Get that first great job after college! In minutes, learn how to set yourself apart from the crowd...get your “dream company” to call you...interview brilliantly...follow up masterfully! From first impressions and online branding to resumes and thank-you notes, these are real-world job-hunting techniques you can’t afford not to know!
Creating a Freelance Career covers everything anyone needs to know about becoming a freelance writer, graphic designer, copy editor, artist, musician or any other creative occupation. It includes chapters on how to get started with your career and where to look for work, how to write pitch or query letters, how to work with contract employers, and how to build and sustain your business. Lingo necessary for successfully navigating the freelance world is defined throughout. Author Jill L. Ferguson, an experienced freelance professional and educator, guides you through finding success in the gig economy, discussing how to pursue freelancing with an entrepreneurial spirit. Creating a Freelance Career includes examples of what to do, and what not to do, when pursuing freelance projects, and includes perspectives from additional real-life professionals who have found success in their fields.
Jessica Vandermeyer is a too-tall, underdeveloped teen. She has a father she's never met, a stepfather who killed himself and a Spandex-wearing, oversexed mother whose new ex-Special Forces boyfriend, Jim, moved them from Wisconsin to Los Angeles. Over the course of one summer, Jess finds love but she also has nightmares of snakes, battered doves, and hairy hands that look like Jim's. She throws herself into creating art, morphing with her paintings in her struggle to survive in her often-chaotic, confusing world.
Think you can’t get a raise in tough times? Think again: It’s all in how you ask. Here’s your practical plan for getting “more money” now...placing yourself “first in line” when raises start again...proving you’re more valuable than they ever realized. (Plus indispensable advice on what NEVER to say!)
The transition into adulthood is often a scary journey. Here is a look into the mind of a young woman trying to find herself as she sheds the skin of her childhood.
From boardrooms to blockade camps, from the lush East Gippsland forests to the golden Ningaloo Reef, the fight against environmental destruction takes place in many spaces. The Advocates tells the inside story of nine extraordinary women within the Australian environmental movement and the behind-the-scenes efforts that have helped power advocacy across Australia. Over the past fifty years these advocates have held corporations to account, cleaned up toxic waste in their own backyards, and returned biodiversity to our forests. They are not always on the frontlines of the fight or the front pages of the news, but their relentless commitment to making change is both moving and inspiring. In often unseen and unacknowledged ways these women have educated, agitated and pioneered new approaches to the many crises in the Australian environment. Told through richly detailed interviews, these stories get to the heart of why these women have dedicated their lives to environmental causes and the different ways they have persevered. The Advocates shines a light on nine women’s tireless commitment to change, and what it means to be an Australian environmental advocate. These stories will inspire the next generation to find a place in that vital fight.
El Casey and her best friends Leticia and Teresa are back in this sequel to A Salary Cinderella Story (Or How to Make More Money Without a Fairy Godmother). Told in the same parable format as the first book, A Singles Cinderella begins six months later when Teresa announces her engagement, which sends the single El on a quest to create her own personalized Master's Degree in Relationships so she can understand the ins and out of dating, love, sex, and successful matches. Through literature searches, including the works of Byron Katie and Jen Sincero, original research in online and in-person romance, and hearing experts like Deborah Tannen speak, El and her friends drink, laugh, and learn their way through mastering relationships with themselves and others during the search for love. (And readers end up with helpful guidelines and tools for what could be their own personalized relationship Master's Degrees.)
All Mrs. Large wants is five minutes' peace from her energetic children, but chaos follows her all the way from the kitchen to the bath and back again.
An alternative history of the Renaissance—as seen through the emerging literature of beauty tips—focusing on the actresses, authors, and courtesans who rebelled against the misogyny of their era. Beauty, make-up, art, power: How to Be a Renaissance Woman presents an alternative history of this fascinating period as told by the women behind the paintings, providing a window into their often overlooked or silenced lives. Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated by female nudes from the likes of Michelangelo and Titian, a vibrant literary scene of beauty tips emerged, fueling debates about cosmetics and adornment. Telling the stories of courtesans, artists, actresses, and writers rebelling against the strictures of their time, when burgeoning colonialism gave rise to increasingly sinister evaluations of bodies and skin color, this book puts beauty culture into the frame. How to Be a Renaissance Woman will take readers from bustling Italian market squares, the places where the poorest women and immigrant communities influenced cosmetic products and practices, to the highest echelons of Renaissance society, where beauty could be a powerful weapon in securing strategic marriages and family alliances. It will investigate how skin-whitening practices shifted in step with the emerging sub-Saharan African slave trade, how fads for fattening and thinning diets came and went, and how hairstyles and fashion could be a tool for dissent and rebellion—then as now. This surprising and illuminating narrative will make you question your ideas about your own body, and ask: Why are women often so critical of their appearance? What do we stand to lose, but also to gain, from beauty culture? What is the relationship between looks and power?
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