Highly reviewed career development books

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In turned into a major social phenomenon in 2013 and the name became an immediate catchphrase to inspire and emancipate women. This version includes new figures and contains a heartfelt letter from Sandberg urging students to pursue and contribute to the job they enjoy. Lean In, paired with motivation and pragmatic guidance, will talk directly to students and transform live.

An action-oriented guide to help everyone find their calling and accomplish their goals. XO Group’s award-winning CEO and sought-after speaker, Michael Steib, draws from his own extensive professional experience and career highlights as well as insightful insights from other accomplished industry leaders to deliver expert feedback, field-tested advice, and immersive activities to help you answer these three main questions, visualize a goal, and then design and develop a roadmap to accomplish it. The Career Manifesto is the important way to develop and carry through on an ambitious roadmap to succeed at whatever task, project or career goal you set your eyes on, for young people, businessmen or creatives looking for greater motivation and meaning at work and in their life.

Choose a rewarding profession that tackles the most important problems of the societies, using this guide focused on five years of research at Oxford. During your career you will work 80000 hours: something like 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for around 40 years. This means that one of the most important choices you’ll ever take is your career choice. There’s very not much good guides out there for such an important call, remarkably. Some career counseling is about stuff like writing a curriculum vitae, and some of the rest are just misleading motivational like following your heart and passion. Most people we refer to don’t really have any suggestions about career because they’re not taking advices from professionals or simply trying to sort things out on their own. This book is geared at helping you pursue a job that you love, that you are good at, and that explores the most important concerns of the world.

In his career as a technology designer, John Sonmez learned that technical knowledge alone is not sufficient to improve earnings – programmers need soft skills such as the ability to understand emerging technologies before the others, connect effectively to customers, negotiate rates, and bring teamwork to a win-win situation for all colloborators and colleagues. His success began when John invested in these talents, and he became a well paying, widely sought-after designer and trainer Today John helps over 1.4 million developers raise their earnings per year by cultivating this special mix of expertise. In this book you will find out what it is like to be a skilled computer developer, how to go from understanding any coding to getting the skills to work on a design team, how to speed up your training by avoiding typical pitfalls for beginners, and how to determine whether to invest in a programming degree or bootcamp.

You are more talented, knowledgeable, dedicated and hard-working than your peers, but you never seem to be able to develop your career at the same level as others. The book is a simple talk book on leadership that can help you get your career on track.

The book contains in-depth tips about how to answer the most important work interview questions such as: How to answer questions from the interview. The book was intended to offer advice for interviews, to help create trust in the process of being interviewed and secure the job. The book is also meant to help people effectively prepare for the next interview and relieve the interview process from discomfort. The book should encourage students to excel in the course of the interview and become the natural choice for the job they are applying for.

Chris Ducker, a globally known author and podcaster, invented the word Youpreneur in late 2014 to describe the emergence of the personal product businessman, a modern business concept that very few people saw coming. The Youpreneur has since shot to the top across markets. A Youpreneur transcends the traditional industry principles and creates a profitable company on the basis of their personal product knowledge, desires and personality. Ready to pivot for the last time, ensure your business’ success, and become an industry leader ? Chris Ducker will teach you how to grow your company and create a business plan that is future-proof.

Would you able to describe what your dream work is on a sheet of paper at this right moment? Are you frustrated by a stagnant career growth or missing apparent opportunities? Too many people have embraced the status quo of staying in positions that don’t excite them and get paid less than they’re worth. The goal would be to find a career for any worker which makes you happy to wake up every day and a job where you are actively involved in your work! This creative and actionable book will give you a methodical, realistic and validated approach to recognize and make the next career step a reality. Eighty percent of job openings are never advertised, and sometimes those are the best career opportunities. In this book, you will discover strategies to connect with recruiting managers of Top 500 companies and get top level jobs.

Seeing the Big Picture, an MBA in fewer than 180 words, simplifies the dynamics of big and small companies and teaches you that a deeper knowledge of your industry will help develop the reputation and future you desire. So by demonstrating how you affect the performance of your group, company, or organisation, you will make your job more rewarding and purpose-driven. The same five basic aspects drive businesses either to success or failure: money, income, capital, production, and people. Kevin Cope can make you understand that these drivers will be supported by your everyday choices and add to the organization’s big picture of progress. You will discover the flexibility you want to add to your work true meaning and passion. Whether you’re on the factory floor and alone in the corner seat, you can learn how to get tangible results. Take benefits from Kevin’s concise definitions of the most critical metrics contained in the statement of revenue, balance sheet, or cash flow analysis. Communicate your ideas to managers convincingly, boost the quality of your employees, and even start your own profitable enterprise.

Or are you a young professional looking for the right field and the best place to propel your career? This has never been more difficult to find out the fitting career or get a good salary. In fact, students of today are not only searching for better employment, but also for opportunities that will help them begin careers from which they can develop and succeed. Learning what to look for and how to really get a better career is extremely daunting. Based on a comprehensive study of thousands of students and young professionals and interviews with leaders The Career Playbook offers actionable tips for success. From his pragmatic guidance on creating useful introductions, nailing meetings, and securing rewards to tactical recommendations on a career trajectory, the value of friendships, how to develop a mentor, and deciding when to switch jobs or industries, Citrin offers an invaluable roadmap for your career.