Our list of some of the best Career Development books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Career Development All-in-One For Dummies (2017)
- Career Development (2015)
- Career Development and Counseling: Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World (Counseling and Professional Identity) (2018)
- Travel Career Development: Student Workbook (10th Edition) (2016)
- Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want (2019)
- Career Trek: The Journey Begins (2007)
- Career Theory, Development, and Appraisal: A Guide for Human Services (2019)
- Lose the Resume, Land the Job (2018)
- Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work (2018)
- What Color Is Your Personality?: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green… (2009)
Career Development All-in-One For Dummies (2017)
Want to get ahead in the workplace? Learn new skills and increase your visibility as a leader in your company with the help of this practical, hands-on guide to professional development.
Career Development (2015)
Career Development: A Human Resource Development Perspective offers a strategic framework that demonstrates the role of career development within the human resource function. It goes beyond conventional interventions and includes key topics such as diversity, work–life balance, and ethics.
Career Development and Counseling: Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World (Counseling and Professional Identity) (2018)
Career Development and Counseling: Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World by Mei Tang provides a comprehensive overview of career development theories with a unique multicultural framework. Aligned with the latest standards set forth by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), the text focuses on applications across a variety of settings and populations.
Travel Career Development: Student Workbook (10th Edition) (2016)
Hundreds of thousands of students have used Travel Career Development textbook as a key to unlocking a career in the travel industry. In its pages, you will learn the art of selling travel, they keys to servicing customers, the variety of experiences you may be selling, as well as the myriad directions your career in travel can take you.
Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want (2019)
Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. But most managers feel they just don’t have time for it. This book offers a better way: frequent, short conversations with employees about themselves, their goals, and the business that can be integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business.
Career Trek: The Journey Begins (2007)
Using an engaging adventurer theme, Career Trek emphasizes ways to transform one’s education investment into career success. This book covers essential career management topics such as self-awareness, networking, and resume writing, and goes beyond to discuss the importance of person-job fit and long-term career management strategies.
Career Theory, Development, and Appraisal: A Guide for Human Services (2019)
In this text, students and career practitioners will gain an introduction to career theory, development, and appraisal. This reader-friendly guide is unique in that it covers issues experienced by diverse clients, and practical career service approaches for entry-level practitioners.
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.
Activate Your Agile Career: How Responding to Change Will Inspire Your Life’s Work (2018)
What if you could imagine what’s next for your work life and take steps toward that vision without risking your current job? – What are nimble, resilient career players doing to ensure satisfying consistent work regardless of the setbacks in their lives? Their careers are recession proof. Even when they lose a job, another one better suited to them magically appears. They are agile careerists.
What Color Is Your Personality?: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green… (2009)
Revised Edition. The role that color plays in our lives is far more powerful than most of us may imagine. Color influences all aspects of who we are, both internally and externally.
Best Career Development 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 development 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.
Career Guidance : A Handbook for Policy Makers.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2148852, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Dec. 2004, Size: 563 Kb, Format: pdf
Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development
Author(s): Frank Burtnett
ID: 2392639, Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Year: 26 Jun 2019, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Xamarin with Visual Studio. Launch your mobile development career by creating Android and iOS applications using .NET and C#
Author(s): A. Sole
ID: 3308033, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Los Angeles Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.