Blake, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Blake, bestselling author of Life After College and former career development program manager at Google, shows how to move into your next career phase by leveraging what you already do well. Now, more than ever, we need to navigate career changes deftly and frequently. The average employee tenure in America is just four or five years, and even those job roles often change dramatically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 BLATsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2019
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUSummary: When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2009
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHRBolles, Richard Nelson
Summary: With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2020, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.12 BOLBradman, Tony.
Summary: Now that the big bad wolf has three cubs of his own, being the neighborhood bully doesn't seem right. He needs a new job. Find out if he can find a job that's right for a strong, fast, scary wolf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BRATurliuk, Jennifer
Summary: "A surefire guide to planning your next career move and discovering the job you really want. Jennifer Turliuk was dissatisfied in her corporate job, so she quit. But she had no idea what to do next. After university, she, like so many graduates, focused on just getting a job rather than figuring out the career she really wanted. Yet how did she even begin to find out what exactly that would be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.702 TURBrown, Damon
Summary: An author, two-time start-up founder and four-time TED speaker offers testimonials, plans of action, and road-tested insight to encourage job seekers to use their existing skills and resources to change careers, manage transitions, and thrive in the current job market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 BROSachs, Wendy
Summary: Offers guidance for women looking to succeed in the rapidly changing job market intended to help them overcome cautiousness and embrace opportunities with confidence by taking cues from the agile business culture of Silicon Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM, American Management Association 2017
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Summary: The founder of LinkedIn demonstrates how to apply effective entrepreneurial strategies to an individual career, explaining how to navigate modern challenges by becoming more innovative, self-reliant, and networked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 HOFGale, Mary Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Careerscape 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 GALGermer, Fawn
Summary: "A street smart, inspiring, practical and utterly honest book for renewing or resuming your career. Millions of mid- and late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school. Our unemployment rate is more than three times the national average. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 GERAlbion, Mark S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 ALBHennessey, Brian
Summary: "Don't just survive... thrive in the new economy! Feeling stuck or in need of a leg up? These tips, strategies, and resources can shorten your learning curve dramatically and get you on a path for moving forward. Inside this book you'll discover: Essential steps to get out of your own way and create the right mindset for optimal achievement; 47 proven tips to jump-start your own journey;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yajna Publications 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 HENSummary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETHeaton, Patricia
Summary: "Patricia Heaton knows what it's like to stage a second act and navigate pivotal transitions in life. When Heaton's children left the nest, she found herself in a new and unfamiliar stage of life, compelling her to evaluate which direction to take next. She discovered she had the time to pursue passions that were previously placed on hold, both personally and professionally. She made her move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon &Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.244 HEAPauley, Jane
Summary: "In this inspirational book, beloved broadcast journalist Jane Pauley helps people over fifty successfully navigate the "reinvention" phase of their lives and build a positive, powerful future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 PAURubin, Harriet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 RUBBolles, Richard Nelson
Summary: In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Consider This, Call number: 650 BOL2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 BOL
Kotb, Hoda
Summary: The "Today" co-anchor shares the inspiring stories of people who found their life's purpose in unexpected ways, from a Wall Street investment banker-turned-minister to a blue-collar woman who attended Harvard Medical School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 KOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 170 KOTMcCorkindale, Susan.
Summary: A laugh-out-loud memoir about a city slicker who discovers that Manolos and manure just don't mix.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCORKINDALE MCCRoach, Margaret.
Summary: "Follows the journey of a woman who leaves her big city corporate life to find solitude and authenticity in nature"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROACH, MARGARET ROACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Roach 2011Acuff, Jon.
Summary: Many people think that dreaming big means you quit your day job, and sell everything you own. What if there were a different way. This book is based on Acuff's experience in cultivating a dream job that changed his life-- and the world in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lampo Press, The Lampo Group 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 ACUBolles, Richard Nelson
Summary: In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.12 BOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 BOLWhite, Jennifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1999