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The Career Within You: How to Find the Perfect Job for Your Personality
By Elizabeth Wagele, Ingrid Stabb. 2010
Find the Perfect Career Just for You! The Career Within You Includes: A Quiz to Determine Your Personality's "Career Type"…
Worksheets That Fit a Selection of Jobs to Your Strengths, Needs, and Objectives Extensive Tables of the Careers That Currently Offer the Most Money, the Most Opportunities, and the Greatest Flexibility Sample Résumés That Will Catch an Employer's Attention Detailed Tips on Preparing for a Successful Interview Success Stories of People Just Like YouYou're Certifiable: The Alternative Career Guide to More Than 700 Certificate Programs, Trade Schools, and Job Opportunities
By Lee Naftali, Joel Naftali. 1999
700 PATHS TO A JOB YOU LOVEAre you established in a career but feeling the need for a change? Interested…
in starting your own business and looking for an alternative to the more traditional enterprises? Graduating from college (or high school) and wondering what to do now? If you are searching for an offbeat, soul-satisfying profession that offers more than just a paycheck, enrolling in a certification program could be the perfect first step to finding the job that is made for you.You're Certifiable is packed with more than 700 ideas for alternative careers as well as all the information that you need to embark on your chosen field, such as:* Holistic health: from acupressure to hypnotherapy* Crafts: From violin making to glassblowing* Art and design: from museum studies to Feng Shui* Working with animals: from horse training to pet grooming* Outdoor pursuits: from diving to hot-air balloon piloting* Food and drink: from beer brewing to cake decoratingThe first-ever comprehensive directory of certification programs throughout the country, You're Certifiable provides the essentials on how to get certified in the career of your choice, how long it will take, how much it costs, and what to expect once you start working. Lee and Joel Naftali have gathered all the tools you need to find your perfect niche in the professional world.Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
By Michael Wolff. 1999
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury and Siege: Trump Under Fire—Michael Wolff's wickedly…
funny chronicle of his rags-to-riches-to-rags adventure as a fledgling Internet entrepreneur exposes an industry powered by hype, celebrity, and billions of investment dollars, and notably devoid of profit-making enterprises.As he describes his efforts to control his company's burn rate—the amount of money the company consumes in excess of its income—Wolff offers a no-holds-barred portrait of unaccountable successes and major disasters, including the story behind Wired magazine and its fanatical founder, Louis Rossetto; the rise of America Online, perhaps the most dysfunctional successful company in history, and the humiliating inability of people such as Bill Gates to untangle the intricacies of the Web.Taking the Work Out of Networking: Your Guide to Making and Keeping Great Connections
By Karen Wickre. 2018
&“For introverts who panic at the idea of networking, Wickre&’s book is a deep, calming breath.&” —Sophia Dembling, author of…
The Introvert&’s WayFormer Google executive, editorial director of Twitter, self-described introvert, and &“the best-connected Silicon Valley figure you&’ve never heard of&” (Walt Mossberg, Wall Street Journal), offers networking advice for anyone who has ever canceled a coffee date due to social anxiety. Learn to nurture a vibrant circle of reliable contacts without leaving your comfort zone.Networking has garnered a reputation as a sort of necessary evil. Some people relish the opportunity to boldly work the room, introduce themselves to strangers, and find common career ground—but for many others, the experience is awkward, or even terrifying. The common networking advice for introverts are variations on the theme of overcoming or &“fixing&” their quiet tendencies. But Karen Wickre is a self-described introvert who has worked in Silicon Valley for thirty years. She shows you how to embrace your quiet nature and &“make genuine connections that last, that we can nurture across the world for all kinds of purposes&” (Chris Anderson, head of TED). Karen&’s &“embrace your quiet side&” approach is for anyone who finds themselves shying away from traditional networking activities, or for those who would rather be curled up with a good book on a Friday night than out at a party. With compelling arguments and creative strategies, this &“practical, easy-to-use&” (Sree Sreenivasan, former chief digital officer of Columbia University) book is a perfect guide.The Ultimate Side Hustle Book: 450 Moneymaking Ideas for the Gig Economy
By Elana Varon. 2018
Get your side hustle on with this handy guide that gives you hundreds of ideas on how to make extra…
cash—and have fun doing it! Do you work a regular job, but still find yourself wishing you had a little extra money? Or maybe you just want some extra fulfillment after hours that you just aren&’t finding in your 9-5. A second job—also known as a side hustle—might be the answer! Learn how to take advantage of the gig economy and turn your time, space, skills, or stuff into extra cash.The Ultimate Side Hustle Book presents up-to-the minute research on 450 fun, resourceful, and often rewarding side hustle jobs, including detailed information on the skills you need and experience required for each, how easy it is to find work, and of course, pay rates—all in an easy-to-read and fun-to-use format.In addition to helpful facts and figures, you&’ll find real-life anecdotes and tips from successful side hustlers sprinkled throughout. From dog walking and tutoring to vehicle advertising and refereeing recreational sports leagues, you&’re sure to find that perfect side hustle that fits you and your lifestyle.The Everything Job Interview Book: All You Need to Make a Great First Impression and Land the Perfect Job (The Everything Books)
By Joy Darlington, Nancy Schuman. 2008
Everything you need to know to nail that job interview!No matter how good your resume looks on paper, you won't…
get the job until you ace the interview. That critical one-on-one interview is your best chance to showcase your skills-if you make a good impression. In The Everything Job Interview Book, 2nd Edition, you'll learn how to do just that-from what to wear and when to arrive, to closing words and what to write in a follow-up letter. You also get the inside scoop on how to:-Calm pre-interview jitters-Research potential employers-Formulate specific questions-Avoid common mistakes-Answer tricky questions about salary and experience-Keep track of interviews-the ones that went well and those that didn't-Return to the workplace after serving in the military-Look for a new job instead of retiring-Conduct a professional interview over the phone, on the web, or in a video conferencePacked with hundreds of real-life interview questions (and the answers that employers are looking for!), this is the only book you need to nail the big interview.The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
By Alan C. Greenberg, Mark Singer. 2010
Former CEO of Bear Stearns, Alan Greenberg, sheds light on his life as one of Wall Street&’s most respected figures…
in this candid and fascinating account of a storied career and its stunning conclusion. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company&’s offices on a Sunday. More remarkable by far than the fact that he was in the office on a Sunday is what he was doing: participating in a meeting of the board of directors to discuss selling the company he had worked decades to build for a fraction of what it had been worth as little as ten days earlier. In less than a week the value of Bear Stearns had diminished by tens of billions of dollars.As Greenberg recalls, "our most unassailable assumption—that Bear Stearns, an independent investment firm with a proud eighty-five-year history, would be in business tomorrow—had been extinguished. . . . What was it, exactly, that had happened, and how, and why?" This book provides answers to those questions from one of Wall Street&’s most respected figures, the man most closely identified with Bear Stearns&’ decades of success.The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns is Alan Greenberg&’s remarkable story of ascending to the top of one of Wall Street&’s venerable powerhouse financial institutions. After joining Bear Stearns in 1949, Greenberg rose to become formally head of the firm in 1978.No one knows the history of Bear Stearns as he does; no one participated in more key decisions, right into the company&’s final days. Greenberg offers an honest, clear-eyed assessment of how the collapse of the company surprised him and other top executives, and he explains who he thinks was responsible.Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game
By Chris Matthews. 2004
How politics is played by one who knows the game...Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field…
of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of his political classic, he offers fascinating new stories of raw ambition, brutal rivalry, and exquisite seduction and reveals the inside rules that govern the game of power.Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
By Marcus Buckingham. 2007
Marcus Buckingham&’s books have guided millions to become top performers in everything they do by focusing on their strengths. In…
Go Put Your Strengths to Work, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, Buckingham will show you how to hone and apply your strengths for maximum success in your career.Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work—in fact, only seventeen percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn:-Why your strengths aren't “what you are good at” and your weaknesses aren’t “what you are bad at.” -How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths. -The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you and away from those that don’t. -How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you’re bragging and about your weaknesses without sounding like you’re whining. -The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career.With structured exercises that will become part of your regular workweek and proven tactics from people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life. As part of the book's program you'll take an online Strengths Engagement Track, a focused and powerful gauge that has proven to be the best way to measure the level of engagement of your strengths or your team's strengths. You can also download the first two segments of the renowned companion film series Trombone Player Wanted.Go Put Your Strengths to Work will open up exciting uncharted territory for you and your organization. Join the strengths movement and thrive.Bigger, Fancier, and more cutthorat than ever!When Freeman Hall left The Big Fancy to pursue his screenwriting dreams, he thought…
the horrors of working in a handbag department were finally over. But instead of fame and fortune, he found himself stuck behind a wall of script-killing rewrites, unable to make a living.In Return to the Big Fancy, Freeman shares his wildly entertaining journey back through the fiery gates of Retail Hell. He thought he had seen it all in his day, but with the bar set higher than ever before, employees are now graciously bowing before Corporate as they climb over fellow salespeople, and even friends, to earn enough transactions and commissions to actually survive. As he learns more of the wretchedness that has befallen the sales floor, he realizes that The Big Fancy has its customers and its employees on a short leash. But leave it to Freeman and the threat of disappearing commissions to rally the retail slaves and show Corporate who's really in charge!Get the interview with professional correspondence!Completely updated for today's competitive job market, The Everything Cover Letter Book, 2nd Edition is…
what you need to get your foot in the door! With hundreds of resumes lined up for the job you want, it seems impossible to get yours to rise to the top of the pile. You need a superior cover letter to sell yourself when you're not there to do the talking.Make a memorable first impression and get the job you want with this authoritative reference as your guide. This new edition includes:200 plus cover letters, revised for today's industries.Techniques to highlight the best qualities on your resume.Tips on industry trends.Savvy advice on how to grab your reader's attention.Detailed guidance on how to polish your letter to perfection.Formatting guidelines to follow for letters, emails, notes, and more.Dos and Don'ts based on specific job applications.With sample letters for every job seeker - from stay-at-home moms to traveling CEOs - The Everything Cover Letter Book, 2nd Edition is the only guide you'll need to land the job of your dreams!Surviving a Layoff: A Week-by-Week Guide to Getting Your Life Back Together
By Lita Epstein. 2009
Being laid off is a traumatic event. Downsized workers must face decisions about reorganizing their lives and their finances, while…
grappling with the emotional grief of losing a job. This book is a practical guide to dealing with the tough questions a layoff poses. Using a week-to-week timeline, the book offers advice on such topics as: coping with grief and anger after a downsizing; reorganizing life after a layoff; how to launch a job search; balancing the job search with family and personal time; explaining a layoff to family and friends; and more. This book will show downsized workers how to reorganize schedules, set financial and organizational priorities, and go for their next job with confidence and enthusiasm.Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond (ISSN)
By Andrew Paul Clarke. 2024
Everybody wants their employer to recognise and value the skills and attributes they have, but not everybody feels those skills…
are valued. Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond looks at the link between skills, actions and attributes, and the value they present: value in terms of how an employee can be more valuable to the company they work for – in essence, more employable. The book aims to answer the question: why are entrepreneurial attributes we see in businesspeople valued, but in non-businesspeople they are sometimes not recognised when there is a clear link between entrepreneurial skills and attributes, human capital (effectively your CV) and how successfully a company performs?Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond discusses how we currently view skills, actions and attributes, and how those attributes add value to a person in life and to a business that person works for. The author questions whether certain skills and actions are unrecognised or neglected in today’s world, and uses case studies and research methodologies to illustrate how value can be recognised and appreciated within the context of human capital and firm performance. Finally, the book offers tools and strategies which may assist the reader in gaining a better understanding of the way in which their entrepreneurial actions and attributes can enhance their value as a person and also make them more employable. This book also offers businesses tools to better recognise and reward the skills it needs.The ideal audience for this book are those of us who wish to better evidence the skills and value we can offer a company; Entrepreneurial Attributes: Accessing Your Inner Entrepreneur for Business and Beyond will find an appreciative audience wherever there is a keen interest in the recognition and value of employee skills and attributes.How to Keep Your Job in a Tough Competitive Market: 101 Strategies You Can Use Today
By Michael J. Kitson, Bob Calandra. 2009
Mergers, outsourcing, and downsizing are the order of the dayand tomorrow as well. And employees everywhere now live in fear…
of layoffs. In this no-nonsense career guide, HR experts from the front lines demonstrate how to become invaluable at work and fend off a pink slip. The authors explain how to:Make yourself and your contributions visibleStay aware of trends, anticipate change, and adaptAcquire a reputation as a positive team playerBecome the "go-to" person It is possible to weather the storm that's swiftly tearing through every industry in America. With this book, you get an insurance policy to you them hold onto you paycheck and remain gainfully employed!Now What?: The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career
By Nicholas Lore, Anthony Spadafore. 2008
From the author of the classic bestselling career guide The Pathfinder, Now What? is the essential guide to for young…
people looking to find satisfying and successful work, perfect for high school students, recent college graduates, and even twentysomethings and millennials already in the working world.The impolite truth nobody mentions in college commencement speeches: "Many of you have just spent four years and a small fortune studying something you will never use, and, if you do, you won't like all that much. Have a nice life." Up until now, you've had to rely on hit-and-miss methods of picking your career that lead to only 30 percent of college graduates reporting satisfaction with their careers. That's because up until now there has never been a book that guides you through the difficult process of designing a career that gives you the best chance for both high-level success and satisfaction. But career guru Nicholas Lore has found a way to show you how to custom design a career where you will:—Look forward to going to work—Be extremely successful and productive—Use your natural talents fully in work that fits your personality—Be highly respected because you excel at your work In Now What?, he helps you put all the pieces together to make wise decisions about what you will do with your life and how you can best go about setting and accomplishing your life and work goals. You'll also learn the skills you need to live an extraordinary life. Filled with charts, worksheets, and quizzes, Now What? is the cutting-edge guide for choosing a career that fits you perfectly -- whether you're a college student, a twentysomething already out in the working world, or a high school student just getting started.MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact
By Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss. 2024
The promise of this book is simple: if you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your…
job by Monday.MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills.As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier. MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible.In MicroSkills you will learn How to build your career without breaking yourself How to manage your task list to get work done How to build and maintain your professional reputation How to become a subject matter expert How to grow and nurture your network How to become a better communicator and so much more...MicroSkills is the gift we wish we had received early in our careers.Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future
By Erika Andersen. 2016
We are operating in a world defined by constant connection, rapid change, and abundant choices. News that once took months,…
even years, to spread now reaches across the globe in seconds. Advances in medicine and science are pushing boundaries with gene therapy and stem cell transplants. And decisions about where and how to work and live are nearly endless. As new knowledge--and the possibilities that arise from that knowledge--propels us forward, leadership readiness expert and renowned author Erika Andersen suggests that success in today's world requires the ability to acquire new knowledge and skills quickly and continuously--in spite of our mixed feelings about being a novice. In her newest book, Be Bad First, Erika explores how we can become masters of mastery; proficient in the kind of high-payoff learning that's needed today. With assessments and exercises at the close of every chapter, she encourages readers to embrace being bad on the way to being great--to be novices over and over again as we seek to learn and acquire the new skills that will allow us to thrive in this fast-changing world.Lunch with the FT: A Second Helping
By Lionel Barber. 2013
Lunch with the FT has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 30 years, featuring presidents, film…
stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world.The column is now a well-established institution, which has reinvigorated the art of conversation in the convivial, intimate environment of a long and boozy lunch.This new and updated edition includes lunches with:Elon MuskDonald TrumpHilary MantelRichard BransonZadie SmithNigel FarageRussell BrandDavid GuettaYanis VaroufakisJean-Claude JunckerGwyneth PaltrowRebecca SolnitJordan PetersonChimamanda Ngozi AdichieAnd more...Ideas Man
By Shed Simove. 2008
Learn secrets for success and how to unlock your creativity with a book that contains tips on how to achieve…
anything you desire, and charts the extraordinary and hilarious real-life adventures of Britain's most inspirational IDEAS MAN.Sheridan 'Shed' Simove is a modern day creative genius. He lives and breathes ideas. Every day of his life dozens of new ideas spring from his astonishingly active mind. The ideas can relate to pretty much anything - TV shows, ranges of sweets, executive toys, greeting cards, money-making schemes - the list is endless. And if an idea hasn't been done before, then Shed is sure to attempt it...IDEAS MAN is the true story of this visionary maverick's amazing adventures. At breakneck speed, Shed describes how dozens of his ideas came to be, how they succeed or sometimes disastrously fail. Some of Shed's ideas include: a range of adult sweets called 'Clitoris Allsorts', a groundbreaking documentary that involved him going undercover as a 16-year-old schoolboy (when he was 30) and the launch of his own currency - the 'EGO'. IDEAS MAN is a unique book written by a completely extraordinary character. A hilarious and inspirational real-life tale of eccentricity and enthusiasm, it's perfect for anyone who's ever had a dream and wondered how to make it come true. Shed is living proof that you really can make it happen...