CAREER COUNSELING SERVICES
The Accidental Comic: Comedy coaching and editing from Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant.
AnalyzeMyCareer: Online aptitude, personality, occupational and entrepreneurial assessments.
Atlanta Jobs Online: Everything you need to know about job hunting in Atlanta. Also career advice and links to career development resources.
Career Directions: One-to-one coaching to help improve your interviewing and negotiating skills. Also career marketing assistance and articles related to career development.
Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal: A nonprofit organization supporting adults in making meaningful life and career choices. Workshops, retreats and career counseling for individuals and organizations. Look forward to Mondays again!
CTS Consulting: Help for creating productive working lives marked by balance, passion and service to others.
The Five O'Clock Club: Provides affordable, state-of-the-art outplacement services. Also lectures, career counseling seminars and private job-search coaching through certified career counselors.
Frankly Speaking: Nationally-certified resume writer who offers resume writing and interview coaching. Also a free e-newsletter about careers, resumes, job searching, interviewing and offer negotiation.
Future Proof Your Career: Offers a free online career test and personal profile to help you determine the kinds of work for which you're best suited.
Grimard Wilson Consulting: Coaching, consulting, and assessment services. Diane's new book, Back in Control, will help you stay sane, productive and inspired in your career transition.
Anne Headley: Help with career transitions, as well as leaving a good impression on your way out of a job.
Bill Jensen: This bestselling business author promises "simpler ways to get stuff done."
Jobsandmoms.com: Help for blending work and family from Nancy Collamer, who's also the author of The Layoff Survival Guide.
Learnovation: Learn how to develop and document your job and life skills to grow your career. Cutting edge job readiness training materials, including an extensive career portfolio product line.
LeavingTheLaw.com: Help for unhappy lawyers from former attorney Monica Parker.
Deeta Lonergan: Help with navigating life transitions.
Dave Lorenzo: Coaching and business strategy from the author of Career Intensity.
Garth Michaels: Vocational consulting. Also handwriting analysis.
NancyDSolomon.com: Nancy Solomon is a regular contributor to The Career Clinic who can turn your what if to what is.
Radical Careering: "Action. Insight. Inspiration." Brought to you by the author of Radical Careering, Sally Hogshead.
Rethinking Work: Career consulting based on founder Cliff Hakim's belief that "we are all self-employed."
CAREER-RELATED BOOKS/SOFTWARE
Amazon and Barnes & Noble are online superstores for books, magazines, audio books, videos, DVDs and more. Thousands of listings for career books.
The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: This book, by Michelle Goodman, has advice for thinking outside the cube.
Callings: This book, by Gregg Levoy, will help you find and follow an authentic life. "An illuminating and practical inquiry into how we listen and respond to our calls, and translate them into action."
Career Change: This book, by Dr. David Helfand, a frequent guest on The Career Clinic, is billed as "everything you need to know to meet new challenges and take control of your career."
The EQ Difference: "Putting emotional intelligence to work," by Adele Lynn.
First-Step College Resume Writer: Resumes, student cover letters and other job hunting tools. Available in CD ROM or download versions. One-of-a-kind software designed to assist college students in obtaining their first job. (Note: if you decide to place an order for this software, please indicate The Career Clinic web site when asked how you found out about this product. Thanks!)
The Flight Attendant Report: Web site of Marsha Marks, contributor to The Career Clinic and author of Flying by the Seat of My Pants: Flight Attendant Adventures on a Wing and a Prayer.
Get Weird!: This book, by John Putzier, features 101 ways to make your company a great place to work. John is a regular contributor to The Career Clinic.
The "It" Factor: This book, by Mark Wiskup, will help you communicate more effectively.
job-interview.net: Downloadable guides to job interviewing.
JobMaker Plus Resume Writer: Resumes, government application forms and cover letter software. Available in CD ROM or download versions. The total transition package. (Note: if you decide to place an order for this software, please indicate The Career Clinic web site when asked how you found out about this product. Thanks!)
Knock 'em Dead: Practical career management advice from bestselling author Martin Yate.
The Last Job Search Guide You'll Ever Need: A do-it-yourself guide for students and recent college graduates. It explains how to network, write resumes and cover letters, get interviews and get hired. Comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee.
The Likeability Factor: This book, by Tim Sanders, has advice for becoming more likeable.
Luck Is No Accident: This book, by John Krumboltz and Al Levin, will help you make the most of happenstance in your life and career. John is a regular contributor to The Career Clinic.
Loriann Oberlin: Books about writing, and working from home.
Reinvent Your Career: This book is by Susan Solovic, a contributor to The Career Clinic. Susan is the CEO of SBTV, which provides online news and inspiration to help people succeed in business.
Secrets of Voice-Over Success: This book, by Joan Baker, will show you how to make it in the voiceover business.
SmartJobGuides.com: Career resource "books" you can read online or print out.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: This book, by Marshall Goldsmith, will help you be a better leader--and person.
CAREER RESOURCE DIRECTORIES/SITES
The Riley Guide: Widely regarded as the best place to start your internet job hunt.
What Color Is Your Parachute?: Home page of the "Job Hunter's Bible."
WorkTree.com: Career site index.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
1 Training Center: Online courses in technology, insurance and small business areas.
Gradschools.com: Comprehensive online directory of graduate programs arranged by subject. Also includes the Gradschools.com Forum and discussion boards.
The University Alliance: Bachelor's and master's degrees online from accredited universities, with no classroom attendance.
MILITARY/TRANSITION
Help! I'm a Military Spouse: This book, by Kathie Hightower--a frequent guest on The Career Clinic--and Holly Scherer, will help military spouses craft a life for themselves.
Transition Assistance Software: Resumes, government application forms and cover letter software. Available in CD ROM or download versions. "Designed by veterans for veterans." (Note: if you decide to place an order for this software, please indicate The Career Clinic web site when asked how you found out about this product. Thanks!)
RECRUITING SITES -- See Career Center.
REFERENCE CHECKING
MyReferences.com: Reference checking and employment verification, primarily aimed at professional and executive-level individuals.
Sure-Hire: Offers pre-employment background checks to job seekers in the U.S. and Canada. Also free job postings and job searches for registered companies and job seekers.
RESUME SERVICES
A and A Resume: Resume and cover letter writing services.
A Write Impression: Resume writing at affordable prices. Also job search and interviewing tips, a job forum and newsletter, career links and other resources. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Career Directions: Resumes and career marketing strategies for professionals, managers and executives worldwide. Designed to win the career you deserve.
e-Resume.net: Resume service.
First-Step College Resume Writer: Resumes, student cover letters and other job hunting tools. Available in CD ROM or download versions. One-of-a-kind software designed to assist college students in obtaining their first job. (Note: if you decide to place an order for this software, please indicate The Career Clinic web site when asked how you found out about this product. Thanks!)
Frankly Speaking: Hire a nationally-certified resume writer who offers resume writing and job and interview coaching. There's also a free e-newsletter about the field of careers, resumes, job searching, interviewing and offer negotiation.
GetInterviews.com: Resumes guaranteed to get you interviews within thirty days or you'll get a rewrite for free.
HireMe.net: Resume distribution service.
JobBank USA: Specializes in providing career information--including job and resume database services to job candidates, employers and recruitment firms in the U.S. and worldwide.
JobMaker Plus Resume Writer: Resumes, government application forms and cover letter software. Available in CD ROM or download versions. The total transition package. (Note: if you decide to place an order for this software, please indicate The Career Clinic web site when asked how you found out about this product. Thanks!)
Land That Job! Resumes and Cover Letters: Resume and cover letter template software. Also offers critiques of your resume and cover letter.
ProvenResumes.com: Resume service.
The Resume Center: Resume and cover letter writing and assistance. Also help with career management, interview preparation and more.
ResumeAction.com: Resume distribution service.
ResumeEdge.com: Resume and cover letter service.
Resume Rabbit: Fill out one form and your resume is posted on more than 75 online job boards.
ResumeSubmit!: Resume distribution service.
ResumeXposure: Resume distribution service.
RocketResume.com: Targeted electronic resume distribution service.
Sample-Resumes: Sample resumes and cover letters. Templates in MSWord or Adobe pdf formats.
Outsource2000: Resume software. Also products and services for people who want to work at home.
WinWay Resume 6.0: Resume and cover letter software. Includes coaching on negotiation, interviewing and resume creation, as well as other features. Also a Canadian edition. Visitors from The Career Clinic will get a discount.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Financial Independence Associates: Help in attaining financial independence, as described in the book Your Money or Your Life.
In the Hands of Alchemy: Learn how to surrender control of your life in favor of spontaneity. Who are you if not your work? Artist Jerry Wennstrom, author of The Inspired Heart, will help you find out.
The Simple Living Network: Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle.
Voluntary Simplicity--Chicago: Information about a support group for people who want to simplify their lives.
WORK AT HOME RESOURCES
allfreelancework.com: Information and referral service for freelancers.
HomeJobStop: Dedicated to helping home-based professionals find rewarding work quickly.
homeworkers.com: Resource site for people who work from home.
MyMommyBiz: Information and materials targeted at work-at-home moms.
Outsource2000: Products and services for people who want to work at home.
OTHER RESOURCES
Motto: A magazine devoted to "purpose, passion and profit."
Results Manufactured Training, LLC: Wellness services from physicians, personal trainers, massage therapists, dieticians and more. RM CEO Steve Feinberg is a contributor to The Career Clinic.
Salary.com: Calculate and get reports on salary/benefits.
SBTV: Online help for business owners. News, information, trends, advice and inspiration--all in video format.
VocationVacations: Test drive your dream job and learn how to turn your passion into a career.
Writing-World.com: Offers more than 250 articles on just about every aspect of writing--plus links to market information, contest listings, and more.
Zendurance: Shane Eversfield will help you transform aerobic fitness into spiritual fitness.