Knock 'em Dead, 2008: The Ultimate Job Search Guide (Knock 'em Dead)
by Martin Yate
from Adams Media
The most authoratative job search book on the market just keeps getting better and better. This new edition offers the latest and most comprehensive information on Internet resources for job searching, networking, and company reasearch. It also contains up to date information on: negotiating the very best salary and benefits package; preparing to answer the toughest interview questions; writing the most effective resume.
Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development (9th Edition)
by Duane Brown
from Allyn & Bacon
This new edition of Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development contains a stronger emphasis on technology and cross-cultural issues to assist readers more effectively in today's world. As in previous editions, career development theory, career information, career counseling practice, and career development programming are all covered in extensive detail. The book carefully describes the process of finding and securing jobs in an electronic era and presents readers with the trends that are shaping the workplace today-and those that will continue to influence their careers over the next decade. For career counselors or those involved in professional development.
The Book of U.S. Government Jobs: Where They Are, What's Available & How to Get One (10th edition) (Book of US Government Jobs)
by Dennis V. Damp
from Bookhaven Press
This completely updated edition features the latest information available for finding and applying for federal government jobs. The author and editors have over 110 years of combined federal government service. Considering that federal employees earn an average annual compensation of $106,871, including pay and benefits, compared to $53,288 in the private sector, according to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis, the federal sector is an attractive option for job seekers.
The federal government s new recruiting, outreach, and retention programs are attracting new applicants with lucrative incentives. Today federal agencies can pay off new hires student loans, negotiate starting salaries, and offer relocation allowances for critical vacancies.
Readers will find an expanded application and résumé chapter that takes readers step-by-step through a typical job announcement and instructs readers on how to write effective federal style résumés and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) statements. Résumé samples, compiled by the author and Kathryn Kraemer Troutman, the author of Federal Résumé Guidebook, are included to guide job seekers through the sometimes confusing application process.
Considerable improvements were implemented over the past few years to the archaic Civil Service examination process. Uncle Sam has finally dropped most general and administrative written entrance examinations and substituted an Occupational Questionnaire and/or Self Certification in most cases. New applicants for certain occupations may still be required to take written tests, but most agencies, other than the U.S. Postal Service, forgo testing and opt to use Occupational Questionnaires.
Agencies are still evolving since the September 11 attacks and the massive reorganization that established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS was established to consolidate law enforcement and security functions, and 22 agencies transferred significant operational functions and personnel to Homeland Security since its inception.
The impact of this reorganization and the increased security requirements in all agencies have changed government demographics. An entire chapter is devoted to law enforcement and DHS careers and the many job opportunities that are now available in the government s third largest agency. DHS employs more than 154,000 workers in hundreds of occupations.
Many changes were initiated since the previous edition was published. Lucrative recruitment incentives were authorized by Congress, programs such as the Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) were revised, and the student hiring program was reorganized under the eScholar program. This edition also added information on the Senior Executive Service (SES), and all these changes expanded the new 10th edition to 352 pages.
The federal government s total civilian workforce as of September 2006 was 2,700,392 and approximately 50 percent of the federal workforce is currently eligible for either early or regular retirement. This is creating significant employment opportunities for anyone interested in working for Uncle Sam. Over 1.3 million jobs will need to be filled as the baby boomers opt to leave government service.
This Tenth Edition of The Book of U.S. Government Jobs will help job seekers land high-paying, benefit-loaded, and secure government jobs. If you re looking for a position with good pay with excellent benefits, explore the high-paying and secure federal job market. The average annual salary for all full-time employees was $67,186 in December 2005, and you can work at thousands of stateside and overseas locations. Use this book s resources, including the Job Hunter s Checklist in Appendix A, to begin your personal job search.
Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People (Career Guide For...)
by Carol Eikleberry
from Ten Speed Press
You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love.
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009 (Occupational Outlook Handbook (Jist Works))
from JIST Works
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009 (OOH), features well-written interesting descriptions for nearly 270 major jobs in the U.S. and summary information on additional jobs.
For each job, the book discusses the nature of the work, working conditions, job outlook, training and education needed, earnings, related occupations, and additional information sources, including Web sites. Packed with practical, current information, the OOH is an invaluable resource for anyone doing career research, making career decisions, writing resumes, and preparing for interviews.
Known for timely and accurate publishing of this resource and its rock-bottom price, JIST offers two exclusive bonus sections in this comprehensive career reference. Brand new to this edition of the OOH is the Personality-Career Quiz, which helps readers match themselves to the OOH jobs. The quiz is based on the six personality types-Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
Essential Elements of Career Counseling: Processes and Techniques (2nd Edition)
by Norman Amundson
from Prentice Hall
Career Anchors: Self Assessment
by Edgar H. Schein
from Pfeiffer
Lead your employees, clients, or students on a career path to success with the new third edition of Career Anchors. This edition features:
- Three user-friendly products that have been thoroughly updated and redesigned.
- An integration of the Career Anchors Self-Assessment with job/role analysis in one participant package.
- A more complete Facilitator's Guide that includes job/role analysis.
- A new, 4-point rating scale (in the previous edition the scale was 6-point).
- Updated scoring instructions.
The Self-Assessment includes the 40-item Career Anchors self-assessment, a short description of the eight Career Anchors categories, and suggestions for next steps. Order your copy today.
I'm an English Major Now What?
by Timothy Lemire
from Writers Digest Books
What do Joan Rivers, Steven Spielberg, Alan Alda, Barbara Walters, Clarence Thomas, and Chris Isaak have in common? That's right--they were English majors who now have dream jobs. I'm an English Major, Now What? debunks the myth that English grads have to be teachers, editors, or writers and provides:
-Information on exciting career paths, including corporate communications, investment banking, graphic design, customer training, and more
-Strategies for showcasing skills taught in college to prospective employees
-Information on how an English background can be very marketable, all in the author's candid--and humorous--voice
English majors are unconventional, so why offer them a standard career guide? Instead, give them this invaluable resource for landing a job they will love.
Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work
from Wiley
"This is a must-have for any researcher in vocational psychology or career counseling, or anyone who wishes to understand the empirical underpinnings of the practice of career counseling."
-Mark Pope, EdD
College of Education, University of Missouri - St. Louis
past president of the American Counseling Association
Today's career development professional must choose from a wide array of theories and practices in order to provide services for a diverse range of clients. Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work focuses on scientifically based career theories and practices, including those derived from research in other disciplines. Driven by the latest empirical and practical evidence, this text offers the most in-depth, far-reaching, and comprehensive career development and counseling resource available.
Career Development and Counseling includes coverage of:
- Major theories of career development, choice, and adjustment
- Informative research on occupational aspirations, job search success, job satisfaction, work performance, career development with people of color, and women's career development
- Assessment of interests, needs and values, ability, and other important constructs
- Occupational classification and sources of occupational information
- Counseling for school-aged youth, diverse populations, choice-making, choice implementation, work adjustment, and retirement
- Special needs and applications including those for at-risk, intellectually talented, and work-bound youth; people with disabilities; and individuals dealing with job loss, reentry, and career transitions
Career counseling is informed by a variety of study areas, including vocational psychology, personality theory, and industrial/organizational psychology and encompasses a diverse practice arena, including all age groups and skill levels. Unlike other texts, this book focuses only on the most accepted and influential theories that have clear practice implications. Theory is linked to research and integrated with practice techniques to inform appropriate assessment and career interventions across the lifespan.
Best Jobs for the 21st Century
by Michael Farr
from JIST Works
This book features the 500 jobs with the best pay, fastest growth, and most opening and presents more than 70 "best jobs" lists. In just two steps this helps readers quickly and easily focus their career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions).
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