Recommended Reading During Unemployment

A brief summary of each recommended reading is below.  A more detailed summary can be accessed by clicking on the title of the book.  Each link will open in a new window.

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Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve In Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring, career expert Ford R. Myers maps the new world of job search and reveals essential strategies for your success. You-ll learn how to seize opportunities that aren-t posted yet - how to make yourself an instant asset to potential employers - how to clearly stand-out as the best candidate ... and how to leverage social media, blogs, and other Web tools.

Getting Up Again: Surviving Unemployment and Pursuing Destiny Getting Up Again is set to become a bestseller as it deals with a major issue of the times, unemployment. The author, Philip H. Page, Jr., tackles this issue using his real life experience of surviving a layoff and finding purpose in life. The story is a personal, honest and realistic expression that allows the reader to experience his challenges and triumphs. He uses wit and humor to relay the lessons learned during life's most trying times. In the end, the reader experiences the exhilaration of victory, along with the author, as the story unfolds in the discovery of destiny. Getting Up Again is an empowerment tool for anyone who reads it, especially those who are currently struggling to rebound from a difficult situation. To those readers, be encouraged, be empowered and know that you can indeed Get Up Again!

Hardest Times: The Trauma of Long-Term Unemployment This is a sobering look at what happens to men - and their families - who are unemployed for six months or longer. An insightful and sensitive account of the social and psychological consequences of unemployment, the book presents portraits of these men coupled with provocative theoretical analysis. It should be of interest to those studying the sociology and psychology of work, male identity, bereavement and trauma.

Job Rights & Survival Strategies: A Handbook for Terminated Employees A valuable self-help guide for the newly unemployed and those who want to be prepared when and if "the axe falls." Now you can arm yourself with the latest expert advice about legal options and job loss coping methods. This valuable book was written by experienced lawyers Paul H. Tobias and Susan Sauter. In its eighteen chapters you'll discover information you cant' afford to miss. With tens of thousands of people being laid off every year, you need to know your employee rights. Chapters cover such diverse topics as how to take action against discrimination, how to deal with the judicial and administrative systems, and how to copewith the financial and emotional burdens caused by job loss.

Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass: A Survival Guide for the Recently Unemployed Job hunting is a different ballgame when you’re holding a pink slip instead of a brand-new college diploma. In Landing on the Right Side of Your Ass, Michael B. Laskoff—a Harvard M.B.A. who has flown high and flamed out more than once—offers essential advice for those of us who have recently been laid off, restructured, or plain ol’ fired. A tell-it-like-it-is bible of “reemployment,” it tackles both the practical and the emotional issues of job loss.

Losing Your Job-Reclaiming Your Soul : Stories of Resilience, Renewal, and Hope (Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) Even job loss has a silver lining A truly wonderful book! Through stories, myths and metaphors, Mary Lynn Pulley examines the factors which help people develop more meaning in their work and their lives. This book is not only for those going through career transitions, but for all of us who want to be more resilient in today's work world. - Betsy A. Collard, Career Action Center Right-sizing.

Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Ever since the story of his transformation from homeless, single and struggling father to millionaire became known the world over, Chris Gardner --whose life story both inspired the movie The Pursuit of Happyness and became a #1 New York Times bestseller by the same name--has been inundated with two questions: “How Did You Do It” and “How Can I Do it Too?” Gardner’s power-packed, transformational reply is the basis of this long-anticipated book.

Unemployment Is Not A Joke !: How To Find A Job In 30 Days Identify Your DNA - Dynamic Natural Ability and Discover " How to find your career path in 30 days". This book is designed to put everything that you need at your finger tips when it comes to knowing how and what it takes to create career leverage. This powerful step by step, word for word instructional novel has some amazing stories regarding the impact and influences of a unemployment transitional experiences. This book is the written complilation from The Total Package digital CD/DVD series " Unemployment is not a JOKE". Both of these tools together creates the most effective career transitional coaching and empowerment fomat that exist. If you want to turn what you love to do into money, or land the perfect job, read this book. If you want to get off the sidelines and get back onto the corporate playing field,read this book. Don't let what you don't know cost you your next job or career or business opportunity.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. The 2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."

Your Rights in the Workplace An easy-to-read guide to the laws that protect you in the workplace!  Your Rights in the Workplace is the most complete guide to workplace laws ever published -- it's essential to any one who is an employees.  In plain English, Your Rights in the Workplace covers everything from hiring and getting paid through privacy and firing.

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