Career Readiness Online Bibliography

This book serves as a step-by-step guide to creating an effective resume that will allow you to stand out from the crowd if you are seeking an executive position. This book will allow you to discover the importance of identifying and understanding your target audience and how to connect with them, how to effectively use cover letters, as well as which power verbs to use and which words to avoid. The book also reviews samples of successful resumes to serve as a learning tool and inspiration as you create a stellar executive resume.

As the world’s most popular job searching guide, havinh sold over ten million copies over the last 50 years, this book is a great place to start when you are looking to embark on a job-hunt. This newest edition discusses the most up-to-date resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, providing insight on what works and what doesn’t. In addition to the famous Flower Exercise that walks you through how to design your career around your key passions, transferable skills, and traits, it offers essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, effective networking skills, interviewing techniques, and tips for salary negotiations.

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone who has questioned their introverted ability to succeed in an extroverted work environment. This book demonstrates how to make the most from your introverted qualities and how to add in extroverted skills to create a well-rounded combination of the two which can bring forth the ultimate success in your career. The author also shares the keys to navigating each state of your career, from self-assessment, job searching, life after landing the job, and career advancement. Applicable to both in-office and remote working, this book provides the tools and strategies necessary to win the professional respect and recognition you deserve.

This book is perfect for anyone that has ever been in an interview and wasn’t sure what to say when the interviewer inevitably asks if you have any questions at the end. According to Ron Fry, “it marks the beginning of the last, and perhaps most important, interview phase, one that’s so important that failing to properly prepare for it can undo all your hard work, including providing great answers to tough questions.” This book discusses what to ask, when to ask it, and the types of answers to expect; giving all candidates the information and advice they need to land their dream job.

This book is an excellent resource to aid in developing your career game plan and learning how and why to build relationships that are critical to your success. This book also discusses common challenges you should be prepared to face, how to deal with success and failures, conflict resolution, and prioritization. By carefully developing a plan that helps eliminate the risks of failure, this book will help you gain the confidence to demonstrate to the interviewer why you are the correct choice for the position.

With the knowledge collected from conducting over twenty thousand job interviews, as well as receiving feedback from thousands of other hiring managers, this book walks you through how to interview successfully from an interviewing expert. This book will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to impress hiring managers by providing a better understanding of what they are looking for, tips on how to best prepare for behavioral-based interview questions, advice on technical interviews that goes beyond simply solving the problems, and other advice on how to stand out from other candidates.

If you are looking for a job but you do not have a four-year degree, this book will provide you with the guidance and inspiration, through a collection of nearly 200 sample resumes and twelve cover letters that offer one of a kind, eye-catching examples that fit across all occupational groups, primarily targeting positions that do not require a four-year college degree. This three part guide walks job seekers through the writing, design, and styling of resumes and cover letters through specific examples.

While the pandemic didn’t change the workforce landscape on its own, it did accelerate career and hiring trends that were already in development. For many positions, the previous approach to job hunting and career success no longer applies. It has become apparent that the “new normal” of working environments include a hybrid of remote and in-person will depend heavily on virtual communications and automation, resulting in remote interviews, networking, and work. This books serves as a roadmap to help navigate job searching in a post Covid-19 world.

This book will walk any blue collar job seeker through how to identify and effectively market your unique skills and abilities that will increase your chances of landing the job you want. This book also includes a dedicated section for military veterans returning to the civilian workforce, as well as reviews the tips and strategies necessary to navigate social networking sites such as LinkedIn, and  how to utilize personal networking and interviewing to shorten your job hunt and advance you career, demonstrating how to rise above your competition.

This is an excellent book to prepare any job seeker with all aspects of written communication related to the job hunt. Effectively communicated letters, resumes, and emails are particularly useful when trying to stand out from the competition. Other topics discussed include business memos, reports, and speeches are useful once you are hired. This book offers valuable insights into creating a message that is politically correct, uses non-biased language, that will keep your message from being compromised.

This book serves as a guide on the most effective words and phrases to use in your cover letter and resume that will get you noticed, land interviews, and ultimately result in being offered the position. Cover letters and resumes are sales pitches for you and knowing the right words to use, and which ones not to use, can go a long way in selling yourself. 

This book provides you with a process to not only find a job, but create a career you love. The three main ideas in this book revolve around a job search council with fellow job seekers, turning anxiety into hope, identifying not only what you want but also what the market wants, and it goes in depth on the four prongs of negotiation: salary, budget, resources, and support.

This step-by-step book is perfect for the individual wanting to make their resume stand out. Often, it is the resume that stands out above the rest that get someone an interview, and that might not necessarily be the most qualified person. In order to shoot your resume to the top of the list, this book will teach you how to make your resume stand out, why you need to focus on the most important things (what those things are), how to express and leverage your value, key mistakes you need to avoid, and the top five resume building tips from experts. This book also includes resume templates to get you started.

This book is for any job-seeker, no matter if it is your first job, if you’ve been out of the job market for a while, or if you want to make a career change. Using the Target Job Deconstruction method, the author helps you create a roadmap to successfully navigate your job search in this digital age, including building an online profile and social media networking. This book also teaches you how to create a resume that will get results, how to get the most from online career sites, as well as interviews, job offers, negotiating salary/benefits packages, and beyond.

While resumes are important, a cover letter provides you with an opportunity to sell yourself to the company. This book offers fantastic strategies for crafting a cover letter that will give you an edge against the competition. A dynamic cover letter dramatically increases your chances of landing an interview and this book offers a practical approach to create every type of letter you might want to use in your job search.

This book will prepare you for the job interview in a unique way that will get you noticed. Instead of memorizing answers to typical questions, this book provides you with the thought behind the explanation of more than 300 questions. This approach allows you to understand what the interviewer is truly asking for so that you can respond in a way that will set you apart. This book will also provide you with the knowledge to not only handle stressful questions, but teaches you how to keep your cool and exude confidence from the moment you walk into the building.