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By Temple Grandin
Autism Asperger Publishing Company
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This updated and expanded edition considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with ASD. The authors take an in-depth look at entrepreneurship. Using real-life examples, they point out that many of the unique characteristics of individuals on the autism spectrum lend themselves well to entrepreneurial ventures. The book explores many unnoticed aspects of Vocational Rehabilitation programs that provide job training and placement for people with disabilities, as well as Social Security Administration programs that offer vocational assistance. Employment figures and prospects have been updated, and new jobs have been added that are well suited for those on the spectrum. |
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By Mary Morris Heiberger
University of Pennsylvania Press
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The Academic Job Search Handbook provides specific advice on all aspects of job-seeking in an increasingly tight academic market, from the appropriate timetable for the application process, to illegal or odd interview questions, to negotiating offers, starting a new job, seeking tenure, and everything in between. New information in the third edition includes more examples and advice for candidates in scientific and technical fields, as well as more references for those applying for adjunct positions and to community colleges. A new chapter and some of the all-new sample written materials reflect the reality that many new Ph.D.s are considering career options outside academia. The sample materials also include more examples of the "teaching philosophies" now commonly asked for in job ads. This edition offers expanded information on internet search methods and more examples of useful websites. |
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By Us Dept of Labor
Jist Works
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JIST's Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-2011 (OOH), features well-written interesting descriptions for 270 major jobs in the U.S., plus summary information on additional jobs.In each description, the book discusses the nature of the work, working environment, job outlook through 2018, training and education needed, earnings, related occupations, and additional information sources, including Web sites. This book contains three exclusive bonus content sections including exclusive information about green jobs found nowhere else. |
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By Dennis V. Damp
Bookhaven Press
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This updated edition features the information you need to find and apply for government jobs. The author and editors have over 110 years of combined federal government service. Considering that federal employees earn an average annual compensation of $106,871, including pay and benefits, compared to just $53,288 in the private sector, the federal sector is an attractive option for job seekers. The federal government's new recruiting and retention programs are attracting applicants with lucrative incentives for current vacancies and for the many new jobs created by the new administration. Today federal agencies can pay off $60,000 of new hires student loans, negotiate starting salaries, and offer relocation allowances for critical vacancies. Readers will find an expanded application and resume chapter that takes readers step-by-step through a typical job announcement and instructs readers on how to write a professional federal style resume and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) statements. Resume samples, compiled by the author and Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, the author of Federal Resume Guidebook, are included to guide job seekers through the often confusing application process. Considerable improvements have recently been implemented to the archaic Civil Service examination process. Uncle Sam has finally dropped most general and administrative written entrance examinations and substituted an Occupational Questionnaire and/or Self Certification in most cases. New applicants for certain occupations may still be required to take written tests, but most agencies, other than the U.S. Postal Service, forgo testing and opt to use Occupational Questionnaires. Agencies are still evolving since the September 11 attacks and the massive reorganization that established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS was established to consolidate law enforcement and security functions, and 22 agencies transferred significant operational functions and personnel to Homeland Security since its inception. The impact of this reorganization and the increased security requirements in all agencies have changed government demographics. An entire chapter is devoted to law enforcement and DHS careers and the many job opportunities that are now available in the government's third largest agency. DHS employs more than 154,000 workers in hundreds of occupations. Lucrative recruitment incentives are now offered, programs such as the Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) were revised, and the student hiring program was reorganized under the eScholar program. This edition added information on the Senior Executive Service (SES), and all these changes expanded the new 10th edition to 352 pages. The federal governmen's total civilian workforce now exceeds 2,800,000 and approximately 50 percent of the federal workforce is currently eligible for either early or regular retirement. This is creating significant employment opportunities for anyone interested in working for Uncle Sam. Over 1.3 million jobs will need to be filled as the baby boomers opt to leave government service. This Tenth Edition of The Book of U.S. Government Jobs will help job seekers land high-paying, benefit-loaded, and secure government jobs. If you are looking for a position with good pay and excellent benefits, explore the high-paying and secure federal job market. The average salary now exceeds $70,000 , and you can work at thousands of stateside and overseas locations. Use this book's resources, including the Job Hunter's Checklist in Appendix A, to begin your personal job search. |
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By Richard N. Bolles
Ten Speed Press
Released: 2007-10-01
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Updated to address the specifics of today's job market, THE CAREER COUNSELOR'S HANDBOOK is a one-stop resource for counselors looking to break into the business, be more efficient, or simply get a recharge of inspiration and ideas. From practical matters to ethical concerns, Figler and Bolles provide all the professional tools, problem-solving tips, and soul-searching wisdom a counselor needs to ensure a successful and satisfying practice. |
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By Michael Farr
Jist Publishing
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Research has proven that matching your personality to a career brings work satisfaction and success. With this best-selling book's help, you discover your personality type and the 50 best jobs that relate to it. Part I overviews how personality relates to careers. Part II features a self-assessment for determining you personality type: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising or Conventional. Part III contains the best job lists, including the 50 best jobs overall for each personality type. Other lists for each personality type include the best-paying jobs, jobs with the highest projected growth, best jobs based on education lever, best part-time jobs, and best jobs for the self-employed--145 best jobs lists in all. In Part IV, you find a gold mine of facts about the 50 best jobs for each of the six personality types & 300 job descriptions. |
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By Duane Brown
Allyn & Bacon
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Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development is a comprehensive, up-to-date text written by a leading expert in the field. This new edition contains a stronger emphasis on technology and on cross-cultural issues, and has an increased emphasis on application. As in previous editions career development theory, career information, career counseling practice, and career development programming are all covered in extensive detail. The text carefully describes the process of finding and securing jobs in an electronic era and presents students with the trends that are shaping the workplace today–and those that will continue to influence their careers over the next decade. However, this edition has a decided emphasis on multicultural career counseling. Also chapter on schools has been totally rewritten to correspond to the ASCA National Model. |
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By U.S. Department of Labor
Skyhorse Publishing
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An essential resource for anyone entering or re-entering the job market. From the vocation experts at the U.S. Department of Labor, this fully updated 2010–2011 edition of the Occupational Outlook Handbook features full descriptions of more than 250 occupations—that’s 90 percent of the jobs available in the United States. The answers to all of your job-related questions can be found in this fact-packed handbook: What’s the average salary of a legal assistant? What qualifications, education, and training do I need to become a claims adjustor? Will I find job advancement in this economy as a computer programmer? It also includes job search methods, information on training and education, salary and qualification information, and job outlook. Explore every possible occupational option with this book. 300 black-and-white illustrations |
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By Susan Griffith
Writer's Digest Books
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This guide for the working traveller incorporates hundreds of first-hand accounts and offers authoritative advice on how to find work around the world, either in advance or on the spot. It includes new and expanded sections on working opportunities in Hong Kong and Eastern Europe, arranging a contract on a cruise ship, childcare jobs worldwide including in Australia, fruitpicking from France to New Zealand and new voluntary projects in Latin America. Plus updated information on how to work a passage, dates and details of harvests, how to become a barmaid, pineapple picker, ski-tow operator and English teacher. |
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By Karen Ho
Duke University Press
Released: 2008-11-30
Kindle Edition (392 pages)
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Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank herself, argues that bankers’ approaches to financial markets and corporate America are inseparable from the structures and strategies of their workplaces. Her ethnographic analysis of those workplaces is filled with the voices of stressed first-year associates, overworked and alienated analysts, undergraduates eager to be hired, and seasoned managing directors. Recruited from elite universities as “the best and the brightest,” investment bankers are socialized into a world of high risk and high reward. They are paid handsomely, with the understanding that they may be let go at any time. Their workplace culture and networks of privilege create the perception that job insecurity builds character, and employee liquidity results in smart, efficient business. Based on this culture of liquidity and compensation practices tied to profligate deal-making, Wall Street investment bankers reshape corporate America in their own image. Their mission is the creation of shareholder value, but Ho demonstrates that their practices and assumptions often produce crises instead. By connecting the values and actions of investment bankers to the construction of markets and the restructuring of U.S. corporations, Liquidated reveals the particular culture of Wall Street often obscured by triumphalist readings of capitalist globalization. |
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