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It may seem impossible but there are almost as many career books as career websites. My job, as I see it, is to select the best resources for you among the vast selection available.

I'm also concerned about price, on-line order security and shipping procedures. As a result, I've created links from here to eBay's book retailers. Click here to find great deals on books at eBay!

Type the book titles into eBay's search tool and buy directly from them. (Note to power users: if you cut and paste titles from this page, be sure not to copy any "non-character spaces" from the beginning or end of the title)

One last tip: many of these books are so popular they are updated each year. In fact, the author's approach three years ago is usually still valid today. If you want a deep discount, don't hesitate to buy an older edition, and use your savings to buy a second "career classic."

 What Color is Your Parachute?
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The best selling job-hunting book in the world - in twelve languages, bought by 20,000 a month! Chosen by the Library of Congress as one of the 25 books that have shaped readers' lives. "What Color is Your Parachute? has been the job-hunting classic for decades and is updated by Bolles each year. Bolles always goes beyond the routine, including things like useful internet sites and how to select a career counselor. It's virtually always the best-selling career book, and with good reason." - David Murphy, San Francisco Chronicle

   

 Zen and the Art of Making a Living
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An inventive and down-to-earth career guide, featuring 120 easy-to-use worksheets, proposes a new vision of work, helping people recognize what they really want to do. For career consultant Laurence G. Boldt, everyone is the artist of his or her own life. In this comprehensive, useful, and potentially life-changing book, he guides readers on how to widen possible horizons—and then focus in to make the ideal real. "Includes résumé advice and worksheets for narrowing down and sticking with your goals; it takes the reader on a quest for spiritual fulfillment through work, something you won't find elsewhere." --Rob Lightner
   
What's Your Type of Career?
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To be happy and successful in your work you need a career that not only matches your interests but fits your personality as well. In this practical, approachable book Donna Dunning offers an easy 5-step planning process that provides links between your personality and career that is right for you. With exercises, checklists, tips, and strategies, she introduces 8 distinct ways of working to help you discover your own natural approach to the world of work.
   
Cover Letters that Knock 'em Dead

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With its companion book, Résumés that Knock 'em Dead, this is the best-selling book in its category (over 3 million sold!) for more than 10 years. The latest edition has expanded content on electronic cover letters and online job searching, how to conduct a successful job search in today's competitive market, and the new job search etiquette. By Martin Yale, past National Director of Training for Dunhill Personnel System, Inc.
   

Resumes that Knock 'em Dead  
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A résumé isn't just a synopsis of your employment history. It needs to be a powerful presentation of your qualifications that positions you against dozens, sometimes hundreds of candidates. Does your résumé have the right stuff to get a hiring manager's attention? Martin Yale, America's most respected career expert, shows you how to create a compelling résumé that will get you the interviews you want.
   

The Damn Good Resume Guide

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Yana Parker has helped hundreds of thousands of job seekers write and refine their résumés to near perfection. Her résumé guides have been praised for their user-friendly style and savvy advice and, rightly so, have become staples in libraries, career centers, and employment office nationwide. In this fully updated edition of her bestseller, you can quickly benefit from Yana's résumé-writing wisdom by following her ten easy steps to a damn good résumé.
   
101 Greatest Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions

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No matter how good you look, how effective your résumé, how perfectly you fit the job description, if you're not prepared with great answers to the tough interview questions, you won't get the job. For years interviewees have relied on Ron Fry's 101 Great Answers... In fact more than 500,000 people have used prior editions to help them develop their interview techniques to help them understand exactly what the interviewer is getting at with each and every question he or she asks.
   

How to Succeed in Your First Job

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If you're a recent college graduate, How to Succeed... will teach you concepts that will help you translate what you learned in school into valuable tools that will help you thrive in a work environment. Built around El Holton's dynamic 12-step process -- extensively field tested and firmly grounded in research -- How to Succeed ... will give you essential insights and tools for mastering the transition from school to the world of work.
 

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