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Leaving Academia
A guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher education. With the academic job market in crisis, 'Leaving Academia' helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. The book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively. Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, 'Leaving Academia' is both realistic and hopeful.
The New Rules of Work
The modern playbook to finding the perfect career path, landing the right job, and waking up excited for work every day, from founders of online network TheMuse.com. 'In today's digital age, finding job listings and endless data about those jobs is easy. What's difficult is making sense of it all. With The New Rules of Work, Muse founders Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew give us the tools we need to navigate the modern job search and align our careers with our true values and passions.' Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO Thrive Global, NYT Bestselling author In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, the co-founders of p...
Best Entry-Level Jobs, 2005-2006
Are you worried about finding yourself in an entry-level job that fills your day with chores like changing the toner cartridge on the Xerox machine? Let's face it, your first job out of college can be a rude awakening. But take heart: it doesn't have to be that way. Best Entry-Level Jobs reveals where the best first job opportunities in the country are and what you need to do to get one of them. We give you an inside look of hiring procedures, salaries, benefits, and where entry-level hires usually work. We've interviewed hundreds of people who currently hold the entry-level jobs featured within these pages, and they share with you their experiences and opinions about: - Getting hired - Salaries - Job responsibilities - On-the-job training - Co-workers and corporate culture - Opportunities for advancement
The Professor Is In
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 thems...
An Expert's Guide to Top 101 Entry-Level Jobs for MBAs and Graduates
An Expert's Guide to Top 101 Entry-level Jobs for MBAs and Graduates identifies job roles that will create nearly 2 million new entry-level vacancies in the next six years. Analyses of the data released by the National Skill Development Corporation reveals that these corporate jobs will benefit a plethora of aspirants, including those with qualifications such as BE, B.Tech., BA, B.Com., BSc, BBA, BCA, B.Pharm., BL, as well as MBA, MCA, MBBS, CA, ICWA, CS and diplomas. Bestselling author T. Muralidharan is one of India's top recruiters and career columnists. In his first book, he revealed how many job seekers go for the first available job only to regret joining within months and also how tak...
Inside Book Publishing
Now in its fifth edition, Inside Book Publishing remains the classic introduction to the book publishing industry, being both a manual for the profession for over two decades and the bestselling textbook for students of publishing.The book remains essential reading for publishing students, those seeking a career in publishing, recent entrants to the industry, and authors seeking an insider's view. The accompanying website supports the book by providing up-to-date and relevant content.This new edition has been fully updated to respond to the rapid changes in the market and technology. Now more global in its references and scope, the book explores the tensions and trends affecting the industry, including the growth of ebooks, self-publishing, and online retailing, and new business models and workflows. The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process, including commissioning, product development, design and production, marketing, sales and distribution.
#ENTRYLEVELBOSS
Banging your head against the wall with the job search? #ENTRYLEVELBOSS will help you stop freaking out. Miserable in your current role but no idea what to do next? With this book you’ll be able to make a decision, no personality tests required. Convinced that you are the most unhireable person on this planet? That’s statistically improbable — and you’ll be amazed at how employable you’ll be by the time you have finished reading. This is personal training for your career, based on a step-by-step plan that includes: All the intel you need about getting hired in today’s world, in today’s industries, and with today’s tools. Hyper-specific advice including templates for networking emails, CVs, and cover letters. Straight-to-the-point guidance about what not to do. A solid dose of humour and emotional support from someone who really has been there. The world of work has changed, and getting hired today for a job you actually want is going to take a lot more than a neatly typed cover letter and a well-pressed suit. But along with all the challenges of the new economy come unprecedented opportunities, and careers expert Alexa Shoen is here to unlock them for you.
Workforce of One
Companies have excelled by treating customers as "markets of one"-offering them personalized buying experiences. But in managing talent, most firms still use one-size-fits-all HR practices. With today's diverse workforces, this approach is preventing organizations from attracting, retaining, and leveraging top talent. In Workforce of One, Susan Cantrell and David Smith show how exceptional companies are tailoring work experiences to employees' talents and interests-customizing job duties, training, recognition, and even compensation, work schedules, and performance appraisals. Their reward? Lower turnover, greater productivity, improved profit margins. The authors present four customization ...
Modern Job Search
Modern Job Search is a definitive guide for job seekers of all experience levels and is the product of over 15 years of experience in recruiting and executive search. Learn where to start (value) How to identify hiring managers How to prepare resumes that work How to get in front of the right people How to control interviews How to negotiate good offers The methods described are what I use to market candidates into some of the world's best companies. The experiences in the narrative are all accurate portrayals of what it takes to find jobs, get invited to interviews and receive offers. The guidance given, process followed and work done are all real. When was the last time you really had to l...
