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Careers in Law Enforcement

Coy H Johnston - SAGE
Format: Print book

Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing. Written in a concise and conversational tone, author Coy H. Johnston includes three main sections: planning a realistic path, selecting an appropriate...
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again

James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback

"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman...
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A Guide to Study Skills and Careers in Criminal Justice and Public Security

Frank Schmalleger - SAGE
Format: Print book

A Guide to Study Skills and Careers in Criminal Justice and Public Security is the ultimate how-to resource for success in the study of criminal justice. Renowned author Frank Schmalleger, who has over 40 years of field experience, has teamed up with researcher and educator Catherine D. Marcum...
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Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do

Chris Guillebeau - Crown Business
Format: Print book

Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery -- that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work - and they're getting paid well to do it. To the outside...
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting Your Dream Job

Don Raskin - Regan Arts
Format: Print book

Drawing on his extensive experience evaluating applicants for his marketing agency, and featuring stories based on real-life situations, sample cover letters, resumes, and straightforward advice, Don Raskin's The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting Your Dream Job offers all the necessary...
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The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption

Farai Chideya - Atria Books
Format: Print book

Find your most rewarding place in today's economy. Award-winning author, researcher, and analyst Farai Chideya offers a practical guide to the ways in which work in America is changing and how you can navigate today's volatile job market.Since the Great Recession of 2007-2009, America's...
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The Career Code: Must-Know Rules for a Strategic, Stylish, and Self-Made Career

Hillary Kerr - Abrams Image
Format: Print book

The co-founders of the hugely successful Who What Wear empire share their best career advice for smart, stylish, self-starting women of all professional levels. In The Career Code, the third book in the smash-hit Who What Wear series, fashion and digital entrepreneurs Katherine...
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The Ex-Offender's New Job Finding and Survival Guide: 10 Steps for Successfully Re-Entering the Work World

Ronald L. Krannich - Impact Publications
Format: Print book

Originally published as The Ex-Offender's Job Hunting Guide (2005) , this ground-breaking book offers sound re-entry employment advice for those with red flags in their backgrounds and those who may appear unemployable. Indeed, finding a good job is the number one challenge facing thousands...
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The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever

Michael Ellsberg - Portfolio
Format: Print book

Myth: If you save for decades and invest in 401(k) s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily, allowing twenty to thirty years of secure, peaceful retirement. Reality: Though this might have been true at some point in the last century, it is not true any longer. If you want...
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No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need to Do to Have a Great Career

Larry Smith - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A provocative new approach to discovering your true calling in life and achieving not just a good career, but a great one Over the past three decades, professor Larry Smith has become something of a "career whisperer" for his students at the University of Waterloo. Each year,...
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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

Caroline Webb - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in behavioral sciences are giving us an ever...
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family

Kimberly Palmer - American Management Association
Format: Print book

Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back...
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Is Your Job Making You Fat?: How to Lose the Office 15 . . . and More!

Kenneth L Lloyd - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The only thing that should be fat on your job is your paycheck. There is a "huge" worldwide obesity problem. While fads and quick-fix diets abound, they fail to address an important question in weight gain today: is your job making you fat? The answer is "Yes."This bold...
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Job Interviews in a Week: Teach Yourself

Alison Straw - John Murray Learning
Format: Print book

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...
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Own your future

Paul B Brown - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook

Why do we sabotage our own best intentions? How can we eliminate procrastination from our lives for good? Based on current psychological research and supplemented with clear strategies for change, this concise guide will help listeners finally break free from self-destructive ideas and habits,...
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Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home

John Bassett - Center Street
Format: Print book

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company...
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Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know

Geoffrey James - Grand Central Pub
Format: Book

Contrary to popular belief, the business world is not that complicated. While every industry and every profession requires specific expertise, the truth is that the "business of business" is relatively simple. For the past seven years, Geoffrey James has written a daily blog that's...
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Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags

Linda Rottenberg - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Book

"If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough. " These days taking chances isn t just for college dropouts in hoodies. Whether you work at a Fortune 500 company, a nonprofit, or a mom-and-pop, everybody needs to think and act like an entrepreneur. We all need...
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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo - William Morrow
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating...
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The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life

Charles Murray - Crown Business
Format: Book

For those starting out in their careers - and those who wish to advance more quickly - this is a delightfully fussy guide to the hidden rules of the road in the workplace and in life. As bestselling author and social historian Charles Murray explains, at senior levels of an organization...
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American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness

Dan DiMicco - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Print book

American manufacturing is on life support -- at least, that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything that is built here requires specialized skills the average worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan DiMicco, chairman...
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Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success

Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Soundview Executive Book Summaries
Format: eBook

Do you exude confidence and credibility? Can you command a room? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the world's most influential business thinkers, cracks the code of Executive Presence (EP) for men and women intent on winning the next plum assignment and doing something extraordinary with their...
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The Autism Job Club: The Neurodiverse Workforce in the New Normal of Employment

Michael S. Bernick - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world.The book has its basis in the autism job club that the authors have been part of in the San Francisco Bay Area, the job-creation and job-placement efforts...
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Careers in Criminal Justice

Coy H Johnston - Sage Publications
Format: Paperback

Coy H. Johnston's concise, yet thorough and creative text, Careers in Criminal Justice, prepares students to plan, pursue, and realize their career goals - from conception through the hiring process. The book's contemporary approach emphasizes student self-reflection and pragmatism in the pursuit...
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Crack The Code: Decrypting Your Job Search

Reid A. Robison - Plain Sight Publishing
Format: Print book

Get the job you want with the salary you deserve. With their combined experience launching students into the career fast track, Reid A. Robinson and Joseph Ellsworth teach you how to brand yourself, network, enhance your rsum, interview, create a career development plan, and more. Perfect...
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Getting a Big Data Job For Dummies

Jason Williamson - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

Hone your analytic talents and become part of the next big thing Getting a Big Data Job For Dummies is the ultimate guide to landing a position in one of the fastest-growing fields in the modern economy. Learn exactly what "big data" means, why it's so important across...
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How to get a good Job after 50: A step-by-step guide to job search success

Rupert French - Exisle Publishing
Format: Print book

Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace...
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The Job Pirate: An Entertaining Tale of My Job-hopping Journey in America

Brandon Christopher - Bleeding Heart Publications
Format: Print book

From the porn magazine to the moving truck to the dark sewers of California, Brandon Christopher's journey in the American job market is not only absurd, but also full of wit and profound observations. He steps out from behind the driver's wheel, the cash register, and the office desk to record...
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Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need

Nicholas Wyman - Crown
Format: Book

Get ready to relearn everything you thought you knew about what a successful career path can look like. Today, unemployment hovers at a near-record high, yet 3.5 million American jobs remain unfilled. Why? Because companies simply cannot find people with the skills they actually...
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Knock 'Em Dead 2016: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin John Yate - Adams Media
Format: Print book

Take control of your job search, career, and life!New York Times bestseller Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers improve their job search and career management tactics, changing their lives forever. Featuring his unique, time-tested methods for achieving professional success,...
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The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing "Pollinator" Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity

Michael Shuman - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

Reinventing economic development as if small business mattered In cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads. A growing body of evidence has proven that its current cornerstone -- incentives to attract and retain large, globally mobile businesses -- is a dead...
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Resumes For Dummies

Laura DeCarlo - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Master the art of resume writing and boost your chances of getting hired With unemployment rates still running high, getting an edge up on the competition in your field - whatever it may be - can be an intimidating and exhausting undertaking. Luckily, Resumes For Dummies is here...
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Super Job Search IV

Peter K. Studner - Jamenair Ltd.
Format: Paperback

SUPER JOB SEARCH IV The Complete Manual for Job Seekers and Career Changers Expanded, revised, and interactive, here s the latest edition of the manual that has helped more than 300,000 men and women learn the secrets behind a successful career change. Whether you re about to embark on your...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles - Ten Speed Press
Format: Print book

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually, with more than ten million copies sold. This 2016 edition features the latest studies and perspectives on today's job-market, including proven strategies for finding jobs even...
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Work Reimagined: Uncover Your Calling

Richard Leider - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Print book

DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE HERE TO DOIt's the end of work as we know it. Career paths look nothing like they did in the days before phones got smart. We work more hours at more jobs for more years than ever before. So it's vital that we know how to find work that allows us to remain true to who we are in the deepest...
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Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies - UK

Adalbert Stifter - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questionsIn todays competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition...
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The Etiquette Advantage in Business, Third Edition: Personal Skills for Professional Success

Peter Post - William Morrow
Format: Book

Completely revised and updated, the third edition of the Posts' The Etiquette Advantage in Business is the ultimate guide professionals need to navigate everyday and unusual situations in the office - the key to professional and personal success.Today, more than ever, good manners mean...
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