Books
Finding Work You Love
You work hard to get through college and you deserve to have a deeply meaningful, engaging, and motivating job, right? So how do you avoid getting stuck in a job you really don't care about with a just-okay company? Good question!
In Finding Work You Love: 3 Steps To Getting the Perfect Job After College, award-winning University of Southern California business school professor Kirk Snyder helps you systematically identify the value you alone bring to today's new job market--and then match that value with a job that rewards you for who you are in the world of work. Based on the top-rated course he teaches to undergraduate and graduate students, Professor Snyder's trademarked "Working You" system has three simple steps. First you take a guided inventory of your professional value: Who are you and what makes you valuable in the current job market? What can you do that sets you apart? How are you personally motivated to be who you want to be? Next, you evaluate different fields, companies, and roles that truly fit with your professional value. And finally, take action to turn right fits into tangible offers.
Along the way, stories from current students, recent college grads, and new professionals who have used this system show you how easy it is to navigate the process. If you are ready to find the fulfilling and successful career you've dreamed of, start here!
The G Quotient BUY NOW
Kirk Snyder’s book The G Quotient (Jossey Bass/Wiley & Son's) is based on a five-year study about the beliefs and behaviors of more than three thousand working professionals across a wide spectrum of business sectors. Addressing the plummeting low levels of employee engagement, job satisfaction and workplace morale in the United States, Snyder undertook a long-range research project that uncovered an exception to this downward trend in employee dissatisfaction.
From Fortune 500 companies to entrepreneurial enterprises, Snyder explains in The G Quotient why employees of white-collar gay executives are responding to a new ethos and pathos of business leadership resulting in record high levels of employee engagement, satisfaction, and morale. A mainstream business book, recommended by Harvard Business Review and named one of the Best Management Books of the Year by strategy+business, whether you are managing teams of a few or a few thousand, The G Quotient provides all managers with vital information and insight about fully engaging the strengths and talents of today’s ever-changing workforce.
Lavender Road to Success
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Kirk Snyder’s first book, Lavender Road to Success (Ten Speed Press/Crown) has been hailed by critics as a groundbreaking and definitive career guide for the LGBT community. Named by Amazon.com as one of the Best Books of the Year, the prestigious Library Journal summed up Lavender Road to Success by saying, “This book belongs beside the career classic, What Color is Your Parachute? on bookshelves everywhere.” This debut book was featured in some of America's most celebrated publications as groundbreaking research including The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Lavender Road to Success was also honored as the Best Self-Help Book of the Year by InsightOut Books, the largest LGBT book club in North America.
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Academic Authorship
Kirk Snyder is a featured author in the newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadership. This expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today. Filled with critical insights from bestselling authors, education research, and expert practitioners, this comprehensive volume features six primary areas of concern: The Principles of Leadership; Moral and Trustworthy Leadership; Culture and Change; Leadership for Learning; Diversity and Leadership; The Future of Leadership. This important resource includes relevant and up-to-date articles for leaders today on gender, diversity, global perspectives, standards/testing, e-learning/technology, and community organizing.