Career Planning category: 18453 books
Tailoring the Green Suit
Empowering Yourself for an Executive Career in the New Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
TAILORING THE GREEN SUIT is about the process of developing a successful executive career in the new green economy. It is a career development book for U.S. executives seeking employment in green business. This book is for business executives who are interested in joining fast-growing, potentially...
The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health
Rhetoric Versus Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning. The long arm of U.S. domestic politics has reached the intimate lives of women all over the world because it has threatened major cuts in...
Directing Professionally
A Practical Guide to Developing a Successful Career in Today’s Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
How do you develop both the craft of directing as well as a professional career in freelance directing in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own extensive experience and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship...
Passion Projects for Smart People
Turn Your Intellectual Pursuits into Fun, Profit and Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
You loved your college major. You worked hard to earn your degree. And now your day job doesn’t fully use your education, engage your mind, or feed your soul. But there are still limitless opportunities to do intellectually serious work―work that will win you professional recognition, travel opportunities,...
The White Shirt
Find Your Peaceful and Life-giving Career At Any Stage of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In The White Shirt, a young man named Cyrus leaves a secure career and ventures out into the world to find his true calling. Along the way he learns how to create a simple strategy to succeed, why it’s important to share a career plan with the right people the right way, and most importantly, how...
by Scott Ingram, Trong Nguyen, Phil Terrill
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Want to learn the insider secrets of the top 1% sales achievers? Discover the inspiring techniques of 20 sales VIPs so you can climb the ranks and bring in the biggest commissions of your career.
Fed up with the same old sales results? Tired of advice from so-called sales gurus who don't actually...
Careergasm
Find Your Way to Feel-Good Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Rousing, bullsh*t-free advice for aspiring career changers
What is a careergasm? Does it feel as good as it sounds?
You bet your ass it does. A Careergasm happens when your work feels good. Really good. Like a groovin’ Marvin Gaye song. Like you and your work belong together, and you...
Confessions of an Introvert
The Shy Girl's Guide to Career, Networking and Getting the Most Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
"Funny and insightful, Meghan has written a true resource for any introvert seeking to break out of their shell and step into the spotlight."
Dr. Ivan Misner, founder and CEO of Business Network International
Are you an introvert who wants to succeed in the business world? Do you:
Avoid...
Earn It!
Know Your Value and Grow Your Career, in Your 20s and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
A straight-talking guide for the newest members of the workforce, with road-tested advice for landing a job, navigating the new world of work, establishing a personal brand, and getting the recognition (and money) you deserve.
The whirlwind of job applications, interviews, follow-up, resume...
Culinary Careers
How to Get Your Dream Job in Food with Advice from Top Culinary Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Turn a passion for food into the job of a lifetime with the insider advice in Culinary Careers.
Working in food can mean cooking on the line in a restaurant, of course, but there are so many more career paths available. No one knows this better than Rick Smilow—president of the Institute...
by Hardy LeBel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Do you want a job making video games, or do you know someone who does? Then let the Beginner's Guide show you the ropes!
Video Game Careers is an easy-to-read series of guides to the complex world of game development, written for gamers and the people who love them.
Book 1 - the Beginner’s...
The 80/20 Individual
How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
A new 21st century individualism is overtaking “corporation-as-king” capitalism, transforming the way we work and live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at...
This Time I Dance!
Creating the Work You Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
These are all things that we have to deal with when going through a career change. What is most difficult is deciding to make the change, especially when you are good at what you do, and wonder whether you should just stick it out in an unhappy-albeit well-paid-environment instead of taking a risk...
Leap
Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Until recently, Tess Vigeland was a longtime host with Public Radio's Marketplace; it was a rewarding, high-status job, and Tess was very good at it—but she'd begun to feel restless. Without any definite, clear sense of what she wanted to do next (but an absolute certainty that what she'd been doing...