Unemployment Survival Recommended Reading

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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.

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.

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