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UCSF Library: Career Resources
Your local public library or bookstore may have these or other great career development books.

• Cover Letters: Proven Techniques for Writing Letters that will Help You Get the Job You Want by Taunee Besson
• What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
• Résumé Writing by Burdette E. Bostwick
• The New Perfect Resume by Tom Jackson and Ellen Jackson
• The Damn Good Résumé Guide by Yana Parker
• The Resume Catalog: 200 damn good examples by Yana Parker
• Leadership Begins With You: 3 Rules to Transform Your Job into a Career by Mary Morgan Riley
• Revising Your Résumé by Nancy Schuman and William Lewis

Recommended by UCSF Colleagues

• WORK IT! by Allison Hemming
• Work with Passion by Nancy Anderson
• Career Renewal: Tools for Science and Technical Professionals by Stephen Rosen and Celia Paul
• The Perfect Follow-Up Method To Get The Job by Jeffrey Allen
• The Networking Survival Guide by Diane Darling
• 101 Dynamite Questions to Ask at Your Next Job Interview by Richard Fein
• Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type (updated edition) by Tieger and Tieger
• Zen and the Art of Making a Living: Expanded and Updated by Laurence G. Boldt
• Getting it Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up The Challenge of Life, Family & Career by Zappert
• What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
• Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success by Nicholas Lore
• Self-Assessment and Career Development, Third Edition by James Clawson, John P. Kotter, Victor A. Faux, Charles C. McArthur

Do you know of other helpful resources? Share your ideas.