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Start Your Career: 5 Steps to Finding the Right Job after College

by Susan M. Katz

Start Your Career: 5 Steps to Finding the Right job After College provides the answer to the question all college students will face upon graduation: now what? In five steps, Professor Katz demonstrates how...

The A-Z of Careers and Jobs

by Susan Hodgson

From accountant to zoologist, this new edition of The A-Z of Careers & Jobs offers detailed insights into more than 300 career areas. For those looking for their first job after school or university, or for...

How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests: Essential Preparation for Numerical and Verbal Ability Tests Plus Personality Questionnaires

by Mike Bryon

How to Pass Graduate Psychometric Tests provides a huge bank of questions as well as advice and practice exercises to help you prepare for the rigorous tests used by employers, helping you to build up speed,...

This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want

by Andrea Kay & Bolles Richard Nelson

Ever wonder why you didn't get that job?

The AMA Dictionary of Business and Management

by George Thomas Kurian

From a trusted name in business, a major new dictionary to every key term in the field.

Instant LinkedIn Customization How-to

by Jain Anmol

Step-by step application of the features of LinkedIn provides a good grounding in creating effective résumés and optimizing your search. If you're looking for a job, genuinely interested in expanding your...

101 Toughest Interview Questions: And Answers That Win the Job!

by Daniel Porot & Frances Bolles Haynes

Nothing is more crucial to landing your dream job than a stellar performance in the all-important interview, that nerve-wracking final step to every job search. Extensively updated and revised for today's highly...

Wizard of Work: 88 Pages to Your Next Job

by Richard Gaither

Nearly a million job hunters have used premier trainer Dick Gaither's self-directed job-search material, which is available in book form for the first time. Dick's simple, straightforward approach, combined...

Double Outsiders: How Women of Color Can Succeed in Corporate America

by MBA Jessica Faye Carter JD

Double Outsiders examines the most important issues facing professional women of color (including black, Asian and South Asian, Latina, Middle Eastern, Native American, and multi-ethnic women) today. It clarifies...

I Just Love My Job!: The 7P Way to Satisfaction at Work

by Eugenio Grandi, Roy Calvert & Brian Durkin

Are you frustrated, burned-out, or bored at work? Ready for changes? If you can match your strongest drives with your job, you feel much more satisfied. And you perform better. But you must know what drives...

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

by Cal Newport

In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice.

Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most...

Publishing from Your PhD: Negotiating a Crowded Jungle

by Dr Nicola F. Johnson

Publishing from your PhD precisely focuses on providing early career researchers with emotional and collegial support that is often not available in academe. It seeks to dispel nepotistic notions of superiority...

The African American Employment Guide

by Tony Rose

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPLOYMENT GUIDE - FINDING AND KEEPING A JOB has shown thousands of African Americans how to fill out a job application, do a winning job interview, negotiate a salary, evaluate job benefits...

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

by Richard N. Bolles

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2013 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

Career expert Richard...

10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College, Revised: The Skills You Need to Succeed

by Bill Coplin

A handy, straightforward guide that teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate—revised and updated for today’s economic and academic landscapes....

The Damn Good Resume Guide, Fifth Edition: A Crash Course in Resume Writing

by Yana Parker & Beth Brown

One of the best-selling resume books of all time and a trusted resource for job-seekers for nearly three decades, this edition of The Damn Good Resume Guide has been completely revised and updated for today’s...

Getting a Government Job: The Civil Service Handbook

by Peterson's

Getting a Government Job: The Civil Service Handbook offers everything you need for getting a job with the U.S. government. This book describes in detail the advantages and disadvantages of working for the government,...

Boost Your Interview IQ 2/E

by Carole Martin

The ultimate guide to acing any interview -- now revised and updated to give you the edge in today's economy

Job interviews aren't discussions; they're oral exams -- and the candidate with all the right answers...

How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ 2/E

by Brad Schepp & Debra Schepp

The definitive guide to social media job hunting—now updated to include GOOGLE+!

Finding your dream job the old way just doesn’t happen anymore. If you want to move up in today’s ultracompetitive job market,...

Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World

by Lindsey Pollak

Get Ready for the Real World

How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It’s the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. Now newly revised and updated,...