Career Planning Job Hunting category: 18453 books
by Denise Kalm
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
First Job Savvy is designed to help young people find their first career job by creating a plan for success. Most are experts at landing service and temp jobs but those skills don't work well to get a job that matches their training and interests. The book begins by helping them match skills...
by Brian T. Malec, PhD, David Wyant
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them!
Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and...
by Caitlind L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2011
Have you ever thought about what it would really be like to be an accountant? What kind of training do you need? What will it be like on the job? What kind of jobs can you get? Is accounting the right career for you? This book is intended to answer those questions and many more. Formerly published...
Confessions of a Recruiting Director
The Insider's Guide to Landing Your First Job
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
A college grad has specific questions when trying to land the first job after school. How are just a few candidates chosen from a stack of hundreds of resumes? What exactly do recruiters want to hear in an interview? What are the common job-hunting mistakes students make time and time again? Confessions...
Get a Freelance Life
mediabistro.com's Insider Guide to Freelance Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Write Your Own Check
Considering a career in freelance writing? Already a freelancer but seeking practical, solid advice on the basics of the business? Get a Freelance Life is the complete guide to all aspects of a freelance writing career, straight from the creators of mediabistro.com—the...
Now is the Time to Do What You Love
How to Make the Career Move that Will Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Millions of people hate their jobs. Nancy Whitney Reiter used to be one of them. After finding herself in the lobby of the World Trade Center on 9/11—and getting out safely—she quit. She spent a year traveling the world, figuring out who she really was and what she really wanted to do.
In...
Get a Job . . . in Nursing
What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Whether you’re a recent graduate seeking your first job, or a seasoned job hunter looking for a new career challenge, The Get A Job Series is here to help. These concise, indispensable guides offer expert advice on locating potential jobs, matching your skills to the right position, and everything...
Designing Your Life
How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
**#1 *New York Times Bestseller ***
**An inspiring and thought-provoking graduation gift: At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office...
ART/WORK
Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The definitive, must-have guide to pursuing an art career—the fully revised and updated edition of Art/Work, now in its fourteenth printing, shares the tools artists of all levels need to make it in this highly competitive field.
Originally published in 2009, Art/Work was the first practical...
Becoming a Rare Find
How Jagged Resumes Lead to Great Jobs--a Companion Guide to The Rare Find (A Pen guin Special from Portfolio)
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Why don’t employers take a more optimistic view of people’s potential? Why is there such a fixation on a few bullet-point highlights of candidates’ résumés, to the point that most applicants are quickly cast aside as “not good enough”? Why is there such unwillingness to get to know what...
by Tracy M. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Are you a highly sensitive person who has always felt frustrated in finding a career that works for you? In this groundbreaking book researcher and fellow HSP, Dr. Tracy Cooper, presents important new research findings that can empower you to better understand how HSPs experience the modern workplace,...
by Marky Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Land the job of your dreams—even in the toughest of markets!
In the modern-day job market, simply answering ads with a cover letter and résumé just doesn’t cut it. You need to cover all the bases. You need to strategize.
This compendium from bestselling career guru Marky Stein...
by James Caan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
"It is possible to have the job of your dreams. Together we are going to set about getting you there.
Before I joined the BBC's Dragons' Den, I spent thirty years setting up and running recruitment companies, placing hundreds of thousands of candidates in the jobs they really wanted.
I...
by Penelope Trunk
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR Understanding how to find mentors and how to leverage mentors is probably the single most underrated career skill. People know they should have mentors. They tell themselves they should work on that. But for most of us, getting a mentor doesn’t reach the top of our to...