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Job Search and Career Planning: You've Got the Job, What's Next?

Getting a job can be a frustrating, stressful experience. Use these resources to make the ordeal easier!

Job Survival and Getting Ahead

Dare by Becky Blalock
Publication Date: 2013-09-13
How to Design a Life Worth Smiling About: developing success in business and in life by Darryl Davis
Publication Date: 2014-06-17
The Job Survival Instruction Book: 400+ tips, tricks, and techniques to stay employed by Karin Ireland
Publication Date: 2010-02-18
Linchpin : are you indispensable? by Jessica Hagy and Hugh MacLeod
Publication Date: 2010
The Snowball Effect by Andy Bounds
Publication Date: 2013-02-21
Think and Grow Digital: what the net generation needs to know to survive and thrive in any organization by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
Publication Date: 2014-12-15
What Your Boss Really Wants from You by Steve Arneson
Publication Date: 2014-05-05
Work Smarts: what CEOs say you need to know to get ahead by Betty Liu
Publication Date: 2013-12-09

Workplace Culture

"!" People Will Talk by John Whitfield
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Email and commercial correspondence : a guide to professional English by Adrian Wallwork
Publication Date: 2014
The Essentials of Business Etiquette by Barbara Pachter
Publication Date: 2013-07-30
The Young Professional by Andy J. Semotiuk
Publication Date: 2013-11-11

Blogs

Budgets are Sexy
Fun, informative personal finance blog.
Millennials Why Your Business Etiquette Matters More than Ever
Online article from a marketing firm that covers topics such as email and phone etiquette. When it is appropriate to use your cell phone at work and if and when you should text your cowokers.
Lindsey Pollak : Millenial Workplace Expert
Listed by Forbes as one of the top 100 websites for women, this blog runs the gamut from social networking to career trends to standing out in the workplace.
Personal Branding Blog : Workplace Success
Frequent posts on various workplace topics ranging from minutiae (How to Get Through a Boring Meeting), to broad outlook and career management (Why You Do What You Do).
Sam Davidson
Quick, pithy posts on life and career.

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