Deborah Arron Quote
Home About Deborah Arron For Seminar Sponsors For Individual Practitioners For Small Firms Career Tips Contact
Career Tips Anthology
Recommended Resources

Books by Deborah Arron
Recommended Resources

  1. CareerXRoads: The 2000 Directory to Jobs, Resumes & Career Management on the World Wide Web by Gerry Crispin & Mark Mehler. A comprehensive listing of the best places to look for job finding assistance online. Updated online or by email at http://www.careerxroads.com. Buy it today.

  2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The author shares the result of his 20 years of research into the components of peak experience. Buy it today.

  3. Great American Website. Access every branch of federal government through this non-governmental research firm dedicated to providing better access to government information. Go to http://www.uncle-sam.com.

  4. Hand Me Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths and How We Can Reclaim Them by Mary H. Jacobsen. Many people who are trapped in unsuitable careers or professions got there because of unspoken family pressures and expectations. This book helps you identify those subtle messages and reclaim your career. Buy it today.

  5. Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation. True job satisfaction depends upon using skills that come naturally to you. This organization is the oldest and most respected center for the study and testing of those talents. To locate the nearest branch office, check your local telephone directory or their website at http://members.aol.com/jocrf19.

  6. Occupational Outlook Handbook by the U.S. Department of Labor. Get the government's fix on over 250 career fields, including skills demanded by the work, required educational background, range of opportunities and salaries. Also available online at http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm.

  7. Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life by Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro. Explores how physical, emotional and intellectual baggage from the past can interfere with current fulfillment. Helpful for mid-career professionals who feel stuck in their success. Buy it today.

  8. Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith. The best little book on service marketing you could ever buy. Quick, practical and easy to read. Buy it today.

  9. The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife by James Hollis. A well-written look at the changes that occur in midlife, with clear advice for making the second half of life immeasurably richer. Buy it today.

  10. Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges. A classic in career development literature. Helps identify transitional phases, and explores ways to welcome and get through them successfully. Buy it today.

  11. When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success by Carol Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb. Helps you see bad decisions or actions, or unfortunate circumstances, as springboards for positive change and growth. Buy it today.

  12. Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design by Laurence G. Boldt. A thorough workbook that helps you look at the meaning of work as well as the process of finding it. Buy it today.
Special Resources for Lawyers

  1. What Can You Do with a Law Degree?: A Lawyer's Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside and Around the Law by Deborah Arron. An easy-to-read overview of the career development and transition process, from evaluating the roots of your dissatisfaction to selling yourself to new employers. Offers advice, insight and over 1,000 resources for lawyers and law students seeking to build or redirect their careers. Specifically targeted to lawyers but relevant to all high-achievers. Buy it today.

  2. The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Lawyer & Law Firm Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services by Deborah Arron & Deborah Guyol. The first comprehensive guide on temporary work for lawyers, written for both those who hire, and those who want to work as, contract lawyers. Buy it today.

  3. American Bar Association. A wealth of information about practice areas, ethics, trends and law practice management. For the general website, go to www.abanet.org. For law practice management specifically, go to www.abanet.org/lpm/home.html.

  4. Changing Jobs: A Handbook for Lawyers for the New Millennium edited by Heidi L. McNeil. An anthology of ABA articles on career planning, the job search process, and employment opportunities for experienced lawyers. Buy it today.

  5. International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers. A nonprofit association of lawyers interested in supporting each other in practicing law from a whole systems approach, increasing their career satisfaction and transforming the nature of conflict resolution in the US. Check out their website at www.iahl.org.

  6. National Association for Law Placement. An organization of law school career services offices and law firm recruiters that publishes helpful information on legal employment and employment trends. Check out their website at www.nalp.org.

  7. Stress Management for Lawyers: How to Increase Personal & Professional Satisfaction in the Law by Amiram Elwork, Ph.D. By far the best book on managing stress within the practice of law. Buy it today.

  8. The Soul of the Law: Understanding Lawyers and the Law by Benjamin Sells. A former practicing lawyer-turned-psychotherapist examines common attitudes among lawyers like workaholism, materialism, stress, fear of failure and ethical dilemmas. Buy it today.

  9. Transforming Practices: Finding Joy and Satisfaction in the Legal Life by Steven Keeva. Examines how lawyers can find deeper meaning in their work and enjoy what they do more, as illustrated by profiles of lawyers who have changed the way they practice law. Buy it today.

  10. On-line job announcement and career information services like www.emplawyernet.com, www.infirmation.com, www.westlaw.com, and www.lawjobs.com.


     

 
Deborah Arron, Career Counsel to the Professions
Seattle, WA, Tel. (206) 285-0288 Fax (206) 213-0750
Email:

Web site designed and created by Vivid Solutions
Copyright © 2000 Deborah Arron. All rights reserved.
 


Found a few english papers for Cheap Essay, writing about reading.
Deborah Arron, Career Counsel to the Professions Resources

Snack vending machines come in all shapes and sizes. There are snack vending machines that offer user's the chance to buy a coffee right out of the same machine, while others can vend soda and other cold beverages. There is snack vending machines that do all three!