Successful Job Applications In A Week A Teach Yourself Guide

Author : Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1444158899

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Successful Job Applications In a Week A Teach Yourself Guide by Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt Pdf

Learn to submit successful job applications in just seven days and advance your career! Written by Pat Scudamore and Hilton Catt, a leading expert on appraisals as both coaches and HR practitioners, Successful Job Applications In a Week quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order apply successfully for a job. The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for--let this book put you on the fast track to success!

Author : Hilton Catt,Pat Scudamore,David McWhir,Mo Shapiro,Alison Straw
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781473605145

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Job Hunting in 4 Weeks by Hilton Catt,Pat Scudamore,David McWhir,Mo Shapiro,Alison Straw Pdf

Job Hunting In 4 Weeks is a comprehensive guide to finding and getting your perfect job giving you everything you need to know in one place. Made up of four bestselling books in one, this book delivers a complete course in job hunting. From crafting the perfect CV and finding the job of your dreams, to writing a great cover letter and winning at interview you'll discover all the tools, techniques and strategies you need to get your job hunting right. This book introduces you to the main themes and ideas of job hunting, giving you a knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises. Whether you choose to work through it like a 4 week course or dip in and out, Job Hunting In 4 Weeks is your fastest route to success: Week 1: CVs In A Week Week 2: Searching For Jobs In A Week Week 3: Successful Cover Letters In A Week Week 4: Succeeding At Interviews In A Week ABOUT THE SERIES In A Week books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the In A Week series covers the business topics that really matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book is structured as a seven-day course so that with just a little work each day, you will quickly master the subject. In a fast-changing world, this series enables readers not just to get up to speed, but to get ahead.

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553419429

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The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky Pdf

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Author : Wendy Hirsh,Charles Jackson
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444159240

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Planning Your Career In A Week by Wendy Hirsh,Charles Jackson Pdf

Planning your career just got easier Very few of us put much effort into planning for the kind of career we want. Thinking about where we are going at work is something we all need to do throughout our working lives. The nature of work and employment is always changing. When economic times are difficult, you need to show potential employers that you have something special to offer. You may also need to be more flexible in your plans. New kinds of jobs emerge all the time and many labour markets are becoming increasingly specialized. This means you need to find out more about the kinds of jobs that interest you, and you need to understand what employers are looking for and how people get these jobs. By working through a simple series of steps and exercises, you can help yourself to be clearer about what you want, what your options are, and how to move forward. Exercises in each chapter will help you build a collection of information and reflect on what you are learning about yourself and the process of career planning as you go along. Planning Your Career In A Week looks at one step in this process of career planning on each day of the week: Sunday: What do you want from work? Monday: What kind of job would you enjoy? Tuesday: What are you good at? Wednesday: Identifying your career options Thursday: Collecting information Friday: Making the choice Saturday: Taking the first steps

Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780399181825

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Ask a Manager by Alison Green Pdf

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

Author : Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444158915

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Job Applications In A Week by Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt Pdf

Getting hired just got easier You are about to discover everything you need to know about job applications and how to make them work. Starting on Sunday and going through to Saturday, you will learn the stages of a job application step by step so you build up a picture of what it takes to be successful. For many job applicants, what goes on behind employers' closed doors remains a hidden world but, by Saturday, you will have taught yourself how job applications are processed, what employers look for when they make up interview lists, and then, from the candidates they interview, who to shortlist and who to offer the job to. After considering what employers want and how you could meet their needs you will be able to formulate a plan for what needs to go into your CV, what you need to put in your cover letters and what you need to say about yourself on application forms. You will discover how to measure up the competition and how to make sure your name, and not someone else's, is on the interview list. You will also discover the importance of getting the right messages across in interviews - and what the right messages are. You will learn how to dictate the interview agenda to keep it on familiar territory where the best parts of your application will come out. You will learn to handle tough interview questions and to see what's behind them and what answers will impress the interviewer most. Once you've been shortlisted, you'll discover how to steer your application over the last hurdle and get the job offer you want. - Sunday: Defining the task - Monday: You and the image you present - Tuesday: Selection criteria - Wednesday: Getting interviews - Thursday: Going for interviews - Friday: Handling questions - Saturday: Getting shortlisted

Author : Hilton Catt
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1473609429

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Cover Letters in a Week: Teach Yourself by Hilton Catt Pdf

Cover Letters In A Week is a simple and straightforward guide to getting the result you want from your covering letter, giving you everything you really need to know in just seven short chapters. From making an impact, being 'employer friendly' and getting the design right, to beating the competition, unsolicited job applications and registering with recruitment agencies, you'll discover all of the dos and don'ts to successful cover letter writing. This book introduces you to the main themes and ideas of writing successful cover letters, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises. Whether you choose to read it in a week or in a single sitting, this is your fastest route to success: - Sunday: Understand the importance of first impressions and the common mistakes people make - Monday: Ensure your application is taken seriously with a cover letter that is concise, complements your CV and is targeted to the job you have applied for - Tuesday: Discover how to style and structure your cover letter with advice on forms of address, etiquette, fonts, margins and the importance of 'white space' - Wednesday: Design your cover letter to engage your audience and overcome the competition for advertised jobs - Thursday: Design a speculative cover letter to approach the invisible job market - Friday: Learn how to address cover letters to agencies and recruitment consultants - Saturday: Learn from your applications, whether successful or not, and develop your writing style for the future ABOUT THE SERIES In A Week books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the In A Week series covers the business topics that really matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book is structured as a seven-day course so that with just a little work each day, you will quickly master the subject. In a fast-changing world, this series enables readers not just to get up to speed, but to get ahead.

Author : Oliver Burkeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735232471

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author : Geoff Ribbens,Peter Maskrey
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444178937

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Finding Your Next Job in a Week: Teach Yourself Ebook Epub by Geoff Ribbens,Peter Maskrey Pdf

The ability to find a good job in a challenging market, is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Peter Maskrey and Geoff Ribbens, leading experts on business communcation, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order to secure the role that's right for you. The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!

Author : Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1444185802

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Teach Yourself: Successful Cover Letters in a Week by Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt Pdf

Sunday: Use research to test the strength of your ideas and identify your transferable skills. Monday: Understand the financial implications of changing your job and find ways to supplement your income. Tuesday: Overcome lack of skills and experience by gaining new qualifications and considering work experience. Wednesday: Assess the opportunities available within your company and convince your employers of your aspirations. Thursday: Create an effective CV for the outside job market and learn how to get noticed without experience. Friday: Explore your options when career change is forced on y.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913798

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ute-Christine Klehe PhD,Edwin van Hooft PhD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190903503

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The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search by Ute-Christine Klehe PhD,Edwin van Hooft PhD Pdf

Job search is and always has been an integral part of people's working lives. Whether one is brand new to the labor market or considered a mature, experienced worker, job seekers are regularly met with new challenges in a variety of organizational settings. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin A.J. van Hooft, The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search provides readers with one of the first comprehensive overviews of the latest research and empirical knowledge in the areas of job loss and job search. Multidisciplinary in nature, Klehe, van Hooft, and their contributing authors offer fascinating insight into the diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from which job loss and job search have been studied, such as psychology, sociology, labor studies, and economics. Discussing the antecedents and consequences of job loss, as well as outside circumstances that may necessitate a more rigorous job hunt, this Handbook presents in-depth and up-to-date knowledge on the methods and processes of this important time in one's life. Further, it examines the unique circumstances faced by different populations during their job search, such as those working job-to-job, the unemployed, mature job seekers, international job seekers, and temporary employed workers. Job loss and unemployment are among the worst stressors individuals can encounter during their lifetimes. As a result, this Handbook concludes with a discussion of the various types of interventions developed to aid the unemployed. Further, it offers readers important insights and identifies best practices for both scholars and practitioners working in the areas of job loss, unemployment, career transitions, outplacement, and job search.

Author : Ute-Christine Klehe,Edwin A. J. van Hooft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199764921

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The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search by Ute-Christine Klehe,Edwin A. J. van Hooft Pdf

Combining current knowledge from psychology, sociology, labor studies, and economics, The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of the knowledge and research on job loss and job search. It provides readers with suggestions for further research and offers hands-on practical advice.

Author : Hilton Catt
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1473607701

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Change Your Career in a Week: Teach Yourself by Hilton Catt Pdf

Changing careers just got easier Done properly, however, a change of career can be a rewarding and exhilarating experience and one you should never shrink from, particularly if the alternative is underachieving, stagnating in a dead-end job or doing work you no longer find interesting. This book teaches you all you need to know about crossing the bridge from one careerto another. This book is broken down into seven short lessons, one for each day of the week. It starts by putting your ideas to the test to see whether they are viable or not. Then, if they are, it goes on to show you what you need to do to move your plan from an outline in your head to a reality. Sometimes the challenges you'll face will be tough ones, but throughout the book you'll find practical advice and tips to help you when you get stuckand need to find a way forward. Whether you choose to read it in a week or in a single sitting, this is your fastest route to success: - Sunday: Use research to test the strength of your ideas and identify your transferable skills - Monday: Understand the financial implications of changing your job and find ways to supplement your income - Tuesday: Overcome lack of skills and experience by gaining new qualifications and considering work experience - Wednesday: Assess the opportunities available within your company and convince your employers of your aspirations - Thursday: Create an effective CV for the outside job market and learn how to get noticed without experience - Friday: Explore your options when career change is forced on you and use the temporary job market as your 'Trojan horse' - Saturday: Reduce your hours and responsibilities in your current job or find a career which is less demanding

Author : Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781444159332

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Job Hunting In A Week by Pat Scudamore,Hilton Catt Pdf

The ability to find the right job at the right time is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Pat Scudamore and Hilton Catt, leading experts on job hunting as both coaches and HR practitioners, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order find the right job for you. The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!