Vocation Resources

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  2. PARACHUTE BOOKS, LINKS, AND INTERVIEWS

  3. Job-Hunter's Workbook (2019 edition): https://tinyurl.com/y84pbng9: Accompanies the Parachute in hard copy or tablet edition but worth a read on its own if you mainly want the career inventory exercises.

  4. Carol Christen & Bolles R N et al (2015): What Colour Is Your Parachute for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future.  Ten Speed Press, Berkeley

  5. Bolles RN, Nelson JE (2007): What Colour Is Your Parachute?
    For Retirement: Practical Planning for Money, Health, and Happiness.
    Ten Speed Press, Berkeley

  6. 2017: www.brightandassociates.com.au/wordpress/the-factory-podcast-interview-with-dick-bolles/


    2014: Bolles & Leider on Life-Work Planning & Retirement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILKaAmZ2vco


    2013:
    http://ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/ENT/layout_details_cc/false and:
    http://www.lioncubjobsearch.com/2012/10/your-career-parachute-in-2013-interview.html

    2010: Interviewed by Steve Piazzale: youtu.be/Sxrhyo2MlWo

    2007:
    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17158376/ns/business-careers/t/job-interview-passion-packs-punch



  7. OTHER GREAT BOOKS ON FINDING YOUR CALLING

    Callings: Finding & Following an Authentic Life. By Gregg Levoy.
    Three Rivers Press, NY. READ THIS if you are visual person and enjoy stories :) www.gregglevoy.com


    • How to Find Your Vocation. By J Adair. Canterbury Press

     

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  • Let Your Life Speak: Listening to the Voice of Vocation.
    By P J Palmer. J.-Bass, San Francisco

How to Find a Job You Love (2019). By John Lees
McGraw-Hill Education. John has written several books on the topic.

  • The Career guide for Creative and Unconventional people. By C Eikleberry.
    Ten Speed Press NY

  • The Chaos Theory of Careers: a new Perspective on working in the 21st Century. By R Pryor and G Bright. Routledge NY and Oxon

  • The Enlightenment of Work. By S Nobel.
    Watkins Publishing, London

 

  • The Immune Power Personality.
    By H Dreher ed. GP Putnam’s & Son, NY
  • Relate this to work stress & the relevance for 2020 is clear...

  • Australian Life Mission Test (ALMT): By Cassel R N & Costello B R
    (online journal link. We need a calling/ life mission for good health) psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1993-31990-001

  • Current developments across industries: www.forbes.com


VOCATIONAL MATERIALS

 

Career Values - Cards & Workbook by Richard L Knowdell: www.careertrainer.com

OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT:

Free advisor & help with finding work: www.cleanslateltd.co.uk

Debra A MacDougall:
Books: '6 Reasons You get the Job' & 'No One is Unemployable'

Daniel Porot: careernewsletter.blogs

What does a…do? What specific jobs are about: www.whatdoesado.com



CAREER BREAKS & SABBATICALS