Career Resources

• NAMI-NYC Metro Chapter - "Job Talks" Peer Support Group (Virtual)

• The Family and Medical Leave Act - The FMLA entitles employees of covered employers to take 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. | PDF Summary 

• Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, TED speaker, author, Work Life podcast host, and supplier of great social media quick bites of info to help you thrive at work and life. He's a regular on LinkedIn, has written many articles you can see here, and has self-assessments on his website.

  • • TED Talk: Are You a Giver or a Taker? (Nov. 2016).  

    • Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management, The New York Times (March 28, 2019). 

    • Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice. The New York Times (June 4, 2016). 

Assessment Tools

• Exploring Your Values 

• Examining Your Skills 

• Strong Interest Inventory -  Strong Interest Inventory

  • The Strong Interest Inventory assessment helps individuals identify their work personality by exploring their interests in six broad areas: realistic, artistic, investigative, social, enterprising, and conventional (often referred to using the acronym RIASEC). It then breaks the RIASEC areas into 30 specific areas of interest that can be directly related to fields of study, careers, and leisure activities. In addition, it describes an individual’s personal style preferences in five areas: work style, learning environment, team orientation, leadership style, and risk taking. Depending on the report you choose, it ranks the individual’s top 5 or 10 most compatible occupations from a list of 260 specific jobs.

• Focus 2

• O*NET Interest Profiler - Link

• Career Explorer - Career Test

• CliftonStrengths is an assessment that tracks your top five talent themes as a means toward helping you to discover your strengths.

• Sparketype Assessment - what essential nature of work fills you with meaning, helps you feel fully alive, with purpose, in "flow" (or 'sparkled'). 

• Adam Grant's self-assessments: 

  • Which skill could unlock your potential?

Articles 

• Worried about AI in the workplace? You’re not alone. From the American Psychological Association (APA) (Sept. 7, 2023). 

• Do You Know Who Your Real Friends Are? by Adam Grant in PsychologyToday (July 31, 2014). 

Delegation Anxiety (at work or home?)

• Three Steps To Overcome Your Fear Of Delegation from Forbes.com (Oct. 31, 2013). 

• 4 Ways for Control Freaks to Get Comfortable Delegating Tasks from Entrepreneur Magazine (June 26, 2015).   

• Stop Feeling Guilty About Delegating in Harvard Business Review (Sept. 23, 2022). 

• Burnout Isn’t Just in Your Head. It’s in Your Circumstances by Adam Grant in The New York Times (March 19, 2020). Accessed 10.17.23. 

Networking

• "5 Helpful Questions for Informational Interviews." (from UPenn's Career Resources).  

Podcasts 

• NPR's How I Built This with Guy Raz. 

A podcast about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists and their stories about the movements they built. Apple | Spotify 

• Work Life with Adam Grant (See above). 

• Esther Perel's How's Work? - Spotify | Apple - Esther Perel, a leading thought leader on relationships, brings a new perspective to the invisible forces that shape workplace dynamics, connections, and conflict through one-time therapy sessions with coworkers, cofounders, and colleagues—listen and learn as you hear your own workplace dilemmas play out in the lives of others. 

Stuck in a Job, for Years (Apr. 2020) - Trapped in a professional rut but scared to move on? A look back on family dynamics may give powerful clues to why. - Apple 

My Promotion Ended Our Friendship - Apple  

Couple's Therapy with My Boss (Aug. 2021). From day one, they’ve described their relationship as “tumultuous." One is new to the workforce, the other is new to this particular workplace. One manages the other. And while they like each other on a personal level, they clash over their fundamentally different approaches to getting the job done. Spotify | Apple

Special Episode: Esther and Adam Grant of WorkLife (March 2020). In this special episode — recorded in front of a live audience — Esther and Adam explore the dynamics of trust, power, and people-pleasing. Spotify | Apple

• TheSkimm's 9 to 5ish

The work advice you need, from women who’ve been there. Every week, join the co-founders and co-CEOs of theSkimm, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg, as they help you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest leaders they know. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Apple | Spotify 

• NPR's Invisibilia - "Power Tools" (Oct. 7, 2022) - "Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw seeks answers from a power researcher and a union organizer." 

• Mel Robbins Podcast: Hate Your Job? Burnt Out? Laid Off? Reimagine Your Future & Take the Next Right Step - Apple  

• Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam. Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships. 

Who Do You Want To Be? (Jan. 2, 2023) - What psychology can teach us about living our most authentic lives. We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living.  Parents and peers influence our major life choices. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied. Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values. 

• Artistic Finance Podcast

Artistic Finance is a resource for artists on how to financially sustain a career in the arts. Interviews with artists from different disciplines and backgrounds helps paint a picture of what it takes to succeed in art and in personal finance. These conversations enlighten, educate, and entertain. 

Workbooks

• What Color is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success. 

Reading

• Finally set (and stick to) healthy work boundaries on Sanvello's Blog (March 31, 2022). 

• An essential and best seller since its initial publication in 1936 - How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.  YouTube Audiobook | Paperback | Summary

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie (updated version - Dec. 25, 2012).  

In 2007 it got a new title: "The Dale Carnegie Course on Effective Speaking, Personality Development, and the Art of How to Win Friends & Influence People." 

For Parents

• Ziegler Dendy, C.A. & Ruth Hughes. (2021). Launching Into Young Adulthood with ADHD: Ready or Not!