Download or read book Welcome to College Your Career Starts Now written by Victor Brown and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every student, both a successful transition into college, and the subsequent transition from college to career, are critically important. Written by an author who has had long experience in both the corporate and academic worlds, "Welcome to College - Your Career Starts Now!" is the ideal book to help guide students through both transitions, while giving good advice on how to integrate the college years into the process of determining one's career.Many students arrive on a college campus in a state of confusion and uncertainty. They wonder how they should select their major, which elective courses to choose, how to determine a career path, how to interview effectively and how to make the best use of internships and study abroad opportunities.Just as important for them is to understand how to project an image as serious students, and how to develop the personal skill sets and behavior patterns they will need in both their college and career years.Vic Brown has drawn upon his extensive experience as a corporate executive and college faculty member, and imparts excellent advice on how to integrate coursework, internships and other activities into a focused preparation for long term career success. The author does not stop at college graduation. He continues to offer practical guidance to the new graduates while they navigate their way through the first several years of their careers. Brown's use of real-world examples on campus and in the workplace provides a wonderful way for the reader to understand the importance of the advice he offers, and this book is essential reading for college students at all stages of their education, for new members of the work force, and even as a refresher for those well along in their careers.Parents, high school guidance counselors, college admissions and career services staff, as well as faculty, will all benefit from the practical guidance offered in this easy to read, entertaining book.
Download or read book Virtuous Women written by Michele Johnson Moss and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtuous Women is about three successful women reuniting for their twentieth-year high school reunion after experiencing many twists and turns that their life’s journeys have taken them. Self-centered and beautiful, Charity Baker-Matthews became a world-class superstar. Faith Mason is a successful doctor whose struggles and sacrifices got her where she is today. Minister Hope Jones, who is the pastor of the renowned church; The Church of Tomorrow, hasn’t always lived on the right side of the tracks. Michele Johnson-Moss resides in Matthews, NC. She is married and a mother of six. Michele works full-time as an accounts receivable specialist; is an avid reader, and loves to write. Virtuous Women is her first Christian novel. She plans to publish future projects as she endeavors to spread God’s message of love through her writing.
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book The Unspoken Rules written by Gorick Ng and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "...this guide provides readers with much more than just early careers advice; it can help everyone from interns to CEOs." — a Financial Times top title You've landed a job. Now what? No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted. The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules—the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize. The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error. Until now. In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as: How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities? How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely? How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy? The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.
Download or read book To University and Beyond written by Mandee Heller Adler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to use your time as a student to supercharge your career To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear delivers a step-by-step guide to using your educational years to put you in the right position to accelerate your career, optimize your time, and build valuable and rewarding relationships. You’ll learn everything you need to know about taking advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the first ten years of your career. Broken down into 21 accessible chapters, To University and Beyond features a wide array of practical and strategic advice on topics like: How to write the perfect resume or CV How to hack your career path to achieve what you’ve always dreamt of How to access rarely used scholarships and grants How to find selective short-term learning programs How to thrive in a virtual learning environment How to get paid to learn with options beyond traditional degree programs How to communicate and present so people get your message Perfect for high school, college, and university students who want to make the most of their time and start their career off on the right foot, To University and Beyond provides a wealth of actionable advice you can put to work today.
Download or read book Career Onramp written by Jared Buckley and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have your degree in hand, but now what? Are you still looking for a job? Or do you already have a job, but hate it? "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson College graduates are graduating by the millions each year with a large majority not having a clue what to do with their career after college. Are you one of them? What's the Plan After College? Forget the career planning or career mapping-you just need a job, right?Not to mention the career coaching or career counseling-you just need a job, right? Don't get sucked into this trap. Know what you want to do with your career. Your career development starts now. Whether you have a job already or not, YOU MUST START NOW. Whether you are 2 weeks out of college or 5 years, YOU MUST START NOW. Whether you haven't even graduated yet or are not even going to college, YOU MUST START NOW. Career Development? Career Planning? Career Counseling? What are you looking for? In this book, Career OnRamp: 19 Career Paths for Recent College Graduates, we explore the different career options college graduates or college students have after graduation. The book is not meant to be a tactical tutorial on how to land a job, how to write a resume, or how to interview, but rather how to make your career dreams a reality. In a world filled with options, careers are no different. The only problem is that we don't always no where to begin. Career OnRamp seeks to exercise your right brain and creatively explore the different career paths you might be able to take on. So, what are you waiting for? Now is the time to make your career dreams become a reality. You just need to start seeing the true options first. Who Is This Book For? College graduates, young professionals, or college students that would most benefit from this book are: Present college students looking into career planning Present college students looking to pay for school while they are still attending school Present college students about to graduate from college with no plans Recent college graduates who are stuck in their low-paying fast-food job Recent college graduates who are still interning and looking for their next career move Recent college graduates still living at home with their parents and ready to fly the coop Recent college graduates who always dreamed their was more to just working 9-to-5 Recent college graduates who just feel stuck So, where are you at? Are you ready to spread your wings and make your career dreams become a reality? Let's go make it happen? What do you have to lose?
Download or read book Start Now Succeed Later written by Patrick S. O'Brien and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ... will help students build life skills that will assure future career success. Students will learn that the best jobs do not go to the best-dressed candidates or those with the longest list of club memberships; the best jobs go to the candidates who can demonstrate a wide range of important skills. Those skills are clearly defined by use of the acronym COLLEGE which stands for the seven winning characteristics needed for a successful job search: communication, organization, leadership, logic, effort, group skills, and entrepreneurship. [This book] develops each of the concepts, helping students realize their importance and how their own skills might be deliberately cultivated over the course of their college experience.-Pref.
Download or read book College written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.
Download or read book Start Now written by Reynold Levy and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author, “a compelling guide to determine what you wish to do in life, and the best ways to build a meaningful career” (Ken Auletta, bestselling author). Newcomers to the workplace. The recently fired. Those desiring to advance with their current employer, and those eager to move on. And many who have found what they do for a living deadening, disappointing, and tedious. For these reasons and others one in five Americans change jobs every year. Drawing on his extensive career in the non-profit, commercial, and public service realms, Reynold Levy will help you think about your future creatively and prepare for it resourcefully. How to network naturally and adeptly. How to interview effectively. How to perform well in your current job. He will offer you a recipe for moving up in an appealing organization or moving out gracefully to a better position elsewhere. Start Now offers concrete, actionable, practical advice: Taking fullest advantage of school, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues. Learning how to succeed at work without being imprisoned there. Asking others for help compellingly. “This book is about work—finding work you love, getting it, doing it well, leaving it—but it is also a book about how to live. Part memoir, part social analysis, part practical guide, it is a terrific read: wise and fun, deep and light, full of stories about people and problems, and the sheer good pleasure of a job that gives back to the world. Never moralizing, just right, Start Now is a book for us all.” —Jennifer Homans, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book Where You Go Is Not Who You ll Be written by Frank Bruni and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma. Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.
Download or read book Black Belt written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oldest and most respected martial arts title in the industry, this popular monthly magazine addresses the needs of martial artists of all levels by providing them with information about every style of self-defense in the world - including techniques and strategies. In addition, Black Belt produces and markets over 75 martial arts-oriented books and videos including many about the works of Bruce Lee, the best-known marital arts figure in the world.
Download or read book Do Over written by Jon Acuff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author of Quitter and Start comes the definitive guide to getting your dream job. When you don't like your job, Sunday isn't really a weekend day. It's just pre-Monday. But what if you could call a Do Over and actually look forward to Monday? Starting on the first day you got paid to scoop ice cream or restock shelves, you’ve had the chance to develop the four elements all great careers have in common: relationships, skills, character, and hustle. You already have each of those, to one degree or another. Now it’s time to amplify them and apply them in a new way, so you can call a Do Over on your career, at any age. You’ll need a Do Over because you’ll eventually face at least one of these major transitions: • You’ll hit a Career Ceiling and get stuck, requiring sharp skills to free yourself. • You’ll experience a Career Bump and unexpectedly lose your job, requiring strong relationships to survive. • You’ll make a Career Jump to a new role, requiring solid character to push through uncertainty and chaos. • You’ll get a surprise Career Opportunity, requiring dedicated hustle to take advantage of it. Jon Acuff’s unique approach will give you the resources to reinvent your work, get unstuck, and get the job you’ve always wanted!
Download or read book Your Career written by Borchard and published by . This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taking Time Off written by Colin Hall and published by The Princeton Review. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever thought about taking time off to ride your bike across the United States? conduct research in the Amazonian rain forest? work on a presidential campaign? build houses for the poor? Tens of thousands of students each year take a break before, or even during college to work, travel, volunteer, or do something just plain different. No matter what you may plan to do with your time away, Taking Time Off shows you how to make the most of it. Included are the inspiring stories of 26 students whose pursuits in their time away from school were fulfilling and enjoyable. You'll find practical advice on every aspect of planning a break, from researching your options and financing your leave to convincing your parents it's a worthy idea. This book's resources section also lists programs, jobs, and American and international organizations that can help you to plan your own time off.
Download or read book Four Corners Level 3 Teacher s Edition with Assessment Audio CD CD ROM written by Jack C. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twelve lessons that teach English language grammar, vocabulary, functional language, listening and pronunciation, reading and writing and speaking.
Download or read book The 30 30 Career written by Wendell Hanes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THERE"S NO MORE SELLING OUT! THERE'S JUST MONEY!" says Director Little X- ------Get paid NOW! Make 30 GRAND in 30 SECONDS by scoring music for high-profile TV COMMERCIALS! Don't just wait around for a platinum record or publishing deal. Your 30-30 CAREER awaits you! ---------
Download or read book Your Career written by David C. Borchard and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
