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.
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.
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.
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.
Communicate effectively with employers, co-workers and colleagues in every business context with this practical guide full of proven tips and techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Helps students studying, or who have recently graduated, make informed choices about their future. This work covers topics such as: identifying career paths that interest you; seeking out an opportunity that matches your skills and aspirations; staying motivated and pursuing your goals; networking and self-promotion; and more.