There are lots of books and even more articles about finding jobs, surviving unemployment and how to bounce back than we can begin to list.  The following is just a few.

Books

• Making a Life, Making a Living: Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life by Mark Albion
• Ready or Not: Your Retirement Planning Guide by Suzanne Arnold
• Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck
• The Elements Of Resume Style: Essential Rules And Eye-opening Advice For Writing Resumes And Cover Letters That Work by Scott Bennett
• The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job Now ! (Job Search Solution) by Tony Beshara
• What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute) by Richard Nelson Bolles
• What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
• The Business Startup Checklist and Planning Guide: Seize Your Entrepreneurial Dreams! by Stephanie Chandler
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
• Shaping The Waves: A History Of Entreprenuership At Harvard Business School by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
• The New Retirement: The Ultimate Guide to the Rest of Your Life by Jan Cullinane and Cathy Fitzgerald
• The Insider's Guide to Saving Money by Michael Ellenbogen
• Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs by J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, and Peter Economy
• The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas by Elaine Dundon
• Getting the Job You Really Want: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding a Good Job in Less Time by J. Michael Farr
• Now What?: 90 Days to a New Life Direction by Laura Berman Fortgang
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox
  
• The Reinvention of Work: New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, A by Matthew Fox
• 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions by Ron Fry
• Money Sucks!: Money Strategies for Real Life by Miryam Gordon
• Get the Interview Every Time: Fortune 500 Hiring Professionals' Tips for Writing Winning Resumes and Cover Letters by Brenda Greene
• 100+ Winning Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions by Casey Fitts Hawley and Deborah Zemke
• The Career Change Resume by Karen Hofferber and Kim Isaacs
• Work Abroad: The Complete Guide to Finding a Job Overseas (Work Abroad) by Clayton A. Hubbs
• Life 2.0: How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness by Rich Karlgaard and Rick Warren
• The Small Business Owner's Manual: Everything You Need To Know To Start Up And Run Your Business by Joe Kennedy
• Resumes For Dummies (Resumes for Dummies) by Joyce Lain Kennedy
• Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, and Practice (with InfoTrac) by Donald F. Kuratko and Richard M. Hodgetts
• High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job by Victoria A. Hoevemeyer
• A Smart Girl's Guide to Money: How to Make It, Save It, And Spend It (American Girl Library) by Nancy Holyoke and Ali Douglass
• Can I Lie on My Resume?: 'Strategies that WIN' The Career Game by M. Rose Jonas
• Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Pravda Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster
• Retire Secure!: Pay Taxes Later The Key to Making Your Money Last as Long as You Do by James Lange
• Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose by Richard Leider and David Shapiro
• Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need by Rieva Lesonsky and Entrepreneur Group
• Inventing the Rest of Our Lives : Women in Second Adulthood by Suzanne Braun Levine
• Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21^st Century by R. A. Long
• The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore
• 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions by Vicky Olive
• Saving on a Shoestring: How to Cut Expenses Reduce Debt and Stash More Cash by Barbara O'Neill
• The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the Worlds Leading Career Services Company by Orville Pierson
• 501+ Great Interview Questions For Employers And The Best Answers For Prospective Employees by Dianna Podmoroff
• 101 Toughest Interview Questions: And Answers That Win the Job!by Daniel Porot, and Frances Bolles Haynes
• The Guide to Basic Resume Writing by Public Library Association and Editors of VGM
• Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger
• True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do by Michael Toms and Justine Toms
• The Unofficial Guideto Starting a Small Business (Unofficial Guides) by Marcia Layton Turner
• Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business by Fred S. Steingold and Ilona M. Bray
• Legal Forms for Starting & Running a Small Business 4th Edition by Fred S. Steingold
• 10-Minute Tech: The Book More Than 600 Practical and Money-Saving Ideas by Trailer Life
• Ten Steps to a Federal Job: Navigating the Federal Job System, Writing Federal Resumes, KSAs and Cover Letters with a Mission by Kathryn K. Troutman, Laura Sachs, Mike Ottenseyer, and Mark Reichenbacher
• The Unofficial Guide to Acing the Interview by Michelle Tullier
• Unemployment Survival Guide by Jim Stringham,
• Self-employed Tax Solutions: Quick, Simple, Money-Saving, Audit-Proof Tax and Recordkeeping Basics for the Independent Professional by June Walker
• The Work We Were Born to Do: Find the Work You Love, Love the Work You Do by Nick Williams
• Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer by Susan Britton Whitcomb
• Ernst & Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide (Ernst and Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide) by Ernst & Young LLP, Martin Nissenbaum, Barbara J. Raasch, and Charles L. Ratner
• Ernst & Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide (Ernst and Young's Personal Financial Planning Guide) by Ernst & Young LLP, Martin Nissenbaum, Barbara J. Raasch, and Charles L. Ratner
• Finding Your True Calling: The Handbook for People Who Still Don't Know What They Want to be When They Grow Up But Can't Wait to Find Out by Valerie Young
• The Layoff Survival Guide 

Articles 

13 Tips to Surviving Sudden Unemployment

A Living or a Life? 

All The Right Moves: Rational Expectations

All The Right Moves: Your Next Move 

All The Right Moves: Meanwhile, Back at the Office... 

All The Right Moves: Don't Lose Hope

All The Right Moves: In Case This Guide is Still Not Enough...

Are You Deciding on Purpose 

The Brand Called You

Build Your Own Brand to Rev up Your Career 

The Card and Feeding of Headhunters and Recruiters

Finding Work That Works for You

Got Laid Off? Buy a Franchise 

Help Wanted – Finding A Job 

How To Disappear, Protect Your Privacy, and Eliminate Spam 

How are older, laid-off workers faring? 

I’ve Been Fired, So Now What? 

Make Room for what Matters 

Managing Employer’s Expectation 

Overcoming Age Discrimination 

A Survival Guide For The Unemployed 

Visualizing Success in Job Interviews 

What Should I do with My Life?

Return to top