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Go It Alone!

by Bruce Judson

There is an epidemic of unhappiness in the American workplace. A full 70 percent of workers in the United States report that they are disengaged from their jobs. When asked, "Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day?" only 20 percent of nearly 2 million employees said yes. It is no wonder that 56 percent of all Americans dream of starting their own business. So why don't they do so? Because starting one's own business is seen as difficult, expensive, and risky.

In this extraordinary book, successful Go It Alone! entrepreneur Bruce Judson explains that the conventional wisdom about starting your own business is stunningly wrong. Using the leverage of technology -- e-mail, the World Wide Web, and the remarkable array of off-the-shelf business services now available -- it is dramatically easier to start your own business. Magnified by these new services, it is also possible to create, for the first time, a highly focused business.

Bruce Judson shows you the practical steps that will allow nearly any individual to create a business, often using job skills that seem to require an entire corporation for support. It is no longer necessary to spend time on the tasks that don't add value. It is now possible to stay small but reap big profits. Go-it-alone businesses allow the individual the freedom to concentrate on their greatest skills. After reading this book, your motto will be "Do What You Do Best, Let Others Do the Rest."

Date Added: 05/25/2017

Category: Occupation Specific Information

Exactly How to Sell

by Phil M. Jones

The sales guide for non-sales professionals

Exactly How to Sell walks you through a tried and true process that draws on time tested methods that are designed to attract and keep more customers. No matter what you are selling (yourself, your product or your services) this simple read is certain to provide you actionable strategies to deliver you more of the sales results you are looking for.

Inside, Phil M. Jones writes from experience and explains how to get more customers and keep them all happy—while they’re spending more money, more often. Using simple, practical, and easy-to-implement methods in line with the modern business landscape, Phil educates and guides you, giving you the confidence you need to develop the skills you need to win more business.

Boost your salesmanship to support your core profession

Create intent in a buyer and scenarios where everybody wins

Choose your words wisely and present like a pro

Overcome the indecision in your customers and close more sales

Manage your customer base and have them coming back for more

If you want to up your sales game, Exactly How to Sell shows you how.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Occupation Specific Information

The Career Adventure

by Susan M. Johnston

Focused solidly on “doing” rather than on “explaining,” this book gets right to the heart of career decision making it will:

walk you through the process of self-knowledge and self-discovery,

encourage you to believe in yourself and in your own ability to influence outcomes and achieve career goals, and

guide you in working with various job/career-search and development tools

This edition offers expanded use of electronic and internet resources, an update of Maslow’s Hierarchy, and a new perspective on decision-making, as well as covers the topics of self-assessment, exploring the world of work, and organizing the job search. Comprehensive appendices offer sample resumes and cover letters, as well as other job search resources. An excellent and valuable guide for all those involved in a job search or a career change.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Career Assessment and Choosing a Job

Careers in Law Enforcement

by Coy H. Johnston

Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing. Written in a concise and conversational tone, author Coy H. Johnston includes three main sections: planning a realistic path, selecting an appropriate career path in law enforcement, and preparing for the hiring process. The first chapter offers students a unique opportunity to take a personality/career test to help them discover the types of jobs that might be a good fit. Consequently, students will set sensible goals at the beginning of their degree program and seek appropriate internships and volunteer opportunities. This text is a helpful resource students will be able to peruse repeatedly when they are ready to start the process of applying for jobs within law enforcement.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Occupation Specific Information

Working Identity

by Herminia Ibarra

Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in our current profession.

In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become.

Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.

Through engrossing stories from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can:

Explore possible selves

Craft and execute "identity experiments"

Create "small wins" that keep momentum going

Survive the rocky period between career identities

Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition

Make time for reflection without missing out on windows of opportunity

Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new

Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming.

A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

Date Added: 05/25/2017

Category: Transition and Career Change

Over 50 and Motivated

by Brian E. Howard

It happened. It may have been a surprise, or it could have been anticipated, but at this point, what does it matter? You lost your job. Or, the frustrations at your current job have hit the boiling point. You just can't take it anymore! In either case, change is inevitable. But, you're over the age of 50 and intellectually or intuitively you know your age could be a factor in your job search. . .and, you are right. There are age-related biases that exist in the job market that will work against you. According to government statistics, job seekers over 50 encounter more difficulty in getting new jobs and suffer notably longer unemployment than their younger counterparts. But these statistics do not have to apply to you!

First, immediately stop with the worry and negative thinking. You're in a better position than you think. There are employers out there that not only will hire you, they are looking for you! The key is to find them, sell them on you, and get them to hire you. It's not as hard as you may think. In the Over 50 and Motivated book, Brian Howard will teach you a systematic approach for conducting a real-world job search based on years of frontline recruiting experience helping thousands of tenured job seekers just like you. He will teach you how to effectively conduct a job search in today's job market and techniques to successfully combat age biases. He will show you how to get job offers and your next fulfilling career position!

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Job Searching

Motivated Resumes and LinkedIn Profiles

by Brian E. Howard

Motivated Resumes and LinkedIn Profiles is unlike any resume or LinkedIn profile book ever written! It gives you unprecedented insight and advice from over a dozen of the most credentialed, experienced, and award-winning resume and LinkedIn profile writers in the industry.

It contains over 180 pieces of sage advice quoted throughout the book. You will learn how these writers create impactful resumes and LinkedIn profiles that will stand out, get you interviews, and job offers! Get inside the minds of these writers. Learn how they think about keywords, titling, branding, accomplishments, format, color, design, and a host of other resume writing and LinkedIn profile considerations as they create stunning resumes and winning LinkedIn profiles.

Some say that Motivated Resumes and LinkedIn Profiles reveals too many secrets of the resume writing industry! Become an “insider” and learn the secrets from some of the very best.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Resumé and Cover Letter Writing

The Motivated Job Search

by Brian E. Howard

The Motivated Job Search is a practical no-nonsense guide to getting the job offers you want in the shortest time possible! Brian Howard provides as proven and systematic approach for conducting a real-world job search based on years of front line recruiting experience helping thousands of job seekers find hidden job market openings, acing interviews, and winning job offers!

The Motivated Job Search gives you a distinctive competitive edge by teaching time-tested and proven techniques that will make you stand out from other job seekers. The Motivated Job Search covers meaningful topics like how to correctly prepare for a job search, profiling your next job, understanding the employer's mind, branding, elevator speech, success stories, LinkedIn, networking, social media, the hidden job market, interviewing along with a myriad of useful job search tools not otherwise written about in other job search books.

The Motivated Job Search promotes a self-motivated job search approach where you take charge by proactively engaging the job market in various ways to discover opportunities. The self-motivated approach teaches impactful ways to engage employers that leads to interviews resulting in job offers!

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Job Searching

I Wish I'd Known That Earlier In My Career

by Jane Horan

The must-read guide to understanding corporate politics in order to get ahead.

Designed to provide the reader with an understanding of corporate politics from a positive perspective, I Wish I'd Known That Earlier in My Career uses case studies to teach the essentials of organizational dynamics, power networks, and the decision-making processes and dilemmas involved in business. Examining corporate politics and the barriers many managers face in their efforts to reach the top, the book works to build awareness and strategies for business and career success.

Taking a refreshing new approach to workplace politics, the book presents new ways to think about embracing opportunities in order to achieve personal and organization-wide career satisfaction. Rather than encouraging employees to move on and start their own businesses, it instead details how to move up within their current companies by learning to understand power bases and conversation more thoroughly.

Combines individual case studies and real life situations with helpful tips and techniques designed to help overcome corporate challenges

Each chapter tells a story that illustrates a constructive concept that can be easily learned and applied in the real world

Covers topics including: political savvy, the benefits of self-promotion, performance management, sexual harassment, and other organizational challenges

Essential reading for anyone looking to move forward in their professional life, I Wish I'd Known That Earlier in My Career provides genuinely helpful advice in a highly accessible, easily applicable way.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: General Career Advice

Salary Tutor

by Jim Hopkinson

Jim Hopkinson details a novel way to get the the raise you deserve. Using these ten steps, you will be able to confidently and effectively negotiate your salary. With helpful tips and questions throughout, this book gives readers the tools to conquer "the evil HR lady."

While other books or websites might list a few standard bullet points on the subject from an expert in the HR field, Jim takes a "novel approach," weaving interesting stories, case studies, graphs, humor, and personal experience to make the topic come alive. The book also educates the reader on:

Discovering the two simple - but vital - questions you need to answer for success

Harnessing your social media network to gather valuable information

Mastering successful FBI negotiation techniques to your advantage

Creating a one-of-a-kind document to secure the highest salary range

Using Jim's "Right back at Ya" Method to regain control of an interview

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Interview Skills

The Everything Career Tests Book

by A. Bronwyn Llewellyn and Robin Holt

A career advice book with the tests that make the difference!

American workers are upwardly mobile movers and shakers who change careers often, always on the search for their perfect niche. But you can't follow your bliss unless you know what your bliss is.

Enter The Everything Career Tests Book--your key to determining the career path you were destined for! This engaging, accessible guide boasts ten different tests that reveal the work habits, affinities, and interests you may not even realize you have!

Ten tests help you find your way:

Values Test

Skills Test

Interests Test

Personality Test

Work Environment Test

Location Test

Work/Life Balance Test

Entrepreneurial Ability Test

Managerial Ability Test

Emotional Intelligence Test

Featuring extensive test result analysis and guidance as well as an easy-to-use format, The Everything Career Tests Book is all you need to make your dreams come true--at work!

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Career Assessment and Choosing a Job

From B. A. to Payday

by Michael Wilder and D. A. Hayden

As college graduates soon find out, the real world is tough. Sure, it was hard getting into the right school. But landing a good job is a lot harder. The number of new college grads now outnumbers available entry-level jobs by at least 25 percent. But that figure—sobering as it is—is deceptive, given that only a fraction of those jobs are career-worthy.

So how do you succeed in a marketplace that’s stacked against you? According to professional career counselors D. A. Hayden and Michael Wilder, you’ve got to approach the hunt for employment as if it were a marketing campaign. In other words, you’ve got to make yourself a brand—by creating a clear “story” for yourself, understanding your target audience, and developing an effective communications plan to deliver your message.

You’ve also got to avoid the pitfalls. Hayden and Wilder identify four personality traits that can doom first-time job seekers to failure. Then, through a trademark method they call Candidate Illumination, the authors prescribe cures for those “pathologies” and present savvy strategies for every step of the job-search process—from finding your focus, to composing a winning resume, to acing the interview.

Date Added: 05/25/2017

Category: Students and Young Job-seekers

Get Hired Now!

by Frank Traditi and C. J. Hayden

In a world where 85 percent of available jobs are never advertised, Get Hired Now! provides practical, hands-on techniques to help job-seekers tap into the hidden job market. This inspirational and motivational book teaches you how to take advantage of the single most important factor in a successful job search, the power of personal relationships.

At the heart of the book, a systematic, structured 28-day program leads you through the three key components of a successful job search:

Identifying the best job search strategies for your personal goals

Knowing exactly what to do and when to do it

Staying motivated in the face of frustration and rejection

Consistently directing readers to the most practical next step in their job search, Get Hired Now! shows how to figure out what you want, find opportunities and contacts, connect with potential employers, get interviews and land the job.

Date Added: 05/25/2017

Category: General Career Advice

Careers in Food Science

by Richard W Hartel and Christina P. Klawitter

Careers in Food Science provides detailed guidelines for students and new employees in the food industry to ensure a successful start to their career. Every step towards a rewarding career in this rapidly evolving industry is covered, from which classes to take in college and which degrees to earn, to internships, and finally how to land, and keep, the first job. This book also provides day-to-day examples of what to expect from the many jobs available to help students decide what to do and where to go.

The food industry includes a wide array of fields and careers not only in food production and in academia, but also in government and research institutions. In fact, it is estimated that by 2010 there will be 52,000 annual job openings for college graduates in the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources system in the U.S. alone. Written by people who have experience or are currently working in each sector, this book seeks to shed some light on starting, or furthering, a career in this exciting field.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Occupation Specific Information

Career Management and Work-Life Integration

by Brad Harrington and Douglas T. Hall

Career Management & Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to managing contemporary careers. Although grounded in theory, the book also provides an extensive set of exercises and activities that can guide career management over the lifespan. Authors Brad Harrington and Douglas T. Hall offer a highly useful self-assessment guide for students and other individuals who want to deal with the challenge of succeeding in a meaningful career while living a happy, well-balanced life.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Career Assessment and Choosing a Job

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

by Thomas L. Williams and Robert K. Hale

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal anecdotes that help teach you how to:

choose a design field

obtain and keep clients

garner referrals

market and position your business

bid competitively on projects

manage sales

organize a budget

manage start-up costs and cash flow

promote your business

branch out into product and architectural design

design within a retail environment

set pricing guidelines

sell to your target demographic

set up your office

Readers will find a history of the business side of interior design as well as various career tracks available to today’s budding entrepreneur. Any early career interior designer or student looking for practical advice on the ins and outs of running a design firm will need this one-stop guide.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Occupation Specific Information

The Young Professional's Survival Guide

by C. K. Gunsalus

Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to make a good impression-and your boss asks you to do something that doesn’t feel right, like fudge a sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea how to handle the situation, and your boss is hovering. When you’re caught off guard, under pressure from someone more powerful, it’s easy to make a mistake. And having made one, it’s easier to rationalize the next one.

The Young Professional’s Survival Guide shows how to avoid these traps in the first place, and how to work through them if you can’t avoid them. Many of the problems that arise in the workplace are predictable. C. K. Gunsalus, a nationally recognized expert on professional ethics, uses short, pungent real-world examples to help people new to the work world recognize the situations that can lead to career-damaging missteps-and prevent them. Gunsalus offers questions to ask yourself (and others) to help you recognize trouble and temptation, sample scripts to use to avoid being pressured into doing something you’ll regret, and guidance in handling disputes fairly and diplomatically. Most of all, she emphasizes, choose your mentors for their characters as well as their titles and talents.

You can’t control the people around you, but you can control what you do. Reliance on a few key habits and a professional persona, Gunsalus shows, can help you advance with class, even in what looks like a “casual” workplace.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Students and Young Job-seekers

Is This Working?

by Courtney C. Guerra

From the creator of the Dear Businesslady column comes a fresh, proactive book with advice for women entering the work force as well as those looking to move up the ladder.Everyone deals with some nonsense early in their career—whether it&’s accepting a less-than-ideal position just to get a foot in the door, or having a manager who sleeps with his smart phone under his pillow and expects his staff to do the same. But how do young professionals know if the choices they&’re making are moving them closer to their ultimate career goals? How do they know the answer when they ask themselves, &“is it working?&”Courtney Guerra, a.k.a. The Business Lady, knows how to set you on the path you belong. In a fun-to-read Q&A format, this book focuses on situations young people are likely to encounter in the workplace, along with a set of strategies you can use to get through them.In her signature tone that has gained her hundreds of thousands of readers, Guerra discusses topics relevant to young professionals, like how to make the jump from &“just a job&” to a career in line with what you went to school for, and how to stay productive when working from home at an apartment filled with roommates.No matter what the scenario, The Business Lady has the answer to get you on the path to long-term career success.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Students and Young Job-seekers

Building Your Ideal Private Practice

by Lynn Grodzki

A much-anticipated second edition to this classic practice-building text.

Building Your Ideal Private Practice, a best-seller in its genre, is now fully revised after its original publication in 2000. Much has changed for therapists in private practice over the past fifteen years, including the widespread encroachment by insurance and managed care into the marketplace, the density of new therapists as over 600,000 therapists nation-wide try to stay viable, and the role of the Internet in marketing services. The revision of Building Your Ideal Private Practice is a comprehensive guide, updated with six new chapters and targeted for therapists at all stages of private practice development. It covers the essential how-to questions for those starting out in practice and explains the common pitfalls to avoid.

For those already in practice, worried about profitability in an age of increasing competition, the author offers informed strategies such as the best way to create websites and other online marketing to find clients, and then goes further to explain how to retain the new breed of fickle clients who shop for therapists online, but are hard to satisfy. Other new chapters support veteran therapists edging towards retirement, including how to sell a therapy business for a profit or whether to stay working solo or expand into a more lucrative group business model.

The revision comprises a complete, easy to use and fascinating business plan that shows therapists not just what to do, but also who to be in order to succeed. It adds depth, up-to-date information and a wealth of strategies to the original book, often referred to as the "bible" for therapists in private practice. Like the original, the revision conveys the author's experience, optimism and warmth as she presents case examples, checklists and exercises to make the business advice come alive.

Whether you have insurance-based or a fee-for-service practice, this book will help you thrive.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Occupation Specific Information

Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities (Second Edition)

by Cary Griffin and David Hammis and Beth Keeton and Molly Sullivan

As self-employment becomes a viable option for more and more adults with significant disabilities, give them realistic, practical guidance and support with the NEW edition of this popular guidebook. Updated with a new and improved assessment approach, more self-employment success stories, and the latest on policy changes and online opportunities, this book is your step-by-step guide to helping adults with disabilities get a small business off to a strong start. You'll discover the nuts and bolts of person-centered business planning, and you'll get concrete, step-by-step strategies for every aspect, from business plans to marketing to finances. A must-have resource for employment specialists, transition professionals, and individuals with disabilities and their families, this book is the go-to guide for turning a small business into a big success.

SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AS THEY:

discover their "personal genius" with a new assessment approach

build a thorough and professional business plan based on their goals and interests

successfully finance their small business using multiple revenue sources

market their business, from defining customers to advertising in a variety of media

maintain their benefits while navigating financial and social security systems

make the most of valuable support from rehabilitation personnel, vocational counselors, school transition staff, and community programs

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: Disabilities and Employment

132 Career Tips for Women

by Melody R Green

If it's been a while since you looked for a new job the chances are the job market has changed while you've been employed.

To keep ahead of the rest it's wise to have the best tips for the process at your finger tips and 132 Career Tips for Women e-book gives you these.

No matter if you are a first time job hunter, looking to change industry sectors, re-entering the workforce, consolidating your career or enhancing your direction 132 Career Tips for Women has been written with you in mind.

The better you understand what motivates a boss when hiring staff, or know the tips that help you engage better with time poor recruiters, the easier your job process will be. This knowledge will build your self-confidence by allowing you to appreciate what you have to offer a prospective employer.

Filled with practical tips and strategies let 132 Career Tips for Women help you make your next career move and see the difference.

Date Added: 09/21/2018

Category: General Career Advice