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Job
hunting or preparing for an interview?
Writing your own CV?
Below are a selection of recently published books that will help you land your targeted job. For more information about availability, prices, and discounts, simply click on the title or the book cover.
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Complete Idiot's Guide to The Perfect Interview Offers advice on handling every kind of interview, including telephone interviews, stress interviews, panel interviews, mealtime interviews and computer-aided interviews. The text includes tips on: handling salary negotiations and overcoming employer objections; and handling difficult questions. |
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| Great
Answers to Tough Interview Questions Designed with serious job hunters in mind, this handbook tackles the fear of every interviewee - being asked a question he can't find an answer to, such as: what can you do for us that someone else cannot do?; what are the reasons for your success?; and what decisions are most difficult for you? |
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101 Toughest Interview Questions and Answers That Win the Job! In this text, career counsellor Daniel Porot brings his international perspective and job-hunting expertise to bear on the topic of the dreaded job interview. |
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Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions Explains how to prepare for a job interview, suggests ways to answer frequently asked questions, and lists the rights of the interviewee. |
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Hunting for Dummies This guide is for anyone trying to find a job or a career. It provides tips and techniques on the search, preparing a CV and cover letter, conducting successful interviews, how to negotiate salaries and measuring progress. |
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Best Job-Hunt Book in the World This volume gathers together Eggert's classic texts: "The Perfect CV", "The Perfect Interview" and "The Perfect Career". It could prove especially useful to graduates and anyone considering changing their job. |
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| Net
That Job! The Net provides a wealth of information on careers, testing, companies and jobs, that is constantly updated and can be accessed all over the world. This manual takes the reader through self-assessment, researching potential careers and investigating various companies. It explains the dos and don'ts of electronic applications and submitting CVs over the Internet. There are tips on sites worth visiting, getting connected and saving money. |
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Skills That Will Get You the Job You Want A guide to getting the job for those just entering or re-entering the workforce. The author provides answers to the questions: how to identify one's own professional potential; what networking is and how to start doing it; how to build rapport through effective communication and how to stay firmly established within the networking hoop. |
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Hunting The Internet is revolutionising the process of career planning and job hunting. This text provides a step-by-step tutorial for planning a career and searching for jobs using online resources. |
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Seeking This practical guide should encourage the reader to proactively manage the job-seeking process. It provides the reader with the skills he or she needs to successfully negotiate the next step of their career. It also provides the structure for career self-assessment, identify potential sources for new employment, suggest effective strategies for the various stages of the job search and guidance of how to improve self-promotional skills. |
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Best Careers for the 20th Century Organised by category, each entry provides a job description and responsibilities, potential earnings, advancement opportunities, education and training, experience and qualifications, and tips for one hundred careers. |
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Candidate Yearbook: 2000 This guide has been developed in response to the proliferation of recruitment agencies and advertising media. It seeks to assist professional people looking to develop their careers by providing insight and clarity into the burgeoning recruitment industry coupled with career management advice from successful individuals and organisation in the UK. |
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| Graduate
Career Handbook “This is a most comprehensive, thorough and up-to-date handbook to career planning and job-seeking which will be of great benefit not only to those about to graduate – or recently graduated – but to anyone facing a major decision point in their career. Ms Jenner has pulled off the difficult trick of combining encouragement and hopefulness with pragmatic realism.” Martin E Thorne (AGCAS). |
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Moved My Cheese? Cheese is a metaphor for what you want in life - be it a good job, a loving relationship, money or a possession. And the maze is where you look for what you want - your organisation, family or community. This book shows how to anticipate change, adapt quickly, enjoy change, and be ready for more. |
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| How
to Get a Good Degree This text is designed to help students capitalise on their time studying for a degree and includes advice on teaching-learning situations; putting resources to work: aiming high in revision and exams; and looking after yourself. |
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| How
to be a Genius This guide will help you boost your brain power, improve your memory, and come up with brilliant inventions and ideas. You can test how likely you are to become a famous genius and learn the secrets of geniuses such as Einstein and Mozart. The book includes plenty of tests and games. |
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| Brand
You 50 Tells how to re-examine career goals, recreate oneself as a brand, transform one's work, take advantage of a personal Web site, and market oneself. |
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| Preparing
Your Own CV A CV describes a person's educational and professional history, therefore no two are identical. A well-prepared CV is invaluable, and can improve your chances of getting the job you want. The author of this guide analyses the presentation and content of a CV. Her examples show how they work in practice for different levels of ability, types of work and backgrounds, in awkward situations and for the first ever job applications. A blank format is provided for the reader to get started and a comprehensive list of dos and do nots is offered. |
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| Creating
a Successful CV Intended for those in - or aspiring to - a position of responsibility, this book provides practical techniques for creating your CV. The charts and flow diagrams explore different options for action and provide useful examples. Within each volume there are exercises and questionnaires which encourage self-assessment and analysis to improve management skills. Checklists and points to remember offer practical guidelines for achieving the best results. |
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Brief History of the Future Histories of technology usually go one of two ways. Some focus on the science; others emphasise personalities and culture at the expense of technological detail. But engineering professor-cum- columnist John Naughton has written a book that does both, weaving together scientific account and personal anecdote. The result is a mesmerising account of the origins of the Internet. --Tamsin Todd (This book is an Open University course book for 2002) |
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Return of the Naked Chef He's back. Can anyone remember why they called Jamie Oliver the Naked Chef first time round? No matter. The Return of the Naked Chef is a quite brilliant collection of smart-casual food, simple, sexy, sophisticated, sharp as a tack and bang up to the moment. Oliver (or his editors, stylists, whoever) certainly has his finger on the pulse: there isn't a duff recipe in the book. This is food designed to be cooked in the home, but informed by the professional skills and commercial instincts of a working chef. |
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Thirty Matt is looking forward to turning 30, his whole life is finally sorted. But on his birthday his girlfriend makes a shocking confession, and unable to cope, Matt moves back with his parents. Back with the friends he hasn't seen for 10 years, he realises life isn't as simple as it used to be. |
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Reasons Not To Do Anything If you have trouble getting up in the morning, if you find that you lack motivation in your work, if you find that you really can't be bothered with your family and friends anymore, this book provides you with some of the world's finest cynical and defeatist thoughts. |
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