Publication date: 2006-09-18
Dewey code: 550.23
List Price: $26.20
Price: $26.20
Review Great Jobs For Geology Majors / Topeka Bindery:A degree in geology is a rock-solid step toward success! You've worked hard for that geology degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options. Great Jobs for Geology Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You'll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs. Great Jobs for Geology Majors will help you: Determine the occupation that's best suited to you Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession Go from geology major to: Volcanologist * Soil scientist * Economic geologist * Geodynamacist * Laboratory technician * Paleoceanographer *Architect * Petroleum engineer * Surveyor.
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 331.70023
List Price: $26.20
Price: $26.20
Review America's Top 101 Jobs for College Graduates / Rebound by Sagebrush:
Publication date: 2007-04-13
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $27.99
Price: $26.22
Review Trials and Tribulations of a Real Life Private Eye / AuthorHouse:When John Lajoie approached a bank for a loan to start his private investigation business in 1989, he had trouble convincing anyone he could turn the operation into a success. Less than two decades later, Lajoie owns one of the largest investigative agencies in central Massachusetts and is regarded as one of the nation's leading private investigators. Now, in Trials and Tribulations of a Real Life Private Eye, Lajoie tells his story, explaining the decisions and actions that allowed him to turn a struggling one-man operation into a successful agency. From the details of his work on high-profile homicides cases and as a member of elite criminal defense teams to the death threats and personal struggles that come with success in a dangerous business, Lajoie describes the reality of the world of private investigation as only an expert can. "John Lajoie has produced a truly unique book- a candid portrait of the real world of private investigation, written as only someone with years of success in the business could write it. His memoir balances professional advice with compelling stories of the reality of PI work, and is told with humor and insight. " Michael Koryta, Edgar-nominated author, Tonight I Said Goodbye "Lajoie pulls no punches, spares no one that which they deserve, shares credit with his colleagues, and brings more than a few surprises to the table. Whether you're in the PI business or not, this is an entertaining and enlightening read. " Don C. Johnson, CLI, CII, Editor, PI Magazine, Journal of Professional Investigators.
Publication date: 2006-09-20
Dewey code: 580.23
List Price: $26.20
Price: $26.20
Review Careers In Horticulture And Botany / Topeka Bindery:Find an exciting, fulfilling career in a field where opportunities never stop growing! If you find peace and satisfaction in growing plants and flowers, you should consider making it your profession. It might surprise you to learn just how many different opportunities exist within the horticulture and botany industry. Careers in Horticulture and Botany gives you invaluable tips for finding a job in one of the many areas that make up this diverse field. Whether you like to plant new seedlings or study flora and fauna, this updated edition will help you: Develop a clear understanding of the various career options Key in on the specialty most suited for you-from landscaper to floral designer to botanist Understand what to expect in an entry-level job Find the education and training you'll need to stay one step ahead of the competition Familiarize yourself with current salaries, benefits, and the best job prospects.
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $39.95
Price: $26.17
Review WEDDLE's Guide to Staffing Firms & Employment Agencies: A Practical Path to Full & Part Time Employment / WEDDLE's:This comprehensive listing of local, regional, and national staffing firms and employment agencies offers quick access to the growing temporary- and contract-job market. Finding a new or better job remains a difficult, financially unstable, and often lengthy challenge. Promoting an increasingly effective job search strategy, the guide encourages the use of staffing firms to find temporary employment that may evolve into a full-time position. This resource organizes staffing firms by occupational and industry specialty and geographic focus, so job hunters will be able to find the specific firms that are most appropriate for their qualifications and their employment objectives.
Publication date: 2004-07-01
Dewey code: 004.023
List Price: $26.20
Price: $26.20
Review America's Top 101 Computer and Technical Jobs / Rebound by Sagebrush:* Readers will find everything they need to research specific careers; learn about pay, outlook, and education and skills needed for jobs; and take seven steps to land a good job in less time. * Plus, a special book-within-a-book section describes the seven steps that cut job search time in half. * Includes sample resumes by professional resume writers for computer and technical jobs covered in the book. Explore the wide variety of jobs at every education level that require computer and technical skills. This fully updated book provides thorough, current, and interesting descriptions for over 100 major jobs, organized in convenient alphabetical orderincluding careers in computer and Web technology, health care, science, communications, manufacturing, and finance. The appendices are packed with useful resources such as hundreds of professional and trade associations, websites, and books to enhance networking skills. Key Features * Text covers all the points important in detailed career exploration and research: nature of the work, working conditions, job outlook, education needed, earnings, related occupations, and additional information sources, including Web sites. * Highly practical and effective job search information in the bonus section helps readers identify their skills, make career decisions, write resumes, prepare for interviews, and learn the most effective job search methods. * Features resume examples written by professional resume writers for jobs described in the book.
Creator: Mary P. McKeown-Moak
Publication date: 1999-10-14
Dewey code: 373
List Price: $29.00
Price: $26.10
Review Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer: New Directions for Higher Education (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education) / Jossey-Bass:With demands for improved quality, increasing competition for state and federal funds, and the challenges of integrating technology into the curriculum, higher education faces greater economic uncertainties than ever before. The chief financial officer (CFO) of any higher education institution stands squarely in the middle of this maelstrom. This issue of New Directions for Higher Education offers CFOs proven strategies for balancing the operating and capital budgets, maximizing net enrollment revenues, containing costs, planning for the resource needs of technology, identifying and managing risks, and investing the endowment wisely. The contributors discuss how CFOs can build positive relationships with key players in the campus?s financial planning and budget, including admissions and financial aid staff, state legislatures, and the board investment committee. This is the 107th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Higher Education.
Publication date: 2003-10-31
Dewey code: 158
List Price: $27.95
Price: $26.20
Review Connect the Dots. . .to Become an Impact Player / iUniverse:The picture in your mind and heart is clear. You want to be an Impact Player in the game of life. Unfortunately, the roadmap on how to become an Impact Player is not so clear. In order to Connect the Dots, you need help! WhatÂ's a dot? A dot is advice from someone you respect—an Impact Player. Impact Players are from business, government, sports, entertainment, academia, and non-profit organizations. They can be young, old, men, women, persons of color, white, or physically challenged. Impact Players reside in every nation and territory. Impact Players get beaten up and bruised in this game of life, but they always get up with a passion to succeed and a stronger resolve to win. Impact Players get their Ph. D. [+]s from the School of Hard Knocks. In Connect the Dots, Impact Players reveal how they achieved their success and the steps to replicating it. Author Dick Lynch explores the power of knowledge, the advantages of having teammates, and the strength of the human spirit. Connect the Dots is divided into four parts: Education, Inspiration, Innovation, and Aggregation: Education clearly defines what you need to do to become an Impact Player and offers you a challenge to do so. Inspiration contains Impact Player interviews that will inspire you to do things right and do the right things. Innovation provides expert advice on why cities, businesses, and all organizations must embrace diversity and change and have exceptional leadership to survive. Aggregation illustrates how people from every race and culture are in this game of life together and why we must develop a fellowship of diversity for our children and ourselves. Read Connect the DotsÂ…To Become an Impact Player and get in the game—today!.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $39.95
Price: $26.32
Review Career Coaching: An Insider's Guide - Second Edition / High Flight Press:Revealed: the 26 Strategies You MUST Master to be a Successful Career Coach Today Career coaching is one of the most lucrative and rewarding businesses to start today. And it is not limited to entrepreneurship - increasingly, companies from the Fortune 500, government agencies and small- and medium-sized private enterprises are incorporating career coaching into their employee development programs too. Discover the secrets known by coaches already using this powerful "Career Coaching Success System," drawing on the expertise of 22-year career coaching veteran Marcia Bench. This newly expanded edition of the only textbook on career coaching in print today is used as a text for the training programs offered by Career Coach Institute, founded by the author. It will help the reader learn how to become a successful career coach by mastering the 26 areas of expertise required in career coaching. The book is divided into four key Parts: the field of career coaching, the Authentic VocationT Model of Career Design, the QuantumShift! Coaching Model, and all aspects of Job Search Mechanics - the job search from A to Z. Updated resumes and cover letters, new sections on personal branding and social networking, and much more make this a "must have" volume for any career or human resource professional. This new edition also features coaching examples, dozens of powerful coaching questions, career coaching tips and traps, and a Career Coach's Toolbox containing more than 30 worksheets, exercises, and forms to use with clients and help you build a successful practice. Advance praise includes: "I'm very impressed with the quality of the work you've done. Fantastic job! I would be glad to recommend people to attend your training program for career coaching. [+]This book represents the exact kind of solid work we need in this field. Here's to raising the bar!" -Stephen Fairley, Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching "If you could buy only one coaching book, this practical gem should be it. One of those rare books that beckons coaches to read it not just cover to cover but over and over. " - Richard Lieder, Repacking Your Bags.
Edition: 5
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 331.70023
List Price: $26.20
Price: $26.20
Review America's Top Jobs for College Graduates / Topeka Bindery:
Edition: 6th
Publication date: 2003-05
List Price: $17.00
Price: $35.12
Review Planning Your Gap Year / How to Books:
Creator: Patricia Mulcrone
Publication date: 1998-02-09
Dewey code: 373.1262
Price: $15.95
Review Contemporary's Complete Pre-GED : A Comprehensive Review of the Skills Necessary for GED Study / McGraw-Hill Companies:Before preparing for the GED exam, students need to master the basic concepts of writing, science, social studies, literature and the arts, and mathematics, yet this often translates into time-consuming, expensive personal tutoring. Now, of all the foundation skills and information students need to know before moving on to GED-level study are available in one complete, easy-to-use guide-Contemporary's Complete Pre-GED. The book instruction, skill-evaluation charts, step-by-step test review, and plenty of practice tests, giving students a strong head start in developing the critical-thinking skills that are needed to move on to GED preparation.
Creator: Cristina Escobar
Edition: Third Edition
Publication date: 2004
Price: $48.00
Review Core Curriculum Introductory Craft Skills (Contren Curricula, Annotated Instructor's Guide) / Pearson Prentice Hall:Put out by the National Center for Construction Education and Research and Prentice Hall. This is the Annotated Instructors Edition.
Publication date: 2000-05-08
Dewey code: 158
List Price: $31.77
Price: $31.58
Review The Graduate Career Handbook / Financial Times Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2003-01-01
List Price: $29.95
Price: $29.90
Review Operating Engineer - Stationary (Career Examination Series) (Career Examination Series, No C-555) / National Learning Corp:
Creator: Tony Beshara
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-01-06
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $39.98
Price: $26.39
Review Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job! / Your Coach in a Box:At some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best" gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including: * You really dont have as much experience as we would like - why should we hire you? * How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? * What do you consider most valuable - a high salary, job recognition, or advancement? The book also arms readers with questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent their making a big job mistake: * What would you say are the worst parts of this job? * What are the major problems facing the company and this department? * Why aren't you promoting from within? Taking readers through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation, Acing the Interview is a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners guide to interview success. At some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called “the best of the best” gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including: You really don’t have as much experience as we would like—why should we hire you? • How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? • What do you consider most valuable—a high salary, job recognition, or advancement? The book also arms readers with questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent their making a big job mistake: What would you say are the worst parts of this job? • What are the major problems facing the company and this department? • Why aren't you promoting from within? Taking readers through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation, Acing the Interview is a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners guide to interview success.
Authors
- Robert M. Sherfield
- Patricia G. Moody
Publication date: 2008-08-08
Dewey code: 650
List Price: $29.33
Price: $26.19
Review Solving the Professional Development Puzzle: 101 Solutions for Career and Life Planning / Prentice Hall:
Publication date: 2000-07-17
List Price: $35.23
Price: $35.23
Review Doctors and Their Careers / Policy Studies Institute:
Edition: Anniversary
Publication date: 2007-04-27
Dewey code: 158
List Price: $30.99
Price: $26.21
Review Success is a Routine / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- Darrell A. Luzzo
- Lisa Severy
Publication date: 2008-01-07
Dewey code: 650.14
List Price: $29.33
Price: $26.19
Review Making Career Decisions that Count: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition) / Prentice Hall:
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Great Jobs For Geology Majors, America's Top 101 Jobs for College Graduates, Trials and Tribulations of a Real Life Private Eye, Careers In Horticulture And Botany, WEDDLE's Guide to Staffing Firms & Employment Agencies: A Practical Path to Full & Part Time Employment, America's Top 101 Computer and Technical Jobs, Roles and Responsibilities of the Chief Financial Officer: New Directions for Higher Education (J-B HE Single Issue Higher Education), Connect the Dots. . .to Become an Impact Player, Career Coaching: An Insider's Guide - Second Edition, America's Top Jobs for College Graduates, Planning Your Gap Year, Contemporary's Complete Pre-GED : A Comprehensive Review of the Skills Necessary for GED Study, Core Curriculum Introductory Craft Skills (Contren Curricula, Annotated Instructor's Guide), The Graduate Career Handbook, Operating Engineer - Stationary (Career Examination Series) (Career Examination Series, No C-555), Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job!, Solving the Professional Development Puzzle: 101 Solutions for Career and Life Planning, Doctors and Their Careers, Success is a Routine, Making Career Decisions that Count: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition)Top headlines: Justices begin session with smoking suit: The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday suggesting it would side with tobacco companies in their fight to block lawsuits over deceptive marketing of "light" cigarettes. ›17:47 Springsteen rocks Obama rallies in Philly, Ohio: Bruce Springsteen called the Bush presidency "a disaster" and said many Americans have lost faith in the American dream. ›23:14 5 Oct, Sun High court's future hinges on election: The greater likelihood of liberal justices' retirement means a McCain win in November could tilt Supreme Court's balance. ›04:27 Hamlin out of hospital after hard 'Dega wreck: Denny Hamlin has been released from from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital Monday morning following a hard crash at Talladega Superspeedway. ›15:48 Best bets: Grissom's long goodbye begins: "CSI" isn't ending, but star William Petersen only has 10 episodes left. 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