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E-book titled Careers in Mental Health: Opportunities in Psychology, Counseling, and Social Work - synopsis: Contains essential career advice for anyone considering an advanced degree in one of the “helping” professions within mental health, including clinical psychology, counseling psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, substance abuse counseling, and school psychology. This book also clarifies the distinctions between professions by discussing the history and philosophy of each field, requirements for advanced education, licensing, available jobs, salary potential, and more.
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Image one: E-book titled The Anxiety Survival Guide: Getting through the Challenging Stuff - synopsis: Co-written with psychologists and a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, this is a relatable and straightforward guide to managing worry in emerging adulthood. As well as providing tried-and-tested advice and exercises that are proven to reduce feelings of anxiety, it includes recovery stories from people who have managed their symptoms successfully. It begins with what is difficult and challenging about young adulthood and how you can deal with uncertainty in life. It goes on to examine change and challenges, giving tips about what can help in specific scenarios such as exams, relationships, leaving home and interviews.
Image two: E-book titled Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental Illness - synopsis: The experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group in the labor market. As a researcher of economics and disability and the mother of a son with schizophrenia, the author speaks from both professional and personal experience.
Image one: E-book titled How Leadership Reputations Are Won and Lost: How To Build a Successful Reputation and Create a Personal Brand to Fast-Track Career Success (2020) - synopsis:
This book gets to grips with how our reputation is formed in the real world and what really makes the difference in winning and losing a good reputation.
The book uncovers the impact of the ‘secret vocabulary’ used in organizations to shape reputations and offers tips and advice about how to manage your reputation and how to develop a personal brand to shape your future career direction with integrity and authenticity.
Image two: E-book titled Staying Mentally Healthy during Your Teaching Career (2020) - synopsis: The mental health of teachers in school is just as important as the well-being of the pupils they support. Recent research reveals some alarming statistics, including that 74% of teachers are unable to relax and have a poor work-life balance. This book examines a range of relevant issues including workload, managing behavior, developing resilience and managing professional relationships in order to address some of these concerns and provide comprehensive guidance and workable, evidence-informed strategies to support all those teaching in schools and colleges.
Image one: E-book titled Game Production Studies (2021) - synopsis: As careers in video game development become more common, so do the stories about precarious working conditions and structural inequalities within the industry. In Game Production Studies, an international group of researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial studios to independent creators. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with issues related to labor, production routines, or monetization, as well as local specificities. As the first edited collection dedicated solely to video game production, this volume provides a timely resource for anyone interested in how games are made and at what cost.
Image two: E-book titled Essential Guide for Early Career Teachers: Workload - Taking Ownership of Your Teaching (2020) synopsis: This book provides practical time management and productivity strategies to help new teachers tackle the issue of workload. Workload is a key issue for most beginning teachers. Trying to cope with all the demands of a new job with an increasing burden of administration, reporting and assessment tasks, can be daunting at best and may even lead to significant mental health issues. But there is a way through it all! This book acknowledges the challenges that exist and suggests evidence-informed ideas that can be used both in and outside the classroom to create an acceptable workload.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Link: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information for more than 300 occupational profiles covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy.
Image one: E-book titled Take Charge of Your Nursing Career (2021) - synopsis: Today, nursing professionals across the globe and at each stage in their career consistently ask how to navigate, grow, and expand their careers; change their career trajectories; and develop, hone, and promote their nursing identities. Nurses are focused on career-development and management areas that are far beyond writing a resumé or curriculum vitae. They are looking for career resources that apply to the many roles and challenges they face at all points and phases of their career. This book provides just that. Take Charge of Your Nursing Career provides nurses with a unique and distinct perspective to develop and manage their careers from beginning to end.
Image two: E-book titled Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers, 1800-2021 (2022) - synopsis: During the Covid-19 pandemic, the home as a workplace became a widely discussed topic. However, for almost 300 million workers around the world, paid work from home was not news. Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers, 1800-2021 includes contributions from scholars, activists and artists addressing the past and present conditions of home-based work. They discuss the institutional and legal histories of regulations for these workers, their modes of organization and resistance, as well as providing new insights on contemporary home-based work in both traditional and developing sectors.
My Next Move
Link: https://www.mynextmove.org/
My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. The site has tasks, skills, salary information, and more for over 900 different careers. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person’s interests and level of work experience.
Image one: E-book titled Professional Development in Applied Linguistics: A Guide to Success for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty (2020) - synopsis: Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such as how to identify and apply to doctoral programs, how to make the most of conferences, how to achieve a semblance of work-life balance, and how to land a job. Unfortunately, however, training on such professional matters is often inconsistent and/or idiosyncratic. This book seeks to consolidate and demystify these critical and often-misunderstood aspects of professional development in the context of applied linguistics.
Image two: E-book titled How To Thrive at Work: Mindfulness, Motivation, and Productivity (2021) - synopsis: You cannot always alter the demands of your professional or personal lives but, by understanding more about how your brain functions and by actively pursuing well-being techniques, you can enhance the skills that help you manage and succeed at the challenges thrown at you and reduce the risks associated with burnout. With a focus on improving mindfulness, motivation and productivity, this book offers sound, practical advice and strategies for self-care whatever your working environment and whatever stage you are at in your career.
O*NET OnLine
Link: https://www.onetonline.org/
The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resource functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs.
GovernmentJobs.com
Link: www.governmentjobs.com
GovernmentJobs.com is the largest public sector job board in the country with thousands of open positions looking for qualified candidates like you. Automatically save your applications in a centralized place so you can keep track of where you’ve applied and check the status of your submission.
Image one: E-book titled The Customer Success Professional's Handbook: How To Thrive in One of the World's Fastest Growing Careers, While Driving Growth for Your Company (2020) - synopsis: As the subscription model has spread from the cloud and SaaS to more sectors of the economy, that pivotal role will only grow in importance. That’s because if you want to compete and thrive in this new environment, you need to put the customer at the center of your strategy. You need to recognize you’re no longer selling just a product. You’re selling an outcome. Customer Success Managers (CSM) are committed to capturing and delivering those outcomes by listening to their customers, understanding their needs, and adapting products and services to drive success. The Customer Success Professional’s Handbook is the definitive reference book for CSMs and similar roles in the field. This practical, first-of-its-kind manual fills a significant gap in professional customer success literature, providing the knowledge every CSM needs to succeed—from the practitioner level all the way to senior leadership.
Image two: E-book titled From Residency to Retirement: Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime (2021) - synopsis: From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services. Mizrahi observed and interviewed these physicians in six timeframes ending in 2016. Mizrahi’s work, covering almost fifty years, provides rarely viewed insights into the lives of physicians over a professional life span.
Texas Workforce Commission
Link: https://www.twc.texas.gov/jobseekers/job-search
Find and apply for jobs with Texas state agencies or universities. Browse job openings, create a resume, and find job search tips and assistance with writing resumes and cover letters, interviewing, negotiating salaries, and evaluating job offers.
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Image two: E-book titled Your Healthcare Job Hunt: How Your Digital Presence Can Make or Break Your Career (2020) - synopsis: Healthcare job seekers—from new graduates to seasoned professionals—need to know how to successfully achieve their career aspirations in a highly digitized job market. Your Healthcare Job Hunt focuses on getting the most out of the internet during a healthcare job search. With colorful, evocative examples specific to the field, this book covers information, tools, and online resources that can help you stand out and maximize your career advancement opportunities.
Image three: E-book titled The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies To Succeed as Your Own Boss (2018) - synopsis: The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss alerts you to the challenges involved and provides proven strategies for surmounting these obstacles and succeeding. You’ll also learn what you need to put in place before taking the leap to being your own boss to help assure your success. Working for yourself offers personal freedoms and rewards, but the road can curve or travel uphill at times. Here, Jeanne Yocum shares eight key behaviors that impede success and provides proven solutions for the various obstacles that might cross your path, including unreasonable client demands, slow payers, unexpected client defections, daily schedules, health and financial planning, and the feelings of isolation that can sometimes accompany working on your own.
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Image one: E-book titled 101+ Careers in Public Health (2016) - synopsis: Includes both familiar public health careers and emerging opportunities, including careers in the military, public health, and aging, as well as careers in cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology and public health genetics. Readers will learn about modern approaches to public health programs, including the evolving study of implementation science and the increased role of community-based participatory research.
Image two: E-book titled Health Care for Veterans: Background, Education, System Reform, and Improvements (2020) - synopsis: The federal government’s role in providing health care to the nation’s veterans can be traced back to World War I. The VA provides health care and health-related services through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA’s primary mission is to provide health care services to eligible veterans and some family members. The VHA is also statutorily required to conduct medical research, to train health care professionals, to serve as a contingency backup to the Department of Defense (DOD) medical system during a national security emergency, and to provide support to the National Disaster Medical System and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as necessary. This book provide information about veterans’ health care.
Image three: E-book titled The Management Game of Communication (2016) - synopsis: We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge. This schism leads communication scholars to assume that better communication is an end in itself while management see it as a means to an end – it must somehow contribute to the bottom line. How can strategic communication and public relations support corporations? What can communicators learn from management disciplines? Moreover, how should universities and business schools deal with the need to integrate research and education from different disciplines to advance the field? This book addresses these challenges and offers some answers.
Image one: E-book titled How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals:(2016) - synopsis: Using plain, intelligible language, this book outlines the basic principles of breaking bad news and presents a technique, or protocol, that can be easily learned. It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as: how much the patient knows and/or wants to know; how to identify the patient’s agenda and understanding; and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information. Also discusses reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care team.
Image two: E-book titled Careers in Health Information Technology (2015) - synopsis: Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them. Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment.
Image one: E-book titled Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers, and Gig Workers of All Types (2019) - synopsis: The all-in-one legal and tax resource every independent contractor and gig worker needs. Whether you’re starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. This excellent, well-organized reference will also show you how to: decide the best form for your business (sole proprietor, LLC, or other); make sure you’re paid in full and on time; pay estimated taxes and avoid trouble with the IRS; take advantage of all available tax deductions; keep accurate records in case you get audited; and write legally binding contracts and letter agreements.
Image two: E-book titled Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide (2019) - synopsis: This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cybersecurity, and how you can be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to the security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as a security personal needs to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies.
Image one: E-book titled The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don't Have to Go Big To Make a Great Living (2018) - synopsis: Eco-Bags Products founder Sharon Rowe shares how a tiny business is built on maintaining a laser focus on what is essential by living an intentional life. As an entrepreneur and mother, Rowe is most concerned with putting family first, maintaining financial security, and doing something that makes an impact in the world. Using the success story of Eco-Bags Products, Rowe distills the step-by-step process of building a profitable, right-scaled, sustainable venture that doesn’t compromise your values. She shows you how to test your concept, manage your money and priorities, and more, while staying true to the “tiny” ethos.
Image two: E-book titled The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (2017) - synopsis: In The Work of Art, Alison Gerber explores art worlds to investigate who artists are (and who they’re not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we've been led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two. The stories artists tell are just as much a part of artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble.
Image one: E-book titled The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management (2017) - synopsis: This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in which information professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to help demonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areas of employment and career development, ripe for applying the Information Services skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with common themes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to the information management landscape.
Image two: E-book titled Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work (2019) - synopsis: Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist.
Image one: E-book titled Occupational Stress: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Management Strategies (2019) - synopsis: Stress related work, although always present, is considered one of the new risks for occupational medicine. This is largely due to a general change in the organization of work, inevitable in a constantly evolving market. It is also due to the presence of objective and subjective indicators that allow a satisfactory, though very complex, risk assessment. Related work stress generates repercussions on the company at every level, with a reduction in productivity, a reduction in the corporate image, a reduction in the quality of service, an increase in absenteeism, and the dissatisfaction of workers. This book, written by authors from all over the world, will analyze some aspects of this increasingly relevant subject.
Image two: E-book titled The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life (2019) - synopsis: Welcome to Corporate Life. The New Employee Manual is not your Dad's or Mom's employee manual. It's the new playbook for corporate survival, fitting today's realities and the challenges facing employees who join or work in large, seemingly successful companies. Those companies already issued very specific and detailed employee manuals covering everything under the sun except how to compete well in our brave new world. The New Employee Manual will help you navigate the Corporate (with a capital C) labyrinth.
Image one: E-book titled Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices (2019) - synopsis: This book is a compilation of manuscripts and studies that explore partnerships and strategies educators and educational leaders use to produce positive socio-educational outcomes for Black students in various contexts. Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices is unique because it illuminates examples of effective school-community partnerships that foster positive student outcomes. This book is intended as a practical text for committed educational leaders, at different professional points (e.g., practicing teachers, pre-service school counselors and teachers), who are eager to transform the current educational trajectory of Black children through interventions that show promise.
Image two: E-book titled Teaching ELLs across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies (2016) - synopsis: The book, Teaching ELLs across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies, is a unique, useful text written for K–12 teachers. This book is the culmination of the professional knowledge, expertise, and experience from the distinguished authors who represent the entire range of the content areas, including: language arts, science, mathematics, technology, arts, psychology, and Hispanic studies. This book provides the most needed information for K-12 teachers with issues and strategies that are important in content areas to help ELLs‘ success. Second, the book fills the gap related to teaching ELLs in content areas. There are some existing books with titles on teaching ELLs across content areas; yet, these books provide general information with fewer books that really address specific content topics. This book is unique because it has the dedicated chapters for specific content areas, e.g., Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies with issues and strategies in these respective contents as well as general information, e.g., L2 theories for teachers to know and work with ELLs. Third, each chapter begins with a scenario to catch the reader's attention, is followed by issues and strategies, and ends with a summary. A scenario begins with each chapter for teachers to get to know the ELLs with the content that focuses on the related information and teaching strategies.
LinkedIn Learning Video Courses
Course title: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions
Course description: There are certain questions that interviewers volley at nearly all interviewees—regardless of the position or industry—in an attempt to get a read on their personality and potential. In this collection of bite-sized videos, get expert tips that can help you confidently tackle common interview questions—and, ultimately, ace your next job interview. Plus, get insights on how to dress for your interview, project confidence with your body language, negotiate your salary, and more.
Image one: E-book titled Saving the Earth as a Career: Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional (2016) - synopsis: Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: Is this the right career for you? - Designing a program of study - Designing and executing a project - Attending conferences and making presentations - Writing papers - Finding a job - Making a difference
Image two: E-book titled Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse (2016) - synopsis: The written works of nature's leading advocates—from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few—have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical.
Course title: Optimize Your Resume for Applicant Tracking Systems
Course description: In this course, career strategist Jenny Foss explains how recruiters use applicant tracking software, as well as how to create a winning resume—one that’s not just a compelling read for recruiters, but also optimized for the ATS. Discover how applicant tracking systems work and how to select keywords to maximize your chances for success. Explore how your choice of formatting, fonts, and graphics can trip up the ATS. Plus, learn about the best type of resume for the ATS, as well as how to rework your own resume to ensure it gets into the hands of the right person.
Image one: E-book titled The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Step-By-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear (2017) - synopsis: There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if shyness or social anxiety keeps you from building meaningful relationships with others, advancing in your education or career, or simply living your best life, The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you confront your fears and become actively involved in the world. This book incorporates breakthrough new research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including a new chapter on mindfulness-based treatments, updated information on medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances. As you complete the activities in this workbook, you'll learn to find your strengths and weaknesses using self-evaluation, explore and examine your fears, create a personalized plan for change, and put your plan into action through gentle and gradual exposure to the very social situations that cause you to feel uneasy.
Image two: E-book titled Emotion and Proactivity at Work: Prospects and Dialogues (2021) - synopsis: Individuals’ behaviors at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments. In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer new thinking on the process by examining how emotion can drive employees’ proactivity in the workplace and how, in turn, that proactivity can shape one’s emotional experiences.
Course title: Writing a Cover Letter
Course description: In this course, join career strategist and Certified Professional Resume Writer Jenny Foss as she dives into the topic of cover letters, detailing how to craft one that helps you land the interview and—ultimately—the job. Explore the elements of an exceptional cover letter and learn how to craft a killer lead, provide direct evidence for why your skills align with a position, and close on a strong note. Plus, Jenny shares tips for getting your polished letter directly into the hands of decision-makers.
Image one: E-book titled Careers in Sports and Fitness (2017) - synopsis: Serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training needed within each profession along with a look towards the future of the field with an informative employment outlook.
Image two: E-book titled Occupational Outlook Handbook - synopsis: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
Course Title: Rocking Your LinkedIn Profile
Course description: Explore how to create a LinkedIn profile that brings your personal career story to life, whether you’re just starting out, seeking to advance, or making a career change. Instructor Lauren Jolda—head of the "Rock Your Profile" team at LinkedIn—offers tips on tailoring each section, starting with the key insight that a LinkedIn profile is unique and shouldn’t be approached exactly like a resume. Lauren covers ways to add media to a profile, methods for showcasing your career accomplishments and aspirations, and specific examples of profile phrases and language that can help inspire your personal story.
Image two: E-book titled The Ultimate Job Hunting Book (2018) - synopsis: From crafting the perfect CV and finding the job of your dreams, to writing a great cover letter and winning at interview, The Ultimate Job Hunting Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.
Image three: E-book titled The Essential Job Interview Handbook (2013) - synopsis: The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews.
Image one: E-book titled The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health (2018) - synopsis: In the updated fourth edition of this award-winning title, more than 1,230 alphabetically arranged entries, of which about 100 are new, cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, contemporary health care issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. The Encyclopedia covers all major health professions, including nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, and more.
Image two: E-book titled The Essential Job Interview Handbook (2013) - synopsis: The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews. A unique feature of this book is the multiple answers it provides for each question, rated good, better, and best; with this feature, you'll learn what makes a winning answer and understand the strategy behind it. Whether you're just finishing school or have been working a long time, The Essential Job Interview Handbook will give you all the powerful tools you need to not just get a job, but to get the right one.
Image one: E-book titled The Ultimate Job Hunting Book (2018) - synopsis: The Ultimate Job Hunting Book gives you everything you need to get your dream job. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible.
Image two: E-book titled Demystifying the Engineering PhD (2019) - synopsis: Demystifying the Engineering PhD explores what it means to be an engineering PhD holder, including insights from engineering professionals working in academia and industry across multiple institute types and companies. Topics covered include motivations for obtaining a PhD, the added value of a PhD, and career options for PhD holders.
Image one: E-book titled 101+ Careers in Public Health (2016) - synopsis: This updated and revised second edition of 101+ Careers in Public Health provides an extensive overview of the numerous and diverse career options available and the many different roads to achieving them. It includes both familiar public health careers and emerging opportunities. New to the second edition are public health careers in the military, public health and aging, and careers in cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology and public health genetics. Readers will learn about modern approaches to public health programs, including the evolving study of implementation science and the increased role of community-based participatory research. The second edition also presents expanded information on getting started in public health, including the increasingly popular field of global health. Included are descriptions of careers in disease prevention, environmental health, disaster preparedness, nutrition, education, public safety, and many more.
Image two: E-book titled Cracking the Tech Career: Insider Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Any Top Tech Company (2014) - synopsis: This book provides new information on what these companies want, and how to show them you have what it takes to succeed in the role. Early planners will learn what to study, and established professionals will discover how to make their skillset and experience set them apart from the crowd. Author Gayle Laakmann McDowell worked in engineering at Google, and interviewed over 120 candidates as a member of the hiring committee - in this book, she shares her perspectives on what works and what doesn't, what makes you desirable, and what gets your resume saved or deleted.
Image one: E-book titled Job Skills: Job Interview Basics (2017) - synopsis: Covers topics like: Life Skills, Job Interview Basics, Job Skills, Independent Living, Flip Book, Fiction, Nonfiction, Teen, Young Adult, Emergent Reader, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books.
Image two: E-book titled Occupational Outlook Handbook (2020) - synopsis: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
Image one: E-book titled The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don't Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living (2018) - synopsis: As an entrepreneur and mother, Sharon Rowe, founder of Eco-Bags Products, is most concerned with putting family first, maintaining financial security, and doing something that makes an impact in the world. Using the success story of Eco-Bags Products, Rowe distills the step-by-step process of building a profitable, right-scaled, sustainable venture that doesn't compromise your values. She shows you how to test your concept, manage your money and priorities, and more, while staying true to the "tiny" ethos.
Image two: E-book titled The Management Game of Communication (2016) - synopsis: We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge. This book addresses these challenges and offers some answers. The contributions from primarily European countries were selected from a large number of peer-reviewed contributions for the 2015 congress of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association hosted by BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo. The chapters explore challenges of linking both fields; discuss research focusing on communication, leadership and organisational goals; and present findings from current research in corporate communication.
Image one: E-book titled Occupational Stress: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Management Strategies (2019) - synopsis: Stress related work, although always present, is considered one of the new risks for occupational medicine. This is largely due to a general change in the organization of work, inevitable in a constantly evolving market. It is also due to the presence of objective and subjective indicators that allow a satisfactory, though very complex, risk assessment. This book, written by authors from all over the world, will analyze some aspects of this increasingly relevant subject.
Image two: E-book titled Women in Management: A Framework for Sustainable Work-Life Integration (2017) - synopsis: While most books focus on a fragmented, hyper-effective view of women and leadership, this book advances the need for an integrated approach. Its "Competing Values Framework" acts as an organizing model that aligns personal competency with organizational capability, helping readers to identify important leadership roles and competencies, break societal barriers, and choose the right set of behaviors to fit their personal and professional goals. In-chapter text boxes provide personal insight from real employees both entering and established in leadership positions, offering a varied perspective on the challenges and resolutions available to women in management. As men become more engaged with their families, they too will find this book a useful tool.
Image one: E-book titled Saving the Earth as a Career: Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional (2016) - synopsis: Explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: is this the right career for you?; Designing a program of study; Designing and executing a project; Attending conferences and making presentations; Writing papers; Finding a job; and Making a difference.
Image two: E-book titled The Emerald Handbook of Information Management (2017) - synopsis: This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in which information professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to help demonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areas of employment and career development, ripe for applying the Information Services skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with common themes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to the IM landscape.
Image one: E-book titled Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices (2019) - synopsis: This book is a compilation of manuscripts and studies that explore partnerships and strategies educators and educational leaders use to produce positive socio-educational outcomes for Black students in various contexts. Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices is unique because it illuminates examples of effective school-community partnerships that foster positive student outcomes. This book is intended as a practical text for committed educational leaders, at different professional points (e.g., practicing teachers, pre-service school counselors and teachers), who are eager to transform the current educational trajectory of Black children through interventions.
Image two: E-book titled: Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need to Know (2016) - synopsis: Provides the information needed to survive a technical career, enabling prospective technical career candidates and those currently in technical careers to explore all technical education possibilities, industries, disciplines, and specialties. This handbook better equips the reader to deal with the tough situations and decisions they will have to make throughout their career. Topics include preparing for the workforce, employment challenges, and dealing with on-the-job situations.
Image one: E-book titled The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook (2017) - synopsis: If shyness or social anxiety keeps you from building meaningful relationships with others, advancing in your education or career, or simply living your best life, The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you confront your fears and become actively involved in the world. This book incorporates breakthrough new research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including a chapter on mindfulness-based treatments, updated information on medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances.
Image two: E-book titled The Toxic Boss Survival Guide: Tactics for Navigating the Wilderness at Work (2018) - synopsis: Chances are, you already know what it’s like to work for a toxic boss. You know they suck the air out of a room and the life out of their employees, and you don’t need a research report to tell you that working for one is a nightmare. If this sounds like your current reality, and you want help, this book is for you. The Toxic Boss Survival Guide can help you analyze your immediate situation, create a workable survival plan that fits your situation, and carry it out (including abandoning the situation, if that is what it takes to survive).
Image one: E-book titled So You Want to...Join the U.S. Peace Corps (2016) - synopsis: This book contains many interviews with young people who have served in the Peace Corps; they tell their stories and give practical advice about joining. You will learn how to apply, the specific qualifications to join, and what you can do to boost your chances of submitting a winning application. We also cover everything that comes after the application process, such as the countries served, the languages spoken, and the vital medical and safety information that you will need to remain safe during your travels, all explained simply.
Image two: E-book titled The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life (2019) - synopsis: The New Employee Manual will help you navigate the Corporate (with a capital C) labyrinth. Where Corporate's manual shapes you into a dutiful cog for the good of the machine, ours helps you enhance your career for the good of, well, you … and your company. The New Employee Manual should make you feel skeptical: skeptical of empty slogans, obsolete rituals, obsessive pursuits, and bigwigs' playbooks that no longer work.
Image one: E-book titled Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers, and Gig Workers of All Types (2019) - synopsis: This excellent, well-organized reference will show you how to: decide the best form for your business (sole proprietor, LLC, or other); make sure you're paid in full and on time; pay estimated taxes and avoid trouble with the IRS; take advantage of all available tax deductions, including the 20% pass-through tax deduction for business owners; choose health, property, and other kinds of insurance; keep accurate records in case you get audited; and write legally binding contracts and letter agreements.
Image two: E-book titled The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (2017) - synopsis: In The Work of Art, Alison Gerber explores these art worlds to investigate who artists are (and who they're not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we've been led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two.
Image two description: E-book titled Beginner's Guide to Journalism and Mass Communication (2013) - synopsis: This guide introduces basic tools of the applied journalism in simple language. It provides step-by-step instructions to develop skills in the field. Any person interested in journalism, mass communication and in public relations will find this book very interesting, informative and useful. It could even motivate you to contribute articles and features to newspapers and magazines as a freelance writer.
Image three description: Careers in Health Information Technology (2015) - synopsis: Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them!Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT) and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment.
