Resources for Job Seekers
Finding a job is hard, and being a part-time job seeker in a world of full-time jobs has unique challenges for professionals. You may be seeking to change careers, trying to find a job that brings you greater work-life balance, or on-ramping back into the workforce after time out with kids. Here’s a list of some of our favorite resources that might help you in your journey.
- The On-Ramping Guide: Tips, Exercises and Important Job Search Steps for Returning to Work After Time Out Raising Kids – this electronic guide provides an overview of the job search process geared specifically to on-ramping professionals. The material was developed from a series of half-day workshops featuring a variety of coaching and HR experts.
- Strengths Finder 2.0 - a strengths assessment from Gallup Poll (you can purchase the book by this name to get an access key to the assessment or you can simply take online)
- What Color is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Guide for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, by Richard Bolles.
- Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job, by Jay Conrad Levinson and David Perry (2009)
- Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of Professional Resume Writers, by Susan Britton Whitcomb (2006)
- Sample Skills Based Resume - great resume format for career changes and to de-emphasize gaps in employment
- WorkOptions - a website offering templates for flex proposals including part-time, job-share and telecommute
- Ask for It: How Women Can use the Power of Negotiation to Get What they Really Want, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
- Mojo Mom: Nurturing Yourself While Raising a Family, by Dr. Amy Tiemann
- Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success by Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
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