Job-Related Books

Whether you are a recruiter or an individual looking for your next career opportunity this book is an outstanding resource.

Updated annually, and listing thousands of niche internet job boards by professional discipline, as well as the big players known to all, it's a veritable treasure trove of information.

But it's in the listing of the niche sites this book really scores. As a HR professional who has done a lot of recruiting the book has led me to a number of excellent sources of candidate resumes I might otherwise have overlooked. Which means of course, it repays an individual to select two or three niche sites to post their resume.

Highly recommended!

See also:

2007/8 Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet: For Corporate and Third Party Recruiters, Job Seekers, and Career Activists (Weddle's Recruiter's Guide to Employment Web Sites)
2007/8 Guide to Association Web Sites: For Recruiters and Job Seekers (Weddle's Guide to Association Web Sites)

Read this years ago, then read it again. I was surprised how much of the book I incorporated in my approach to directing.

This book is well worth the price. It has been out of print since 1997 or 1998, but it continues to be highly valued by researchers and activists, as it is the SEMINAL, ORIGINAL document in the rapidly expanding industry of Urban Agriculture Worldwide. The book contains 60 case studies from 35 countries. It has 40 pages of useful appendices. It is written in a clear, non-academic way. I find it useful both as the place to begin tracking Urban Agriculture as a worldwide movement, and as a reference. Katharine Coon, PhD

This book lays out the laws for worker's comp in an easy to read chart. The information in the charts and text of the book is priceless. If you are serious about reducing your work comp costs, this book shows you how.

I am reading this now. As a buddhist, it's an excellent book with practical advice for being mindful and skillful in a competive workplace. Admitedly, I had always considered work as a necessary evil to pay the bills and the competitive rat-race as a hinderance to my practice. His approach to work-life is completely the opposite, it's mindful acceptance and openness to the up and downs. As I read, it dawns on me that that's exactly as it should be.

As a lifelong Buddhist I learned to meditate before I learned to crawl, but this book brings the lessons that I daily use into a language that I think most people can understand.

This well-written, sane and skillful book is helping me to work and be better, a very satisfying reward in itself.

Most of us spend a third of our adult lives at work, and for many it is not much fun. It becomes something that we do to pay the bills, rather than being a fulfilling activity in which we can be fully engaged. Even for people in the professions that require a lot of thinking, work often becomes a bit of a hindbrain activity that people can do in their sleep.

For the last three decades I have been asking three questions:
"Why do so many people sleep walk through life?"
"Would they thank us if they woke up?" and
"What could we do to help them wake up?"

The author of this important book helps provide some answers. He founded Awake at Work Associates, a consultancy that specializes in helping organizations and individuals apply mindfulness awareness in the workplace, to help both recover balance and well-being in work. Michael Carroll is both a practicing Buddhist who is an authorized teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and has over two decades experience in human resources in several large companies. He teaches mindfulness meditation at the Omega Institute, New York Open Center, and the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia.

Michael encourages us to explore our relationships to work and his book is full of practical and uplifting suggestions that are grounded in his work in meditation.

One good example is this: he points out that if we are going to be awake at work, we need to understand how we fell asleep. In Tibetan Buddhism, meditators study the six confusions or "mindsets that describe how we imprison ourselves at work." He then applies these six confusions in the workplace:
Work as drudgery
Work as war
Work as addiction
Work as entertainment
Work as inconvenience
Work as a problem

As he says, "recognizing that we, not work are imprisoning ourselves is critical if we expect to discover well-being in our livelihoods." So he provides precise ways of "letting go" of the imbalances that work can introduce into our lives by cultivating authenticity and a right code of conduct.

He also describes a practice that he calls "enrichment," that can be used to used to resolve conflicts. The idea is that in an adversarial situation, we should not try to defend our own truth or position, or to find some way in which we can benefit, but to act with good will to produce an outcome that is mutually beneficial. This is more than just trying to find the win/win in a situation: it is a broader concept that goes beyond personal gain to try and find the greater good. This may sound like something easier said than done, but the book contains good advice on how to attain this.

What I particularly like about this book is that it is an exercise in practical spirituality. A spirituality that we visit for an hour or two a week may be fine for some people, but the real value of a spiritual life is that it can be something that can inform all of our actions, from education, to work, sex and politics.

Highly recommended.

Caroll's book cultivates mindfulness on the job via thirty-five slogans (or principles) designed to provide natural wisdom, openness, and poise in the workplace. The slogans in the book are derived from the spiritual practice of lojong described in the Tibetian Buddhist text The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind. Carroll recommends a four-step approach of identifying four primary slogans, randomly selecting others to study at your leisure, looking for spontaneously applicability of slogans throughout your day, and deliberating contemplating a slogan a day through meditation, a journals, or an index card system.

The slogans are presented as much more than simple maxims. Each chapter is a well-formed essay with historical perspective, practical modern day applications, and the benefits of each principle. Many chapters encourage the reframing of our thoughts and acceptance of what factors are within and beyond our control. The reader is repeatedly encouraged to meditate and reflect to explore specific aspects of work. The appendix includes practical instructions for conducting a meditation session, strategies for contemplating the slogans, and tips for cultivating li (the social rituals of decency and goodness).

This book is really good! It gives explanations on so many things - and not only in relation to work, but in LIFE. And it gives some very easy but really powerful tools that I am using every dag after reading this book.

I do not feel as exhausted as I used to do any more, and I can handle my work easier with a much better understanding of the factors involved.

It even explains how to communicate better, and thus be more effective in any social setting if you use that knowledge. Simply powerful stuff. This book could be a bestseller, because we all have suffered from the problems of work at some point.

L. Ron Hubbard has made a little masterpiece with this book, and don't come to me with any gossip after this. :-)

The book consists of 200 pages. Of these, roughly 75 are appendixes (such as "further studies", "glossary", etc). The remaining 125 pages has been compiled from various L. Ron Hubbard writings.

The book starts with a chapter on insecurity and confusion. Hubbard argues that these thing happen because man lacks a stable reference point in life (which he calls "stable datum"). He explains that the purpose of the book is to provide the stable datum: "I understand about life and jobs. Therefore I can get, hold and improve them."

Some chapters might be confusing for the person not previously accustomed to Scientology teachings. This includes such methods as the tone scale and the ARC triangle (Affinity + Reality + Communication = Understanding). If you want to know more about those, you can read about those on wikipedia or search google.

However, the chapters with practical advices do build on the scientology methods. Hubbard explains the importance of Reality for the clerc who sits behind the desk all day, or the politician who has lost touch with the common people, or the executive who has lost touch with the workers. To get back reality, he says, the worker should physically touch the objects around him, or the salesman going around just looking at people at e.g. a trainstation.

Hubbard writes much about the importance of work and how it is essential to allow people the right to work. He criticises the society of today for not allowing people to work, and claims that when people are not allowed to work -- starting at home -- they will later become lazy and mischievous, possibly criminal. He also believes that it is in everyone's nature to want to work, and only after having been denied the natural desire for meaningful work does a man lose interest in it.

Another chapter deals with the importance of control. How a worker must be able to control the tools around him in order to be succesful, be it a pen, a motorcycle, an industrial machine or dealing with other people. When losing the feeling of control, a man might start to fear his tools and will not be able to perform to the best of his abilities.

Basically, what the book wants to say is that the ability of a man to keep and succeed in his job depends on himself: "Those who depend on luck generally experience bad luck", Hubbard writes in the final chapter.

I started reading this book because I had some difficulties at work. Oh, my God! This book was exactly what I needed. It explained why I had those difficulties and how to handle them. On top of that I know where exhaustion comes from and how to handle it. I feel a lot more at cause now at work and really know what's expected of me and how I can create my own future and become more stable. It's a great book, easy to read it and has a great glossary.

I did not like this book. It gives only very basic information on how the spine works; the exercises are not properly described and exercise drawbacks are not pointed out. There is a section about nutrition that does not tell you anything really useful.
You might consider buying it only if you are a real novice to this matter.

This a wonderful book, and is very reliable in its accuracy. This book can save you some major headaches (no pun intended) down the road. Read it!

beisdes some exercises and self help sections i found this book to be very dry and thought i was in school to be a Dr, not your average self help book. THis book was too much, and yet somehow not enough

This is an excellent book to help you fix your back injury if you have been in an auto accident like me. Full of useful tips, and general good advice. It's one of these self-help books that will help you tremendously dealing with the pain and suffering experienced after a personal injury. I am fond of self-help books, self-help websites and other self-help resources too, and this book is on the top of my list (others like this website http://www.settlementcentral.com) have helped me a lot on the legal side of my personal injury claim too. They even talked about chiropractic care as well as providing demand letters and other stuff useful if you have been in a car accident. This said, this is a book definitively recommended!

Last year I had a back injury that left me immobile for two months. During that time I read four back books to "empower" me with knowledge and tips for recovery. Dr. Homola's book (now with post-it-notes stuck in numerous chapters) was the most helpful. From helping to determine causes of pain, to outlining simple excercises you can do without buying expensive equipment, this book was the only one I really needed to read. It's a book I'll keep on hand as a helpful resource for years to come.

This is an important book. It opens up a new way of thinking about workplace safety and brings new approaches for safety and operational managers. It is a real step forward from Geller's "Working Safe".

E. Scott Geller has been one of the major presenters and proponents of the application of behavioural psychology approaches to safety. Now he has listened to his many contacts around the world and researched more widely to bring other branches of psychology (and other disciplines such as the quality movement) to bear on the question every manager and safety proponent asks: "Why don't people follow safety procedures?"

He rightly recognizes that the work environment has a huge role in this. If the work environment encourages unsafe behaviour, rewards production at any cost and champions swift and risky achievement over cautious system adherence then trying to influence the individual has little chance of success. He has clearly listened to behavioural safety's detractors who, rightly, are concerned with a focus on the individual rather than the system. Such a focus can quickly degenerate into a blame-the-worker culture.

Geller brings this into focus with an emphasis on the importance of the conversations that are the lifeblood of personal interaction. He asks that we chose our words carefully and with a consciousness of their impact on the listener. This seems obvious when it is explained but requires careful thought to put in place daily.

A real new area is the discussion of 'mindfulness'. This shines a light into the dark corner of human error which is evidenced in injury incidents where the person - despite training, observation, procedures and environmental safeguards - makes an inexplicable choice for an action which leads directly to an injury. Often the person cannot explain why they did the action. This problem has been known about for a long time. At times the person was blamed for carelessness or willful action, at times the impact of the person's home life has been suspected of creating distraction. Geller now opens up this with the outline of 'mindfulness'. Whether this is the end point for this issue is doubtful - but the awareness of it will clearly lead to debate and research.

A significant part of the book looks at the concepts of 'social influence' and Geller reports on (and presents) the development of a Social Influence Survey. This is an early report of a tool designed to explore whether individuals have different patterns of social influence. He makes it clear that there are no norms for this tool yet and therefore no conclusions about its long term validity and usefulness. However the early results appear to show variations and some patterns in the groups reported.

"The Participation Factor" is not the next "Working Safe". "Working Safe" is an easy to read introduction to the people side of safety and it has been read widely in workplaces - some distributing it to all staff. It continues to have great value for creating awareness and discussion.

"The Participation Factor" appears more suited to the safety practitioner and importantly to general managers. It is a thought provoking book for anyone in management. A significant highlight is the presentation of the role of "safety leadership" as different to "safety management". Careful application of the principles explained in the book could vitalise interest in safety in an organisation and, more importantly, provide a safety role for the most senior management. This group has often been ignored in the safety field apart from the superficial and condescending role of signing bland policy statements and presenting safety awards. Here are some things company leaders can do to become safety leaders - without becoming safety experts.

The book opens up new questions while providing suggestions for implementation. It is likely that the most benefit will come from readers who read, digest and apply the principles in their own interpretation.

It will be interesting to watch the debate and discussion towards the next milestone on the quest for safer workplaces.

I have E.Scott Geller's other book "Working Safe - How to help people actively care for Health & safety". I found this second volume "The Participation factor - How to increase involvement in Occupational Safety" a very good companion volume. The two books work well together as though there is an overlap it was not sufficient to cause concern. The writing style is clear and practical and easy to follow well contained sections make reading the material and refering back to earlier sections a snap. Some good foundation work and plenty of practical stuff to get your teeth into. Well worth adding to your OH&S tools!

First of all, the unclothed drawn figures were distracting; it would have been more effective showing real people. Apparently, this manual which I bought new the other day is outdated already, as the author did not mention massage which most factories use nowadays. Not my philosophy, but clear undisputed facts.

The road to health and happiness is a lifelong journey. Positive action can make this journey more pleasant and fulfilling. Knowledge and consistency are important keys to unlock the doors for a bright, healthier future for you.

Problems dealt with in early stages most always are easier to correct than those allowed to progress to a serious state. Pain, restriction of movement, fatigue, and the stress produced by these symptoms are among factors limiting productivity, accuracy, consistency, job satisfaction and morale on the job.

The purpose of this book is to explain the effects sitting for long periods have on your back. Back pain is one of the most co9mmon ailments associated with "sitting on the job." Tilting your head backward to view a computer screen may cause neck and upper back problems. Bracing a telephone between your head and shoulder can cause neck problems.

Job stress creates an energy within your body which is vented in physical responses and in your concentration of performing tasks. Nobody floats through life without experiencing raw deals, misfortune, and sorrow. That's real life. Inability to vent the energy derived from meeting stress will contribute to health disorders such as emotional conditions, digestive troubles, high blood pressure, as well as causing headaches, neck and back pain. Use positive imagery to relax your mind; also daydream, something I do on those bothersome KAT buses. I had to sit on a wet seat for 50 minutes and it is not fun to wear wet clothes. Stress can cause stomach aches, tense neck muscles and headaches. Get rid of stress and you'll be "feeling great." Think about good and pleasant things happening in your life. Pleasant imagery can help you relax and get a good night's restful sleep.

A good night's sleep will allow you to start out fresh each day. It's not back to the old grind; if you wake up tired and tense, it is difficult to start the day with a positive attitude. During periods of rest and sleep, your body counteracts the effects of stress and strains: helps you face life's coming events with enthusiasm and positive expectations. A good study and worth reading, by Scott Donkin.

Very easy to read. Written in lay terms this book explains ergonomics in the office environment. Clear and concise descriptions of the body's workings and limitations are coupled with practical instructions on how to modify your office for you to function efficiently within those parameters. The application of the recommendations will go a long way to improving performance by minimizing fatigue and preventing repetitive stress trauma.

This book offered solid, basic information on handling hearing related problems in the workplace. It is not a technical manual - rather it is written for those "inexperienced" in this area. I would recommend it to beginners in this subject area.

This book would be better for the lay person, one with no experience with hearing loss or the hearing impaired. The suggestions are common sense, and I felt like I was reading a student project, assigned in graduate school. As an audiologist, it did not provide any new info, but I guess I can loan it to patients needing assistance at the work place. If you are an experienced audiologist, the book is not anything new.

After reading this book, I learned so much about the different accomidations to meet the demand of my clients' needs for products that have been clearly explained. I think this book is concise and contains easy-to-understand explinations, facts, and a step-by-step process used to assess demands. People in all professions having to do with hearing loss, i.e. Vocational Rehabilitation, students of Audiology, Human Resources just to name a few, would benifit from reading this long- overdue look into ALD accomidations in the work place.