Work Resources

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

 

Search Google (at home, work, library or church) for “Youth Employment Services” and “Youth Jobs.” (along with your country or city as a third or fourth word). Do the same at Ask Jeeves. 

 

 

Call your city officials and inquire as to the best way to find employment. Follow all leads.

 

 

 

Also, see our Encyclopedia topics, Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment.

 

 

 

ARTICLES

 

 

“Trends in youth employment rates: An article from: Monthly Labor Review (HTML, digital, 1 January 2005).

 

 

BOOKS

 

 

 

Bolles, Richard Nelson and Mark Emergy Bolles. 

What Color is Your Parachute? : A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Careers-Changers, 2005 Ten Speed Press, 400 pp. “In the last four years, the United States has lost 2.3 million jobs—the most in any four-year period since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression! Currently, millions of workers are unemployed both in the United States and worldwide and the problem is not going to abate anytime soon. (This is) a completely new book for this uncertain job market… a detailed plan for facing this societal problem head-on… faces squarely the “workquake” that is shaking up the job market around the world, and gives not only simple steps but steady hope.”

 

Covey, Stephen R., A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill (1996) First Things First: To Live, to Love, To Learn, to Leave a Legacy

, Free Press, 384 pp.  A balanced life with time management.

 

Harvard Business Review on Work and Life Balance (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series), Harvard Business School Press, 2000, 256 pp. A great range of ideas from professionals and employees at different level jobs.

 

Johnston, Robert K. and J. Walker Smith (2001) Life Is Not Work, Work Is Not Life: Simple Reminders for Finding Balance in a 24/7 World, Wildcat Canyon Press, 236 pp. Balancing a strong work ethic with enjoyment of leisure time.

Nichols, Nancy A., ed. (1996) Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life. Harvard Business School Press, 185 pp.
This is not so much “complaints about discrimination, sexual harassment, not being taken seriously, etc.” as it is impressive stories of success backed up by statistics.

 

Merrill, A. Roger and Rebecca Merrill (2003) Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time & Money

, McGraw-Hill, 288 pp. An expansion of the Covey book above.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

 

Freeeman, Richard B. (1986) The Black Youth Employment Crisis (National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report).