Career Guidance Management Books
Career Guidance books are available:
- Directly from me (€15 each including P&P - anywhere in the world) - using this order form (PDF, 104kb)
- From the Management Briefs website, where you can preview the content and download a sample chapter of each book and buy the books
- Books are now available in electronic form
- From Easons or Hughes & Hughes
Meet the Career Detective Here is my video explanation on YouTube.
Career Detection: Finding and Managing your Career
140pp; ISBN 978-0-9519738-5-1
A concise handbook for career changers; incorporates material developed on workshops over the last 12 years as well as up-to-the-minute developments in managing career change in a constantly-changing environment.
What others had to say about this book:
Richard Nelson Bolles (author of What Color is Your Parachute?):
"You are lucky, lucky to have this friend and this book to guide you through career planning, that you may enjoy a better life and live triumphantly, under skies sunny or stormy."
Andree Harpur (author of Work - Inspiration and Transformation):
"Such a useful, clear step-by-step career guide! Like a good detective, Brian McIvor guides us through the labyrinth of career research helping us to make important discoveries along the way. This book will definitely be on my bookshelf!"
"...not everyone has the time or resources to employ their own career strategist. You have to become a good sleuth to ferret out the best opportunities. Brian shows you how to be your own career detective to find greater satisfaction and quality of life."
Carol Christen, author of What Color is Your Parachute for Teens.
Be Interview-Wise: How to Prepare and Manage Your Interviews
120pp; ISBN 978-0-9519738-4-4
A practical guide to help you prepare for critical job interviews. Includes chapters on in-depth preparation, managing structured interviews (including competency approaches), coping with nerves and turning experience to your advantage.
What others had to say about this book:
Mary Rose Greville (Professor, School of Business, Trinity College, Dublin):
"A clear, practical and enjoyable guide - not just for managers but for anybody who needs to perform well at interviews."
Dr Peter Hawkins (founder of the Windmills Career Project, Liverpool University):
"Practical, inspiring and engaging. A new perspective on the tactics and skills needed to master the interview. It is almost like a hand coming across the table to help you do a better interview and to engage in a positive conversation with the interviewer. If you read this book and act on its suggestions I believe you will increase your changes of success three-fold - if not more."
Redundancy: a development opportunity for you
Fergus Barry, Frank Scott-Lennon & Brian McIvor
100pp; ISBN 978-1-906946-005
Published: Spring 2009
This book provides:
- focused assistance to those whose jobs have been made redundant;
- advice for coping with the initial shock and taking stock; and
- advice on analysing your current situation and skills, leading you to a career that matches those skills
The book also contains a brief treatment of interview skills.
