5 Motivating Books to make you a more driven professional

Seeking upward in the career ladder is the most desire of a professional – whichever career stage be he/she is Or getting a new job/dream job at any point of the career and this is completely natural for human beings to look for upgrading all the time.

But during the significant change in our career, we all need that moral push/ motivation or guidance to help us find the right path but is it easy to get such needed guidance without investing money?

The Answer is YES, From ancient times BOOKS have been one of our best guides/motivators and friends.

There are many motivating books that offer inspirational guidance about career advancement and that can help guide anyone through a career transition.

Here we are listing a Few of such books

1. The 2-Hour Job Search by Steve Dalton: This book is a step by step manual for career seeking to get through the first interview, in a systematic tech-savvy way.

Author Steve Dalton explains in the book how to absorb information from the  Internet and search for jobs using mainstream technologies like Excel, Google, Linked In and database, create a list of potential employers and contact them directly without relying on job boards. Thus securing a job with only 2 hours of effort. This book is a must-read for freshers or those who just want to climb the ladder of a career.

1. Love your Job by Kerry E. Hannon : We should not or need not wait for our retirement days to enjoy our life to the fullest, we instead can reinvigorate our workday, transforming the monotonous drone of endless tasks into a daily dose of enjoyable activity. This motivating book is designed to help us find ways to love our job, how to make it fulfilling and fun again by remotivating and re-engaging ourselves.

Love your Job is all about how our daily routines, work and thought patterns that, over the years, can turn our dream job into a hated one but changing these habits and mindset is not that hard and by simple some simple technique how we can adopt the attitude that will keep us happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things.

1. What color is your parachute (Job hunter’s workbook) by Richard Nelson Bolles: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Quotes. “Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favourite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job title.”

Richard Nelson explains in the book how to identify our personal interests and turn them into a career out of them.

How would we achieve that? Bolles has written in the book that through a simple series of worksheets, we can identify our goals, values and transform them into a career path, we will have a clear vision about our dream job and can land on one.

1. Moving the Needle by Joe Sweeney: We can not gain 100% satisfaction by getting only Professional success, right? Personal growth and gain are equally important to set an equilibrium in life.

We sometimes blindly goes behind our goals without having any systematic, actionable plan Jow Sweeney has given a detailed system in ‘Moving the needle’ that will help us to achieve our professional as well as personal growth. This highly practical guidebook outlines a process or system giving us to make concrete plans to achieve big goals.

• Find what “moving forward” means for your career and life
• Ditch the monotonous routine and go all for an ‘innovative’ culture
• At Every level, Improve your productivity on a consistent basis
• Get going in the right direction

We definitely can hit our goals for life by following these practices.

1. Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg: The Author, Sheryl Sandberg ( COO- Facebook), continues her TED talk in this Book describing how Women unintentionally holding themselves back from being a leader in the professional world and offers techniques and process how for women to get professional success along with personal fulfilment.

This book is about how women can take charge of their own careers and push forward and become leaders at a time when gender bias is still there. This is a must-read book for all career-oriented women who are handling family at home too.

The book also includes Success stories of young professionals around the world who have achieved their career goals.

Time spent with your nose in a book is never wasted – it’s always productive and comforting. Whether we read to escape or pass the time, we’re doing ourselves and our career a favour.