Kanika Tolver: Author of Career Rehab

Kanika Tolver is the CEO and founder of Career Rehab, LLC in Washington, D.C., where she helps clients transform their careers with coaching programs, events, webinars and digital resources to help people reach their career goals. An in-demand coach, consultant, speaker and thought leader, she has been featured on CNN, CNBC, CBS Radio, Yahoo!, Black Enterprise, Glassdoor.com, Entrepreneur.com, The Washington Post and a variety of radio interviews and podcasts.

About the book

Ditch the Job for the Dream. If you don’t love what you do, then it’s time to re-think your daily grind and renovate your career. It’s time for Career Rehab.

This book has the tools you need to go from the job you’re in to the career―and the life―you want. In Career Rehab, professional career and life coach Kanika Tolver helps you strip away the fear and doubt holding you back from living your best life and get down to the “good bones” of your resume so you can build your dream career. Tolver outlines simple yet innovative ways to brand, market, and sell yourself into jobs that promote work-life balance, fair compensation, and continuous career development. You’ll learn how to: brand yourself like a product, fearlessly, but softly, resign from a job, identify the right career path for yourself, enhance your professional happiness and leverage your personal passions and purpose in life

Dr. Marcia F. Robinson: Author of Resume Guide How to Look Good on Paper

Dr. Marcia F. Robinson, SPHR, SHRM-CP is the CEO of The HBCU Career Center and a member of Forbes HR Council. She’s an award-winning HR and leadership expert who is on a mission to help organizations and the BIPOC talent community experience better alignment through inclusivity. Her past work includes professional resume writer, career coach and leadership roles in four university career centers where she established innovative and creative programs to connect employers with emerging and experienced talent. Dr. Robinson is a researcher on the future of work and how workplace automation and artificial intelligence technology will impact work, workers and workplaces. She has experience across Higher Education, Aviation, Hospitality, Technology, and Public sectors and has been recognized as Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year for her work.

About the book

In today’s highly competitive workforce, it is imperative that you stand out from your peers and showcase your brand. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so putting your best foot forward is of utmost importance. Author Marcia F. Robinson, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, uses her more than fifteen years of experience to shed light onto what employers are looking for when hiring. Her step-by-step instructions, best practices, and action items help to ensure that your résumé is presented in the way human resource professionals want to see it.

Robinson’s guide includes sixty FAQs that are crucial to consider when writing your résumé, valuable keywords, a powerful exercise to help identify your strengths and areas for professional development, and a master checklist. Résumé Guide is an essential tool for the college student prepping for graduation, the recent alumni looking for his or her first job, or anyone writing their first résumé.

Richard Bolles: Author of What Color is Your Parachute

Richard Nelson Bolles is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Guide For Job-Hunters and Career Changers, the most popular job-hunting book in the world, which has sold more than 10,000,000 copies since its first publication. Parachute is dramatically updated, reshaped and rewritten every year, and has been translated into 20 languages and published in 26 countries.

What Color Is Your Parachute? was chosen as one of the all-time 100 best nonfiction books by Time magazine, and was selected as one of 25 books that have shaped people's lives (throughout history) by the Library of Congress' Center for the Book. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, Bolles has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. He holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.

About the Book

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more. This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.