Download or read book How to Get Any Job Second Edition written by Donald Asher and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion and preparation. First tip: Your college major has very little to do with your job options. In fact, you can get to virtually any life-goal destination from virtually any starting point. Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major. Chad Hurley, billionaire founder of YouTube, was an art major. And while we're at it, Albert Einstein was a high-school drop-out. Still think your college major will determine your life path? Think again. HOW TO GET ANY JOB is the first book that definitively answers the following questions, and many more: • What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job? • Why do employers hire people like you? • Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!) • How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies? • How do you set yourself up to get promoted? • How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts? • How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major? • How can you get famous and influential people to help you? • How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college? • What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement? • What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement? Whether you're twenty and still in college or twenty-nine and still wondering how to start your life, HOW TO GET ANY JOB offers the most creative and innovative thinking on life launch to date. It is used by college career centers nationwide.

Download or read book Crush Your Career written by Dee Ann Turner and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know someone who is dissatisfied with their career but feels trapped in their current trajectory. What's not always clear is how they got there or, more importantly, how we can avoid the same fate as we develop our own careers. In a competitive job market, we need concrete, field-tested advice to help us ace the interview, land the job, and launch a career we love. Enter Dee Ann Turner. After more than three decades leading teams and coaching staff members at Chick-fil-A, she knows what it takes to build a fulfilling career. In this practical, hands-on book she reveals the secrets of - finding a job - preparing for an interview - conquering the first 90 days - managing work relationships - overcoming mistakes - adding value to your team - and so much more Anyone entering the job market or hoping to make a transition in their career--along with the parents, teachers, college counselors, or career counselors who coach them--will find invaluable, hard-won advice on how to create a work life you love.

Download or read book Launch Your Career written by Sean O'Keefe and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they're interested in by using the author's proven Career Launch Method. Did you know only 20 percent of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80 percent of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. This book will teach you how to tap into that 80 percent! O'Keefe, in partnership with the Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven eight-step Career Launch Method that will help any student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship building by teaching all the practical microsteps needed to succeed. And O'Keefe teaches readers how to "play the student card," turning inexperience and eagerness to learn into a powerful advantage. Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, nonprofits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world. The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed tool for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's return on investment.

Download or read book Launchers written by Codie J. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though you've graduated college, it doesn't mean you know what you want to do with the rest of your life, and the job position you take after graduation may not contribute to your long-term success. Instead of simply taking a job, you want to launch a career-one that's satisfying, invigorating, and financially rewarding.In Launchers, Codie Wright and Dr. Kerry Litzenberg offer a comprehensive plan that's designed to boost the confidence of career-seekers and ultimately place them in their ideal professions. From determining your personal criteria for success, to inventorying your skills and experience, to networking, interviewing, and more, the practical advice in this invaluable volume will guide you every step of the way.Whether you're launching or re-launching, still in college or a few years out, Launchers will help you get to the career you were meant to pursue.

Download or read book How to Launch Your Wine Career written by Liz Thach and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by successful and respected industry professionals, How to Launch Your Wine Career gives practical, real-world advice on how to land, develop, and succeed in a career in wine making and production, vineyard management, marketing and sales, public relations, writing, education, winery management and administration, direct-to-consumer sales, and more. Featuring interviews with some of wine's most prominent figures—including winemaker Heidi Barrett and wine writer James Laube of Wine Spectator—the book builds a career from the ground up, explaining job descriptions, educational and skill requirements, the career ladder, how to get started, and job hunting strategies. Each chapter ends with a helpful resource guide of available conferences, books, and websites. The appendix provides a detailed action plan worksheet to help the prospective applicant plan, plot progress, and nail that killer wine industry job.

Download or read book More Good Jobs An Entrepreneur s Action Plan to Create Change in Your Community written by Martin Babinec and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We hear it from politicians, the media, and just about everyone else: "We need more good jobs!" And yet nobody is telling us how to create good jobs. After successfully starting and growing a multibillion-dollar company in Silicon Valley, Martin Babinec returned to his home in Upstate New York where he then realized there were a number of forces at play in Silicon Valley-forces he hadn't appreciated-that had helped him succeed as an entrepreneur. Since then, he's been on a journey to understand the importance of community dynamics in the creation of new businesses. He's found a growing divergence between magnet cities-brimming with talent and new businesses-and talent exporting cities-where bright young minds leave in search of better opportunities. More Good Jobs is the playbook for turning your community into a magnet city, helping local entrepreneurs to start and grow companies and, in doing so, creating more good jobs for everyone in our communities.

Download or read book Site Reliability Engineering written by Betsy Beyer and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google's Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world.

Download or read book Breaking Into YOUR Silicon Valley written by Irwin Ki and published by . This book was released on 2018-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready for career disruption? Have you ever wanted to work at Google, Facebook, Amazon, or a hot tech startup? But never tried due to the belief of needing coding experience, an Ivy League education, or think you'd have to move the West Coast. That's what I thought...I've watched a whole generation get brainwashed by thinking of starting their own business is the ONLY way to get rich. In reality, 1 in 4 millionaires has worked "Gateway Jobs" inside of a company before building their fortunes. I even got caught up in it, and did the cliche "quit my job and become an entrepreneur." My most successful business venture profited about $72,000....but that took about 7 years to realize. Divided out by 7 years that would put my income below the poverty level HOORAY STARTING A BUSINESS ← (insert sarcasm)Feeling like a failure, I decided to get a "job" to support myself. I had no real skills, so I got a "Gateway Job" as a Sales Development Representative (a fancy title for "meeting setter"), but by doing this I got mentorship, sales training, and shockingly made over $100,000 in my first year. This "Gateway Job" taught me far more than my business ever did (not to mention paid me far more).This opened my eyes into this highly-paid, highly-in-demand world of technology. I watched these technology "Gateway Jobs" rocket people from: -Austin started as a marketing intern at Uber, now she's on the executive team of a $70billion company. -Jim went from a customer support rep wearing a phone headset all day, to moving up the company ladder, to getting a juicy exit when the company IPO'd. -Karina went from Macy's retail, moved up to sales development, and now has a six-figure a year job as a senior renewals account manager.By the end of this book you will have a solid idea of which of the 38 "Gateway Job" will be the best way to break into (and have a successful & lucrative career) in departments such as marketing, sales, finance, operations, IT, legal, development, product management, customer support, and HR. Plus this advice is applicable if you are NOT in Silicon Valley. I break down INSIDER STRATEGIES on how to land a tech job in your hometown & INSIDER STEP BY STEP guide on how to go from blank resume to multiple six-figure offers.Here's the book in a nutshell: PART 1: Showing WHY technology is the best industry to get into, and +20 examples of people who got a small "Gateway Job" then landed their Dream Job. Includes interviews, numbers, and a "Gateway Job Flow Chart" for each career path.PART 2: We dig up and find 2-8 Gateway Jobs (38 in total ) for each department including marketing, sales, finance, operations, IT, legal, development, product management, customer support, and HR.PART 3: We then show you HOW to get your first "Gateway Job" with a 10 step action plan to give you a proven tech resume template (used to get into Google, Facebook, Cisco), exercises, scripts, and tips on how to position your resume and skills. BONUS chapters: How to work in the Crypto/Blockchain & Video game industry This book is a refreshing career guide for the 21st century and includes compiled industry knowledge and advice from industry leaders like Mark Cuban (Shark Tank), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Eric Schmidt (Google), and much more If you are looking for a proven way to land your first internship or TRANSFORM your career and life."You won't regret getting this book" -Irwin Ki

Download or read book Pro Spring Batch written by Michael Minella and published by Apress. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its release, Spring Framework has transformed virtually every aspect of Java development including web applications, security, aspect-oriented programming, persistence, and messaging. Spring Batch, one of its newer additions, now brings the same familiar Spring idioms to batch processing. Spring Batch addresses the needs of any batch process, from the complex calculations performed in the biggest financial institutions to simple data migrations that occur with many software development projects. Pro Spring Batch is intended to answer three questions: What? What is batch processing? What does it entail? What makes it different from the other applications we are developing? What are the challenges inherent in the development of a batch process? Why? Why do batch processing? Why can’t we just process things as we get them? Why do we do batch processing differently than the web applications that we currently work on? How? How to implement a robust, scalable, distributed batch processing system using open-source frameworks Pro Spring Batch gives concrete examples of how each piece of functionality is used and why it would be used in a real-world application. This includes providing tips that the "school of hard knocks" has taught author Michael Minella during his experience with Spring Batch. Pro Spring Batch includes examples of I/O options that are not mentioned in the official user’s guide, as well as performance tips on things like how to limit the impact of maintaining the state of your jobs. The author also walks you through, from end to end, the design and implementation of a batch process based upon a theoretical real-world example. This includes basic project setup, implementation, testing, tuning and scaling for large volumes.

Download or read book Launch a Teaching Career written by Peter P. Leibman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the perfect time to become a full-time teacher and yet too many college graduates who majored in education, or corporate workers looking to transition to teaching, cannot secure a teaching position. Where are the opportunities? How do you market yourself appropriately? In Launch a Teaching Career: Secrets for Aspiring Teachers, Dr. Peter Leibman explains in great detail how to avoid the resume pile, enhance your candidacy, and move to the head of the class. A step-by-step plan of action is presented giving you a comprehensive guide to achieve your goal of becoming a teacher. You will learn how to: • Build a positive reputation as an undergraduate student • Effectively transition from the corporate world • Develop a powerful network of supporters • Write a dynamic broadcast letter designed to get you more interviews • Avoid resume pitfalls and present yourself in a professional manner • Ace the interview by taking control • Learn where the job opportunities really are • Enhance your position and impress school administrators

Download or read book Ansible Up and Running written by Lorin Hochstein and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages—it’s minimal in nature, you don’t need to install anything on your nodes, and it has an easy learning curve. With this updated second edition, you’ll learn how to be productive with this tool quickly, whether you’re a developer deploying code to production or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Authors Lorin Hochstein and René Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible’s configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool’s real power: built-in declarative modules. You’ll discover that Ansible has the functionality you need—and the simplicity you desire. Manage Windows machines, and automate network device configuration Manage your fleet from your web browser with Ansible Tower Understand how Ansible differs from other configuration management systems Use the YAML file format to write your own playbooks Work with a complete example to deploy a non-trivial application Deploy applications to Amazon EC2 and other cloud platforms Create Docker images and deploy Docker containers with Ansible This book is best read start to finish, with later chapters building on earlier ones. Because it’s written in a tutorial style, you can follow along on your own machine. Most examples focus on web applications.

Download or read book The Launch Book written by Sanyin Siang and published by Lid Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we are exploring a new idea, new career or new endeavor, we encounter risks, self-doubt and fear. Drawing on behavioral science and self-leadership principles, the strategies and exercises in this practical and inspirational book will catalyze and position you for a successful launch. This book draws on the author's wide experience in leadership, coaching and mentorship, as well as interviews with innovators and entrepreneurs. Short, sharp, snappy and impactful, this book makes any launch actionable. LID Publishing's popular Concise Advice Lab notebooks are designed to be quick and comprehensive brainstorming tools and skill-building resources for busy professionals. The small trim size makes it easy to take along in a briefcase or purse. Interior pages are matte finish, so ink won't smear, and there's plenty of space to jot notes. A ribbon makes it easy to mark your place, and the elastic outer band keeps the notebook closed.

Download or read book Spring Batch in Action written by Arnaud Cogoluegnes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Spring Batch in Action is an in-depth guide to writing batch applications using Spring Batch. Written for developers who have basic knowledge of Java and the Spring lightweight container, the book provides both a best-practices approach to writing batch jobs and comprehensive coverage of the Spring Batch framework. About the Technology Even though running batch jobs is a common task, there's no standard way to write them. Spring Batch is a framework for writing batch applications in Java. It includes reusable components and a solid runtime environment, so you don't have to start a new project from scratch. And it uses Spring's familiar programming model to simplify configuration and implementation, so it'll be comfortably familiar to most Java developers. About the Book Spring Batch in Action is a thorough, in-depth guide to writing efficient batch applications. Starting with the basics, it discusses the best practices of batch jobs along with details of the Spring Batch framework. You'll learn by working through dozens of practical, reusable examples in key areas like monitoring, tuning, enterprise integration, and automated testing. No prior batch programming experience is required. Basic knowledge of Java and Spring is assumed. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Batch programming from the ground up Implementing data components Handling errors during batch processing Automating tedious tasks Table of Contents PART 1 BACKGROUND Introducing Spring Batch Spring Batch concepts PART 2 CORE SPRING BATCH Batch configuration Running batch jobs Reading data Writing data Processing data Implementing bulletproof jobs Transaction management PART 3 ADVANCED SPRING BATCH Controlling execution Enterprise integration Monitoring jobs Scaling and parallel processing Testing batch applications

Download or read book Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing written by Eitan Frachtenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the revised papers of the 14th International Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, JSSPP 2009, which was held in Rome, Italy, in May 2009. The 15 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover all current issues of job scheduling strategies for parallel processing; this year the conference had an increasing trend towards heterogeneous and multi-core architectures.

Download or read book Pro Spring 3 written by Rob Harrop and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile and lightweight Java technologies like Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now also works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well. Pro Spring 3 updates the bestselling Pro Spring with the latest that the Spring Framework has to offer: version 3.1. At 1000 pages, this is by far the most comprehensive Spring book available, thoroughly exploring the power of Spring. With Pro Spring 3, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and gain access to the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application like transactions, the web and presentations tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together. After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

Download or read book Jobs to Be Done written by Anthony W. Ulwick and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do some innovation projects succeed where others fail? The book reveals the business implications of Jobs Theory and explains how to put Jobs Theory into practice using Outcome-Driven Innovation.

Download or read book Euro Par 2023 Parallel Processing Workshops written by Demetris Zeinalipour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2023, which took place in Limassol, Cyprus, during August 28-September 1, 2023. The 42 full papers presented in this book together with 11 symposium papers and 14 demo/poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. LNCS 14351: First International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2023). First International Workshop on Tools for Data Locality, Power and Performance (TDLPP 2023). First International Workshop on Urgent Analytics for Distributed Computing (QuickPar 2023). 21st International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms (HETEROPAR 2023). LNCS 14352: Second International Workshop on Resource AWareness of Systems and Society (RAW 2023). Third International Workshop on Asynchronous Many-Task systems for Exascale (AMTE 2023). Third International Workshop on Performance and Energy-efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (PECS 2023) First Minisymposium on Applications and Benefits of UPMEM commercial Massively Parallel Processing-In-Memory Platform (ABUMPIMP 2023). First Minsymposium on Adaptive High Performance Input / Output Systems (ADAPIO 2023).