Career Change Books and Resources

Nick takes you through his 12 principles of the work you were born to do and will leave you feeling inspired and motivated.

Lots of tips and exercises on clarifying your career change plus help with cvs and interviews too.

The authors ask you lots of challenging questions to help you sort out your priorities in relation to your work.

With case studies and strategies, Barbara’s practical programme shows you how to make your dreams happen.

In this book, Anita Houghton uses interesting and practical exercises to show you how to discover who you really are to find the perfect career.

The authors take you through the 10 steps to creating a portfolio career which will allow you to use all your skills and passions and create a perfect work/life balance.

Hayden & Traditi offer you a focused 28 day programme taking you through the core components of a successful job search. The book will ensure that you know exactly what to do and when and will keep you motivated as you move forwards.

The book profiles 60 people who are doing just that – running successful businesses in their spare time. And if you are feeling short of ideas, there are also 50 business ideas you could try. A great combination of inspiration and practical help.

It offers you a series of exercises to help you define what skills you love using and where and how you want to use them. It then provides practical and down-to-earth tips for successful job hunting.

Ferriss offers a step by step action plan for eliminating non-essential work, outsourcing a lot of the remaining work, and gives a detailed blueprint for designing, test-running and developing an ‘automated’ on-line business.

It doesn’t pretend that it will be an easy ride but does show you that it is still possible with the help of Tessa’s practical advice and inspirational examples. She has travelled this road before you so she knows her stuff!

If you think there has to be more to life or you are living the wrong life, this is your book.

If you can apply Covey’s 7 Habits in your life it will impact positively on your work – whether it is your current job or a new one you move into.

The Happiness Advantage: The 7 Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Shawn Achor

He provides lots of helpful exercises as well as academic research to back his ideas and to help you apply them in your own life and work.

Bill shows you how to approach your challenges in a new and positive way that will help you break unhelpful patterns and find solutions that work.

Jinny takes you through a 10 step process that helps you clarify your goals to make sure the year ahead is the best it can be.

In this modern day parable, the way we manage (or fail to manage) change is explored through the metaphor of four mice living off the cheese they find in a maze. Through the story we learn that we have to be alert to change and prepared to go running off in search of new ideas and answers when the old ones no longer serve us.

The Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific facts and principles, which have been simplified into a workable model for easy use with exercises for you to work through in each chapter.

This updated edition provides examples of men and women who, in recent times,
exemplify the principles that Hill advocated.

Using lessons from the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists, the book shows you how to build willpower and how to conserve it for crucial moments using the best new techniques. Once you master these, finding the willpower you need gets easier. However we define happiness – a close-knit family, a satisfying career, financial security – we won’t reach it without mastering self-control.