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GENERAL CAREER DISCOVERY WEBSITE AND RESOURCES
Dirty Jobs-Discovery Channel
The Discovery Channel features a program called Dirty Jobs and it is worth watching just to see what some people are courageously doing each day just to make a living. You are sure to develop a greater appreciation for the jobs that need to be done and the people who do them. 
Vocation Vacations
Always wanted to try out a new career? This site offers the chance to test-drive over 70 unique careers, through more than 170 expert mentors.

Do What you Are; Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type By Paul D. Tierger and Barbara Barron-Tieger Learn about your Personality Type and what you need in a satisfying career. Lists dozens of specific jobs that you might find rewarding, including the hottest and fastest growing careers. Provides customized job search strategies that will work best for you. Shows you concrete ways to make your current job as satisfying as possible.

How to Find the Work You Love
By Laurence G. Boldt In this easy to read book it will help you focus on the four key elements to be sought in any life’s work: Integrity, Service, Enjoyment and Excellence. Gain clarity to your life’s work with the questions and insightful strategies.

Jobshift By William Bridges A eye opening look at the future of the new employment reality and how to uncover new opportunities that will generate secure work for yourself in the following years-and how to think differently about your work for the next forty years.

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers By Richard Nelson Bolles The 40th Edition.

The world’s most popular job-search book is updated for 2013 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today’s job-hunters and career-changers.
Career expert Richard (“Dick”) N. Bolles has now written forty-one books all with the same title: What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. In order  to tailor his authoritative guide to the current job- market, Bolles not only updates the book each year,  but he also reconceives it, reinvents it, and rewrites it,  so that one year’s edition is often vastly different from  the year before. This is the case with the 2013 edition.  Inventions in the book this year include a brand-new  transferable skills grid, a novel way to discover what fields  you would most like to work in, and a revamped version  of his famed self-inventory instrument, the Flower Exercise.
What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide, and it has helped millions discover their unique gifts, skills, and interests. This has allowed them to land a job even in hard times, and to create for themselves a new, interesting, and inspiring career and life.
With fresh insights into resumes, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, entrepreneurship, and social media, What Color Is Your Parachute? has everything you need to dust off your motivation and find your dream job.

What Should I do with my Life?
By Po Bronson This book is a page-turner and depicts 50 vivid profiles of people searching for their true calling”. They include a Los Angeles lawyer who became a priest, a Harvard MBA catfish farmer turned biotech executive, and a Silicon Valley real estate agent who opened a leather crafts factory in Costa Rica. A great read for anyone in a Career Transition.
GENDER ISSUES RESOURCES

Understanding Men’s Passages
By Gail Sheey An enlightening guide to self-discovery for men and their partners through all phases of their lives. Informative and filled with facts and fascinating life stories this book addresses the challenges!
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