Below is a list of books you may find useful when looking to progress or change career. A number of them provide practical resources and exercises to help you move forward in your career.

CV Writing and Interview Technique:

The Perfect CV – Max Eggert It looks at what to include and exclude from your CV and 50 tips & strategies to the perfect CV.

Job Interviews: top answers to tough questions – John Lees & Matthew J Deluca A practical guide to helping you through the interview process plus 201 questions answered.

Career and Job Change:

What Colour is your Parachute – Richard Bolles Probably the best known and best selling job hunters guide written by an American author. A very practical guide. Look to get the most recently published copy you can as the resources (and there are many in the book) will be the most up to date.

How to Get a Job You'll Love - John Lees A practical and very useful guide to job hunting written by a successful British author. He takes some of the principles developed by Richard Bolles and applies them to the British way of thinking.  

Build your own rainbow – Barrie Hopson and Mike Scally A very practical work book for career and life management – lots of exercises and ideas to work through.

How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work and Everything: 39 1/2 steps to lasting underachievement - Steve McDermott A light-hearted look at becoming a failure with your career – what not to do! An entertaining and enjoyable read.

Dare to be different: 101 Unconventional Careers – Polly Bird As the title suggests it includes details on a range of unusual careers such as an Embalmer, Feng Shui consultant and Gem cutter. A good way to get you thinking outside of the box!