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Guide to Internet Job Searching: 2002-03 Edition
by Frances E. Roehm Margaret Riley DikelCopublished by America's foremost career books publisher and the Public Library Association, the acclaimed Guide to Internet Job Searching helps you harness the power of the Internet to aid in your job search. The Internet has revolutionized the way people look for career opportunities, and with this guide, you, too, can efficiently and successfully explore the Web to find the right job for you. This bestselling guide shows you how to target the most interesting jobs in the most promising companies and apply for those jobs with confidence-online or on paper. And it will steer you away from electronic "dead ends" such as unproductive searches that turn up thousands of near misses. Whether you are a complete beginner or an online expert, you'll find invaluable advice inside to make your Internet job search streamlined, efficient, and effective-from logging on to landing the perfect job. Margaret Riley Dikel, author of The Riley Guide (rileyguide.com), is a private consultant specializing in the use of the Internet for employment and career information. She is an internationally recognized authority in this field, having worked for many prominent governmental agencies and public and private corporations. Frances E, Roehm is the SkokieNet librarian at the Skokie (Illinois) Public Library where she specializes in building the village's community online. She is also the webmaster for ChicagoJobs.org, a regional resource for Chicagoland job hunters and career changers, and assists individuals in using the Internet to find a job. She currently chairs the PLA Job and Career Information Services committee.
Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
by Lester C. Thurow Robert HeilbronerWell-written explanation of economic principles, taken from a well-known textbook for College by the same authors.
The Authentic Career: Following the Path of Self-Discovery to Professional Fulfillment
by Maggie Craddock<p>Most people suffer from some sort of job dissatisfaction. But figuring out whether they should change or their jobs should change isn’t easy. From a leading executive coach comes <i>The Authentic Career</i>, perhaps the first book to provide readers with a formal sequence that combines professional, psychological, and spiritual resources to achieve career success and fulfillment. <p>The four-stage process — clearly outlined and filled with exercises, examples, and inspirational quotes — has proven successful for the author’s clients of all levels, from Fortune 500 CEOs to professional women returning to the workforce after having children. <p>Craddock combines her business background as a Lipper Award–winning fund manager with her training as a social worker and years of experience as an executive coach to outline a therapeutic process that clearly separates what we want and need in order to find fulfillment from the external demands and expectations that family, society, and the workplace impose on us. Identifying our authentic career goals and strategies requires that we carefully examine our inner lives, Craddock believes, separating them from the daily demands and frustrations of our work lives.</p>
Do What You Are: Discover The Perfect Career For You Through The Secrets Of Personality Type (3rd Edition)
by Barbara Barron-Tieger Paul D. TiegerDo What You Are has already helped more than half a million people find truly satisfying work. After helping you discover your Personality Type, it provides real-life case studies of people who share your Type and introduces you to the key ingredients your work must have for it to be truly fulfilling. Whether you're a recent college graduate, job seeker, or mid-life career switcher, this lively guide will help you discover the right career for you. Using workbook exercises and explaining specific job-search strategies, Do What You Are lists occupations that are popular with your Type and offers a rundown of your work-related strengths and weaknesses. It also shows, step by step, how to use your unique strengths to customize your job search, ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time. This time-honored classic has been updated to include jobs in today's hottest growing markets, such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media, and telecommunications.
Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity
by Simi LintonDisability studies in the humanities curriculum
Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness and Liberalism to the Women of America
by Myrna BlythThe former editor of Lady's Home Journal and other woem's magazines takes a hard, thought-provoking look at how those magazines and the TV news magazines seek to promote a liberal political agenda while selling victimhood and unhappiness to American women. If you've ever wondered how the TV news magazines and women's magazines get those celebrity interviews, you need wonder no more. This book takes you to the dark side of the magazine business, and whether you're a woman who reads those magazines or just a media junky of either gender, you'll find this book fascinating.
Five Economic Challenges
by Robert Heilbroner Lester C. ThurowThe challenges discussed are still problems today.
Home Buying for Dummies (2nd edition)
by Ray B. Browne Eric TysonEasy-to-follow information on buying a home.
Customize Your Career: How To Develop A Winning Strategy To Move Up, Move Ahead, Or Move On
by Roz Usheroff<p>Techniques and strategies for professionals to bolster their job security by becoming a more valuable employee <p>Today's smartest employees know that, to keep themselves from the "firing" line, they must constantly increase their value to their employers, customers, and clients. <i>Customize Your Career</i> presents readers with a twostep process for becoming an indispensable employee, by first defining one's personal mission and then using that mission as a blueprint to develop a professional success strategy. <p>High-profile career builder Roz Usheroff has made her name by showing business professionals how to discover and develop their own intellectual property, even in uncertain and insecure economic climates. Here, she provides solid, workplace-proven strategies designed to help anyone: <p> <li>Enhance interpersonal and communication skills <li>Become recognized as a leader and change-agent <li>Master the finer points of business protocol</li> </p>
Contemporary Advertising
by William A. ArensThe subtle force of advertising reaches out and touches everyone living and working in the modern world today.
Job Hunting for Dummies (2nd edition)
by Max MessmerMax Messmer's mother once told him to start pulling his own weight and get a job. So at age 11, he began making ladies' hand-crafted bracelets. He sold scores of them to her friends, neighbors, students, and even teachers. He enjoyed selling them so much it created a stir at school and took him away from his studies. His mom then put him out of business, forcing him back to basic homework. He learned something, though. Nothing happens until you make a sale. The job hunting process is no exception. No one will know your capabilities until you become an expert at selling them. (And if you saw these bracelets today, you'd know what a sales job it was, he says.) Inability to sell one's skills is one of the most frequent failings of job candidates, according to Messmer. Today, Max Messmer is chairman and CEO of Robert Half International Inc. (RHI), the world's largest specialized staffing firm, and one of the foremost experts on job searching and career management. If you've lost your job, remember that you are not alone. Most people have been let go more than once in their career. It no longer carries the stigma it once did, especially with the series of mergers and downsizings that have transformed today's workplace. In the grand scheme of things, this time will be relatively short. Best of luck in your search! - Max Messmer P. S. As for the reference to Dummies, I think we all know that the only dumb question is the one that's never asked. So you deserve praise for taking charge of your career and seeking answers!
Cool Careers for Dummies (2nd edition)
by Marty Nemko Paul Edwards Sarah EdwardsIs your career path unclear? Are you stuck in a job you hate? Don't worry! Now revised and updated, this friendly guide helps you think outside the box and find a job you'll actually like. Written by a trio of renowned job- counseling experts, it's like having your very own dream team of career coaches! Marty Nemko has career coached 1,600 clients. His column appears in the classified section of the LA. Times and on Monster.com. Paul and Sarah Edwards career and self-employment books have sold over 1 million copies. Discover how to: *Locate and land terrific jobs *Get the training you need *Locate jobs, even if you hate networking *Become an employer's #1 job candidate *Make a humdrum job better.
Follow This Path: How The World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth By Unleashing Human Potential
by Curt Coffman Gabriel Gonzalez-MolinaWhat do the world's greatest organizations have in common? They know that their most valuable resource is human-their employees and customers. And the best companies understand two important facts: people are emotional first and rational second, and because of that, employees and customers must be emotionally engaged in order for the organization to reach its full potential. Gallup research not only bears that out, but has uncovered the secrets of creating and managing an "emotional economy" that will provide boom possibilities for your company. FOLLOW THIS PATH shows you how the traditional ways to engage people no longer apply in today's world. Instead, it offers a system it calls The Gallup Path, based on the proven, revolutionary strategies of the most successful businesses. You'll learn the prerequisites of an effective workplace, forge unbreakable bonds between employees and customers with the book's 34 Routes to Superior Performance, know the three crucial links that drive productivity and growth, discover the best employee and customer motivators, and much more. Ignore the emotional economy-and miss out on financial performance. Helping you build relationships one customer and one employee at a time, this important book offers a unique new path for your organization to follow. All you have to do is value and develop human relationships all around you to transform your business-starting today.
Managing Up!: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship With Your Boss
by Michael S. Dobson Deborah Singer Dobson<p>The key to moving up? Managing up! Whether you're seeking a surefire career-booster or simply looking to improve your relationship with your boss, this welcome guide gives you all the skills you need to build a productive, mutually beneficial relationship with your boss. Using the inspiring collection of ideas, strategies, and tactics found in <i>Managing Up!</i>, you'll learn how to: <p> <li>Enhance your relationship with your supervisor <li>Accurately read your boss's likes and dislikes <li>Provide the kind of support that helps your boss succeed <li>Make sure you're in tune with your boss's goals <li>Build mentoring and networking relationships throughout the organization <li>Handle criticism <li>Deal with problem bosses, and more.</li> </p>
Careers In International Affairs
by Lisa A. Gihring Maria Pinto CarlandNow in its seventh edition, Careers in International Affairs is the leading guide to job hunting and career development in the field of international affairs. Careers in International Affairs is published in cooperation with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, the oldest and largest school of international affairs in the United States.
Career Quest: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Life's Passion
by Mary Rose Remington<p>"Everyone is entitled to work they love!" ...states Mary Rose Remington, author and career expert who has helped thousands of clients find their true calling in life. Career Quest is packed with practical tips, emotional support and spiritual techniques for readers employed or unemployed-seeking meaningful, energizing work. <p>This book shows you how to: <p> <li>Overcome fear <li>Unlock your higher purpose <li>Discover hidden talents <li>Build a financial foundation to support change <li>Tap dreams, intuition and angels for guidance <li>Set tangible goals and overcome barriers</li> </p>
300 Best Jobs Without A Four-Year Degree
by Susan Pines Stephanie KoutekGood news for people without a four-year degree who are seeking a new or different job: The authors have sorted through the latest government job data and selected the 300 best jobs that don't require a four-year degree. Each of these jobs has high earnings, good growth potential, or many job openings. For example: *The #1 job with the best combination of pay, growth, and number of openings that doesn't require a four-year degree is Registered Nurse. It has average annual earnings of $46,410, is growing at a 25.6 percent rate, and has 140,000 openings per year. *Among the best jobs requiring moderate-term on-the-job training are Advertising Sales Agent (#1), Correctional Officer and Jailer (#4), and Roofer (#7). *The job with the highest percentage of self-employed workers that doesn't require a four-year degree is Real Estate Sales Agent (69.4%). Who Can Benefit from This Book? *People interested in exploring new, better-paying, or more interesting career options requiring less than a four-year college degree *Students researching and planning for future training and careers *Teachers and counselors helping students, graduates, and job seekers. Discover the best jobs for you in two steps! Browse the best jobs lists in Part I to find the jobs that interest you most. Then look up their information-packed descriptions in Part II for more details on earnings, growth, education or training needed, job tasks, and much more.
Ethics and Organizations
by Martin ParkerA compilation of academic articles on the connections between ethics and businesses, as well as other organizations.
Nurturing Leadership
by Randall L. O'DonnellYOU CAN BECOME A NURTURING LEADER How can I: 1 Get extraordinary performance from ordinary people? 2 Discipline without destroying self-esteem? 3 Show workers I really care about them as individuals? 4 Keep from losing my composure when frustrations become too intense; These are just a few of the questions answered in this wise-and often funny-little book. Refined over a quarter-century, the philosophy expressed here counts every person important, every conversation critical, and every job-at every level of the organization-essential to your goals. If you're a leader who often feels pulled in too many directions, you will be renewed by Dr. O'DonnelPs insight, compassion, and his tried-and-true plan for nurturing yourself and your associates. RANDALL L. O'DONNELL, Ph.D., was Chief Executive Officer of Arkansas Children's Hospital, the nation's seventh largest children's hospital, from 1983 to 1992. A popular speaker on the subject of leadership, Dr. O'Donnell developed this book at the request of his audiences.
Glitter and Greed
by Janine RobertsThe result of 20 years research on the diamond trade and De Beers, this book reveals the myths and misinformation in the industry.
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, America, and Europe
by Lester C. ThurowEconomicanalysis of international competition.
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
by Herminia Ibarra<p>Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in our current profession. <p>In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. <p>Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities. <p>Through engrossing stories from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: <p> <li>Explore possible selves <li>Craft and execute "identity experiments" <li>Create "small wins" that keep momentum going <li>Survive the rocky period between career identities <li>Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition <li>Make time for reflection without missing out on windows of opportunity <li>Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new <li>Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming.</li> <p> <p>A call to the dreamer in each of us, <i>Working Identity</i> explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.</p>
Career, Aptitude And Selection Tests: Match Your IQ, Personality & Abilities To Your Ideal Career
by Jim BarrettIf you enjoy a particular sport or activity, it's most likely that you are good at it. The same applies to work. If you enjoy your job you will be better motivated and, as a result, perform better. Finding out which is the right job for you, though, is not easy. Career, Aptitude and Selection Tests is designed to help you assess your strengths and weaknesses - in terms of aptitude, motivation, skills and personality - and match them to the type of job or career to which you would best be suited. Giving clear and practical guidance, Jim Barrett shows you how to understand: *what motivates you - what you want to do; *what specific aptitudes you have - what you do best; *your personality - how you do it. By working through the aptitude tests and detailed motivation and personality questionnaires, you can then use the 'Profile Matching' section to see what particular occupation your personal characteristics best match - whether it's bus driver or zoologist!
Finding A Career That Works For You
by Wilma R. FellmanFinding a Career That Works for You will become a treasured guide for people who are in the process of choosing a career and finding a job. Wilma Fellman helps readers better understand their interests, aptitudes, personality, and goals as the first steps in choosing a career. Then, she provides practical tips on how to find a job in a chosen field. She instructs readers in where to search for available jobs, the best ways to prepare a resume, how to write a cover letter, and how to make the best impression during a job interview. Filled with personal stories of people who love their work, this book will become your road map to finding a career that works for you.