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Radical Careering: 100 Truths to Jumpstart Your Job, Your Career, and Your Life by Sally Hogshead
This book gives tips for actively creating the career you want over a long period of time. The advice is given in the form of 100 truths, each one a few paragraphs long. Information such as real life anecdotes and websites allows the reader to learn more about each point.
48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller
Conversational and creative, Miller helps readers see clear patterns that help us make successful career and job decisions by understanding our skills, abilities, personality traits, values, dreams, and passions. This book provides a step-by-step process for creating a Life Plan and translating that plan into meaningful and fulfilling daily work.
Monster Careers: How to Land the Job of Your Life by Jeff
Taylor
Complete with real-world advice from recruiters, career counselors, human resource professionals, and successful Monster.com members who share their job-hunting expertise, Monster Careers provides a step-by-step plan for carrying out a job search. Some topics included are exploring new career options to writing resumes and cover letters, to mastering the interview and negotiating a job offer. This is a practical guide for any stage of your career, whether you're a seasoned professional or a recent graduate.
The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear by Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio
Friedman and Yorio dispense funny and reassuring advice for women on how to successfully navigate every aspect of their career. They provide solid tools for dealing with workplace underminers, successfully diffusing conflicts, and managing the personal issues that often keep women from moving upward. Most important, they show women how to speak up, highlight their accomplishments, and get where they want to go.
Going Back to Work: A Survival Guide for Comeback Moms by Mary Quigley
This book is a resource for any woman thinking about taking the plunge back into the workforce. Women that left their careers to raise children, whether just for the toddler years or until the nest is empty, face economic and emotional challenges when deciding to go back to work. Going Back to Work is full of data and ideas to ease what can be a tough transition.
Area Manufacturing Careers by Palouse Economic Development Council
This is a non-fiction DVD that explores Southeast Washington manufacturing careers.
The Back Door Guide to Short-Term Job Adventures by Michael Landes
Summer jobbers, college grads, and anyone trying to reinvigorate or redirect a stalled career needs a short-term job adventure. Whether river guiding in Alaska, restoring a medieval castle in the south of France, or creating a successful organic farm, this book offers a comprehensive list of life enriching experiences to meet your need. From internships to seasonal work to volunteer jobs and adventures abroad, this guide contains more than 1,000 opportunities to work, play, learn, help, create, experience, and grow worldwide.
Best Jobs for the 21st Century by Michael Farr
This is a witty, spunky, and organized guide that is easy to understand. This book is packed with smart ideas and essential information that you can use to turn the best future jobs in your favor.
America's 101 Fastest Growing Jobs by Michael Farr
This book contains everything you need to research America's fastest growing jobs and learn the seven steps to land a job in less time. Farr covers jobs in many industries, including computer systems design, health services, education, and software publishing, which is projected to be the fastest growing industry in the economy through 2012. The jobs in this book require a variety of levels of education and training, and many are in industries with high average earnings.
Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09 Edition by U.S. Department of Labor
The Occupational Outlook Handbook has been respected as the job seeker's number-one source of critical decision-making data for more than 50 years. From arborist to zoologist, the latest edition gives you comprehensive information on more than 250 occupations, encompassing nearly 90 percent of the jobs in the U.S. economy. Our latest copy is available to read only within the library. However, 2006-07 and 2004-05 editions are available to check out.
Interviewing:
Great Interview: Successful Strategies to Getting Hired by Vivian Eyre with Diane Osen and Jennifer Williams
A job interview may be the most critical test you'll ever face in life. The field you'll enter, the course your future will take, the success you'll have, and the money you'll make can change in a few brief minutes. This book provides you with the hard information, confidence, and competitive edge needed to face any interview. In these pages you'll find real-life case studies, self-evaluation checklists, advice from the pros, interview questions and answers, online resources, print resources, and sample letters that will enable you to carry off the interview successfully.
Best KeyWords for Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews by Wendy S. Enelow
This book will help to find hundreds of keywords job seekers should incorporate at critical stages in their job search.
Goof-Proof Interviews by Felice Primeau Devine
A good resume will only take you so far in the job process. Learn what current businesses are looking for and find out how to best convey your credentials during a face-to-face meeting. Use conversation models and practice answering even the toughest interviewer's questions accurately and professionally.
Resumes:
Beyond the Resume by Peter Gray and John Carroll
This book offers advice on all phases of a job search. It includes tips for developing a resume, writing letters, cold-calling companies and recruiters, leaving voice mail, managing the interview, responding to trick and non-relevant questions, and post interview correspondence.
200 Letters for Job Hunters by Frank William
A comprehensive reference of all types of letters for the job search includes effective correspondence that ranges from initial contact, through the job-hunting campaign, and to follow-up letters of all kinds.
Starting a
business:
Starting from Scratch: Secrets from 21 Ordinary People who made the Entrepreneurial Leap by Wes Moss
Wes Moss shares with you the passion, values, and inspiration that led people to exit Corporate Street and merge onto Entrepreneurial Avenue. Successful entrepreneurs from 21 different industries and business concepts reveal secrets guaranteed to put you on the road to independence. Whether you're new to the workforce or in the midst of a major midlife career change, this book will leave you with hefty doses of practical advice and inspiration. It has everything you need to turn a passion into a viable, fulfilling business.
There's a Business in Every Woman: A 7-step Guide to Discovering, Starting, and Building the Business of your Dreams by Ann M. Holmes
If you've ever dreamed of starting your own business, or if you've ever wondered about how to build up the business you already run, but worry because you don't have an MBA or a couple of years of college business courses, this book is for you. Based on extensive interviews with more than eighty women entrepreneurs from around the country, this book offers inspiring success stories (and instructive missteps) in a wide range of businesses.
What Business Should I Start? By Rhonda Abrams
Millions of Americans want to start their own business but don't know what business to start. Small business advice guru Rhonda Abrams offers readers seven steps to identify the right business for them, from determining one's entrepreneurial type with the "What is your e-Type?" self-test to exploring the wide range of business options with 23 in-depth analyses and over 400 ideas. The book is packed with worksheets, resources, and insights from the author's experience in this field.
The 200 Best Home Businesses by Katina Z. Jones
This book profiles 200 of the best and most profitable businesses that you can run from your home. Each business profile provides you with all of the information you need to choose the business that's right for you. This includes the pros and cons of each business, estimated start up costs, skills needed, advertising tips, and expert advice from home business entrepreneurs.
How to Set up Your Own Small Business by Max Fallek
This is an actual example of how a business plan should be prepared so that it will conform to the standards and format that the SBA (Small Business Association), banks, and financial institutions prefer. This guide is ideal for companies and individuals seeking funding for expansion and start-up or simply in need to prepare a business plan.
The ABC's of Writing Winning Business Plans by Garrett Sutton
Learn how to prepare and utilize the most important document for any organization the business plan. Whether one is just starting out or is already in business and needs to refocus efforts, this practical guide will clearly instruct how to prepare a winning business plan.
1001 Ways to Motivate Yourself and Others by Kim Sang
This book is divided into two types of motivation: the inspiration section, with 100's of motivational sayings to inspire you and the application section, with 100's of specific things you can do to get motivated or motivate others. Also, it includes the theory of motivation and the difference between good and bad methods of motivating others.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
Most of us reading this story will see the cheese as something related to our work. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
The Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert Kiyosaki
This book reveals the strategies necessary for moving beyond just job security to greater financial security by generating wealth from four selective financial quadrants.
Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways that Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work by John C. Maxwell
Maxwell identifies the specific skills people need to make their potential for success explode into results. From focused and creative thinking to thinking of the big picture, he provides examples of effective thinking for every situation.
Small Business for Dummies by Eric Tyson
Your very first small-business decision may be to admit that you're not ready for this career, at least not yet. Small Business for Dummies will uncover what career works for you. You'll also gain insight into getting your personal finances in order before exposing yourself to the risk of a new business, and discover how to draw a roadmap to reach your career destination.
Why Employees Don't do What They're Supposed to do and What to do About it by Ferdinand F. Fournies
Fournies outlines the many reasons why employees fail to do what is expected of them and describes specific actions that every manager can take to improve employee productivity. Supervisors will also learn how to maintain good work performance and avert potential problems.
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin
Addressing today's most pressing work issues with an engaging metaphor and an appealing message that applies to anyone in any sector of any organization, Fish! offers wisdom that is easy to grasp, instantly applicable, and profound.
1001 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson
This book examines ways, means and methods used by corporations to recognize employees. Nelson presents case histories, strategies and innovative ideas used by corporations to reward employees.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by James C. Collins (Only available on Audio CD)
Jim Collins uses his research and smart writing to bust management myths and offer important insights about what makes top companies tick.
Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service by Ken Blanchard
This book is a simple and charming story teaching how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make stunning customer service a constant feature.
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive, exciting, and flat out unbelievable. Godin urges you to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, and everything you do, to create something truly noticeable. It's a manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.
Customers for Life: How to Turn that Onetime Buyer into a Lifetime Customer by Carl Sewell
Drawing on his incredible success in transforming his Dallas Cadillac dealership into the second largest in America, Carl Sewell revealed the secret of getting customers to return again and again.
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