The New Professional's Toolkit

The New Professional's Toolkit
Author: Bethan Ruddock
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1856047687

This practical toolkit will be your guide towards career success and fulfilment as you make your way in the information sector. Each chapter captures the expert advice of rising stars in the profession and across sectors, interweaving case studies that illustrate how to thrive in the information sector, take control of your professional development and get to grips with every area of information work. A companion website provides further information, resources and links. Comprehensive coverage includes: • adapting to your new environment and assessing and developing your skills • getting involved in professional networks and promoting yourself • project planning and management • meeting your users needs and measuring success • using online and social media tools • marketing your service • developing technical skills • information ethics and IP • working with stakeholders • how to generate funding for your service • writing and speaking, conferences and professional organisations • further qualifications, mentoring and moving on. Readership: This is the ultimate resource for all new professionals across the information disciplines, and internationally, whether in archives, academic, public or special libraries. It’s also an ideal introduction to information work for LIS students who want to be prepared for the world of work.

The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You

The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You
Author: Mark A. Herschberg
Publisher: Cognosco Media LLC
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780960100705

Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, career planning--all skills critical to your career success. But did anyone ever teach you these skills? The Career Toolkit will help you master these vital skills and yield outsized returns for your career and your income. Every chapter is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success. It's a multivitamin for your career! The Career Toolkit shows you how to design and execute your personal plan to achieve the career you deserve, including: Negotiating a job offer. (This alone will pay for the book.) Creating a dynamic career strategy. Building a high-value network. Developing the fundamental leadership skills that matter most. Managing teams effectively, even as an individual contributor.

Building Your I.T. Career

Building Your I.T. Career
Author: Matthew Moran
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2013-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132978237

Building Your I.T. Career A Complete Toolkit for a Dynamic Career in Any Economy Second Edition Break in. Move up. Earn more. Stay on top. Get the I.T. career edge you need right now! “They” say it’s tougher now to build a great career in I.T. “They” complain about outsourcing, cutbacks, and the tough economy. Don’t complain: act! Right this minute, outstanding I.T. jobs and careers are out there: You just have to know how to get them! This 100% I.T.-focused, up-to-the-minute toolkit delivers all the insider skills and insights you need to get your next great tech job now—and build lifelong success in the industry. It will help you plan your career, set achievable goals, organize them into practical action items, and make it happen! Totally updated for today’s newest hiring trends, Building Your I.T. Career, Second Edition is packed with examples from real I.T. pros and hiring decision-makers, it will help you get in, get promoted, get raises, and stay in demand—one easy step at a time! -- Focus on the I.T. careers you'll be happiest and most successful in -- Discover what opportunity looks like today—and how to take advantage of it -- Adopt the proactive attitudes associated with I.T. career success -- Master the personal communication skills you need to get a job—and succeed when you have it -- Develop more effective cover letters and resumes, and interview brilliantly -- Break in to I.T. for the first time -- Build your social media and offline networks, and use them to supercharge your job search -- Negotiate salary and employment agreements that get you what you deserve -- Learn (and do) what it takes to get promoted -- Take advantage of telecommuting and consulting options -- Move into management (if that's what you want) -- Use mentors and career coaches effectively -- Become a high-priced hourly consultant -- Gain the personal financial discipline that liberates you to choose your best career options -- Make yourself nearly indispensable

The New PR Toolkit

The New PR Toolkit
Author: Deirdre Breakenridge
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780130090256

The New PR Toolkit is a compelling preview of the present and the future of public relations, and a practical roadmap for becoming a strategic communicator.

The Production Manager's Toolkit

The Production Manager's Toolkit
Author: Cary Gillett
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317558987

"Our theater world is so much better with this book in it, and even better with Cary and Jay at the helm." –David Stewart, Director of Production for the Guthrie Theater The Production Manager’s Toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to a career in theatrical and special event production for new and aspiring professionals, given by expert voices in the field. The book discusses management techniques, communication skills, and relationship building tactics to create effective and successful production managers. With a focus on management theory, advice from top production managers provide insights into budgeting, scheduling, meetings, hiring, maintaining safety, and more. Through interviews and case studies, the history and techniques of production management are explored throughout a variety of entertainment venues: theatre, dance, opera, and special events. The book includes references, tools, templates, and checklists; and a companion website contains downloadable paperwork and links to other useful resources such as unions, venues, and vendors. This book is written for student and professional production managers.

Introducing RDA

Introducing RDA
Author: Chris Oliver
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838948618

Since Oliver's guide was first published in 2010, thousands of LIS students, records managers, and catalogers and other library professionals have relied on its clear, plainspoken explanation of RDA: Resource Description and Access as their first step towards becoming acquainted with the cataloging standard.

Ultimate Sales Tool Kit

Ultimate Sales Tool Kit
Author: William Miller
Publisher: Amacom Books
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780814474006

Ultimate Sales Tool Kit provides a potent energy boost for sales professionals eager to improve their bottom lines. Moving beyond the few basic strategies most salesprofessionals tend to rely on, the book not only provides readers with an entire tool box of techniques, but shows them how and when to use them. With the help of this uniqueand powerful guide, sales professionals will be able to identify the best move to make at any given moment, and use all their skills...not just the ones they think they’re good at.

Transformational Tool Kit for Front Line Nurses, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America

Transformational Tool Kit for Front Line Nurses, An Issue of Nursing Clinics of North America
Author: Francisca Cisneros Farrar
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323356834

Nurses are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Healthcare delivery models are transforming that require adaptive and flexible nurses. The primary role of the frontline nurse is providing patient care. To be successful in this role it requires numerous competencies supported by evidence-based data. Frontline bedside nurses are fundamental to the success of value-based care delivery models. These transformational models rely on robust nursing contributions for success. Most frontline nurses don't understand value-based care models and their role in promoting positive outcomes for reimbursement. This issue is a tool kit to empower our frontline nurses for challenges they are facing with transformations occurring at their bedside practice site. The articles will be a best practice handbook for frontline nurses by providing resources to develop clinical skills to provide safe, quality, and accountable patient care needed for new healthcare delivery models.

Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit

Harnessing Professional Development for Educators: A Global Toolkit
Author: Alison Fox
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335251412

This book celebrates the benefits of continuing professional development (CPD) for your growth as an educator. The authors weave together an international selection of case studies to offer CPD which transcends educational trends. Thematic chapters put your professional identity at the heart of the book and encourage you to take control of your career development, allowing you to show leadership whatever your role. This book: •Challenges you to reflect on and evaluate your experiences of professional development •Includes reflection points and personal development planning to support your reading •Places equity and social justice at the heart of effective personal development •Encompasses the challenges and opportunities of embracing digital technologies •Illustrates professional development for leaders and educators in a range of cultures and contexts Drawing on multiple global perspectives of professional development in education and training from early childhood to higher education settings, this book offers strategies for all career stages: from the student educator to the experienced senior leader and is the perfect fuel for career development. “As well as being a valuable contribution to professional knowledge in this field, this resource can be thoroughly recommended to educational professionals as a guide to practice.” Professor David Egan, Emeritus Professor of Education, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK “This book is well written and is crucial for any educator at any stage of the education landscape.” Paul Miller, PhD, Professor of Educational Leadership & Social Justice Alison Fox, Helen Hendry and Deborah Cooper are colleagues in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at The Open University, UK, and teach on the Masters in Education programme, in particular the Leadership and Management and Learning and Teaching pathways. They engage in international research associated with professional learning.