Career Bookstore

Welcome to our Career Bookstore. Here are some of our favorite books for job searching and career development. Let us know if you have any book suggestions. We'll be adding more books soon. Hope these books help make your career more successful. Good luck! Please Understand Me : Character and Temperament Types ~ Usually ships in 24 hours David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates / Paperback / Published 1984 One of the fundamental texts about evaluating your personality and temperment type. Help yourself understand which types of careers are naturally suited for you. Take a quickie Myers Briggs Test and read about yourself. Review these results at the end of each year. Mandatory for everyone's career development library. What Color Is Your Parachute 2004: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career (What Color Is Your Parachute) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Richard Nelson Bolles / Paperback / (October 2003) This is the best selling book ever written about looking for a job. The book was first published in 1970 - not many other job finding books have been around this long. They update it each year trying to make it more productive for the reader. Another mandatory book for everyone's career library. Read it at least once in your career. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success : A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Deepak Chopra / Hardcover / Published 1995 Want your dreams to come true? Read this book once a month for two years. "What? Are you kidding? Once a month for two years?" If you can do it, you'll not want for much of anything after. Mandatory for your career development library. Short, but packed full of goodness. Put in on your bedside table and read it at least once every quarter. It's really good stuff. The Richest Man in Babylon ~ Usually ships in 24 hours George S. Clason / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1997 Where was this book when I was a youngster? How come I never heard about this when I was in college? This should be mandatory reading before anyone graduates into the working world. Another short book packed full of goodnessfor the bedside table. You should read it at least once a year. Scoot in on this one! The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People : Powerful Lessons in Personal Change ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Stephen R. Covey / Paperback / Published 1990 "A revolutionary guidebook to achieving peace of mind by seeking the roots of human behavior in character and by learning principles rather than just practices." Someone else said this, not me, but I might have said it. Covey discusses his own ideas behind success. This one is a bit more of a scientific or practical read compared to Chopra's, which is more Zen. Still, another mandatory read at least once in your life. Emotional Intelligence ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Daniel Goleman / Paperback / Published 1997 Somewhat controversial, but packed with some great ideas. David Goleman proposes that "emotional intellegence" is a better indicator of human success than IQ. People who possess high emotional intelligence are the people more apt to succeed and enjoy life. Because emotional intelligence isn't fixed at birth, Goleman outlines how adults as well as parents of young children can sow the seeds. Some pretty nifty ideas. Another at least once in your life read. You notice we have listed several books about evaluating and enhancing human behavior. So what do these books have to do with finding a job?Maybe a lot more than we give credit. Having a better grasp on our selves and what makes life really work can enhance not just a job search campaign, but our future career development. It's like putting down a cornerstone before laying the bricks of a career. We will all be more successful understanding the grand plan before deciding what career path to pursue, the natural job to seek out, and what style of resume to write. Even late in our careers these books are worth reading. Should we stop learning and stretching, we will stop growing. Copyright © 1997-2008 Douglas A. Leyendecker, Executive Search Site Managed By DBL Systems