Career Guide

Recycle!
If you find a book that's particularly helpful, try to find a second hand copy - there's often a big difference in price.

You can find second-hand copies of many books on Amazon and eBay, and you'll also find lots of bargains in charity shops. And don't forget to use your 'network' of contacts - maybe a friend or relative has a copy of a book you need.

When you've finished with a book you've bought, pass it on to someone else, or sell it on.

 
 
 Subjects

There are really 4 subject areas which you need to focus on when trying to get a job, or when you're changing careers:

- general approach/ techniques for job-hunting
- networking
- making applications - eg preparing your CV, writing covering letters
- preparing for job interviews.

 
  
General career advice and job-hunting
 
 How do you go about job-hunting? Should you call employers, or just wait for a job to appear in newspapers or on websites? What's the best way to switch careers?

The answers to these kinds of questions will form the way you go about finding your next job. So, some tips should be helpful for you.


What Colour is Your Parachute?

    ISBN-10: 1580088678
    ISBN-13: 978-1580088671

   Author: Richard Nelson Bolles

   Publisher - Ten Speed Press, U.S.

   Price: around £14.50 (from Amazon)

This book has been a top seller for a long time. It's useful for people who are changing careers as well as those who need detailed help about general job-hunting. Although it's written by an American author, it has many useful job-hunting tips based on careful and detailed research.

Updated yearly. The 2008 edition is out now.
 
  
  
Networking
 
 Many jobs never hit the recruitment websites, nor the classified sections of newspapers, because employers recruit people they know through their network of contacts. In job-hunting, you often get further, faster by using your contacts to help you find job vacancies.

So, you must spend some of your job-hunting time contacting people you know to find job vacancies. And that also means developing your network of contacts so that you have a better chance of getting the right job now, and in the future.


Confident Networking for Career Success and satisfaction

    ISBN-10: 0749926503
    ISBN-13: 978-0749926502

    Authors: Gael Lindenfield and Stuart Lindenfield

   Publisher: Piatkus Books

   Price: around £6.50 (from Amazon)

There are plenty of books about general networking, but the focus of this one is about networking to improve your chances of success in your career.


 
Writing your CV
 
 Our Career Organiser programme takes you through the process of writing your CV in a step-by-step tutorial. It also has 100s of useful tips and hints. 
 
Even so, you can always learn something more about writing a CV - it's a skill you need to develop throughout your working life.  
 
So, taking advice from other sources may help you with particular problems - such as when you're trying to change careers, or you have gaps in your career history.

Brilliant CV
 
   ISBN-10: 0273714864
    ISBN-13: 978-0273714866 

    Authors: Jim Bright and Joanne Earl

   Publisher: Prentice Hall

   Price: around £6 (from Amazon)
 
If you want your CV in a modern format which focuses on your skills, then this is the book for you. Easy to read, this book has lots of advice for different stages of your career, right through from school leavers to those changing careers. Detailed checklists are provided for all types of job-hunters.
 
  
 

Books

Home     Products     Coaching    Press     Distributors    Shop    Career Guide
About Us    Contact    Technical Support
 
© RosBro Ltd 2008. RosBro Ltd is registered in England No: 5210713
 Registered Office: Suite 2, 15 Broad Court, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5QN  

Books about careers and job-hunting can be very useful -
if you have time to read them!
But you don't need to buy them - try your local library first (or the careers section in your university or college library).

For your local council library, look at the website for your council and find the libraries section. You'll often find they have an on-line catalogue where you can search for books and sometimes reserve them on-line too.

If you don't know the website address of your council, find it here .

Free!

Everything you need to get a new job and then manage your career!

Fully working, 7 day free trial of Career Organiser.


You can get the trial in 2 ways: 
 

or

 
We'll even post the CD to you FREE!
 
 
Career Organiser runs on Windows XP and Vista and requires approx 605 mb of hard disk space. 
 
 
Installation instructions are available from our technical support section .