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Provides career resources, resume and interview help.
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xiii, 183 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career. Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun - again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist...
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242 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Many people think that dreaming big means you quit your day job, and sell everything you own. What if there were a different way? This book is based on Acuff's experience in cultivating a dream job that changed his life -- and the world in the process.
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x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Starting on the first day you got paid to scoop ice cream or restock shelves, you've had the chance to develop the four elements all great careers have in common: relationships, skills, character, and hustle. You already have each of those, to one degree or another. Now it's time to amplify them and apply them in a new way, creating a Career Savings Account"--Amazon.com.
You already have everything you need for an amazing career. In fact, you've...
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xi, 242 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Don't Keep Your Day Job will get you fired up, ready to rip it open and use your zone of genius to add a little more sparkle to this world. Cathy Heller, host of the popular podcast Don't Keep Your Day Job, shares wisdom, anecdotes, and practical suggestions from successful creative entrepreneurs and experts, including actress Jenna Fischer on rejection, Gretchen Rubin on the keys to happiness, Jen Sincero on having your best badass life, and so much...
8) How to have a good day: harnessing the power of behavioral science to transform our working lives
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360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb, business consultant and former partner at powerhouse McKinsey and Co., brings together the findings on behavioral economics and neuroscience -- subjects that have led to dozens of bestselling books over the last decade -- to show us how we can use these revolutionary new findings to improve how we work. Organized around seven factors that determine whether we have a good day at work, Webb offers us specific...
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258 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A practical guide to thriving at work, based on a popular course offered at the Standford Graduate School of Business"--Dust jacket flap.
"In today's workplace, the traditional boundaries between 'work' and 'personal' are neither realistic nor relevant. Office hours bleed into evenings and weekends; e-mails and calls can be fielded from home; and the stresses of life -- young kids, aging parents, financial hardships -- don't evaporate when we walk...
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292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"A book that shows how to find meaning and satisfaction in your work life"--
Burnett and Evans demonstrate how to build positive change wherever you are in your career. Design thinking can transform your present job, and your experience of work in general, by utilizing curiosity, reframing, radical collaboration, awareness, prototyping, and storytelling. Here they show you how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive, engaged, meaningful,...
11) The go-getter girl's guide: get what you want in work and life (and look great while you're at it)
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From networking and the importance of self-education to wardrobe building and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, "The Go-Getter Girl's Guide" offers an engaging career and lifestyle handbook for young women struggling to navigate the modern work world and post collegiate life.
12) Off balance: getting beyond the work-life balance myth to personal and professional satisfaction
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The research upon which this book is based shows overwhelmingly that people want satisfaction much more than they want balance. And yet, one of the dominant topics in the area of personal and professional development for the past twenty years has been work-life balance.
“Off Balance” is more than just a book. It presents a system that Matthew Kelly uses with his Fortune 500 clients, his team, and himself to drive increasing levels of satisfaction...
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vi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Through inspiring stories of those who have successfully landed their dream career, as well as actionable tools, exercises, and thought experiments, he'll guide you through today's vast menu of career options to discover the work perfectly suited to your unique interests, skills, and experiences" from Amazon.
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v, 420 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"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...
15) Bullshit jobs
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xxvii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
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"'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is...
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viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance. Each of Hansen's seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories...
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381 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"Para descubrir qué es para ti el éxito debes hacerte dos preguntas esenciales: ¿Quién soy yo? y ¿Qué quiero hacer con el resto de mi vida? Las respuestas no podrán llegarte desde fuera. Para descubrir una respuesta que vaya más allá de las ideas convencionales de felicidad, fama y fortuna deberás buscar en tu corazón y encarar dichas preguntas con total sinceridad. No existe un sistema infalible que conduzca al éxito. Tu camino hacia...
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viii, 221 pages ; 22 cm
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In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness. The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but...
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