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In the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, a new sector has blossomed: the virtual work world.…
It's an oasis of sorts, one brimming with unfilled jobs. Elance.com is one of the largest and fastest-growing portals that connects freelancers who need work to businesses that need flexible, cost-effective workers in areas such as software development, creative and marketing, administration, writing and editing, engineering, accounting, legal, and more. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Elance holds the key to business growth in the global age, for freelancers and employers alike. Through its step-by-step, illustrated advice, readers learn how to: Get started and register with Elance. Develop a contractor profile that stands out and sells their services. Win clients through targeted pitches and top-notch proposals. Find and attract the best contractors with advanced search tools and a well-done client profile. Write clear job postings quickly and easily. Use Elance's tools to manage projects efficiently. Negotiate deals and project agreements that protect both contractor and employer. Manage earnings and expenditures using Elance's account pages. Develop best practices using example and template profiles, proposals, and job postings.The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Interview Questions And Answers
By Sharon McDonnell. 2005
&“When can you start?&” Giving compelling answers to interview questions can make the difference between winning a job and unemployment. The…
Pocket Idiot&’s Guide® to Interview Questions and Answers will arm you with answers to the 150 toughest interview questions. Whether you read the book cover-to-cover to prepare for an initial interview or uses it as a last-minute reference on the way to a final interview, you will be prepared to offer clear, concise, and thoughtful answers. You&’ll also learn what questions to ask your interviewer to help you figure out if the job is right for you. • Pocket size gives you easy-to-access information to prepare for an interview. • Helps you understand what information interviewers are really trying to uncover with their questions.The Complete Idiot's Guide to Teaching Music on Your Own
By Karen Berger. 2010
A pitch-perfect resource that will be a number-one hit with music instructors The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Teaching Music on…
Your Own offers prospective teachers-and existing ones-all of the tools they need to start and run a profitable, respected studio. The comprehensive guide covers every aspect of running a studio, including: • Setting up a studio • Lessons in the home versus traveling to students • Advertising and marketing • Fee schedules and basic pricing principles • Student relations • Using computer games and programs in the studioThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Personal Financial Planner
By John P. Napolitano. 2007
Building a successful career in a red-hot field. Financial planning is one of the fastest growing careers in America today.…
Written by a veteran certified financial planning expert, this invaluable book tells aspiring and new CFPs everything you need to know about the certification process, setting up private practice, self-marketing techniques, client management and expansion, and much more. —Includes a comprehensive resource sectionDon't Retire, REWIRE!, 3E: 5 Steps to Fulfilling Work That Fuels Your Passion, Suits Your Personality, and
By Jeri Sedlar, Rick Miners. 2018
It's time to rethink retirement! Working past "normal" retirement age is one of the fastest growing trends in America. Today's…
Boomers don't want to slow down, and many of them can't afford to! They want meaningful work that fuels their passion, suits their personality, and fills their pockets. In a word, they want to REWIRE! Don't Retire, REWIRE! Third Edition helps those new to retirement, and those approaching it, channel their energy and experience into new possibilities that can be financially and personally rewarding--whether it's a part-time job, volunteer work, or even a next career. Inside you'll find lots of practical advice and plenty of real-life stories from retirees who have successfully made the transition. You'll discover the motivational drivers you never knew you had, then you'll learn how to use them to achieve a fun, purposeful, and financially-sound future--at work or at play!Develop your business or career with the pre-eminent professional network Most people who are new to LinkedIn don't intuitively recognize…
the potential of the site when it comes to promoting a business, finding a job/project (or being found for one), or raising money for a business venture. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to LinkedIn goes beyond the usual "how to set up and account" and "create a profile" to help readers become LinkedIn super-users and get the most out of the website based on their individual goals. The book provides new users with clear and detailed guidance on: • Filling out the various parts of the LinkedIn profile, customizing it to meet specific professional goals • The right and wrongs ways of doing things on LinkedIn-especially helpful to those used to Facebook• Finding the right people, making the right introductions, and growing and managing networks • Finding and communicating with LinkedIn Groups to help achieve individual business goals • Specific suggestions for using LinkedIn to find a job, market a business, raise capital, and increase salesThe Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Government Jobs
By The Partnership for Public Svc. 2010
Bail yourself out with employment opportunities In these turbulent times when private corporations are in trouble, the employer that seems…
to be offering the most stable employment opportunities is the public sector. With The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Getting Government Jobs, readers will learn how to navigate the government application process to find stable employment opportunities available from county municipalities as well as state and federal agencies. • Includes advice on drafting resumes suited to the specific requirements of the hiring agency • How to complete the appropriate application most effectively • Methods of marketing an applicant's skills in the government sector • Search tools for government job websitesDK Essential Managers: Writing Your Resume (DK Essential Managers)
By Robert Heller, Simon Howard. 1999
Learn all you need to know about creating and using a resumé successfully, from summarizing your achievements to targeting potential…
companies and replying to job advertisements. Writing Your Resumé not only shows you how to decide on your career objectives, but also provides practical techniques for selecting and presenting information and creating the right impression. Power tips help you to develop first-class presentation skills that will dramatically improve your resumé&’s chance of standing out from the competition. The book&’s author, Simon Howard, has quite a resumé himself. He wrote a column in the Sunday Times for over a decade, served as director of global recruiting firm Armstrong Craven for eight years, and founded his own company, Work Communications, in 2000. This guide book is part of Dorling Kindersley&’s Essential Managers series. Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available.Professionalism: Skills for Workplace Success
By Lydia Anderson, Sandra Bolt. 2016
Professionalism, 4th Edition prepares students for their first professional job, providing career planning tools, expected behaviors, and soft skills essential…
for career success. Ample exercises and activities help students immediately apply concepts and materials for transitioning from the classroom to a work environment. Three pillars for professional success―life planning, workplace skills, and career planning―are emphasized throughout. Students learn to connect personal, professional, and financial goals and understand how these goals ultimately contribute to career success through the creation of a life plan that addresses short- and long-term personal, professional/career, and financial goals. Recognizing that attitude, communication, and human relations are the keys to surviving in today’s challenging, competitive, and uncertain workplace, students will develop practical human relations skills with a primary emphasis on soft skills and expected workplace behaviors; and are provided detailed career planning tools that focus on job search strategies, résumé package development, and interview techniques.Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future.
By Omar Garriott, Jeremy Schifeling. 2022
The LinkedIn insider&’s guide to how the new job search really works—and how to make it work for you. No…
one disputes that LinkedIn is the world&’s biggest job market. So it&’s about time that someone with the inside scoop explained how to make the most of it. Here, from two LinkedIn experts and former employees, is the definitive guide that demystifies the massive site and gives every reader—from the newly minted college graduate to the midlife career-changer—the most important strategies to win the modern job search game. Clear, lively, and decidedly practical, Linked shows how to burnish your personal brand so recruiters come to you. Tap the power of the network effect and turn anyone into an invaluable referral. Think like employers and focus your profile to get noticed, get considered, and get hired. And game both the search algorithm and Applicant Tracking Systems used by nearly every employer in every economic sector. The result: not just a great job, but the future of your dreams.Baby Bust, 10th Anniversary Edition: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family
By Stewart D. Friedman. 2024
Ten years ago a groundbreaking cross-generational study revealed that greater freedom and new constraints were leading fewer young people to…
choose parenthood. In the intervening years, the decision to have a family has not gotten easier.Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School's Work/Life Integration Project, studied two generations of Wharton college students as they graduated: Gen Xers in 1992 and Millennials in 2012. The cross-generational study produced a stark discovery—the rate of graduates who planned to have children had dropped by nearly half over those 20 years. While some might wonder what this privileged group can tell us about broader trends in the United States, Friedman argues that they were “the canaries in the coal mine. . . . if they could not see a way to make their careers and families work, how could those with fewer opportunities and resources square this circle?”In a new preface to this 10th anniversary edition of Baby Bust, Friedman observes that the birth rate in the United States has continued to decline in the years since. He offers new insights into why fewer people are choosing to have children, how the pandemic affected these trends, and what can be done about it.In this book, Friedman addresses:+ How views about work and family have changed;+ Why men and women have different reasons for opting out of parenthood;+ How family has been redefined;+ What choices we face in our social and educational policy; and+ How organizations and individuals—especially men—can spur cultural change.In the debates on work and family, people of all generations are calling for a reasoned, thoughtful, research-driven contribution to the discussion. In Baby Bust, Friedman offers just that: an astute assessment of how far we have come and where we go from here.The 2-Hour Job Search, Second Edition: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster
By Steve Dalton. 2020
Use the latest technology to target potential employers and secure the first interview--no matter your experience, education, or network--with these…
revised and updated tools and recommendations.&“The most practical, stress-free guide ever written for finding a white-collar job.&”—Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick Technology has changed not only the way we do business, but also the way we look for work. The 2-Hour Job Search rejects laundry lists of conventional wisdom in favor of a streamlined job search approach that produces results quickly and efficiently. In three steps, creator Steve Dalton shows you how to select, prioritize, and make contact with potential employers so you can land that critical first interview.In this revised second edition, you'll find updated advice on how to efficiently surf online job postings, how to reach out to contacts at your dream workplace and when to follow up, and advice on using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google to your best advantage. Dalton incorporates ideas from leading thinkers in behavioral economics, psychology, and game theory, as well as success stories from readers of the first edition.The 2-Hour Job Search method has proven so successful that it has been shared at schools across the globe and is a formal part of the curriculum for all first-year MBAs at Duke University. With this book, you'll learn how to make it work for you too.Contemporary Apprenticeship: International Perspectives On An Evolving Model Of Learning
By Alison Fuller, Lorna Unwin. 2013
Throughout the world, people understand the meaning of 'apprenticeship'. As a model of learning and skill formation, apprenticeship has adapted…
over the years to reflect changes in work, in technology, and in the types of knowledge that underpin occupational expertise. Apprenticeship serves the needs of government, as well as employers, individuals and society more generally. These needs have always co-existed in dynamic tension.Find Your Purpose: Build a Better Life and Career
By Kevan Hall. 2024
Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it…
all than this?If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment. FIND YOUR PURPOSE will:· help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally· introduce principles and techniques for actively designing happiness and fulfilment · show you how to apply these principles in your work, relationships, leisure and learning· introduce systematic planning tools into all areas of your life - even those areas you might not expect By the end of the book you will have created a practical action plan for redesigning the next stage of your life and career, whether that be a sidestep, a side hustle or a complete step change.Based on workshops and research from a highly experienced training team, these proven tools will enable you to identify the unique portfolio of activities that is likely to make you most happy and fulfilled.The days of a linear career progression are gone. Shape your life and work to suit the true you and enjoy your personal breakthrough.From Dream to Reality: How to Make a Living as a Freelance Writer
By Jessie L. Kwak. 2023
Want to make a living as a freelance writer? Here are the resources, answers, and real talk you need about…
what it takes to make a living as a writer for hire. Drawing on her own varied and successful years of freelance copywriting experience, Jessie Kwak (author of From Chaos to Creativity and From Big Idea to Book) offers valuable insights on how to figure out if this fast-paced, ever-evolving career is for you—and how to make it work if you decide to go for it. Starting with the most important factor for a successful freelancer—mindset—Kwak walks you through everything you need to know about choosing your niche, setting up your business, building a portfolio and website, finding work, setting your rates, billing, firing clients, and growing your freelance career intentionally in a rapidly changing market. The book's special focus is on business writing for hire, with valuable lessons for writers of all stripes. Freelancing isn't for everyone, but if you're the sort of mercenary chaotic good soul who would find your happy place in freelancing, you'll find all the encouragement and tools you could need in this book.I'm a psychologist (Health Heroes)
By Lauren Kukla. 2024
What does a therapist do every day? What character traits are essential for therapists to have? Follow therapists as they…
work to keep people happy and healthy. These health heroes do the important work of helping patients care for their mental health. Discover how they work with other healthcare providers to care for patients. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real therapist from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day, every day!I'm a doctor (Health Heroes)
By Lauren Kukla. 2024
How does a doctor's day start? How does it end? What are the most important character traits for doctors to…
have? Follow doctors in a hospital as they work to keep people healthy and happy. These health heroes do the important work of caring for patients. Discover the tools doctors use as they work with other hospital staff to care for patients. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real doctor from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day, every day!I'm a nurse (Health Heroes)
By Lauren Kukla. 2024
How does a nurse's day begin? How does it end? What character traits are essential for a nurse to have?…
Follow nurses in a hospital as they work to keep people healthy and happy. These health heroes do the important work of treating patients. Discover the tools they use as they work with others in a hospital to keep people healthy. Like all health heroes, they make sure the needs of the patient come first. Meet a real nurse from Mayo Clinic, and find out how these health heroes save the day every day!Michel Chartrand, les dires d'un homme de parole
By Michel Chartrand. 1997
Michel Chartrand/Les dires d'un homme de parole est composé d'extraits de discours et d'entrevues qui s'échelonnent sur près de trente…
ans de vie syndicale active. Ces textes, ces réflexions, ces discours témoignent d'une même volonté, parfois provocatrice, de dénoncer la bêtise et l'injustice où qu'elles soient. Michel Chartrand est un des plus anciens leaders syndicaux du Québec. Depuis qu'il milite en faveur des plus démunis de la société, les gouvernements se sont succédé, les uns ont été remplacés par d'autres, parfois plus progressistes, et ses propos demeurent toujours d'actualité. Ce qu'il dénonçait durant les années soixante - l'appauvrissement des classes populaires, le gaspillage et la dilapidation honteuse de nos richesses, l'insécurité des travailleurs, le manque de prévoyance des grands patrons d'industrie - doit toujours l'être aujourd'hui. Et ce qu'il prônait hier - la justice sociale, la solidarité entre les humains, la liberté d'expression - fait encore partie des grandes priorités de l'heure. fernand_foisy_1997Ces paroles d'un homme qui a aujourd'hui atteint une maturité et une sérénité exemplaires ne manqueront pas d'en étonner plus d'un. Cet anarchiste aux propos redoutables, comme le qualifie Pierre Vadeboncœur, en préface, ce mousquetaire solitaire à la moustache grisonnante, qui est aux antipodes des nouveaux gourous sollicités à gauche et à droite, cet humaniste engagé qui, à quatre-vingts ans, a encore la force de s'indigner et de dire NON, parfois tendrement, parfois « outrageusement », nous indique que les ciels changent souvent de couleur, mais qu'il n'y a pas de plus beau spectacle que celui d'un homme libre. Fernand Foisy, qui a pendant plusieurs années compilé ces textes, a été secrétaire général du Conseil central de la CSN de 1968 à 1974. Il a ensuite travaillé aux côtés de Michel Chartrand à la Caisse populaire des syndicats nationaux de Montréal et à la Fondation pour l'aide aux travailleuses et travailleurs accidentés (FATA). Il prépare actuellement une biographie de Michel Chartrand.A WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERAn actionable strategy guide for busy professionals who want to level up their…
management game In The Manager's Handbook, Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member, serial entrepreneur, and investor in over 100 companies, David Dodson, delivers an insightful work that describes, in highly practical detail, five skills every great manager needs to know if they want to get things done. Managers desperately want a crisp, how-to book that will show them—in one single title—the way to master the most important skills necessary to run an organization. The Manager's Handbook organizes the five essential skills of effective implementation into one, simple-to-read, easy-to-use, book. The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty. In the book, you’ll learn how to get better at running any kind of organization by breaking down each essential skill into bite-sized sub-skills you can easily and quickly learn. You'll also find: Digestible tips and tactics for hiring the best people, onboarding, performance feedback, and improving the performance of underachievers A model script for how to begin an exit interview Ways to let people go from your organization gracefully, quickly, and with compassion The Manager's Handbook is an essential playbook for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders interested in dramatically improving their ability to lead people and inspire loyalty.