An outstanding career reference for young people with 1,000 job descriptions organized into 14 interest areas. Plus, 49 interesting, engaging profiles of on-the-job workers; and 19 skill samplers describe skills required in certain jobs.
Now a companion to the best-selling Quick Job Search! So many people get a job and then lose it before the 90-day probationary period is up simply because they do not understand and do not have the skills required to retain a job. Quick Job Success Guide gives the seven most important steps to keeping a job.Tied to the JIST Job Survival and Success Scale, this workbook quickly helps readers understand just what it takes to not only keep but also succeed on the job. The clear, straightforward writing makes this an easy-to-read but valuable tool. The worksheets can serve as a guide long after the first day on the job, even through a career.
Preparing for Career Success (for grades 10-12) provides students with the most current career information and thoroughly covers a variety of social issues affecting today's workers and the workplace, including tech preparation, ethics in the workplace, sexual harassment, and the complex set of problem-solving skills needed to successfully handle the challenges facing two-wage-earner families.--From publisher description.
Careers in science, technology, engineering, and math are key to the nation¿s competitiveness and offer great opportunity. This new guide defines STEM and opens readers¿ eyes to STEM careers. A brief assessment helps readers match themselves to STEM occupations using Holland¿s RIASEC personality codes. The author describes STEM jobs in computer science, engineering, environmental science, geosciences, life science, mathematics, physics, and social science.
Detailed descriptions of secure jobs with helpful facts on pay, growth, openings, tasks, skills needed, education and training required, plus other information.
In a rocky economy, everyone wants a rock-solid career. And you don't need to trade salary for security. This new book uncovers the 150 most secure, good-paying jobs in good and bad times. A total of 75 lists rank the best recession-proof jobs by pay, growth, and openings, plus by education level, personality type, career clusters/interests, age, part-time work, and self-employment. Bonus lists reveal the most recession-proof metropolitan areas and states, the most recession-proof skills, and the jobs very sensitive to recession. The detailed job descriptions give helpful facts on pay, growth, openings, tasks, skills needed, education and training required, work environment, job security, highest- and lowest-growth industries for the job, and fastest-growing metropolitan areas for the job. A special part explains how to recession-proof your career, how the information can help in both good and bad economic times, and the short-term and long-term outlook. Readers gain career tips for shaky times, including how to be the irreplaceable worker.
An essential reference for students, parents, counselors, teachers, job seekers, career changers, and others who assist people with careers. All the accurate and up-to-date information necessary to identify occupations in the armed forces with the best career advancement opportunities. Each year, the military recruits and trains about 365,000 people. As one of the nation's largest employers and one of the world's largest training systems, the military offers more than 10,000 separate courses of instruction and hundreds of major career options. This huge array of resources makes it difficult to fully understand the various career and training options -- or how military experience relates to civilian jobs. This book will help.
Workbook gives students guidance for planning and documenting their education and futures. Worksheets and activities take students through self-assessment, education, career planning, and portfolio development, including electronic portfolio development, including electronic portfolios.
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