Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003

Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003
Author: Margaret Riley Dikel
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2002-04-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071400540

The essential guide to finding a job online This definitive guide to harnessing the Internet's powerful research capabilities has been thoroughly updated to include the latest online job searching techniques. Using Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2002-2003, absolutely anyone with access to a computer can immediately conduct a timesaving, low-cost, high-impact job search. Copublished with the Public Library Association, the Guide to Internet Job Searching offers you expert advice on how to find and use online bulletin boards, job listings, recruiter information, discussion groups, and resume-posting services. Its easy-to-use format and user-friendly tone make this an excellent tool if you are an experienced surfer and Internet newbie. Includes: Local, state-by-state, government, and international resource listings and opportunities Online career resources Specific career path information Reviews of some of the more popular job listing and recruiting websites "Simply the best thing in print on the subject of using the Internet in your job search . . . amazing and breathtakingly thorough . . . covers all the resources available today." --Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

Training for Life

Training for Life
Author: Fred J. Hecklinger
Publisher: Kendall Hunt
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780787292461

Your Career, Your Life

Your Career, Your Life
Author: Rosemary Raddon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351870610

Career development must be based on an understanding both of the working context and of one’s own personal needs. This forms the basis of guidance given in this book, which includes contributions from three other specialists in career management and organizational dynamics. Your Career, Your Life begins by exploring what work offers the individual, reasons why we do it, positive and negative experiences and the effects of personal and external drivers. The author then looks closely at the individual’s relationship with the employer organization and at global, particularly technological, trends in the information world, explaining how to assess career satisfaction and choose techniques for getting ’unstuck’. A variety of support and self-assessment processes (such as shadowing, mentoring, performance monitoring, psychometric testing) are presented to progress the reader towards actively managing choices and making moves. The author guides us through the different stages of the job search and application process, suggesting self-development and learning methods for defining career needs, whether full time, freelance or part time, as well as ways of assessing competencies and attributes in relation to the job market. In the second part of this book Angela Abell focuses on changing employer needs, ’the knowledge economy’ and the future profile and skills of information professionals. Rossana Kendall, quoting numerous examples, offers empowering tools for creating space to think positively, for developing constructive dialogues and so managing negativity and change. She explores the underlying factors governing how we handle change and the other complexities of work and life, and their implications for careers. In the final chapter differing attitudes to change are explored by Liz Roberts, with particular emphasis on senior management roles, and the challenges and rewards they, or the option of downshifting, can bring. A series of case studies highlights di

The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development

The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development
Author: Diane Kaye Kovacs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Covers how to build an electronic library and how to update and expand it. Each chapter addresses selecting and evaluating web-based resources in subject areas such as business, social science, health, medicine and law, and offers guidelines for an electronic library collection development plan.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-2003

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-2003
Author: United States. Department of Labor
Publisher: JIST Works
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781563708503

This book is an up-to-date resource for career information, giving details on all major jobs in the United States.

Career Transition Pocketbook

Career Transition Pocketbook
Author: Keith Corbin
Publisher: Management Pocketbooks
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1907077596

A practical, easy-to-use guide for job changers and job seekers, The Career Transition Pocketbook details seven key stages to the career transition process: self-questioning, goal setting, preparing a career history, networking, applying for jobs, getting ready for interviews and evaluating job offers. Each stage is described in a separate chapter.

Library Journal

Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1032
Release: 2004
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Conquering Your Workplace

Conquering Your Workplace
Author: Dilip Saraf
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0595374867

Today's growingly precarious workplace presents unprecedented challenges that perplex even veteran employees. With the workforce going global, the workplace virtual, the payrolls leaner, and the organizational hierarchies flatter, stressed-out and discomposed workers want to understand success mantras. With the inexorable workplace-demographic shift, age disparity is creating a difficult-to-comprehend employee dynamic. Yet, nothing has changed fundamentally that should discourage a savvy professional. Conquering provides that bedrock foundation, demystifying how today's organizations function and their workers behave, so that you can understand-even predict-what is happening. Learn why: Managers make wrong assumptions about employees It takes skill to manage your manager and to know their functions When peers hijack your agenda, you must coolly unleash your wrath Career management requires a road map and chutzpah Apprenticing in the right job sets your career trajectory Learning global cultures galvanizes your career Everyone must know how to handle customers Avoiding organizational sticky wickets can unblock success Knowing when you're in trouble is key to what's next Developing broader job perspectives can be liberating Real-life insights and object lessons, handy tools, identifiable scenarios, and timeless treatment, make Conquering an indispensable playbook for today's global workforce.

Your Career

Your Career
Author: Julie Griffin Levitt
Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780538727082

Build bridges from classroom to career! Practical assignments throughout connect students directly with the business community, employers and the Internet. This best-selling book provides everything students need to gain competitive advantage in the workplace. It is ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing. Your Career: How to Make it Happen provides thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, job search/interviewing and career building strategies. The text also contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic, traditiona, and web resumes as well as cover letters.