Author: Cordelia Ryan Twomey, PH D
Publisher: Cordelia Ryan Twomey
ISBN: 9781736689714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
We all know that the employment landscape has changed. It is time to rebrand yourself, playing on the strengths that you used in your previous jobs, to modernize for the new job market. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce applies directly to you because it is designed to serve as your go-to place for information as well as a source of motivation. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce is unique for several reasons. - It focuses on you and packaging yourself in the best possible light. - It is customizable because you select the information that applies to your specific needs. - It provides lists of free resources to help you update your skills and transfer them to a new market. - It provides a simple, practical approach that breaks the job hunt down into small, manageable steps that build on each other. Competition is fierce and the need to rebrand yourself must be your first priority. You will be marketing a product-YOU-and the packaging of the product is critical.Together, our goal is to prepare you to enter the new job market. The book is written from a perspective of tough love-my job is to push you, prod you, and encourage you to your goal. I have written this book as if we were sitting and having coffee. The tone is conversational and I am going to say "we" a lot because we are in this together. Your success means that I have done my job.CHAPTER 1, PLANNING FOR THE JOB, provides a baseline of information that you will need. Here we pull together free training resources, conduct our job-hunt research, and begin our job-hunt campaign.Planning is not the part that most people find exciting. Jumping in and doing it are much more fun. However, you can't "jump in" if you don't know where to jump or what you're jumping into. We want to design a marketing plan that is clear, positive, and error free. If your plan is well designed, the execution will be simple and will go just as you envisioned it.CHAPTER 2, GETTING THE JOB, is where we execute the plan. This chapter provides a detailed walk-through from getting into the right mindset for the interview, to the interview itself, and the follow-up plan. CHAPTER 3, IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY: THE PORTFOLIO, is the chapter where we discuss the importance of a portfolio during many stages of your work life-getting a job, keeping a job, and moving up.Be sure to take advantage of the CHECKLISTS, found at the end of each section. They are designed to keep you organized and accountable. Why did I write this book? All of us have at least one thing that we do well, and for me it's helping people get jobs and promotions by organizing their experiences in a way that is logical and easy for the reader to follow. An expression I frequently use is "It ain't brain surgery." Just follow the rules. Give the reader what they need. This is not an exercise in creative writing. Just report the facts in an interesting, easy-to-understand way.This can be a fresh start. If you're ready, I am, too. Let's get going!
Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce
Author: Cordelia Ryan Twomey, PH D
Publisher: Cordelia Ryan Twomey
ISBN: 9781736689714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
We all know that the employment landscape has changed. It is time to rebrand yourself, playing on the strengths that you used in your previous jobs, to modernize for the new job market. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce applies directly to you because it is designed to serve as your go-to place for information as well as a source of motivation. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce is unique for several reasons. - It focuses on you and packaging yourself in the best possible light. - It is customizable because you select the information that applies to your specific needs. - It provides lists of free resources to help you update your skills and transfer them to a new market. - It provides a simple, practical approach that breaks the job hunt down into small, manageable steps that build on each other. Competition is fierce and the need to rebrand yourself must be your first priority. You will be marketing a product-YOU-and the packaging of the product is critical.Together, our goal is to prepare you to enter the new job market. The book is written from a perspective of tough love-my job is to push you, prod you, and encourage you to your goal. I have written this book as if we were sitting and having coffee. The tone is conversational and I am going to say "we" a lot because we are in this together. Your success means that I have done my job.CHAPTER 1, PLANNING FOR THE JOB, provides a baseline of information that you will need. Here we pull together free training resources, conduct our job-hunt research, and begin our job-hunt campaign.Planning is not the part that most people find exciting. Jumping in and doing it are much more fun. However, you can't "jump in" if you don't know where to jump or what you're jumping into. We want to design a marketing plan that is clear, positive, and error free. If your plan is well designed, the execution will be simple and will go just as you envisioned it.CHAPTER 2, GETTING THE JOB, is where we execute the plan. This chapter provides a detailed walk-through from getting into the right mindset for the interview, to the interview itself, and the follow-up plan. CHAPTER 3, IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY: THE PORTFOLIO, is the chapter where we discuss the importance of a portfolio during many stages of your work life-getting a job, keeping a job, and moving up.Be sure to take advantage of the CHECKLISTS, found at the end of each section. They are designed to keep you organized and accountable. Why did I write this book? All of us have at least one thing that we do well, and for me it's helping people get jobs and promotions by organizing their experiences in a way that is logical and easy for the reader to follow. An expression I frequently use is "It ain't brain surgery." Just follow the rules. Give the reader what they need. This is not an exercise in creative writing. Just report the facts in an interesting, easy-to-understand way.This can be a fresh start. If you're ready, I am, too. Let's get going!
Publisher: Cordelia Ryan Twomey
ISBN: 9781736689714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
We all know that the employment landscape has changed. It is time to rebrand yourself, playing on the strengths that you used in your previous jobs, to modernize for the new job market. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce applies directly to you because it is designed to serve as your go-to place for information as well as a source of motivation. Rebrand Yourself for Tomorrow's Workforce is unique for several reasons. - It focuses on you and packaging yourself in the best possible light. - It is customizable because you select the information that applies to your specific needs. - It provides lists of free resources to help you update your skills and transfer them to a new market. - It provides a simple, practical approach that breaks the job hunt down into small, manageable steps that build on each other. Competition is fierce and the need to rebrand yourself must be your first priority. You will be marketing a product-YOU-and the packaging of the product is critical.Together, our goal is to prepare you to enter the new job market. The book is written from a perspective of tough love-my job is to push you, prod you, and encourage you to your goal. I have written this book as if we were sitting and having coffee. The tone is conversational and I am going to say "we" a lot because we are in this together. Your success means that I have done my job.CHAPTER 1, PLANNING FOR THE JOB, provides a baseline of information that you will need. Here we pull together free training resources, conduct our job-hunt research, and begin our job-hunt campaign.Planning is not the part that most people find exciting. Jumping in and doing it are much more fun. However, you can't "jump in" if you don't know where to jump or what you're jumping into. We want to design a marketing plan that is clear, positive, and error free. If your plan is well designed, the execution will be simple and will go just as you envisioned it.CHAPTER 2, GETTING THE JOB, is where we execute the plan. This chapter provides a detailed walk-through from getting into the right mindset for the interview, to the interview itself, and the follow-up plan. CHAPTER 3, IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY: THE PORTFOLIO, is the chapter where we discuss the importance of a portfolio during many stages of your work life-getting a job, keeping a job, and moving up.Be sure to take advantage of the CHECKLISTS, found at the end of each section. They are designed to keep you organized and accountable. Why did I write this book? All of us have at least one thing that we do well, and for me it's helping people get jobs and promotions by organizing their experiences in a way that is logical and easy for the reader to follow. An expression I frequently use is "It ain't brain surgery." Just follow the rules. Give the reader what they need. This is not an exercise in creative writing. Just report the facts in an interesting, easy-to-understand way.This can be a fresh start. If you're ready, I am, too. Let's get going!
Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Career education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Career education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Better Man
Author: Michael Ian Black
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643752049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it's a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys." --Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Boys & Sex A poignant look at boyhood, in the form of a heartfelt letter from comedian Michael Ian Black to his teenage son before he leaves for college, and a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love. In a world in which the word masculinity now often goes hand in hand with toxic, comedian, actor, and father Michael Ian Black offers up a way forward for boys, men, and anyone who loves them. Part memoir, part advice book, and written as a heartfelt letter to his college-bound son, A Better Man reveals Black's own complicated relationship with his father, explores the damage and rising violence caused by the expectations placed on boys to "man up," and searches for the best way to help young men be part of the solution, not the problem. "If we cannot allow ourselves vulnerability," he writes, "how are we supposed to experience wonder, fear, tenderness?" Honest, funny, and hopeful, Black skillfully navigates the complex gender issues of our time and delivers a poignant answer to an urgent question: How can we be, and raise, better men?
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643752049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it's a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys." --Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Boys & Sex A poignant look at boyhood, in the form of a heartfelt letter from comedian Michael Ian Black to his teenage son before he leaves for college, and a radical plea for rethinking masculinity and teaching young men to give and receive love. In a world in which the word masculinity now often goes hand in hand with toxic, comedian, actor, and father Michael Ian Black offers up a way forward for boys, men, and anyone who loves them. Part memoir, part advice book, and written as a heartfelt letter to his college-bound son, A Better Man reveals Black's own complicated relationship with his father, explores the damage and rising violence caused by the expectations placed on boys to "man up," and searches for the best way to help young men be part of the solution, not the problem. "If we cannot allow ourselves vulnerability," he writes, "how are we supposed to experience wonder, fear, tenderness?" Honest, funny, and hopeful, Black skillfully navigates the complex gender issues of our time and delivers a poignant answer to an urgent question: How can we be, and raise, better men?
The Future of Nursing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309208955
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309208955
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
No Logo
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312203436
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Time, Talent, Energy
Author: Michael C. Mankins
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691772
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Managing Your Scarcest Resources Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors. Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power. They identify the specific causes of organizational drag--the collection of institutional factors that slow things down, decrease output, and drain people's energy--and then offer a pragmatic framework for how managers can overcome it. With practical advice for using the framework and in-depth examples of how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy with as much discipline as they do their financial capital, this book shows managers how to create a virtuous circle of high performance.
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN: 1633691772
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Managing Your Scarcest Resources Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce resources now are the time, the talent, and the energy of the people in your organization--resources that are too often squandered. There's plenty of advice about how to manage them, but most of it focuses on individual actions. What's really needed are organizational solutions that can unleash a company's full productive power and enable it to outpace competitors. Building off of the popular Harvard Business Review article "Your Scarcest Resource," Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, Bain & Company experts in organizational design and effectiveness, present new research into how you can liberate people's time, talent, and energy and unleash your organization's productive power. They identify the specific causes of organizational drag--the collection of institutional factors that slow things down, decrease output, and drain people's energy--and then offer a pragmatic framework for how managers can overcome it. With practical advice for using the framework and in-depth examples of how the best companies manage their people's time, talent, and energy with as much discipline as they do their financial capital, this book shows managers how to create a virtuous circle of high performance.
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Author: Michael Feathers
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 0132931753
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageability Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts. In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases. This book draws on material Michael created for his renowned Object Mentor seminars: techniques Michael has used in mentoring to help hundreds of developers, technical managers, and testers bring their legacy systems under control. The topics covered include Understanding the mechanics of software change: adding features, fixing bugs, improving design, optimizing performance Getting legacy code into a test harness Writing tests that protect you against introducing new problems Techniques that can be used with any language or platform—with examples in Java, C++, C, and C# Accurately identifying where code changes need to be made Coping with legacy systems that aren't object-oriented Handling applications that don't seem to have any structure This book also includes a catalog of twenty-four dependency-breaking techniques that help you work with program elements in isolation and make safer changes.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional
ISBN: 0132931753
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Get more out of your legacy systems: more performance, functionality, reliability, and manageability Is your code easy to change? Can you get nearly instantaneous feedback when you do change it? Do you understand it? If the answer to any of these questions is no, you have legacy code, and it is draining time and money away from your development efforts. In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases. This book draws on material Michael created for his renowned Object Mentor seminars: techniques Michael has used in mentoring to help hundreds of developers, technical managers, and testers bring their legacy systems under control. The topics covered include Understanding the mechanics of software change: adding features, fixing bugs, improving design, optimizing performance Getting legacy code into a test harness Writing tests that protect you against introducing new problems Techniques that can be used with any language or platform—with examples in Java, C++, C, and C# Accurately identifying where code changes need to be made Coping with legacy systems that aren't object-oriented Handling applications that don't seem to have any structure This book also includes a catalog of twenty-four dependency-breaking techniques that help you work with program elements in isolation and make safer changes.
The Wealth of Humans
Author: Ryan Avent
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466887192
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every bit as disruptive as those that shook the socioeconomic landscape of the 19th century? Traveling from Shenzhen, to Gothenburg, to Mumbai, to Silicon Valley, Avent investigates the meaning of work in the twenty-first century: how technology is upending time-tested business models and thrusting workers of all kinds into a world wholly unlike that of a generation ago. It's a world in which the relationships between capital and labor and between rich and poor have been overturned. Past revolutions required rewriting the social contract: this one is unlikely to demand anything less. Avent looks to the history of the Industrial Revolution and the work of numerous experts for lessons in reordering society. The future needn't be bleak, but as The Wealth of Humans explains, we can't expect to restructure the world without a wrenching rethinking of what an economy should be.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466887192
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist editor Ryan Avent brings up-to-the-minute research and reporting to bear on the major economic question of our time: can the modern world manage technological changes every bit as disruptive as those that shook the socioeconomic landscape of the 19th century? Traveling from Shenzhen, to Gothenburg, to Mumbai, to Silicon Valley, Avent investigates the meaning of work in the twenty-first century: how technology is upending time-tested business models and thrusting workers of all kinds into a world wholly unlike that of a generation ago. It's a world in which the relationships between capital and labor and between rich and poor have been overturned. Past revolutions required rewriting the social contract: this one is unlikely to demand anything less. Avent looks to the history of the Industrial Revolution and the work of numerous experts for lessons in reordering society. The future needn't be bleak, but as The Wealth of Humans explains, we can't expect to restructure the world without a wrenching rethinking of what an economy should be.
Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership
Author: Joan Garry
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119293065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance of passion. It’s enough to make you feel overwhelmed and alone. The people you help need you to be successful. But there are so many obstacles: a micromanaging board that doesn’t understand its true role; insufficient fundraising and donors who make unreasonable demands; unclear and inconsistent messaging and marketing; a leader who’s a star in her sector but a difficult boss… And yet, many nonprofits do thrive. Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership will show you how to do just that. Funny, honest, intensely actionable, and based on her decades of experience, this is the book Joan Garry wishes she had when she led GLAAD out of a financial crisis in 1997. Joan will teach you how to: Build a powerhouse board Create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program Become seen as a ‘workplace of choice’ Be a compelling public face of your nonprofit This book will renew your passion for your mission and organization, and help you make a bigger difference in the world.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119293065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance of passion. It’s enough to make you feel overwhelmed and alone. The people you help need you to be successful. But there are so many obstacles: a micromanaging board that doesn’t understand its true role; insufficient fundraising and donors who make unreasonable demands; unclear and inconsistent messaging and marketing; a leader who’s a star in her sector but a difficult boss… And yet, many nonprofits do thrive. Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership will show you how to do just that. Funny, honest, intensely actionable, and based on her decades of experience, this is the book Joan Garry wishes she had when she led GLAAD out of a financial crisis in 1997. Joan will teach you how to: Build a powerhouse board Create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program Become seen as a ‘workplace of choice’ Be a compelling public face of your nonprofit This book will renew your passion for your mission and organization, and help you make a bigger difference in the world.
Caring for our future
Author: Great Britain: Department of Health
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780101837828
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Care and support affects a large number of people: eight out of 10 people aged 65 will need some care and support in their later years; some people have impairments from birth or develop them during their working life; some 5 million people care for a friend or relative, some for more than 50 hours a week. The current system does not offer enough support until a crisis point is reached, the quality of care is variable and inconsistent, and the growing and ageing population is only going to increase the pressure. Consequently, two core principles lie at the heart of this White Paper. The first is that individuals, communities and Government should do everything possible to prevent, postpone and minimise people's need for formal care and support. The system should be built around the promotion of people's independence and well-being. The second principle is that people should be in control of their own care and support, with personal budgets and direct payments, backed by clear, comparable information and advice that will allow individuals and their carers to make the choices that are right for them. This paper sets out the principles and approach, with sections covering: strengthening support within communities; housing; better information and advice; assessment, eligibility and portability for people who use care services; carers' support; defining high-quality care; improving quality; keeping people safe; a better local care market; workforce; personalised care and support; integration and joined-up care.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780101837828
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Care and support affects a large number of people: eight out of 10 people aged 65 will need some care and support in their later years; some people have impairments from birth or develop them during their working life; some 5 million people care for a friend or relative, some for more than 50 hours a week. The current system does not offer enough support until a crisis point is reached, the quality of care is variable and inconsistent, and the growing and ageing population is only going to increase the pressure. Consequently, two core principles lie at the heart of this White Paper. The first is that individuals, communities and Government should do everything possible to prevent, postpone and minimise people's need for formal care and support. The system should be built around the promotion of people's independence and well-being. The second principle is that people should be in control of their own care and support, with personal budgets and direct payments, backed by clear, comparable information and advice that will allow individuals and their carers to make the choices that are right for them. This paper sets out the principles and approach, with sections covering: strengthening support within communities; housing; better information and advice; assessment, eligibility and portability for people who use care services; carers' support; defining high-quality care; improving quality; keeping people safe; a better local care market; workforce; personalised care and support; integration and joined-up care.