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Every manager and human resources department has seen it time and time again--candidates whom they viewed from across the table as promising individuals loaded with potential turning out to be disappointing and underwhelming employees. Meanwhile, numerous resources are wasted yet again while the company continues to seek out the right fits for their needs. Is this just a rite of passage for all businesses, or is there a way to simplify the hiring...
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"The job search has changed dramatically over the last twenty years and managing your career once you have the job is even more complex. If you're going to work ten more years, count on having three or more jobs. Twenty years? Seven or more. Thirty years? Don't bother counting ... When Can You Start? guides you in the development of skills, techniques, and processes that raise you above your peers on the job and cause hiring managers to see you as...
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40 Interview Icebergs will help you to be more successful in interviews and get the job that you really want. So many people go for interviews and sail along merrily before steering straight into the iceberg that sinks their application there and then. Some icebergs are obvious; some less so. But isn't it nice to know what they are? You'll find 8 'Iceberg Zones' in this book: All are deadly. That's why Michael Heath has approached recruitment and...
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"Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross's Talent offers strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do you find talent with a creative spark? To what extent can you predict human creativity, or is human creativity something irreducible before our eyes, perhaps to be spotted or glimpsed by intuition, but unique each time it appears? The art and science of talent search get at exactly those questions. Renowned economist Tyler...
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Why should only hiring managers and recruiters decide your job destiny? Be empowered at every step of the hiring process, understand your own skills and priorities, and find the company that can give you what you want. No matter where you are in your career journey, it's time you were in control.
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In Get Paid What You're Worth, Robin L. Pinkley and Greogry B. Northcraft tell you how you can begin getting paid what you're worth- today!
-Learn why there may be more money available for you than you think
-Find out how to "expand the pie" so you earn higher compensation
-Get the confidence to turn your strategic thinking into specific action
-Benefit from a panel of negotiations experts and their decades of experience
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An autobiography of the bookseller, library collector, man of letters, and historian of the American West edited by his great-great granddaughter.
A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832—1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a "history factory," he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents,...
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Everything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. In A Ph.D. Is Not Enough!, physicist Peter J. Feibelman lays out a rational path to a fulfilling long-term research career. He offers...
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"Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why. Drawing on...
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"Historians have noted that gay identity is central to the history of capitalism, but because of an assumption that workplaces were "straight spaces" in which queer people passed, historians of sexuality have had almost nothing to say about work, instead directing their attention to the street and to the bar. This book presents employment and the accompanying fear of job loss as one of the most salient features of queer life for most of the twentieth...
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"When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she's on the verge of death-until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don's employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn-and keep-the family's favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor's foundations. To save the woman she loves,...
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Hate your job? Ready to quit?
Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit?
Is your boss being a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit?
If any of these scenarios apply to you, you are facing a crucial career moment. Mistakes and misinformation will cost you dearly.
In Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired, celebrated attorney Donna Ballman provides winning answers to these and many more tough questions, such as: I think they're...
14) The do-over
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"Bestselling author Lily Lee is on a short deadline to deliver her new career guide How to Land the Perfect Job, and she's been interviewing at all the top companies around town. But when she's offered a coveted position at her dream company, the employer's background check reveals she never actually finished her college degree. Unbelievably, her worst nightmare has come true. Lily returns to her alma mater to relive her senior year of college, after...
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Green cards, visas, and more: What every immigrant needs to know Want to live, work, or travel in the United States? U.S. Immigration Made Easy has helped tens of thousands of people get a visa, green card, or other immigration status. You'll learn: whether you and your family qualify for a short-term visa, permanent U.S. residence, or protection from deportation, how to obtain, fill out, and submit the necessary forms and documents, insider strategies...
16) Far to go
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"When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta,...
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"An easy-to-follow, nine-step process for how to land your dream job and cut through the noise of job-searching in the 21st century. Banging your head against the wall about the job search? Wondering why nobody's even bothering to send you a rejection letter (much less an interview request)? You are not alone. This process is a beast, but there's good news: #ENTRYLEVELBOSS is the book for you. This is an easy-to-follow roadmap for transforming yourself...
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"Reynold Levy has spent countless hours advising hundreds of aspirants on how to identify and successfully compete to fill meaningful jobs. Drawing on his extensive career in the non-profit, commercial, and public service realms, Levy will help you think about your future creatively and prepare for it resourcefully. How to network naturally and adeptly. How to interview effectively. How to perform well in your current job. He will offer you a recipe...
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This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona. Volkman was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio. His pain...
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"The transition to parenthood is one of the most life-altering and destabilizing life events that adults experience, even those with significant financial and social resources. We commonly hear about dual-career, professional couples coping with the wage penalties associated with new motherhood or a woman's career being derailed on the "mommy track." But we know much less about how low-wage, employed mothers and fathers manage the demands of full-time...