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22) The gig is up
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A very human tech doc that uncovers the real costs of the platform economy through the lives of workers from around the world for companies including Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo.
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Whether you're looking for a first job, re-entering the market, or planning a career change, the author's unique Target Job Deconstruction method provides you with a roadmap to professional success utilizing the latest job search strategies for the digital age. This new edition explains everything from building a keyword-rich online profile to social media networking to accepting an offer. You'll also learn how to : create resumes that get results...
Author
Publisher
ISLA Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Corporate America has been discarding its Baby Boomer employees like yesterday's newspaper. This book is your secret weapon to avoid becoming one of the victims of illegal age discrimination depriving you of a meaningful and well-paid job in your prime earnings period of your life. Explore a host of tips, techniques, strategies and tactics to achieve meaningful employment for a corporation, a consulting firm, or even working for yourself. This book...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Description
If someone you know is living and working with schizophrenia, their life is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. Baldwin makes a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group in the labor market. She looks at societal factors that affect employment outcomes for persons with serious mental illness, and then...
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Series
Language
English
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“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.” —Tom Perrotta, New York Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR and Boston Globe
Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."
Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne...
29) Temporary
Author
Series
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more personal than doing your job."
This riveting quest,
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Series
Boxcar children volume 19
Language
English
Description
When Benny and Henry get summer jobs at a department store in town, they don't expect to be solving mysteries at work. But when an expensive vase disappears, the salespeople receive strange notes, and the jewelry display is tampered with, it's up to Benny to uncover the truth!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"No matter how good you look, how much research you've done, or how perfectly your qualifications match the job description, if you're not prepared with great answers to the toughest interview questions, you won't get the job. [Here] is a manual that will help you home in on exactly what the interviewer is trying to learn--with each and every question he or she asks"--Amazon.com.
36) Resumes for the rest of us: secrets from the pros for job seekers with unconventional career paths
Author
Publisher
Career Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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