"You have an amazing talent working with students. You will probably never know how many lives you have positively affected, mine included."

Stephanie Kneller,
graduate student
Central Michigan University

Resources

Helpful Web Sites

Michael Port - Marketing Guru

Books

Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Considerate Conduct (P.M. Forni)

Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (Dave Barry)

Ready or Not, Here Life Comes (Mel Levine, MD)

Self-Esteem at Work (Nathaniel Branden)

The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (Alex Kotlowitz)

Articles

A Career Counselor Goes on a Job Hunt (CollegeJournal.com)

Finding Happiness in a Harvard Classroom (NPR)

In Praise of Boundaries: A Conversation with Miss Manners (Harvard Business Review)

Is Success Just Dumb Luck? (cnn.com)

Matching Personal Value Systems with Corporate Reward Solutions for the Next Generations of Workers (HR Management)

The First Year Out: Transitioning to the Working World (Princeton Review)

Miscellaneous

“The ‘Millennials’ Are Coming” (special report by “60 Minutes”)

Mindfulness @ Work (Audio CD featuring Jon Kabat Zinn and Daniel Goleman)

Toastmasters International (public-speaking organization with chapters worldwide)