Trying to figure out how to use that bran-spanking new degree of yours? Why not check out Life as a psychologist : career choices and insights. < 150.23 O85L> for some of your options.

In this collection of essays and commentaries on the U.S. economic and social divide-turned-chasm, she looks at a wide range of topics including extravagant corporate CEO bailouts, pharmaceutical companies’ recruitment of college cheerleaders as sales reps, and xenophobic children living in gated communities. Readers of her previous books will not be surprised that Wal-Mart and the private health insurance industry are frequent targets of her acerbic wit. In Swiftian style, Ehrenreich suggests that families unable to obtain health-care coverage for their children should buy pet health insurance for them, and she blithely maintains that employers have cut wages and benefits to such levels that it is safe to assume employees will soon be asked to pay their boss for the privilege of working. In a droll postscript, she invites readers to visit a web site where they can be matched up with a new country appropriate to their tastes and values since nationality is one of the “few things that can be changed without surgery.” Recommended for public libraries.—Jill Ortner, SUNY at Buffalo Libs. 

Check out This Land is Their Land<973.93 E33t 2008>Today.

Why stop at wanting to be the head of a company, why not try and be the president. Sure anyone can do it, right? Well if your dreams are that big try reading up on a man that changed to presidency and america. Why not check out Polk 973. B736p.

Always thought that you had to be born rich to have any real money. Well in Middle-Class Millionaire (305.5 P956m)you can find out how people that started out right were you are now, and made millions. It will also show you how this group is changing America.

Lona O’Connor explores the Top Ten Mistakes people make in their careers, and explains how to avoid them. In this E-book, available through Net Library, Lona dives into how to avoid workplace misery and to be successful in your career.�

200 Best Jobs for College Graduates (available through Netlibrary)- Includes Job Descriptions along with the “60+ Best Jobs Lists, Including Jobs with the Best Pay, Fastest Growth, and Most Openings.”

 

1)Focusing on the long term

2)Jumping beyond the current trend

3)Making quality everyone’s responsibility

4) Striving for continuous improvement

5)Managing individual strengths

6)Committing to authentic transformation

                                              ~Jacket Cover

This are just some of the “rules of thumb” that made Toyota the company that it is now.

How’s the career coming…if the answer is anything but “Great, I’m rolling in the dough!”, then you might want to check out America’s Cheapest Family<332.02400 E19a> It gives you helpful hints in everything from shopping for groceries to buying a house. So, you might have to forgo buying the 46′’ plasma TV this year, but think of all the money you’ll be saying! Remember like the song says; “you can’t always get what you want…but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need”

 

Peak<658.3 C752p> by Chip Conley is book filled with advice for up and coming entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500 managers. Filled with experiences from his own company as well as other businesses Conley teaches us how to create great relationships with those you work with, which will create a great and flourishing work enivornment.

Now available through netlibrary, is a great book to help you write a killer resume. 101 great resumes, gives the reader the inside track on what makes a resume stand out from all others.

The battle still rages on, on wether women are choosing to turn their backs on the careers they worked so work to create in order to have a family, or if they are being forced out of the workplace. Opting out? Why women really quit careers and head home by Pamela Stone (306.87 S978o 2007). Dives into the debate with in-depth interviews with those faced with this decision, and tries to make it easier on both women and men to get their cake and eat it too. 

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The book, No Seat at the table: How corporate goverance and law keep women out of the boardroom (331.4 B821n) by Douglas M. Branson, published by NYU Press in 2007, advocates non-traditional paths for women to take in order to get ahead in corporate roles.

In From Marriage to the Market, 331.4097 T448f 2006, author Susan Thistle examines the changing roles of women in America. “Thistle argues that in the collision between families and the market, caregiving has been the victim.”

In Get to Work, 305.4209 H669g 2006, controversial author Linda Hirshman challenges stay-at-home moms to re-enter the workforce. She believes that educated career women who choose to stay home and raise their children are cheating themselves and society.

In The New American Workplace, 331.1097 O88n 2006, O’Toole and Lawler examine many facets of the workplace today. They discuss the impact of information technology, work/life balance, and outsourcing, just to name a few.

Wal-Mart the Face of 21st Century Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein 381 W216 2006 , is a collection of essays examining the power-house that is Wal-Mart. The authors discuss how the world’s largest private employer dictates wage standards, zoning laws, diplomacy and even the global economy.

Women in Public Relations, by Grunig, Toth and Hon 331.4 G975w 2001, discusses some important issues facing career women in the world of public relations. The authors focus on some controversial points such as, gender-based conflicts with pay, advancement and sex discrimination. They also compare women’s roles in the field of public relations with other professions.