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Get the Summary of Richard N. Bolles's What Color Is Your Parachute? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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 newly streamlined edition features the latest resources, case studies, and perspectives on today's job market, revealing surprising...
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. It's not just your imagination-the modern job market really is tougher than ever. The way employers hire...
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"Are you in a career crisis--thinking about changing jobs? Are "should I stay or should I go" the lyrics for your current earworm? Or does it feel like the choice was or shortly will be made for you? Maybe the life of a barista sounds incredibly appealing. Or maybe you got the big promotion, but it just wasn't as magical as you thought it was going to be. There are a lot of types of career crises .. are you in one? If you think you are, then you are...
5) Food Jobs
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Do you want to turn your passion for food into a career? Take a bite out of the food world with help from the experts in this first-of-its-kind, What Color Is Your Parachute? For food related careers.
Maybe you're considering culinary school, maybe you're about to graduate, or maybe you're looking for an exciting career change. How can you translate your zest for flavor into a satisfying profession? Should you become a chef or open a specialty foods...
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How you can make use of your law degree-without making yourself miserable.
When they enter the field, lawyers seem to have it made-with a high-salary, high-status profession that should set them up for life. Yet, even when they seem to have it all, they often start to feel like something's off. Their careers have become horribly soul-sucking. They're managing their lives, sort of-but they feel duped. Trapped. Their "good job" is affecting their...
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How to Be Happily Self-Employed
A million new businesses will start each year in North America and 60 percent will begin at home, according to government statistics. However, experts agree that the long-term success rate tends to be poor-only two out of every 10 will succeed.
Entrepreneurs often copy products and services already in the market. And many people choose the wrong kinds of self-employment: ventures that don't fit their true skills or...
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"Females are farming in record numbers. Covering everything from business planning to tool use to integrating family into farm operations, Soil Sisters is a comprehensive blueprint for women who dream of bringing their vision of agricultural entrepreneurship to life. This unique guide blends inspiring stories of successful female farmers with practical information and resources for women launching new farming enterprises."--
9) The Go-Getter Girl's Guide: Get What You Want in Work and Life (and Look Great While You're at It)
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An empowering career and lifestyle guide for twentysomethings, this is Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office for women looking to be the "it" girl and succeed on the job
Every office has one, a Go-Getter Girl, someone who seems to just know certain stuff about how to get the plum jobs/lifestyle she wants and damn, always looks great while she's at it. Magic? No, it's about strategizing-and The Go-Getter Girl's Guide shows you how.
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Even in a bad economy, companies have job openings they can't fill. Considering the millions of people who are out of work or unhappily employed, how can that be? What are job seekers doing to turn off employers? And what is it that employers want but aren't finding? Leading career expert and syndicated columnist Andrea Kay asked employers one simple question: Why didn't you hire the last ten people you interviewed? What it came down to, every time,...
11) On Brand
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From bestselling author Aliza Licht, “On Brand” is part career book, part personal growth guide and will help you answer the question: What's on brand for you? Ideal for anyone seeking personal development to help them level up, pivot professionally, or for support through a transition.
How you show up in person, over email, and on social media communicates your personal brand. That brand deserves thoughtful cultivation and crafting as you shape...
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Have you ever felt trapped in your life, at home or at work? You're stuck. You're probably complaining, blaming the world around you. Chances are you were saying the same things five years ago. If you don't change, you'll be saying the same thing five years from now. In her new book, Leslie Strong offers this blunt advice: It's not about them; it's about you. You have to take 100% responsibility for your life and how you react to what happens around...
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Complete Guide to Academic & College Planning for Teens
The College Bound Planner is your step-by-step comprehensive college planning guide to organize every step of your high school education while preparing smart goals for college.
Get your teens ready now! College may seem far away but thinking ahead and understanding how things work will help your teen prepare. In these uncertain times, parents and students are feeling even more anxious about...
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The career workbook Roadmap is better than ever.
Roadmap has been updated and expanded with tons of brand new content-including chapters on changing directions mid-career and not letting your past define your future.
Through inspirational stories and interviews, journal-like prompts, and practical career development information, this helpful resource will steer students, recent graduates, and career-changers toward an authentic, fulfilling life.
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Practical, inspiring and empowering tips and strategies every job hunter and career changer needs to know. Are you showing signs of job dissatisfaction? Did you wake up this morning excited to face the day ahead? Or did the thought of getting up and going to work make you wish you could stay in bed? If Monday mornings are a low point in your week, it may be a sign that it's time for a new career.
Often you know what you want subconsciously before...
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"The eagerly awaited sequel to the worldwide bestseller How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine from Direct Selling icon and Hall of Famer Randy Gage Randy Gage revolutionized the Direct Selling profession with the bestselling phenomenon How to Build a Multi-Level Money Machine, translated into more than 20 languages. Now he’s at it again with the long-waited sequel: Direct Selling Success. This all-new book is the ultimate textbook...
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Join author Jodi Mannes on this touching tale of friendship, told in the bright, innocent language of a first-grader. What Color Is Your Rainbow? Is it a clever story of a young boy and his five very different, but not so different at all, friends on their journey to school? As the story unfolds, the reader enjoys the freedom to identify as the main character because while each of his friends represents a different background, the main character remains...
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Readers will enjoy exploring hidden aspects of their personality in the Best Quiz Ever series, an engaging set of quiz books. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience and a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. Best Quiz Ever includes fun questions to share with friends as well as trivia throughout the books. Perfect for the classroom, library, sleepovers, or reading resource rooms....
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Michael and Sunny, brother and sister, 11 and 10 year-old respectively. Had a dream last night, an Angel Boy of brilliant golden white light appeared to them. He asked them a question and said they are to have their answer tomorrow. The next day he appeared again, in time and space at school requesting they give him the answer to the question he asked of them in the dream last night. He asked them to be his messengers, to deliver a most important...
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What Color Is Your Imagination? was inspired by a conversation with Nadine Owens Burton's then preschool aged son during a car ride home. That four-year-old's question and subsequent declaration about the color of his imagination developed into a lesson on problem-solving for her staff while as a Head Start Director. It has since provided information and inspiration for various other teams. For the past decade plus, Ms. Owens Burton has presented...