Resources to Help You in Your Transition

Websites interactive resources for articulating interests, values, skills and career fulfillment

• Interest inventory - Department of Labor: Learn more about careers that align with your interests and which fields are growing.

• Skills Assessment (Career OneStop)

• Career Values Online Card Sort (this is work focused)

• Personal Values (this is more self-development focused) 

• Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0 (purchase/redeem access code)

• VIA Values / Character Assessment

• Personality assessment (MBTI - references professional matches)

Books

• Designing Your Work Life, (2019) // Burnett & Evans also authored Designing Your Life: How to Build A Life Well-Lived, Joyful Life (2016)

• Cal Newport: So Good They Can’t Ignore You (2014) This goes against the “follow your passion” advice, Business Insider Article

• Richard Bolles: What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2018)

• Carol A. Vecchio: The Time Between Dreams: How to Navigate Uncertainty in Your Life and Work (2013)

• Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak (1999)

• The Mosaic Principle:The 6 Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career, by Nick Lovegrove

Managing Emotions

• The Power of State of Mind (12 minute video Alexander Caillet)

• Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition (Harvard Business Review) 

• How to Deal With Job Search Depression (NYT)

The Job Search Discernment and Strategy 

• Top 20 LinkedIn listing of tips

• Beating the ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems)    

• AARP resume tips (not just for folks with gray hair!)

•  Executive Career Transitions (Economist)

• Two items often overlooked in a job transition (Forbes)

• The Five Biggest Mistakes Career Switchers Make (Forbes)

• How to cut your job search time in half

• The Two Hour Job Search, By Steve Dalton

• How to Make Hard Choices, TedTalk with Ruth Chang

• How to Get Back to Work After a Career Break, TedTalk with Carol Fishman Cohen

• iRelaunch

Recruiter / Placement Firms / Headhunters

• Best Recruiting Firms  (Forbes June 2020)

• Best Executive Recruiting Firms (Forbes June 2020)

• Contingency or Retained Recruiters - What it Means to Your Job Search, (Undercover Recruiting, May 2018)

• How to Get to Know a Retained Executive Recruiter, Blog post by Krista Bradford (The Good Search 2017)

Your Brand and Narrative

• How To Write A Personal Mission Statement (with examples) 

• Elevator Pitch Tips

• Process Tips for creating your personal brand (Forbes)

• Crafting your personal brand to land your dream job

• 3 Resume Summary Examples  (The Muse 2018)

• How to Write a Stellar LinkedIn Summary (Forbes, July 2017)

• LinkedIn Pro Summaries that We Love and How to Boost Your Own (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

• Good LinkedIn Summaries (The Balance Career Blog, April 2018)

Getting Uncomfortable and Putting it “out there”

• How to build your confidence and spark it in others: 12 minute TEdBrittany Packnett

• The Mindset of Success, Carol Dweck (link to HBR article/interview, find Ted Talks and books affiliated)

• Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable (11 minute Ted Talk)

• Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability (20 minute Ted Talk)

• Steve Jobs: How to live before you die (20 minute Ted Talk)

• Why Your Life Story Matters and Who You Need To Tell It To Psychology Today contributor Susan Cain

• Embrace the Remix by Kirby Ferguson (Ted Talk, 9 minutes)

• The Choice: Embrace the Possible, by Dr. Edith Eva Eger.  Her inspiring, amazing personal story as an Auschwitz survivor (Book, 2017)

Interviews

• Interviews for all stages of the search (Nov 2020); JobVite

• Tips for an informational interview, The Muse

• The 30 Prep Tips for Interview Success, The Muse (includes an Interview Cheat Sheet)

• Send a thank you note? 

• How To Ace an Interview, Harvard Career Advisor (5 minute video)

• Interviews Are A Chance to Sell Your Skills and Abilities (Career OneStop)

• Conversational Intelligence, Book by Judith Glaser

• Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are, Amy Cuddy (Ted Talk, 20 minutes)

• Glassdoor.com

• Case in Point, Book by Marc Cosentino

• Ambitionbox

• 7 Interview Tips that Will Help You Get the Job (Balancecareers Blog 2018)

Negotiation

• Salary negotiation tips from Robert Half, also includes link to Free Salary Guide

• Six Steps For Negotiating Your Salary (Forbes, May 2018)

• 9 Tips for People Who Hate Negotiating  (Business Insider, 2018)

• Getting to Yes, by William Ury and Bruce Patton

• Know your Value, Women, Money and Getting What you are Worth, Mika Brzezinski

• A Millennial's Guide to Negotiating Salary (LiveMint, June 2018)

• Informational Article on Cost to Company and Take Home Salary

• Know Your Worth, Then Ask for It, Ted Talk with Casey Brown

• How to Negotiate Salary, 37 Tips You Need to Know (The Muse 2018)

Anxiety, Low Confidence and Imposter Syndrome

• Eckart Tolle: How do we break the habit of excessive thinking? (10 minute talk)

• The Confidence Code quiz and book

• 5 Ways to Kill Your Dreams, TedTalk with Pesce

• You are a Badass, By Jen Sincero

• How to Meditate by Tara Brach, NYT article

• Embrace the Wild Horse meditation: Movement of muscles help relax the body, with attention to stress and trauma that one may have previously experienced

• Book: The Five Invitations, Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

• Smash Fear, Learn Anything, TedTalk with Tim Ferriss

• How to Make Stress Your Friend, TedTalk with Kelly McGonigal

• Dealing with Imposter Syndrome When You Are Treated as an Imposter (New York Times, June 2018)

• 5 Types of Imposter Syndrome and How to Beat Them (Fast Company 2017)

• Thinking Your Way Out Of Imposter Syndrome TedTalk with Valerie Young

• How Childhood Trauma Effects Mental Health Across A Lifetime

Time Management

• Use these techniques to cut your job search in half (Forbes, Liz Ryan)

• Time Management online assessment with tips

• Overview of Philosophies to approach time management

• Books by Laura Vanderkam: 168 Hours, You Have More Time Than You Think, Off The Clock, Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, What the Most Successful People Do 

• Time Shifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life: Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD - classic from late ‘90’s

• Why Work Doesn't Happen at Work, TedTalk with Jason Fried

Conversations around advancement

• The Manager’s Role in Career Development

• Podcast: Why Good People Win by Anthony Tjan (April 2017 Podcast, 52:44 minutes)

• Freakonomics Podcast: Why is my life so hard? Power of gratitude, dangers of resentment

• Introverts: Getting Credit, Shining In Job Interviews, and more

• The First 90 Days, Book by Michael Watkins

• What Got You Here, Won't Get You There, Book by Marshall Goldsmith

• Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Book by Travis Bradberry

• Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow (Gallup) , Book by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

Mid-life Career Changes

• Life ReImagined, The Art, Science, and Opportunity of Midlife (2017)

• AARP: Life ReImagined, Discovering Your New Life Possibilities 

Executive Presence

Websites

• Positive Intelligence Assessment based on book by Shirzad Chamine. Discover mental habits that prevent you from being happy and successful

• Simon Sinek: Start With Why (18 minute Ted Talk)

• How To Speak So People Want to Listen, TedTalk with Julian Treasure

• Improve Your Leadership Presence HBR Video

• HBR: The Biggest Mistakes New Executives Make

• Infographics on Brain Based Leadership (Forbes) Jan 2018

• (Women) Make Yourself Heard (HBR Podcast) Jan 2018

Books

• Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead, by Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner

• Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life, by Kevin

•  Own the Room, Amy Jen Su

• Presence, by Amy Cuddy

• The Discover Your True North Fieldbook, by Bill George

• The Power of Presence, by Kristi Hedges

• Herminia Ibarra: Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, HBR article: The Authenticity Paradox

• Insight, by Tasha Eurich

• The Laws of Lifetime Growth, by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura

• Brenè Brown, Daring Greatly and Braving the Wilderness

• Playing Big by Tara Mohr (targeted to women)

• Coaching For Performance by Sir Jon Whitmore

• Thriving Women Thriving World by Whitney, Cocciolone, Miller, Moon, Britton, De La Barra, Koh, Teller, Owaga

• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis

• Pushback by Selena Rezvani (insights from women CEOs)

• What Color is Your Parachute?  by Richard Bolles 

• Reinvent Your Career, Beat Age Discrimination to Land Your Dream Job by Diane Huth, MA, MBA

• The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman

Articles

• Sound Like a Leader HBR Article

• Color Blind or Color Brave? TedTalk with Mellody Hobson

• Measuring and Developing Executive Presence, Association for Talent Development 

• Executive Presence: An Interview with Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett from Monster.com

• 7 Traits of Executive Presence, Business Insider