Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job


Book Description

Whether young people are seeking a part-time job, internship, summer job, or their first full-time job, this workbook can teach them how to approach their job search on the right foot and make the most of their employment experience. This outstanding, best-selling workbook gives students a full understanding of how to identify their skills, document their experiences and prepare a resume, excel in job interviews, survive on the job, and much more. This third edition includes updated career information and more content dedicated to job retention. SCANS skills have been incorporated as well as unique topics covering entrepreneurship and computer-based applications. Information is also included on digital portfolios and using the Internet in the job search. Central to the book's effectiveness is Michael Farr's philosophy of self-directed attitudes and behaviors. Students will gain an understanding of the entire process while building confidence in their ability to market themselves to employers.










A Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job


Book Description

Uses humor to explain how to identify one's job skills and communicate these skills to employers.




Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job


Book Description

Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job is the best-selling job search book for high school students for one reason: it clearly, concisely, and thoroughly covers all essential job search topics, including identifying skills, writing a resume, contacting employers, completing applications, and excelling in job interviews. Whether students are looking for a part-time job, internship, summer job, or full-time work, Young Person's Guide helps them document their experiences, develop their skills, and increase their comfort level and confidence with the job search and beginning employment. Central to the book's effectiveness is the philosophy of self-directed attitudes and behaviours. This new edition discusses real experiences of real students in their job search. The stories increase students' interest in the topic and inspire them to think creatively about their own job search. The fourth edition also reflects technological and cultural trends that are relevant in today's job market, including: how to use technology and social media to the best advantage; appropriate and effective use of formal communication; vocational and technical schools; community colleges; and youth corrections. This edition has been completely updated for today's economic, cultural, and technological job search issues.




The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-1997


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A reprint of the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook, 1996-97 edition.




Work Won't Love You Back


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A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.







Great Resume, Application, and Interview Skills


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The skills everyone needs to create job opportunities, motivate their job searches, and enter the world of work are thoroughly analyzed and explained in Resume, Application, and Interview Skills. Readers learn what a resume is, the different types of resumes, how to write resumes, describe their skills, format the final product, read classified/want ads, write cover letters and thank-you letters, fill out applications, and learn strategies for networking, informational interviewing, and interviewing for specific jobs.




Ask a Manager


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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together