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Harvey Deutschendorf

While emotional intelligence often goes by other names such as “people smarts” or “soft skills,” it is simply the ability to interact effectively with others. Maintaining control over negative emotions, cultivating self-respect and respect for others as well as keeping a positive outlook even when things aren’t going according to plan are all important components of emotional intelligence.

The Career Cowards Guide to Changing Careers

Katy Piotrowski

If you’re unhappy in your career, you may daydream about the ideal job but still feel terrified of making the change. Katy Piotrowski offers a guide for you that puts your fears into perspective and provides you with small steps that will take you from dreaming of a new career to embracing change and making it real.

Piotrowski helps readers recognize the risks and reward of taking steps toward their dreams and offers clear steps and compassionate insights that ease the anxiety of change.

12 Steps to a New Career

Carl J. Wellenstein

Some people realize five or 10 years into a career that they’re not happy with their choice. Other people invest decades into a career only to be downsized or outsourced right out of a job. In both cases, the move into a new career can be a combination of soul-searching and job searching. Career coach Carl Wellenstein has practical advice for career changers of all kinds.

Working for You Isn’t Working for Me

Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster

What can you do when your boss makes your work life miserable? From the authors of Working with You is Killing Me comes yet another book of wisdom, this time focused on the often problematic relationships employees have with their bosses.

The Job Hunter's Survival Guide

By Richard N. Bolles

With the subtitle, "How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work Even When 'There are No Jobs',” this slim and timely volume is a gold-mine of information for anyone unexpectedly unemployed in this unsettled and unsettling economy. Bolles, author of the classic career guide What Color is Your Parachute, condenses his many years of wisdom into 100 short pages of practical advice and effective resources for the unemployed. Bolles has become a trusted advisor to job seekers everywhere, offering not only good advice but much-needed words of encouragement too.