March 2023 MBR The Jobs/Careers Shelf

The Jobs/Careers Shelf

College to Career, Explained
Amy Feind Reeves
https://www.jobcoachamy.com
Epigraph Books
https://www.epigraphps.com
9781954744752, $22.95, PB, 327pp

https://www.amazon.com/College-Career-Explained-Skills-Confidence/dp/1954744757

Synopsis: When you are ready to start your career, you get to decide what happens next. Nothing is scripted anymore. So the question is what exactly do you do to start that career? Maybe you're getting some advice, a little instruction and even a few contacts. But you still need to put it all together.

With the publication of "College to Career, Explained: Tools, Skills and Confidence for Your Job Search", career coach and expert Amy Feind Reeves has written the resource she wishes she had when she failed to land a job after college but went on to enjoy a rewarding 25+ year career as a banker, global management consultant, corporate executive, and non-profit executive.

She wrote "College to Career, Explained: Tools, Tips & Confidence for Your Job Search" to provide a the detailed and 'real world practical' plan for what exactly you need to do to find a job you like.

Offering step-by-step DIY instructions, Amy uses humor and insight to provide examples, exercises, and practical tips that teach you how to: Discover what jobs are out there, and which ones may be right for you; Develop the tools you need to get you noticed; Build networking skills; Gain confidence in interviews.

Critique: Exceptionally well written, impressively organized, and thoroughly 'user friendly' in presentation, "College to Career, Explained: Tools, Skills and Confidence for Your Job Search" is an extraordinary, effective, and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Jobs/Careers collections. It should be noted that "College to Career, Explained: Tools, Skills and Confidence for Your Job Search" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $9.95).

Editorial Note: Amy Feind Reeves (https://www.jobcoachamy.com) is the Founder and CEO of JobCoachAmy,( a Boston-based consultancy where she leverages her experience of over 25 years as a senior executive and hiring manager to help professionals at all levels find and keep jobs that make them happy. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, The Baltimore Sun, Chicago Herald Tribune, McMillan Digital, and Job-Hunt.org. She speaks regularly to undergraduate and alumni groups, women's conferences and at wellness resorts. Amy has an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College, graduated cum laude from Wellesley College and earned a Certificate in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals
Mahrukh Khwaja
Wiley-Blackwell
www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell
9781119814504, $65.00, PB, 304pp

https://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Well-being-Dental-Professionals-Mahrukh/dp

Synopsis: Dentistry is a high-stress profession with elevated rates of anxiety, depression, burnout, suicidal thoughts and self-harm. Chronic workplace stress is a growing concern as it can severely damage the mental health of dental professionals and negatively impact their ability to provide appropriate care. Psychological interventions have been shown to greatly benefit the well-being and emotional resilience of the medical and healthcare community, yet resources that provide preventative tools are limited.

"Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals" by Mahrukh Khwaja is designed not only to combat occupational hazards in Dentistry, such as burnout and compassion fatigue, but also to build resilience, engagement at work and nurture positive mental health through a variety of evidence-based tools.

An invaluable guide, "Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals" will helps its readers to utilize tools drawn from the science of well-being (Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), in order deal successfully with stress and to create happier, thriving careers.

Critique: Exceptionally well written, organized, presented, and timely, "Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals" is essential reading for anyone working in dentistry and should be considered an important textbook for supplemental dentistry curriculum reading lists. While also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $52.00), "Resilience and Well-being for Dental Professionals" is a critically important and unreservedly recommended for professional, college, and university library Dentistry collections.

Editorial Note: Dr Mahrukh Khwaja (https://www.mind-ninja.co.uk/about-us) is a dentist working in the UK, a Positive Psychologist and founder of Mind Ninja: a well-being start-up providing resilience and mental health training to dental professionals.

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