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Up Is Not the Only Way. Rethinking Career Mobility Move up or move out. When those two options appear to be the only ones, dissatisfaction grows and engagement suffers. In decades of studying careers around the globe, Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart have found that, in fact, there are more options. And rethinking career mobility can lead you to them! Career mobility isn't just about moving to a new city or country. It's about stretching,...
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"What does it mean to "go to work" when you don't actually leave the house? This is the ultimate guide for remote workers who want to stay engaged as team members, maintain robust work relationships, and keep an eye on their long-term career goals"--
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"Even before the coronavirus hit, remote work was growing at nearly 30 percent per year, and now it's just a fact of life. There are many millions of people who once worked at a central...
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What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don't. Having a lot of different interests, projects and curiosities doesn't make you a "jack-of-all-trades, master of none." Your endless curiosity doesn't mean you are broken or flaky....
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In this accessible, prescriptive, and widely applicable manual, Google's first engineering director and current Innovation Agitator Emeritus provides critical advice for rethinking how we launch a new idea, product, or business, insights to help successfully beat the law of market failure: that most new products will fail, even if competently executed.
Millions of people around the world are working to introduce new ideas. Some will turn out to be...
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"The Right--and Wrong--Stuff is a candid, unvarnished guide to the bumpy road to success. The shocking truth is that 98 percent of us have at least one career-derailment risk factor, and half to two-thirds actually go off the rails. And the reason why people get fired, demoted, or plateau is because they let the wrong stuff act out, not because they lack talent, energy, experience, or credentials. Carter Cast himself had all the right stuff for a...
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Once upon a time, you probably learned the thrill of a good day's work and were inspired to work harder and accomplish more. Then the honeymoon ended, burnout set in, and you began going through the motions uninspired. Wouldn't you love to feel as engaged and energized as you were on day one? You can! The key is to quit waiting for it to happen and take control of the process yourself.
In Find the Fire, discover how you can shake off the malaise...
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An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get and keep the job you want-from an outsider whose been there and done it, a woman who went from being a broke, divorced, college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.
Jennifer Romolini started her career as an awkward twenty-seven-year-old misfit, navigated her way through New York media and became a boss-an editor-in-chief, an editorial director, and a vice president-all...
8) Hiding in the bathroom: an introvert's roadmap to getting out there (when you'd rather stay home)
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Aarons-Mele offers practical tips to help readers build strong relationships and achieve their own definition of professional success. She includes exercises to help readers evaluate their own work/life fit and manage anxiety. By taking control and build your own version of success, you'll build a fantastic, prosperous career and a balanced, happy life-- on your own terms.
The marketing guru and host of the Forbes.com podcast of the same name challenges...
9) Friend of a friend: understanding the hidden networks that can transform your life and your career
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"Burkus shows that most of your best connections do not come from close friends but rather from distant, even long-forgotten contacts; that it's the colleagues and influential acquaintances of your best friends who will play a major role in developing your connections; and that your most valuable network in business has much more to do with how you develop these secondary sources in order to springboard your career"--
"Handing out business cards?...
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At age 50+, when many people confront the challenges of supporting families and saving enough for retirement, rebranding and career reinvention become more important than ever. Thriving at 50+ is branding authority Wendy Marx's guide on doing just that in a society that isn't always kind to older people.
Providing a framework for rebranding and reinvention, the book reveals how to find purpose and revitalize your career and life for your next act....
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Find new angles and new paths for your life and career in subjects like:- Entrepreneurship- New technologies- Personal Marketing- Networking- Creativity- Behavior- Communication- Quality of Life- Exposure- Resilience- And much more...- In Moving On the master storyteller delivers a truckload of insights into marketing, life, career and business culture. The wit and elegance that Mario Persona brings to his texts make this book a unique entertainment...
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Through their extensive experience in film, music, audio, writing, and design, Bob & Mary Blinn have created a new and exciting program to help you establish a successful career in the arts. This booklet offers a clear and concise plan of action for those considering a profession in the fields of art, film, theater, music, dance, writing, television and more. Putting Creativity To Work offers a real-world look at the procedures necessary to choose...
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The college years are often referred to as "the best years of your life." Author Frank J. Hanna believes your best years are still ahead of you, but only if you have a strategy for living that goes beyond what you learned in school. According to Hanna, wealth and success are not what you think. Drawing on a lifetime of business experience, he proposes a radically different approach. He shows that wealth is not merely money, competition has a higher...
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Outcome-based design (OBEL) for experiential learning, work-integrated learning, and career programming is a practical evidence-informed guide for stakeholders and coordinators. By focusing on the intended outcomes of stakeholders, OBEL offers flexibility in activities, synergies between outcomes, and alignment with assessment and evaluation. For coordinators and educators faced with shifting contexts and priorities, OBEL offers approaches for communicating...
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One of the most important responsibilities of parenting is to assist children in making good career decisions. The book is designed for parents, who would like to understand the basics of the career search process so they can help in this process.
Elements of the career search examined here are career interests, skills and abilities, work values, educational levels, and age-appropriate activities parents and children can do together.
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The choice of a career is one of the most fundamental choices in a student's life. One cannot, therefore, let one's CAREER CHOICE be left to chance. One needs to consider carefully before one embraces a particular career or profession. This book is, meant to enlighten students on the details of various careers in order to help them choose one that corresponds to their aptitudes and interests. The book aims to help students both, to become acquainted...
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"Stand!" covers the many ways we are able to build our self-reliance especially during times that seem to test our abilities. How to delete worry, not that the bait from others, gain peace with acceptance, prepare so not to despair and choose to be kind. Learn what choices we can make to build a life that fits us well at this moment under any circumstance.
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The lowdown on what it takes to keep-and make a success of-that first job, this book speaks to beginners like the mentor they don't yet have, telling them in plain language how to make their first year a positive experience: from making the boss happy to getting along with coworkers, coping with moral dilemmas, and knowing when it's time to move on.
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“Survival Guide for Black Boys” is an excellent home training guide to help teach young African American boys to do what many adults may take for granted as commonsense skills. These basic social and core values-regardless of a child's socioeconomic background, ethnicity, culture, or heritage-should be taught early in life in order to develop and enhance the quality of his life.
This book is designed for young males in grades K-3. It can enhance...
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