Career Books
These are some of the most popular, and most substantial, books about finding your dream job, and some - like Richard Nelson Bolles's classic What Color Is Your Parachute? - are also about finding your dreams. More career-related book recommendations are available at Amazon.com.
Make sure to visit the Career Center's Vault Online Career Library for online books and guides about careers, industries, employers, internships, and more!
- Boost Your Interview I.Q. by Carole Martin (McGraw-Hill, 2003)
- Confessions of a Recruiting Director: The Insider's Guide to Landing Your First Job by Brad Karsh (Penguin Group, 2006)
- Cool Careers for Dummies by Marty Nemko (IDG Books Worldwide, 2001)
- Do What You Are, 3rd edition by Paul Tieger & Susan Barron-Tieger (Little, Brown, 2001)
- Free to Succeed: Designing the Life You Want in the New Free Agent Economy by Barbara Reinhold (Plume, 2001)
- From Army Green to Corporate Gray by Carl S. Savino & Ron Krannich (Impact Publications, 1999)
- Also From Navy Blue to Corporate Gray and From Air Force Blue to Corporate Gray
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher & William Ury (Penguin, 1991)
- Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003 by Margaret Riley Dikel, Frances E. Roehm & Public Library Assocation (McGraw Hill/Contemporary, 2002)
- The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gerdella (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
- I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know it's not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work by Julie Jansen (Penguin USA, 2003)
- Information Interviewing by Martha Stoodley (Ferguson Publishing, 1996)
- Job Hunting for Dummies by Max Messmer (IDG Books Worldwide, 1999)
- Job Seeker Secrets: Making the Internet Work for You by Thomas J. Ferrara (Thompson South-Western, 2003)
- Knock 'Em Dead! by Martin Yate (Adams Media, updated annually)
- Making College Count: A Real World Look at How to Succeed In and After College by Patrick O'Brien (Student Success, Inc., 1999)
- Monster Careers: How to Land the Job of Your Life by Jeff Taylor & Doug Hardy (Penguin Group, 2004)
- My Reality Check Bounced!: The Twentysomething's Guide to Cashing In on Your Real-World Dreams by Jason Ryan Dorsey (Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2007)
- Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute, 4th edition by Jack Chapman (Ten Speed Press, 2000)
- The Organized Executive by Stephanie Winston (Warner Books, 2001)
- The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore (Fireside, 1998)
- Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1 Million by John Lucht (Viceroy Press, 2000)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 1990)
- Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges (Perseus, 1980)
- The Vault College Career Bible by Vault Editors (Vault, Inc., updated annually)
- Available in the Creighton Career Center Library and online through the Vault Online Career Library
- Weddle's Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites for Recruiters and Job Seekers by Peter Weddle (Weddle's, updated annually)
- What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press, updated annually)
- Win-Win Career Negotiations by Peter J. Goodman & Roger Fisher (Penguin USA, 2002)
- Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G. Boldt (Penguin USA, 1999)