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Your complete guide to building your information technology career in any economy   The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit  features market-focused skills and proven methods you can use to jump-start and advance your career. While other books cover just the mechanics of preparing your résumé, writing a cover letter, and interviewing, this book provides all that plus additional insight from IT career development expert, Matt Moran, to help you plan and create a rewarding IT career over the long term.   The toolkit approach allows you to use this book to suit your unique needs: Are you new to the IT field? Benefit by reading the book cover to cover. Just need to fine-tune your IT career? Choose a topic and dive in. Understand and prepare for the various and changing factors that affect your career in both positive and negative ways. Learn how to Present the value of your technical skills in the job market Position yourself as the primary commodity of your career Remove the guesswork out of job searches Highlight on-the-job skills and gain meaningful professional exposure  The companion CD-ROM includes career management tools such as résumé and cover letter templates, forms to track important contacts, and self-assessment tools. Start or further your consulting career with sample proposals, opportunity tracking forms, and a time-tracking and billing database. Financial tools, including budget and cash-flow summary worksheets, help you gain financial well-being. Use the Value-Added Technologist presentation to gain a clear understanding of the career-building process and how to use the toolkit to build a dynamic career.   Most of all, have fun! Every year, people advance along the path to career stardom. Let Matt help you to be one of them through his career philosophy “Do not accept mediocrity as a career objective–demand more of yourself.”   “I want you to see the [toolkit] techniques as one more set of skills to adopt in your overall career development program. They are skills, just like your technical skills, that you will use daily during your career. Just as you adopt new technical skills, use the toolkit to define those soft skills that you must learn and put to use. The result will be a more well-rounded and complete professional skill-set.” ~ Matthew Moran, from the Introduction   Companion CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains valuable tools, forms, spreadsheets, and documents that work with the Toolkit to help you master key areas of your career development.    

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Introducing Your Career 7e helping YOU stand out! THE #1 text of its kind, Your Career, 7e, has a brand new look! This new edition is sharp and focused, and it targets the best practices in today's job search and career-development process. Your Career, 7e, provides everything needed to deliver top-quality instruction and help students stand out in a crowd. Clear instruction guides students through self-assessment, employer research, writing a market-driven resume, and interviewing. Practical assignments and a technology-driven focus connect your students directly with the business community, employers, and the Internet. Your Career 7e provides the necessary tools for students to gain a competitive advantage in the workplace and reach their career potential.

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Create a life's work, don't just work a job! MAKE IT WORK gets to the core of career success for anyone whose work is more a 9-to-5 reality than a passionate pursuit. For the stressed, dissatsified, and disillusioned everywhere, MAKE IT WORK brings to life the two essentials needed to transform what we love into a career filled with enthusiasm and passion: a deep awareness of our core motivators and a new set of skills with which to navigate whatever political, social, and cultural environment we happen to work in. Frodsham and Gargiulo challenge much of the prevailing wisdom about career success as they expose 16 pervasive myths that create major roadblocks and often limit career opportunities. In its place they offer real-life career stories and a focused look at the real truths that lead to career wealth--the practices and principles that have proven effective in helping both the legendary and the ordinary create a rich and fulfilling work experience without leaving one organization for greener pastures elsewhere. With over a dozen Discovery Exercises, a powerful new model, and the authors' Career Wealth Indicator self-assessment, MAKE IT WORK presents a sophisticated yet profoundly practical four-step process for identifying our passions, discovering our core, finding a career fit, and declaring our choices--and taking control of our career and life happiness, right within our current organization.

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Life is too fragile to get less than what you deserve in your career. Since your career is what you do to make a living, you may have suspected that a job should be more than what you do for a paycheck; it should be what you do to make a difference. If you have ever thought that, this extraordinary book is about to prove you right! A life without direction is a life without passion. This dynamic resource guides you, not to another unsatisfying job, but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart's desire. By investing in this life-changing resource you will learn how to recapture the youthful passion and goals you once had. It gives you the tools to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way and that inhibit your success. By investing in this resource you are deciding what you want to be, and you are deciding to live you dreams forever! In this resource you will learn: * How to Develop Job Ideas and Leads. How to Determine If Your Job Idea is the Ideal Job. * How to Target Your Job Search. * How to be Creative in Your Job Search by Using the 5 Step Creative Process. * How to Win the Interview. * How to Create Resumes and Cover Letters That Give You The Edge. * The 5 Rules of Researching any Organization. * How to Turn Internships and Volunteer Positions into a Career. * 19 Effective Ways to Market Yourself. * The 7 Elements of Goal Achievements. * The 11-Steps of Networking for career Success. * How to Brand Yourself as the Best Job Candidate. * How to Avoid the 27 Self-Sabotaging Behaviors. In Addition: * Success Strategies on the Job and Beyond. * How to Get Your 1st Raise or Promotion. * Employment Solutions for 40, 50, and Beyond. Right now there are musicians, teachers, business owners, artists, actors, doctor, entrepreneurs, writers and countless others who are living their dreams. You owe it to yourself to read this book and to join the ranks of Americans who live their dreams on a daily basis.

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More than just a guide to getting an IT job, this essential resource shows you how to establish and sustain your IT career. You'll get details on the hard technical skills, soft skills, work ethic, values, and disposition that IT managers are looking for in candidates for a range of IT roles, as well as advice on possible career paths. About the Author: Leslie Jaye Goff is a freelance writer who has been covering IT career and workplace issues for more than 15 years. She is a regular contributor to Computerworld, and has written for The New York Times, CIO, Information Week, Red Herring, and other national publications.

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An experienced trainer demonstrates that the most important element of success is not putting in longer hours or expending more energy—it is keeping everything in balance. He outlines five key life components that must be brought into harmony and kept on track, or productivity will inevitably slow to a crawl; once this balance is acheived, less effort is needed to maintain stability and productivity increases. This principled yet practical motivational program is bolstered with anecdotes, research, and many years of personal observation and interaction with leaders and executives in training seminars and radio broadcasts. Individuals from all walks of life—sales representatives, managers, secretaries, educators, small-business owners, and stay-at-home parents—can make this program their own and increase effectiveness in every aspect of their lives.

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A life in medicine is something that many dream of but few achieve. The tests students face–both literal and figurative–just to get into medical school are designed to weed out the weak. In Planning a Life in Medicine, the experts at The Princeton Review will help you succeed in a premedical program, score higher on the MCAT, meet the challenges of medical school, and ultimately flourish in your medical career. More than just a comprehensive plan for getting into medical school, Planning a Life in Medicine is a handbook that will help you to cultivate the skills and habits–such as compartmentalizing knowledge and improving concentration–that will help you along your “path of heart” and serve you well throughout your education and medical career.

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• ISBN13: 9780375764608
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For anyone considering a career in nursing, this book is a must-read resource providing a unique look at the nursing profession. Personal accounts from men and women at all stages and in all specialties of nursing provide practical advice and realistic, often humorous perspectives on what it's really like to be a nurse.Simple, proven, common-sense tips, tactics and survival strategies cover every stage, from deciding to be a nurse, to choosing and being admitted to nursing school, succeeding academically, getting the first job, and thriving in a nursing career.Anecdotes and interviews with practicing nurses highlight the human side of nursing.The direct, conversational, and humorous writing style makes it easy to read.Dispels the myths, misconceptions, and stereotypes of the nursing profession.Includes the most recent data and statistics regarding the nursing shortage, job trends, health care systems, policy development and more.Explores the many aspects of college life.Advice helps you establish and achieve personal goals for success.Appendices direct you to print and online resources for educational information, ways to pay for college, and nursing-related organizations.

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Practical assignments throughout connect you directly with the business community, employers and the Internet. This best-selling book provides everything needed to gain competitive advantage in the workplace. It is ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing. Your Career: How to Make it Happen provides thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, job search/interviewing and career building strategies. The book also contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic, traditional, and web resumes, as well as cover letters.