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Hot News Alert 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.


What Color is Your Parachute?

Hot News Alert 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.


Hot News Alert 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 barbarasher.com for an overview of all her books and sign-up for her inspiring eNewsletter.


How'd You Score That Gig? A Guide to the Coolest Jobs and How to Get Them

Hot News Alert Career guru Alexandra Levit profiles over sixty of the coolest careers in How'd You Score that Gig?, with insider wisdom from young careerists in jobs they love and how to take specific action steps for breaking in. From a passion quiz to step-by-step advice, the secrets of landing your dream job are now yours to discover.


Hot News Alert 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.


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


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Hot News Alert Do what you like. Like what you do. Grab some gear from Life is Good and start spreading good vibes.

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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.

Are you yearning for a life of adventure? Explore Extraordinary Jobs for Ordinary People, a weekly online newsletter for people who are tired of doing what the system dictates.

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.

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

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.

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