Top Employment Books
These top employments books will be critical to getting you hired and helping you successfully navigate your career. Click on any of the below topics to get an expanded list of key resources:
- Exploring Your Career Options and Deciding What’s Next
- Thinking about Job Changing
- Writing Attention-Grabbing Resumes
- Mastering Cover Letters
- Networking and the Hidden Job Market
- Differentiating Yourself
- The Toll of Being Unemployed (Stress Factors)
- Getting Motivated (While in Transition and At Work)
- Staying Organized (in Your Office and in Your Life)
- Overcoming Your Biggest Barrier(s) to Employment (Ageism, New to the Workforce, Disabilities, Sexual Orientation, Job Separation, Being Introverted, Religion, Military, Being a Teenager, Women/Leaders/Moms, Re-entering, “Ethnic Minorities”, English as a Second Language, Homelessness, Background/Reference Checks)
- Acing Job Interviews (Having the Right Answers and Questions)
- Preparing for Salary Negotiation
- Getting Job Offers in Face of Any Economy
- Landing a Job in Your Specific Career
Exploring Your Career Options and Deciding What’s Next
- The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
- Career Planning Made Easy (1)
- 10 Strategies for Reentering the Workforce: Career Advice for Anyone Who Needs a Good (or Better) JobNow
- This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love
- The Seasons of Your Career : How to Master the Cycles of Career Change
- The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides)
- Successful Career Change Tactics Revealed
- The Street Smart Job Changing System
- Real Resumes for Career Changers : Actual Resumes and Cover Letters (Real-Resumes Series)
Writing Attention-Grabbing Resumes
- Happy About My Resume: 50 Tips for Building a Better Document to Secure a Brighter Future
- Resume – Writing Attention-Grabbing Resumes – How to write resumes that get noticed, and get you the interview
Networking and the Hidden Job Market
- Networking Like a Pro: Turning Contacts into Connections
- The 29% Solution: 52 Weekly Networking Success Strategies
- Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough
- Perfect Phrases for Professional Networking: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases for Meeting and Keeping Helpful Contacts Everywhere You Go (Perfect Phrases Series)
- Secrets of the Hidden Job Market: Change Your Thinking to Get the Job of Your Dreams
The Toll of Being Unemployed (Stress Factors)
- Stress and Distress Among the Unemployed: Hard Times and Vulnerable People (Springer Studies in Work and Industry)
- Overwork and unemployment as stress factors: women and mental health. (Occupational Hazards).: An article from: Women’s Health Collection
Getting Motivated (While in Transition and At Work)
- Perpetual Motivation: How to Light Your Fire and Keep It Burning in Your Career and in Life
- The Sixty-Second Motivator
- Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders
Staying Organized (in Your Office and in Your Life)
- Offices at Work: Uncommon Workspace Strategies that Add Value and Improve Performance (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
- Organization Tips – Discover How to Organize Your Life, Work & Home
- Organizing for Success, Second Edition
Overcoming Your Biggest Barrier(s) to Employment
- Being “Too old” (Ageism)
- Over 40 & You’re Hired!: Secrets to Landing a Great Job
- Supercharged Retirement: Ditch the Rocking Chair, Trash the Remote, and Do What You Love
- Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation
- Career of Gold: Defeat Age Bias by Re-Careering for the Second Half of Your Life
- Being New to the Workforce (Just Graduated/First Job)
- You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career
- Grad to Great: Discover the Secrets to Success in Your First Career
- The Quick & Dirty Guide To Getting Your First Job (Quick and Dirty Books Collection)
- Hit The Ground Running The Smart Actor’s Guide
- Having a Disability (Abilities and Accommodations)
- Disability Employment 101
- Able: How One Company’s Disabled Workforce Became the Key to their Extraordinary Success
- Accommodating Employees and Job Applicants with Psychiatric Disabilities in the Workplace [VHS]
- Evaluating Mental Health Disability in the Workplace: Model, Process, and Analysis
- Employer Incentives for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities
- Succeeding In the Workplace – With Learning Disabilities and Add (Comprehensive Version) [VHS]
- Sexual Orientation
- Sexualities, Work and Organizations (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)
- Dealing with Job Separation
- CANNED booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed
- Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot
- Layoffs & Hope: Advice & Inspiration for Better Work Life
- The Courage of My Convictions
- Being Introverted
- The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career
- Religion
- Faith-based discrimination? Religious organizations and fair hiring. (Workplace).: An article from: Sojourners
- Church Hiring and Volunteer Selection
- The Freedom of Faith-Based Organization to Staff on a Religious Basis
- Having a Military Background
- Military-To-Civilian Career Transition 2nd Ed: The Essential Job Search Handbook for Service Members (Military-To-Civilian Career Transition Guide)
- Military to Federal Career Guide: Ten Steps to Transforming Your Military Experience into a Competitive Federal Resume
- Resumes and Cover Letters That Have Worked for Military Professionals (Anne McKinney Career)
- Salute veterans by hiring them.(Logout): An article from: Customer Interaction Solutions
- The Value Of a Veteran: The Guide for Human Resource Professionals to Regarding, Recruiting, and Retaining Military Veterans
- Being a Teenager
- Hey, Get a Job! A Teen Guide for Getting and Keeping a Job
- Teenwork: Four Teens Tell All: A Guide For Finding Jobs
- What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, 2nd Edition: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future (What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens)
- In Pursuit of My Success for Teens: Developing a College, Career, and Money Plan for Life
- Being a Woman (Leaders and Moms)
- The Next Generation of Women Leaders: What You Need to Lead but Won’t Learn in Business School
- Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family
- Working Mom’s 411: How To Manage Kids, Career and Home
- The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies-and How You Can, Too
- Chicken Soup for the Working Mom’s Soul: Humor and Inspiration for Moms Who Juggle It All (Chicken Soup for the Soul)
- Re-entering the Job Market (and What’s on Your Record)
- A question of character: convictions for minor crimes can derail students’ job prospects in a hyper competitive employment environment.: An article from: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- How to Do Good After Prison: A Handbook for Successful Reentry (w/ Employment Information Handbook)
- America’s Top Jobs for People Re-Entering the Workforce
- Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
- Erasing Your Criminal Background Legally: The Ultimate Guide To Second Chances
- Resumes for Re-Entering the Job Market (Professional Resumes Series)
- Having English as Your Second Language
- Say it Better in English: Useful Phrases for Work and Everyday Life
- Speak Better Business English and Make More Money (Book & Audio CD)
- Scripts for Winning Jobs [Trudoustroistvo i Prodvizhenie po Sluzhbe]: Book and 4 CDs. Power English for Russian Speakers. (English and Russian Edition)
- Getting the Job: For Job Seekers Who Speak English as a Second Language: 1 Vhs PAL Video, 19 Mins & Workbook
- Being an “Ethnic Minority” (Diversity and the Employment Process)
- Recruiting Minorities: What Explains Recent Trends in the Army and Navy?
- Cross-cultural interviewing in the hiring process: challenges and strategies.(Effective Techniques): An article from: Career Development Quarterly
- Harvard Business Review on Managing Diversity
- Vault/INROADS Guide to Minority Entry-Level and Internship Programs, 2007 Edition (Vault/Inroads Guide to Diversity Internship Co-Op & Entry-Level Programs)
- Being Homeless Not Helpless
- Why Don’t They Just Get a Job? One Couple’s Mission to End Poverty in Their Community
- A Recipe for Hope: Stories of Transformation by People Struggling with Homelessness
- Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco
- What to Do When Your Family Loses Its Home (Let’s Work It Out)
- Homeless Not Hopeless: The Survival Networks of Latinos and African American Men
- How Background Checks and Reference Checks Work
- Truth About Background and Reference Checks When Hiring, The
- Background Screening and Investigations: Managing Hiring Risk from the HR and Security Perspectives
- Credit reports and credit score in hiring decisions: is it a good idea?(Money Sense): An article from: Westchester County Business Journal
- Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Game
Acing Job Interviews (Having the Right Answers and Questions)
- Interview Success Guaranteed – Ace Any Interview Every Time and Get the Results You Deserve With the Seven Rs Easy Interviewing
- Hire Me, Inc. Interviews : That Get Offers
- 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions
Preparing for Salary Negotiation
- Mastering Salary Negotiations
- Perfect Phrases for Negotiating Salary and Job Offers: Hundreds of Ready-to-Use Phrases to Help You Get the Best Possible Salary, Perks or Promotion (Perfect Phrases Series)
- Get More Money on Your Next Job… in Any Economy
- Next-Day Salary Negotiation: Prepare Tonight to Get Your Best Pay Tomorrow (Help in a Hurry)
- My job offer negotiation skills are strong (I think)…so why didn’t I get anything I asked for?: Easy guide for students and recent grads to evaluate and negotiate the details of a job offer!
Getting Job Offers in Face of Any Economy
- Winning the Recession JOB WAR
- The Unspoken Rules of Getting Hired: Recession-Proof Secrets That Employers Do Not Want You To Know (Volume 0)
- Get Hired in a Tough Market: Insider Secrets for Finding and Landing the Job You Need Now
- Just Tell Me How to Get Hired: A Top Recruiter’s Fast, Easy Guide to Getting & Staying Employed
- From Unemployment Checks to Paychecks
Landing a Job in Your Specific Career
*Please navigate to your career of interest below to understand how to land a top-paying job in your field or industry:
- Executive, Management Analyst, Human Resources
- Food Service Manager, Funeral Director
- Engineering/Natural Science,Engineering, Industrial Production Manager
- Manufacturing,Supply &Logistics
- Sales, Administrative Services Manager, Customer Service
- Computer Programmer, Computer Support Specialists
- Computer and Information Systems Managers, Graphic Designer
- Fashion and Beauty Industry
- Loan Officer, Financial Manager, Legal and Paralegal
- Law Enforcement, Firefighting, Federal Government, U.S. Postal Service
- Medical and Health Service Managers, Medical Assistant
- Social Worker, Counselor, Nonprofit
- Education Administrators, Elementary Teachers
- Property Managers, Lodging Managers, Construction Managers
- Maintenance Technician, Auto Industry, Sports Industry
- Farmers/Ranchers/Agricultural Managers, Housekeeper/Cleaner/Carer
*Below are career-specific books to help you differentiate yourself thoughout the hiring process and earn an offer:
- How to Land a Top-Paying Top Executive Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to
- Management Analyst, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real-Resumes for Human Resources and Personnel Jobs: Including Real Resumes Used to Change Careers and Transfer Skills to Other Industries (Real-Resumes Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Food Service Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Funeral Director Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Engineering and Natural Sciences Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real Resumes for Engineering Jobs (Real-Resumes Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Industrial Production Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real-Resumes for Manufacturing Jobs: Including Real Resumes Used to Change Careers and Transfer Skills to Other Industries (Real-Resumes Series)
- Real-Resumes for Supply & Logistics Jobs
- Real-Resumes for Sales (Real-Resumes Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Administrative Services Manager Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Customer Service Representative Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Computer Programmer Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Computer Support Specialists and Systems Administrators Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Computer and Information Systems Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Graphic Designer, Graphic Artist – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real-Resumes for Retailing, Modeling, Fashion and Beauty Industry Jobs: Including Real Resumes Used to Change Careers and Transfer Skills to Other Industries (Real-Resumes Series)
- Loan Officer, Retail Personal Banker, Mortgage Loan Officer – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Controller, Financial Manager – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real Resumes for Legal and Paralegal Jobs (Real-Resumes Series)
- Federal Law Enforcement Careers: Profiles of 250 High-Powered Positions and Tactics for Getting Hired
- Real-Resumes for Firefighting Jobs: Including real resumes used to change careeres and gain Federal Employment (Real-Resumes Series)
- Real Resumix & Other Resumes for Federal Government Jobs: Including Samples of Real Resumes Used to Apply for Federal Government Jobs (Government Jobs Series)
- Real Resumes for U.S. Postal Service Jobs (Government Jobs Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Medical and Health Service Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Medical Assistant – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Social Worker – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Counselor – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real Resumes for Jobs in Nonprofit Organizations: including real resumes used to change careers and gain federal employment (Real-Resumes Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Education Administrators Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- A Guide for Beginning Elementary Teachers: From Getting Hired to Staying Inspired
- Property Manager, Community Manager, Real Estate Manager – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Lodging Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- How to Land a Top-Paying Construction Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Maintenance Technician – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Real-Resumes for Auto Industry Jobs: Including Real Resumes Used to Change Careers and Resumes Used to Gain Federal Employment (Real-Resumes Series)
- Real Resumes for Sports Industry Jobs: including real resumes used to change careers and transfer skills to other industries (Real-Resumes Series)
- How to Land a Top-Paying Farmers, Ranchers, and Agricultural Managers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, … What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
- Housekeeper, Cleaner, Carer – How to Land a Top-Paying Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!
