities of the 21st-century workplace.
Best Career Change Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some career change books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever
Author(s): Steve Chandler
ID: 3529936, Publisher: Career PressInc, Year: 2023, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
The Career Change Quest: How To Unstuck, Change or Kick-Start Your Career and Finally Do What You Really Want to Do
Author(s): Elbert Holden
ID: 3584348, Publisher: Omar Rezec, Year: 2022, Size: 373 Kb, Format: epub
Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career
Author(s): Jason Feifer
ID: 3588241, Publisher: Harmony/Rodale, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.