General Career Development

• Get Ahead! Stay Ahead! Learn the 70 Most Important Career Skills, Traits, and Attitudes to Stay Employed! Get Promoted! Get a Better Job!; Dianna Booher; McGraw-Hill; $12.95. Emphasizes two key attributes for job security: marketable skills and experience. Also covers 70+ elements of career success.
• Great Answers to the Toughest Job Search Problems; Ollie Stevenson; Career Press; $11.99. Stevenson uses case studies as illustrations for his points on job hunting.
• Hoover's Top 2,500 Employers; Warner Books; $22.95. Employers are listed by state and indexed by company name, industry and metropolitan area. Free CD-ROM edition allows users to search for specific companies, create mail labels and merge letters.
• Job Hunting for Dummies; Max Messmer; IDG Books Worldwide; $16.99. Messmer, chairman and CEO of placement firm Robert Half International, Inc., brings his experience to bear on mundane examples by using personal anecdotes to make the book highly readable.
• Job-Hunting Tips for the So-Called Handicapped or People Who Have Disabilities; Richard Nelson Bolles. Ten Speed Press; $4.95. A supplement to Bolles's What Color is Your Parachute?
• Kiplinger's the Complete Job Search Organizer; Jack O'Brien, Mario MacHado (narrator); Dove Audio; $17.95. Advice for finding a first job or a new one.
• Knock `Em Dead 1997: The Ultimate Job Seeker's Handbook, 10th Edition; Martin John Yate; Adams; $12.95. Gives answers to interview questions and suggestions for handling drug and psychological tests.
• Life Is a Contact Sport: Ten Great Career Strategies That Work; Kenneth Kragen, Jefferson Graham; William Morrow & Company; $23.00. Kragen, personal manager, TV producer, talent adviser, deal maker and world-class fund-raiser, draws on his experience in describing his strategies.
• Network Your Way to Your Next Job...Fast; Clyde C. Lowstuter, David P. Robertson; McGraw-Hill; $14.95. Describes how to master the four avenues of networking.
• Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People Without College Degrees; Charles D. Hayes; Autodidactic Press; $16.95. A guide for career success and security for employees lacking a degree.
• Researching Your Way to a Good Job; Karmen N. T. Crowther; John Wiley & Sons; $14.95. How to research the backgrounds of prospective employers.
• The Almanac of International Jobs and Careers: A Guide to Over 1001 Employers, 2nd Edition; Ron Krannich; Impact Publications; $19.95. A companion volume to the Complete Guide to International Jobs and Careers, it provides contact information for companies and employers.
• The Complete Job Search Organizer 1997-'98: How to Get a Great Job--Fast, 3rd Edition; Jack O'Brien; Times Books; $12.00; Designed for those beginning their search for employment; includes prospects for occupations
• The New Rules of the Job Search Game: Why Today's Managers Hire...and Why They Don't; Jackie Larson, Cheri Comstock; Adams; $10.95. Professional recruiters Larson and Comstock expose myths about job hunting and hiring decisions.
• Ways to Get Hired; Max Messmer; William Morrow & Company; $12.95. Messmer, chairman of a large staffing service, writes from the perspective of both employer and employee.
• What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers; Richard Nelson Bolles; Ten Speed Press; $14.95. A classic in the genre, now in its 27th edition.