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What's one Book every JobSeeker in the world Needs to Read?

In your opinion the Best book for Advice, Motivation, and useful info to Help Jobseekers Land a Job.

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Christopher Scranton
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What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson

It's not self help. It's not a top-10 list of tips. It's not a "secret trick for success... revealed!!" book. Those are useful in some situations. This is something else.

It's a set of stories - told by real people and compiled by a journalist - describing their own paths, moving from a lack of clarity to understanding of what they wanted to do as a career.

It is a great and helpful read for anyone who sees that career choice, finding one's passion, and matching your skills to work that is satisfying is, at heart, a tremendously personal process and can be very different for different people. Use others' stories to help you learn about yourself. Check it out.

https://www.amazon.com/What-Should-Do-My-Life/dp/0345485920

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The Bible. Especially Proverbs. It's full of wisdom. And I am not a Holy Roller. Second choice would be "When I say no I feel Guilty". You can buy it on Amazon.com.

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One of my favorite books that helped me through my job-searching time was The Church of 80% Sincerity, which was written by a motivational speaker. I go back to that book occasionally because it really helps with inspiration and self-acceptance! https://www.amazon.com/Church-80-Sincerity-David-Roche/dp/0985279605

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Amanda Fakhreddine
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I'm reading "Daring Greatly" by Brene Brown... it's such a great motivator to get out there and try your hardest every single day! She was inspired to write the book based on the Teddy Roosevelt quote, which ends with: “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly".

https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Transforms/dp/1592408419

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James Murphy
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Right now I'm currently reading "You Are a Badass" - it's a really fun approach to deep topics about changing your attitude for success: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Badass-Doubting-Greatness/dp/0762447699

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