Looking for some tips on how to level up in your career? Below are 6 books that give valuable insights on careers, work-life balance and understanding 9-to-5 life.
1. Your Power Unleashed
From the creator of the DIVA Method(R), Kisha Wynter writes a transformative guide for women navigating the corporate world. Your Power Unleashed: How Savvy Women Use Courage to Get Promoted, Get Paid, and Find Fulfillment is for astute businesswomen ready to unlock their full potential and achieve unparalleled success.
2. Just Give Me Meaningful Work
This indispensable guide to getting unstuck and creating a meaningful career will help you escape your exhausting job and start making a difference. Author Julie Boyer is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and Co-Active Training Institute certified leader. She works with emotionally intelligent women who are compelled to create change in the world. Through her private coaching and programs, Julie helps clients free themselves from the frustration of a poor job-fit and uncover their true purpose, so they can do work that means something to them.
3. What to Say in Every Job Interview
In this global bestseller, What to Say in Every Job Interview: How to Understand What Managers Are Really Asking and Give the Answers shows you how to focus on the factors of the job, rather than answering questions “correctly.” As a professional interviewer, Carole Martin has spent years on the other side of thedesk. She knows exactly what she’s looking for in every job candidate and exactly how to find it. Now, she reveals all the secrets.
4. Shut’em Down
Shut’em Down: Black Women, Racism and Corporate America is the battle cry of Black women who have suffered abuse and trauma at the hands of corporate America. Composed of the stories of 20 Black women who have been impacted by racism in the workplace, this anthology not only offers us conversation starters on how to combat racism on the job, but also transformative ideas to create safer work spaces for Black professionals.
5. Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
In this novel that is the first in a trilogy, main character Tabitha Walker seems to “have it all.” At age 33, the checklist for the life of her dreams is well underway. Education? Check. Good job? Check. Down payment for a nice house? Check. Dating marriage material? Check, check, and check. With a coveted position as a local news reporter, a “paper-perfect” boyfriend, and even a standing Saturday morning appointment with a reliable hairstylist, everything seems to be falling into place until an unexpected diagnosis that brings her picture-perfect life crashing down.
6. Work Won’t Love You Back
In Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this “labor of love” myth–the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries–from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete–Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work.
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