The Psychology of Occupations


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The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers


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Compelling fiction starts with characters who have well-crafted layers that make them memorable, relatable, and fascinating. But trying to convey those layers often results in bulky descriptions that cause readers to skim. Occupations, though, can cover a lot of characterization ground, revealing personality traits, abilities, passions, and motivations. Dig deeper, and a career can hint at past trauma, fears, and even the character’s efforts to run from—or make up for—the past. Select a job that packs a powerful punch. Inside The Occupation Thesaurus, you’ll find: * Informative profiles on popular and unusual jobs to help you write them with authority * Believable conflict scenarios for each occupation, giving you unlimited possibilities for adding tension at the story and scene level * Advice for twisting the stereotypes often associated with these professions * Instruction on how to use jobs to characterize, support story structure, reinforce theme, and more * An in-depth study on how emotional wounds and basic human needs may influence a character’s choice of occupation * A brainstorming tool to organize the various aspects of your character’s personality so you can come up with the best careers for them Choose a profession for your character that brings more to the table than just a paycheck. With over 120 entries in a user-friendly format, The Occupation Thesaurus is an entire job fair for writers.




Visual Occupations


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In Visual Occupations Gil Z. Hochberg shows how the Israeli Occupation of Palestine is driven by the unequal access to visual rights, or the right to control what can be seen, how, and from which position. Israel maintains this unequal balance by erasing the history and denying the existence of Palestinians, and by carefully concealing its own militarization. Israeli surveillance of Palestinians, combined with the militarized gaze of Israeli soldiers at places like roadside checkpoints, also serve as tools of dominance. Hochberg analyzes various works by Palestinian and Israeli artists, among them Elia Suleiman, Rula Halawani, Sharif Waked, Ari Folman, and Larry Abramson, whose films, art, and photography challenge the inequity of visual rights by altering, queering, and manipulating dominant modes of representing the conflict. These artists' creation of new ways of seeing—such as the refusal of Palestinian filmmakers and photographers to show Palestinian suffering or the Israeli artists' exposure of state manipulated Israeli blindness —offers a crucial gateway, Hochberg suggests, for overcoming and undoing Israel's militarized dominance and political oppression of Palestinians.




Dictionary of Occupational Titles


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Supplement to 3d ed. called Selected characteristics of occupations (physical demands, working conditions, training time) issued by Bureau of Employment Security.




Work, Jobs, and Occupations


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Various editions of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles have served as the Employment Service's basic tool for matching workers and jobs. The Dictionary of Occupational Titles has also played an important role in establishing skill and training requirements and developing Employment Service testing batteries for specific occupations. However, the role of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles has been called into question as a result of planned changes in the operation of the Employment Service. A plan to automate the operations of Employment Service offices using a descriptive system of occupational keywords rather than occupational titles has led to a claim that a dictionary of occupational titles and the occupational research program that produces it are outmoded. Since the automated keyword system does not rely explicitly on defined occupational titles, it is claimed that the new system would reduce costs by eliminating the need for a research program to supply the occupational definitions. In light of these considerations, the present volume evaluates the future need for the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.




Mothering Occupations


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This Print on Demand title is available exclusively through Amazon.com. This groundbreaking text is the first to explore the occupations of mothering through research and practice by occupational therapists and other health care professionals.







The Complete List of American Jobs


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This book, The Complete List of American Jobs, is a companion book to America's Best Jobs: Ranked Out of 156 Million Jobs Across 820 Occupations. Both books are written for the readership who wants to find out about the best jobs in the United States. Both books are based on data that is of unmatched breadth and quality. The data was collected on 156 million jobs across 820 occupations by the U.S. government, newly released in May and October 2017. This is doubtlessly the most comprehensive, most authoritative, and most up to date source of employment information. No other source, in public or private domains, could come anywhere close. This book, The Complete List of American Jobs, has a much narrower focus and complements America's Best Jobs. Instead of summarizing observations and deriving insights from employment data, this book presents the data itself, that is, the complete list of the 820 American occupations. With this book, you can simply go through the occupation list and form a complete picture of the American occupational landscape. You can also use this book as a reference book. When you have an occupation in mind, whether it is something you just heard from a friend or it is the job you currently have, pick up this book and look it up, and see where it sits on the list and how it stacks up against other occupations that might interest you. In this book, for each occupation, the following information is provided: Median Wage Ninetieth Percentile Wage Number of Existing Positions Projected Growth Between 2016 and 2026 Typical Education Requirement for Entry Into the Occupation. Enjoy the book (and its companion book America's Best Jobs), at the mere cost of a couple cups of coffee or a quick bite for lunch in town---This is your best investment that will benefit you through earning a lifetime salary worth millions of dollars in an occupation that is right for you!




An Introduction to the Sociology of Work and Occupations


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The Sociology of Work and Occupations, Second Edition connects work and occupations to the key subjects of sociological inquiry: social and technological change, race, ethnicity, gender, social class, education, social networks, and modes of organization. In 15 chapters, Rudi Volti succinctly but comprehensively covers the changes in the world of work, encompassing everything from gathering and hunting to working in today′s Information Age. This book introduces students to a highly relevant analysis of society today. In this new and updated edition, globalization and technology are each given their own chapter and discussed in great depth.




Occupational Outlook Handbook


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Describes 250 occupations which cover approximately 107 million jobs.