Are you looking for a new career? Are you unsure how to begin job hunting? Lucky for you the Library has many books to help you with your new career and job hunt. Below you will find a sample of our newest books. If you’re looking for more, contact us today! These titles are owned by the Davenport Public Library at the time of this writing. All descriptions have been provided by the publishers.
Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ People Can Thrive and Succeed at Work by Layla McCay
A compelling look at the challenges facing LGBTQ+ professionals as they navigate their careers – with advice from many senior figures who have smashed their own rainbow ceilings.
There are currently only four LGBTQ+ CEOs across all Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies who are out at work, and just 0.8% of Fortune 500 board positions are filled by LGBTQ+ people. This deficit, occurring across sectors and around the world, reveals a diversity gap playing out in today’s workplace: LGBTQ+ people are less likely to reach the top jobs. But what is holding LGBTQ+ people back at work – and what can be done?
Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling explores the hidden differences that cause LGBTQ+ people to be underrepresented at the most senior levels of professional life. Combining data with personal insights from over 40 prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazers, from CEOs to Ambassadors, Layla McCay reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ people commonly encounter as they find their way in work environments, and provides the practical strategies that can help empower LGBTQ+ people to reach their full professional potential.
The book explores how everyone – from boards, CEOs, managers, HR professionals and colleagues, through to LGBTQ+ people navigating their own career paths – can recognize and address the barriers, achieve their career goals, and build a more inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and succeed. – Bloomsbury Publishing
I Hate Job Interviews: Stop Stressing. Start Performing. Get the Job You Want. by Sam Owens
Go into your next job interview with confidence, ready to knock any question they throw at you out of the park!
The key to landing that dream job or big promotion often comes down to how you perform in the job interview. After bombing some interviews early in his career, Sam Owens vowed that would never happen to him again and began work on a system to ensure he was ready for even the most oddball questions in future interviews. The system he developed proved so successful, Sam built a career coaching business around teaching it to others and has now coached thousands of people on how to prepare for interviews.
In I Hate Job Interviews, Sam shares his proven methodology and provides simple frameworks and demonstrations on how to answer any type of job interview question. Using this proven system, job candidates will gain confidence in answering introductory, behavioral, hypothetical, opinion, personal, think-on-your-feet, salary, and self-awareness questions. You will learn:
- How to craft “power” examples to show how your skills align perfectly with the job you are applying for.
- To conduct practice interviews so you are ready when the big day arrives.
- To make a big first impression with that first question.
- To tell compelling stories that clearly demonstrate your abilities.
- Simple strategies and frameworks to nail hypothetical and scenario questions.
- Salary negotiation skills to maximize your job offer.
– HarperCollins Leadership
Where’s Your Buffalo?: A Recruiter’s Guide to Getting the Career You Want, Earning What You’re Worth, and Doing What You Love by Tom Johnston
A veteran recruiter helps create a business plan for your career.
Where’s Your Buffalo? is a career management guide for any age and any career stage. It’s a timely framework for finding, pursuing, and achieving employment that enables any reader to meet their professional and personal life goals. It’s a practical path to help readers choose a career, get the job they want, earn what they are worth, and do what they love (or at least genuinely like).
Where’s Your Buffalo? shares the methodology that author Tom Johnston has developed over 35 years as a search consultant at some of the world’s most influential firms. This book will help readers identify their perfect career (their “Buffalo”) and chart a course to reach it, including how to:
- Better understand your skills and talents
- Articulate what is important to you in a job and why
- Identify industries that will support what is important to you
- Determine your target destination (we can adjust course as conditions change)
- Research and understand the companies that can provide you with a path
- Build a targeted network to help you along the way
- Learn how to hunt for the job you want
Only 1% to 2% of people in the world will have the chance to be coached by an executive recruiter. Where’s Your Buffalo? is your chance. – Peakpoint Press
The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work by Simone Stolzoff
A challenge to the tyranny of work and a call to reclaim our lives from its clutches.
From the moment we ask children what they want to “be” when they grow up, we exalt the dream job as if it were life’s ultimate objective. Many entangle their identities with their jobs, with predictable damage to happiness, wellbeing, and even professional success.
In The Good Enough Job, journalist Simone Stolzoff traces how work has come to dominate Americans’ lives—and why we find it so difficult to let go. Based on groundbreaking reporting and interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other workers across the American economy, Stolzoff exposes what we lose when we expect work to be more than a job. Rather than treat work as a calling or a dream, he asks what it would take to reframe work as a part of life rather than the entirety of our lives. What does it mean for a job to be good enough?
Through provocative critique and deep reporting, Stolzoff punctures the myths that keep us chained to our jobs. By exposing the lies we–and our employers–tell about the value of our labor, The Good Enough Job makes the urgent case for reclaiming our lives in a world centered around work. – Portfolio