Career Books

Building Your Career Portfolio

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This is not just another book about resumes or job interviews. Building Your CareerPortfolio is a unique approach that will help readers discover their professional purpose and build a more directed career. By assessing which career-related activities are valuable, they will become more prepared to face change, and better equipped for new career options and opportunities instead of feeling trapped and frustrated.

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Get Hired!: 10 Simple Steps for Winning the Job You Desire--in Any Economy

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Most conventional job search strategies are simply not effective anymore. To be successful in today?s ultra-competitive job market, one must employ new tools and strategies for gaining notice and getting hired. Get Hired! will provide you with the necessary advice and strategies to conduct a successful job search campaign, and do so regardless of the strength of the employment market.

In Get Hired! you will find effective strategies for:

Developing the proper job seeker?s mindset and assessing the modern job market. Formulating a career direction by identifying your transferable skills, natural talents, areas of interest, and Business Reality. Employing the most effective job search methods. Creating a winning resume?that gets read! Distinguishing yourself from the job search masses by employing new tools and strategies such as a Brag Book, V-Letter and Job Business Plan. Acing the interview?and winning the job! Determining your market value and negotiating a top salary. Get Hired! is written to help you get maximum results by following a time-proven strategy for job searching success?for today?s business environment. The principles and techniques discussed in Get Hired! will apply whether you are looking to embark on a complete life-altering career change, or whether you simply want to switch employers.

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Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders

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Learning Journeys presents a message about the power of learning in the race for success, with personal stories from prominent management thinkers and change agents. It offers lessons reflecting key learning moments in life and career. Presenting thirty-seven provocative essays, most written expressly for this book, Learning Journeys offers rich lessons on learning to lead, overcoming setbacks, becoming open to change, mentoring, developing self-awareness, and more.

Each essay includes questions for reflection to help readers apply the lessons learned to their own lives and careers. The book also offers suggestions for using the stories in training workshops and ideas for making more effective use of your own and others' stories in mentoring and leading.

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Lost and Found: The Story of How One Man Discovered the Secrets of Leadership . . .Where He Wasn't Even Looking

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Larry has worked his way up to his first big assignment as a manager. But now the work is piling up on his desk. His people can?t seem to make decisions?certainly not the right ones. His mentor has been fired. Worst of all, his boss sends him out for leadership training. Larry never thought he needed all that ?people skills? stuff to perform, and spouting buzzwords doesn?t seem to work for him, anyway. I?m doing my job, Larry thinks. What does this company want from me? He truly feels lost.

After alienating his staff even more and incurring costly time delays, Larry is sent on a forced vacation, which begins with a comic but poignant fishing trip misadventure. Finally, miles from home and work, Larry opens his mind to new ways of thinking about leadership. He learns important leadership lessons in his daily life: planning a family trip, watching his son play ball, fishing with his daughter. He realizes that everyone needs to KNOW, GROW, and OWN, and that being a leader means helping and enabling people to fulfill those needs.

At last Larry has a credo that he can believe in, three powerful principles that all managers can use to get the best from themselves and the people around them.

Praised by executives and business experts, Lost & Found reveals the core of leadership through the power of an engaging and wonderfully told story. Managers will recognize parts of themselves and people they know in Larry Parks, a smart worker temporarily stymied by a new type of challenge. At the end of the book the authors provide tips for putting the KNOW-GROW-OWN credo to work in different types of jobs and in different kinds of companies and organizations. Combining inspiration and practical advice, Lost & Found will help talented workers transform themselves into great leaders.

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Secret Door to Success

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Everyone has the potential to be successful, but this success is often obscured behind a wall we may well have built ourselves in the first place.

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Dynamic Cover Letters Revised

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This popular guide contains everything you need to create a stunningly effective cover letter. The first edition of DYNAMIC COVER LETTERS helped over 100,000 job-hunters dress up their resumes and job applications with the kind of spirited, informative letters that employers respond to. And respond they did?with interviews, job offers, and high praise. Now, this updated, expanded edition takes on the most vital issues in the professional world today, such as job-hunting on the Internet, as well as the rock-solid basics that readers have come to depend on.

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The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World

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According to the perennial wisdom teachings, your vocation is not a means of survival in the world - it is a pure expression of your life force. Vocation arises, not as a response to external forces, but authentically from within your own body. To the modern mind, this approach to work sounds radical. But for more than 3,000 years, sacred traditions in the East and West have allowed vocation to serve as a platform for spiritual and material growth.

The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide is the first audio curriculum that adapts this classic approach to right livelihood to the challenges unique to our place and time. Based on the national anti-career workshops taught by Dr. Rick Jarow since 1988, this is the same life-changing program that has helped thousands of frustrated job seekers open to their intuition, transform their values into action, and answer their true calling - instead of settling for a paycheck.

Traditional career strategies are simply reactions to the job market; Dr. Jarow begins - for example, matching an inventory of skills with the want ads. An "anti-career" is a manifestation of the unique blueprint for your destiny encoded in your body since birth. The key to this revolutionary approach is your body's chakra system; the seven centers that govern the free flow of prana, or life force, through your body. Through a program of powerful meditations, you gain direct access to your chakras, clearing and aligning them with the energetic forces that make everything in life possible. You don't have to go out looking for a job, Dr. Jarow says. The job you were born to do will unfold in time, like a tree from a seed, as you let go of self-limiting concepts and open to the energy of creation - with The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide.

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Nurse Assistant-Test Preparation

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Appropriate for courses in Nurse Assisting. This easy-to-follow test preparation book offers a complete overview of the responsibilities of the Certified Nurse Assistant with in-depth practice to help students prepare for their examination and achieve higher scores.

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Deliberate Acts of Kindness: Service as a Spiritual Practice

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An indispensable guide to the spiritual and the practical aspects of devoting one?s time and energies to the service of others.

Deliberate Acts of Kindness is for people who are ready to supplement"random acts of kindness" with intentional acts of generosity, decency, and integrity. More than simply a handbook for volunteers, it explores the significance of service as an expression of spirituality and the commitment to something greater than oneself.

Meredith Gould guides readers through their journeys, from recognizing when they are ready to answer the call to service to finding the right place to donate their time and talents. She offers invaluable advice on discovering the types of work that best suit their personalities and the areas in which they can make the greatest contributions. There is helpful information on how to get involved, as well as sensible suggestions about what to do when things go wrong in a service situation.

An easy-to-read mix of tips, quotations, reflections, and short narrative passages, Deliberate Acts of Kindness presents a comprehensive, honest look at what service is like on a day-to-day basis. Its insights will help new volunteers and veterans alike negotiate the practical difficulties that sometimes arise and achieve the spiritual maturity that comes from answering the call to service.

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Real Rules for Girls

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Here it is, girls! Everything you need to know in order to live a fabulous life. (Okay maybe not everything, but a heck of a lot of it.) When should you dump him? When is it cool o use a credit card? When is it okay to kiss up to your boss? You'll get the lowdown on all that and more in this hip survival guide for girls who know that the only rule really worth following is this: Be true to yourself. Written with fierce wit and complete honesty, The Real Rules for Girls is not our mother's rule book. Packed with wisdom -- and quotes from evryone from Maya Angelou to Liz Phair -- it'll help you navigate life's highs and lows with style and substance.

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