Book Recommendations

Career Development Books

• What Should I Do With My Life?
  • Po Bronson
• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
  • Timothy Ferriss
• Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing your Career
  • Hermina Ibarra
• What Color is your Parachute?
  • Richard Bolles

• You’re Hired! CV: How to Write a Brilliant CV
  How to write and use your CV effectively in your job search
  • Corinne Mills
• The Ultimate CV Book
  Examples of industry specific CVs
  • Martin Yate
• How to Write a Great CV
  What interviewers are looking for, focus on your strengths and perfect your presentation
  • Paul McGee
• Brilliant CV
  What employers want to see and how to say it
  • Jim Bright and Joanne Earl
• Get that job! Easy Steps to the job you want
  Job searching guidance including CV/cover letter
  • Malcolm Hornby

• Brilliant Interviews
  • Ros Jay
• 201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview
  • John Kador
• Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions
  • Martin John Yate
• Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions
  • Matthew J. DeLuca

• The Times A-Z of Careers & Jobs
  • Kogan Page publishers
• Back to Work: A Guide for Women Returners
  • Diana Wolfin and Susan Foreman
• The First 90 days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
  • Michael Watkins

Presentation and Communication books

• Effective presentation skills
  • Robert B. Dilts
• Perfect Communications
  • Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard
• Presentations Plus
  • David Peoples
• Body Language for Dummies
  • Elizabeth Kuhnke
• The Power of Influence
  • Tom Lambert
• Communicate with Confidence
  • Dianna Booher
• NLP at Work
  • Sue Knight
• The Solutions Focus : Making Coaching and Change Simple
  • Paul Z Jackson and Mark McKergow
    
    
    

Cultural Books

• Watching the English
  • Kate Fox
• Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
  • Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede
• Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business
  • Fons Trompenaars
    
    
• The Mindful International Manager: competences for Working effectively across cultures
  • Jeremy Comfort and Peter Franklin
• Coaching Across cultures
  • Phillippe Rosinski
• When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
  • Richard D Lewis
• Figuring Foreigners Out: A Practical Guide
  • Craig Storti