ARTICLES
Baehr, Ann
"I'm Changing Careers - How Do I Format My Resume?"
Career Change Resumes - www.enetsc.com/ResumeTips28.htm
Duffy, Marcia Passos
"Resumes for Career Switchers"
http://www.manchester.edu/osd/Career/pages/docs/Resumes%20for%20Career%20Switchers.doc
Eagar, Heather
"You're Ready For A Career Change?Is Your Resume?
Resume Resource - www.resume-resource.com/article30.html
Hansen, Katharine
"Strategic Portrayal of Transferable Job Skills Is A Vital Job-Search Technique"
Quintessential Careers - www.quintcareers.com/printable/transferable_skills_technique.html
Hentz, Maureen Crawford
"Career Changers' Most Powerful Resume and Cover Letter Tool: Transferable Skills"
Quintessential Careers - www.quintcareers.com/printable/career_change_skills.html
Isaacs, Kim
"Resume Dilemma: Career Change"
Monster.com - http://resume.monster.com/articles/weakness_change/
Jobs & Careers Newspaper & Job Fairs website
"Writing A Resume For A Career Change"
Jobs & Careers Newspaper & Job Fairs - www.jobscareers.com/articles/writingresumecareerchange.html
The Princeton Review website
"Selling Your Career Change: How to Strengthen Your Resume"
The Princeton Review - www.princetonreview.com/cte/articles/hired/careerchange.asp
Reinhold, Barbara
"Retooling Your Resume to Change Fields"
Monster.com - http://resume.monster.com/articles/retoolingresume/
BOOKS
Creating You & Co.: Learn to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career
Practical guide for workers to see themselves as the leaders of their own businesses - i.e., themselves - and viewing employers as potential customers. Exercises help the reader define his/her "product" and spot his/her markets.
Perseus Books Group, 1998
Chope, Robert C.
Dancing Naked: Breaking Through the Emotional Limits That Keep You from the Job You Want
Focuses on emotional fitness and resilience in job searching and the workplace: career beliefs and identity; handling your emotions during a job search; and staying on track.
New Harbinger Publications, 2000
Dilenschneider, R.L.
50 Plus: Critical Career Decisions For The Rest Of Your Life
Kensington Publishing, 2002
Enelow, Wendy S. and Kursmark, Louise M.
Expert Resumes for Career Changers
JIST Works, 2005
Finnigan, Dan and Karasu, Marc
Your Next Move: Success Strategies For Midcareer Professionals
Sterling Publishing Company, 2006
Freedman, Marc
Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life
PublicAffairs; 1st edition, 2007
Griffiths, B.
Do What You Love For The Rest Of Your Life: A Practical Guide To Career Change And Personal Renewal
Ballantine Books, 2001
Halfand, David
Career Change
Comprehensive manual to help those facing change deal with the psychological, emotional, and practical aspects of choosing a new career.
McGraw-Hill, Second edition, 1999
Isaacs, Kim and Hofferber, Karen
The Career Change Resume
McGraw-Hill, 2003
Jansen, Julie
I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This
Penguin Books, 2003
Kay, Andrea
Life's A Bitch & Then You Change Careers: 9 Steps To Get Out Of Your Funk & On To Your Future
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2005
Krannich, Ronald L.
Change Your Job, Change Your Life: Careering and Re-Careering in the New Boom/Bust Economy
Impact Publications, Ninth edition, 2004
Lore, Nicholas
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
Fireside, 1998
Pollan, Stephen M. and Levine, Mark
Second Acts: Creating The Life You Really Want, Building The Career you Truly Desire
Harper Resources/Quill, 2004
Richards, Dick
Is Your Genius At Work? 4 Key Questions to Ask Before Your Next Career Move Davies-Black Publishing, 2005
Ryan, Robin
What To Do With The Rest Of Your Life
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Stevens, Paul
Stop Postponing The Rest Of Your Life / Expand Your Career Horizons
This is a practical guide for realigning career goals through thoughtful, systematic analysis called the "career audit." Provides the tools to identify, examine, nourish and maintain a truly satisfying work situation.
Ten Speed Press, 1993
ONLINE RESOURCES
Career Voyages - www.careervoyages.gov
? Another excellent Department of Labor website.
? This one includes guidance on changing careers: where to start, which industries are growing, how to qualify, how to get a job, is additional education worth the investment of time and money?
Vocation Vacations - www.vocationvacations.com
? Test drive a possible career!
? In addition to trips, they now have show on Travel Channel
What's Next? -- http://www.whatsnext.com/
? Magazine and website focusing on second careers; targeted at "men whose priorities are shifting: from traditional careers toward work that is personally fulfilling, from getting rich to giving back, from staying late at the office to seeing the world."
? Articles on health, money, travel and careers
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