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

• Richard Bolles: What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (2025)

• Herminia Ibarra: Working Identity (2023)

• Jeremy Schifeling: Expensive Career Coach GPT (2023)

• Phyl Terry: Never Search Alone (2022)

• Steve Dalton: 2-Hour Job Search (2020)

• Brené Brown: Braving the Wilderness (2019)

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

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

• Cal Newport: So Good They Can’t Ignore You (2014)

• 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)

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

• iRelaunch (including information on the Return to Work Conference Oct 7-9, 2025)

• wellfed , a platform that supports displaced employees

• Grounded Idealist, supports employees in transition with coaching and learning opportunities

• Career Pivot , Wayan Vota’s Substack community that supports people transitioning to new jobs

• Beating the ATS (Applicant Tracking Systems)    

• Executive Career Transitions (Courses offered by Economist)

• 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

Recruiter / Placement Firms / Headhunters

• Best Recruiting Firms  (Forbes May 2025)

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

• Building Powerful Relationships with Retained Recruiters, Blog post by Krista Bradford, August 2024

Your Brand and Narrative

• Resume Summary Examples  (The Muse 2024)

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

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

• Process Tips for creating your personal brand (Forbes)

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

• The 30 Prep Tips for Interview Success, The Muse (May 2025) (includes an Interview Cheat Sheet)

• Tips for an informational interview, The Muse

• Send a thank you note? Una Dabiero, The Ladders

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

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

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

• Glassdoor.com

• Case in Point, Book by Marc Cosentino

Negotiation

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

• Getting to Yes, by William Ury and Bruce Patton

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

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

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

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

• The Five Invitations, Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, Book by Frank Ostaseski

• Smash Fear, Learn Anything, TedTalk with Tim Ferriss

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

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

• How Childhood Trauma Effects Mental Health Across A Lifetime

Time Management

• 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

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

• 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

• AARP: Life ReImagined, Discovering Your New Life Possibilities , paperback or e-book

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