Self-assessment, Career development, Career orientation.

The following books may interest you if you need to plan or review your career:

13.22-TIE
Do what you are : discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type / Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. Boston : Little, Brown, c1995.

This book will help readers discover the secret to career happiness and success, a unique career guide helps readers identify their personality ""type"" and use this information to find the right job.

13.20-BOL
What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers Bolles,RichardNelson
Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2001
2001 edition

This best seller provides resources and also gets you to think about what you really want to do with your life. If you are undecided about what you want to do or you are seeking career guidance, this should be the first book you read. Richard Nelson Bolles helps you identify what your skills are, where your skills can best be used, and how you can find jobs that use those skills.  In the end, you won't just have a job; you'll be engaged in work you love. 

Complementing the paper book, the author has created a website http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/  containing all kind of information such brief articles, manuals, job sources, how to build and post your résumé, salaries, etc. Referring to self-assessment, it lists online sources where to run interactive test of personality to find the most suitable jobs. http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/counseling/ptests.shtml 

13.20-ALB
Making a life, making a living : reclaiming your purpose and passion in business and in life
Albion, MarkS.
New York: Warner Books, c2000.

Why not transform work into a pursuit that feeds the spirit and the pocketbook, and benefits society, too? The author, a former professor at Harvard Business School and highly successful Fortune 500 consultant, sets down his philosophy by spelling out 12 guidelines that address four major questions: Who are you? What do you want? What can you do? and Where can you go? Albion answers those questions using dozens of inspirational stories and aphorisms from sages as diverse as Mother Teresa and Lily Tomlin.

13.20-USH
Customize your career : how to develop a winning strategy to move up, move ahead, or move on
Usheroff, Roz.
New York: McGraw-Hill, c2004.

Text shows how to shed self-limiting notions of yourself and the opportunities available to you, take charge of your life and career, and finally start doing what's necessary to achieve the life and career you want.

Journal of Career Development
University of Missouri-Columbia. College of Education.
Columbia, Mo. : College of Education, University of Missouri-Columbia, [c1984-
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0894-8453/contents 

In this online journal available on the intranet, you will find all kinds of articles related to career development. You can search in previous issues and sign up as well for future alerts on Kluwer platform.

More books may be found at the library on the call numbers 13.20 “Career development” and 13.22 “Self-assessment. Career orientation. Counselling”.