Job Search and Career Checklists 101 Proven Time-Saving Checklists to Organize and Plan Your Career Search
The job market is a place of staggering confusion and complexity that requires savvy
career decision-making and job hunting skills. This book has been created in checklist
format to help you identify and develop the skills that you need to be successful
in the job market.
This book is written for anyone who is involved in making a career choice, career
change, or job change. The checklists in this book can be used either as stand-alone
exercises or as a comprehensive career guidance manual. You can work through the
checklists on a step-by-step basis or go directly to those checklists that address your
specific needs and concerns.
The book is divided into five sections. The first section is designed to help you
chart a career path. It uses a variety of self-assessment exercises along with job:
market exploration tools to help you
understand where fit you best in
the world of work.
Are You Good Enough?: 15 Ways to Build a Confident Mindset
People now have more choices than ever before – but are they any happier? There's evidence to suggest that many are drowning under the weight of their responsibilities and losing confidence in their ability to juggle more and more tasks. Steve and Lynn Clark are one such couple. Married with a 5-year-old child, they are successful and happy. On the surface. But their relationship is beginning to stagnate and their confidence in their life together – and each other – is starting to crumble. Until, that is, an unsolicited text message asks a searching question. It's the first of a series of texts that cause them to question their behaviour and values – and devise a series of remedies to their growing problems. Together, Steve and Lynn create and explore 15 ways to build confidence. Simple principles that anyone can apply to their own lives with similar results. Through this modern parable, Bill McFarlan (author of the bestselling Drop the Pink Elephant) and psychiatrist Dr Alex Yellowlees (one of Britain's foremost experts in self-esteem) get to the root of issues that affect us all. Are You Good Enough? will help you walk tall, reach your goals, eliminate self-doubt and banish low self-esteem for good. Whether you are leading a high powered corporate lifestyle, at home raising a family, studying at university or unemployed Are You Good Enough? will help you boost your confidence and pass self-esteem onto your children, encouraging them to thrive and be confident adults.
Mark Wiskup , "It" Factor: Be the One People Like, Listen To, and Remember"
Some people have the ability to start a conversation and immediately draw people in, while others—perhaps even those with more valuable things to say—get pushed to the side, seemingly ignored. Unfortunately for those who don't have "It," this undeniable "It" factor is more than just an attractive quality, it's also a hallmark of success.
A practical and entertaining guide that will help anyone supercharge their communication skills and consistently make a positive impression on others, The "It" Factor gives readers the tools—and confidence—they need to take charge of any conversation, meeting, or networking encounter. Readers will learn how to:
* Communicate ideas so skillfully that people sit up and take notice
* Become instantly memorable
* Hold on to people's attention longer
* Make stronger connections
Filled with practical techniques and powerful insights, The "It" Factor will help anyone take center stage and achieve the results they've always desired.
The case of The Blue Diamond (Oxford Dominoes Reader Level 1)
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The case of The Blue Diamond
Dominoes Reader Level 1 (400 words)
He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
