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FEATURED CAREER CHANGE BOOK:
Career Change: Everything You Need to Know to Meet New Challenges and Take Control of Your Career,
by David P. Helfand, Ph.D.
(VGM). This book is a fantastic resource for people considering a career change. Straight-shooting, with
lots of good ideas and resources. Highly recommended.
TOP CAREER CHANGE BOOKS:
Change
Your Job, Change Your Life: High Impact Strategies for Finding Great Jobs for the Decade Ahead, by
Ronald L. Krannich (Impact Publications).
Life's a Bitch and
Then You Change Careers: 9 Steps to Get Out of Your Funk and On to Your Future, by
Andrea Kay (STC Paperbacks).
OTHER CAREER CHANGE BOOKS:
Career
Coward's Guide to Changing Careers: Sensible Strategies for Overcoming Job Search Fears, by Katy Piotrowski (JIST).
Dare
to Change Your Job and Your Life, by Carole Kanchier (JIST).
Do What
You Love for the Rest of Your Life: A Practical Guide to Career Change and Personal Renewal, by
Bob Griffiths (Ballantine Books).
Fearless Career
Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field, by Marky Stein (McGraw-Hill).
The
Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success, by
Nicholas Lore (Fireside).
Starting
Over: How to Change Careers or Start Your Own Business, by Stephen M. Pollan, with Mark Levine (Warner Books).
This
Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love, by Tama J. Kieves (Tarcher).