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Recommended Readings


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Refresh Alumni Job Search Skills Online (from the National Association of Colleges and Employers)

Hand Me Down Dreams:  How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them by Mary H. Jacobsen

Letting Go:  A Parents‘ Guide to Understanding the College Years by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawerence Treeger

What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles.

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger.

Coming Alive from Nine to Five: A Career Search Handbook by Betty Neville Michelozzi

Discover What You’re Best At by Linda Gale

What do You Want to do When You Grow up?: Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life by Dorothy Cantor with Andrea Thompson

Making Career Decisions That Count by Darrell Anthony Luzzo

The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Career You Want: And What to do Once You Have it by Karen O. Dowd, Ph.D. and Sherrie Gong Taguchi

The Insider’s Guide to Finding the Perfect Job: Learn how to get the job you’ve always dreamed of by Robert Orndorff

Where the Jobs Are by Joyce Hadley Copeland.