Recommended Readings

Identifying Personal Strengths

• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, 2001
• Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham, 2007

Choosing A Career Path

• Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, by Herminia Ibarr
• The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One by Margaret Lobenstine
• Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger, and Barbara Barron, 2007
• Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron, 2007
• I Could Do Anything, If Only I knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher and Barbara Smith, 1995

Navigating Career Success

• Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success by Sheila Wellington and Catalyst, 2001
• The Successful Manager's Handbook: Develop Yourself Coach Others by Personnel Decisions International Staff, Susan H. Gebelein (Editor), 2004
• Academic & Career Planning has a resource room with additional books and magazines