Unique Job, Career & Life Links

ESSENTIAL CAREER LINKS


Are you looking for sound advice in your search for the perfect job? Check out Alison Doyle's easy-to-digest About.com Guide to Job Searching, which will help you uncover the right job resources and connections while clearly mapping out the necessary steps for landing your dream career. You'll also find some of the best job links on the About.com Job Searching site.


Is your life and career a little foggy? Barbara Sher—motivational specialist, therapist, and career counselor—has a handful of books to help you lift this fog, gain momentum and get your life on the right path.
Live the Life You Love provides ten step-by-step lessons to create a meaningful, rewarding life, with exercises that are actually quite fun. I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was explores the basic fact that each of us really does know what we want. Through creative exercises and fresh perspectives, Sher will definitely help you to create your own luck, push past the fears of success, and make your dreams come alive. Explore her website for an overview on all her books as well as to sign-up for her inspiring eNewsletter.


What Color is Your Parachute? 2008

Anything you care to know about the world of work—from creating a resume and cover letter to unusual job links, Dick Bolles' JobHuntersBible.com has it all. Designed to supplement the 2008 edition of his book, What Color is Your Parachute?, this site will literally guide you on the path to success.


Are you looking for a regular dose of inspiration and information to live a more fulfilling life of doing what you love? Check out
It's Your Life, a bi-monthly e-newsletter brought to you by Changing Course.


If you were to start from scratch on finding a job on the Internet, you might start with The Riley Guide. It's filled with link upon link of job resources, services, forums, job listings and information guides. The site's webmistress is also the author of the Guide to Internet Job Searching.


Quintessential Careers includes heaps of career resource links, ranging from job hunting sites and career articles to cover letter and resume sites.


VIDEO SPOTLIGHT

THE BUZZ: BLOGS & ARTICLES


In what unique way can you jump-start your short-term job adventure this year? Check out our top five tips for a job hunting energy boost.

Eccentric employment? Explore this blog of unusual, strange and interesting job opportunities.

Do you recoil with horror at the prospect of a nine-to-five job? Take a look at some unconventional jobs that have been around for a while and some newer jobs that have sprung up.

Do what you love? Paul Graham takes us through the process.

How to be creative? Here's 30 ways from GapingVoid.com.

Put your retirement on hold? Work, rather than a leisure-based retirement, is a far better choice for the second half of your life.

SHORT-TERM JOB ADVENTURES
THE BOOK


The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job AdventuresWhether you're looking for a summer job, avoiding the post-college cubicle life or trying to reinvigorate or redirect a stalled career, the Back Door Guide will assist you along the right path. Containing thousands of life-enriching work and learn opportunities, this best-of-the-best guide encompasses all short-term jobs. Seize your life and career path and step through the back door. The world awaits!

Explore reviews of our favorite life changing books—complete with links to author websites and ordering direct through Amazon.com.
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