What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

becca : It's a classic to help you find what you want to do. Recommends thinking thru your skills around people and data. Also recommends informational interviews to better understand the field you want to get into. A good framework to think about what you'd like to do.

becca : Great book for a systematic way to think about job search. One excellent point it raised is that only a small fraction of jobs are posted. Most are filled before it gets to that point, where you can be the only candidate for the job. So network network!