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Successful Applications: Work Experience, Internships and Jobs
Paperback,
21/01/2019,
£6.99
£6.29
Packed with top tips and helpful examples, this concise book takes students through the process of preparing and making successful applications for work placements, internships and graduate jobs.
Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World
Paperback,
14/07/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
Volunteer is packed with invaluable information and inspiration to get you planning your perfect short, or long-term volunteer experience. Whether it's monitoring sea turtles in Greece, helping establish handicraft businesses in Ghana or building community centres in Guatemala, you'll find opportunities in this updated, comprehensive new edition.
Successful Career Toolkit: Your Quick Fire Guide to Mastering Business Skills
Paperback,
03/05/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
Equip yourself with the essential skills you will need throughout your career with this comprehensive handbook of quick-fire practical solutions that you will return to again and again.
Stand Out from the Crowd: Key Skills for Study, Work and Life
Paperback,
30/10/2018,
£15.99
£14.39
This book takes a hands-on approach to skills development and will help your students to stand out from the crowd, both during their studies and when applying for jobs.
This text is an essential resource for all students looking to develop the skills, experience and attributes which are desired by today's employers.
Graduate Career Guidebook
Paperback,
19/04/2019,
£15.99
£14.39
Packed with reflective activities, top tips for successful applications and real life case studies, it contains everything students need to develop their skills, get their foot in the door and set themselves up for a fulfilling future.This text will be core reading for students on a wide range of career-related and employability modules.
Handbook of Research on Promoting Women's Careers
Paperback,
24/04/2015,
£40.00
£36.00
Why is it that relatively few women achieve senior management positions despite their increasing levels of education and years of work experience?
Pocket Book of Resilience: Your Daily Dose of Quotes to Inspire Resilience: 2019
Hardback,
28/11/2019,
£5.99
£5.39
When you require a little more strength, turn to this collection of inspirational quotes to find your inner power. Filled with wisdom from some of the world's most well-known minds, The Pocket Book of Resilience offers thoughts and advice to restore, reset and revive your day-to-day life.
Cover Letter Book: How to write a winning cover letter that really gets noticed
Paperback,
30/12/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
Revised edition of the author's The cover letter book, 2012.
CV Book: How to avoid the most common mistakes and write a winning CV
Paperback,
30/12/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
Revised edition of the author's The CV book, 2009.
Interview Book: How to prepare and perform at your best in any interview
Paperback,
30/12/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
Interview Question & Answer Book: How to be ready to answer the 155 toughest interview questions
Paperback,
30/12/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
Brilliant Graduate Career Handbook
Paperback,
17/08/2016,
£14.99
£13.49
Revised edition of the athors's Brilliant graduate career handbook, 2014.
Brilliant Employability Skills: How to stand out from the crowd in the graduate job market
Paperback,
01/02/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
Revised edition of the author's Brilliant employability skills, 2012.
How to Get the Best Graduate Job: Secret Insider Strategies for Success in the Graduate Job Market
Paperback,
22/12/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
Provides a view of how graduate recruitment works, based on the observations of independent observers. This book reveals: how graduate recruitment really works; what you can do to work out where the jobs really are; what criteria employers use to deselect CVs and application forms; how to convince employers to offer an interview; and more.
Be Your Own Career Coach: The toolkit you need to build the career you want
Paperback,
12/07/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
How to get that job: The complete guide to getting hired
Paperback,
15/11/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
Rev. ed. of: Get that job! 3rd ed. 2005.
Black Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance
Paperback,
07/04/2016,
£9.99
£8.99
Columnist for The Times and bestselling author of Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice Matthew Syed argues that the key to success is a positive attitude to failure.
The A-Z of Careers and Jobs
Paperback,
03/10/2020,
£19.99
£17.99
Find your dream job with this handy and informative reference guide, packed with accessible advice on over 300 positions, including details on entry routes, qualifications, salary expectations and useful contacts.
One Page CV: Create Your Own High Impact CV. Clever, Clear, and Comprehensive. Get Noticed and Beat the Competition
Paperback,
01/10/2013,
£10.99
£9.89
How to Find Fulfilling Work
Paperback,
01/05/2012,
£7.99
£4.00
Find life-enhancing work and realise your potential with this enlightening read
HIGH IMPACT CVS
Paperback,
23/04/2007,
£12.99
£11.69
Whether you are after that crucial first job or heading for the dizzy heights of senior management, this book aims to help you achieve your dreams and ambitions.
Managing Your Own Career
Paperback,
01/01/2003,
£9.99
£8.99
In the modern world career decisions need to be taken by the individual and employers do not provide the answers. This book aims to encourage the reader to address the difficult questions which need to be asked about the current career situation and future career objectives.
Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You
Paperback,
07/12/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking for an answer to the perennial question, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?' Using real-life stories and techniques like reframing, prototyping and mind-mapping, this book helps you learn how to build your way forwards, step-by-positive-step, to a life custom designed by you.
Live, Love, Work, Prosper: A fresh approach to integrating life and work
Paperback,
23/08/2017,
£9.99
£8.99
Improve Your Communication Skills
Paperback,
03/10/2016,
£9.99
£8.99
Communicate effectively with employers, co-workers and colleagues in every business context with this practical guide full of proven tips and techniques.
Confident Digital Content: Master the Fundamentals of Online Video, Design, Writing and Social Media to Supercharge Your Career
Paperback,
03/01/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
Learn how to produce excellent creative online content to empower your career, enhance your business and boost your professional skill.
Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career
Hardback,
10/06/2015,
£74.99
£30.00
Crisis at Work examines the impact work, as a precarious entity, has on the intimate and intrapersonal lives of individuals. It examines how we negotiate our identities, the trade-offs we make, and how we achieve greater meaning and fulfilment when our productive lives fail to sustain and fulfil.
Preparing the Perfect CV
Paperback,
03/11/2009,
£7.99
£7.19
Every job hunter needs an impressive CV that describes their educational and professional history. This title provides sample CVs for job seekers of different abilities applying for various types of work.
From Postgraduate to Social Scientist
Paperback,
18/02/2006,
£27.99
£25.19
Suitable for any postgraduate or new researcher who is interested in a career in the social sciences, this book describes the skills needed for success in moving from being a student to becoming an academic or professional social scientist.
Careers Guidance in Context
Paperback,
04/09/2001,
£41.99
£37.79
Careers Guidance in Context re-evaluates the concept of 'a career' in the light of economic restructuring, globalization and the growth of information technology. It draws together up-to-date theories about guidance work and debates the importance of integrating theory and practice.
Successful Interview Skills
Paperback,
03/08/2009,
£9.99
£8.99
Shows you how to portray professionalism and confidence and take control of the interview process. Breaking the process down into accessible steps, this title identifies the ways in which you can prepare for an interview, providing example questions and advice on how to answer them.
Knockout Job Interview Presentations
Paperback,
03/02/2010,
£12.99
£11.69
Presenting in a job interview can be incredibly daunting. Candidates often lack the confidence and skills so they fail to do themselves justice and impress the panel. This title takes you through the whole process of planning and making a presentation as part of a job interview and helps you to understand what employers are looking for.
Redundancy Survival Guide
Paperback,
03/11/2009,
£9.99
£8.99
When employees are made redundant they often have no idea about their rights, how to negotiate a severance package or get compensation and how to move on afterwards to a new job. This title takes you through what can often be a traumatic time, with step by step advice on establishing where you stand legally, planning future options, and more.
Understanding Career Counselling: Theory, Research and Practice
Paperback,
14/03/2006,
£32.99
£29.69
Explores the theory, research and practice of career counselling from a British perspective. Divided into two parts, this book provides a comprehensive account of theories of career development and career counselling and their implications for practice. Taking a critical approach, it also shows how research informs our understanding of the field.
Brilliant Workplace Skills For Students
Paperback,
28/09/2011,
£13.99
£12.59
This title is split into three parts. The first part deals with the basics of meeting and greeting communications, the second looks at problem solving and verbal communications. Finally part three deals with team work, and managing your boss, your customers and yourself.
Preparing the Perfect Job Application
Paperback,
03/10/2009,
£7.99
£7.19
How do you make sure that you pitch yourself properly and ensure your job application is more successful than those of others in the candidate pool? This book holds the answer. It demonstrates how they would be useful to your prospective employer on your application form or letter.
Prisoners of our Thoughts
Paperback,
01/07/2010,
£16.95
£15.26
World renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is one of the most important books of modern times. This book applies Frankl's philosophy and therapeutic approach to life and work in the 21st Century, detailing seven principles for increasing your capacity to deal with life work challenges.
Concise Mastery
Hardback,
02/06/2014,
£8.99
£8.09
Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. This title builds on the strategies outlined in The 48 Laws of Power to provide a practical guide to greatness. It helps you learn how to start living by your own rules.
So, You Think You're Clever?
Paperback,
05/11/2015,
£8.99
£8.09
The sequel to the 50,000+ copy-selling Do You Think You're Clever? featuring even more brain-melting Oxbridge interview questions.
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
Paperback,
01/11/2003,
£21.00
£18.90
Presents a powerful model for career reinvention that reverses conventional wisdom. This book includes case studies of personal and professional reinventions - from literature professor to stockbroker, from psychiatrist to Buddhist monk, and from investment banker to fiction writer, among others.
Life After Social Studies
Paperback,
15/05/2007,
£22.99
£20.69
A 'next step' guide for final-year social studies students who want to know how they can use their degree to get themselves established in the commercial world and achieve success.
What Next After School?
Paperback,
03/03/2012,
£14.99
£13.49
A guide for helping students to understand the many options available to them as they approach the end of their school years, including education options (academic as well as vocational training), gap years, the world of work, and practical issues such as finances, debts and insurance.
Penguin Careers Guide
7,
28/08/2008,
£16.99
£15.29
Offers a source of information for those seeking careers information. This book contains discussions of various possible careers, with advice on education, training and employment issues. It is intended for who are just starting out after college or returning to work as well as those looking for a full or part-time position.
Successful Research Careers;a practical guide
Paperback,
01/04/2004,
£33.99
£30.59
Based on the authors' research on research groups, and on their experience as Head of Department, Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, this book provides advice for younger academics making their way in the system, and for more senior people who need to mentor research staff, build research groups and shape research-led careers.
After You Graduate : Finding and getting work you will enjoy
7,
01/06/2006,
£14.99
£13.49
After you Graduate is for students who are about to enter the world of work or those looking for a change in career direction. It takes the anxiety out of career choice and job-hunting and answers frequently-asked questions.
Work Placements - Survival guide for Students
Paperback,
24/08/2004,
£25.99
£23.39
This book is an essential guide for students contemplating or embarking upon work placements.
Life After Engineering and Built Environment: A practical guide to life after your degree
Paperback,
23/05/2006,
£22.99
£20.69
Written specifically to help students make informed choices about their future, this book covers such topics as: identifying a career path that interests you; the worldwide opportunities open to engineering graduates; staying motivated and pursuing your goals; networking and self-promotion; and, making the transition from scholar to worker.
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