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1. |  The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work By: Sharon Birkman Fink; Stephanie Capparell Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 01-APR-2013 Insert Date: 15-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work
The first in-depth book on the personality assessment used by millions of people worldwide, revealing the underlying needs that drive and inspire you
Whether you're wondering if you are in the right career, looking to change job roles, or trying to reduce conflict and improve relationships at work and at home, you must begin by fully understanding your own interests and needs, and how they drive your ultimate happiness as well as unleash your stress points. Used by millions of people worldwide, The Birkman Method is the only personality-assessment tool that reaches beyond self-described...
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2. |  By: Didier J. Durandy Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 21-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
L'entrée en scène d'un consultant dans une entreprise ressemble à celle d'un nouveau shérif dans un saloon : la musique s’arrête, personne ne bouge, on attend de voir ce qui va se passer… Qui sont les bons et qui sont les brutes ?
Le défi n°1 du consultant, lors d’une mission de conseil en entreprise, est précisément de les identifier. Car les premiers obstacles qu’il lui faudra surmonter seront d’ordre humain et non technique : malentendus, non-dits, culture d’entreprise et blocages relationnels internes.
Comprendre les forces et faiblesses en présence lui permettra d’adapter son...
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3. |  Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace By: Ken Tanner Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 12-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace
"He may have an MBA, but he's got no common sense." Assessments like that by a boss can stop a career dead in its tracks. Unfortunately, many believe that common sense is a trait you are either born with or you are not. This book dispels that myth. Through the pages of Common Sense: Get It, Use It, and Teach It in the Workplace readers will learn not only what common sense is, but how to acquire it and use it to enhance their careers, increase their confidence, and take better advantage of business opportunities.
Common Sense explores the use—and non-use—of common sense in the workplace...
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4. |  By: David Thompson Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUN-2007 Insert Date: 01-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Career Helium
What does it really take to climb the corporate ladder? Just doing a good job is not enough - what gets you paid does not get you ahead. Most people are competent. But of you have ambitions to take an upward path in your career, competence just doesn't cut it. This book explains the concept of career heliun - a powerful secret that is known to a select few, an approach to work that provides the fuel to float past the others who are naively pinning their hopes on being tlent spotted by the boss. Those who really achieve superior recognition and reward at work manage their boss, their...
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5. |  Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development By: Jennifer W. Martineau; Judith L. Steed Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development
People can be motivated by charting a leadership development path and looking forward to periodic measures to indicate their progress.
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6. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Take This Job and Love It By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-FEB-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - Take This Job and Love It
Frequently, people's ideal job has nothing to do with what they really do for a living.
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7. |  By: Andy Maslen Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Write Copy, Make Money
Anyone who writes copy for a living eventually has to decide whether to go it alone (if they have not already done so). Based on the author's experience of running one of the most successful copywriting agencies in Europe, this book provides straight-talking, savvy advice on how to be a successful freelance copywriter.How do I make a living working for myself? What's the best way to find and retain clients? How much should I charge for my services? What are the pitfalls and how to you avoid them? How do I keep a work-life balance? These are just some of the key questions and issues tackled...
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8. |  By: Sarah Wade; Carole Ann Rice Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Find Your Dream Job
If you are fed up hating what you do for a living and are looking for a more fulfilling experience, this book sets out to inspire you to make change and to show you how to find a job you'll love. Can you imagine what it would be like to enjoy what you do for a living? Engaged, driven and so excited by the prospect of the coming week you can't sleep - from excitement rather than dread. In this book, you will find a variety of people who have made small changes, great changes or perhaps no change at all - they have simply remained resolute to fulfil their childhood ambition at any cost. They...
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9. |  By: Asia Professional Speakers Singapore. Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 88 Essential Secrets
88 Essential Secrets is packed with many great ideas and insights to help you succeed at work, and written by experts who research, speak and train on all aspects of personal and career development.How can I become an even greater leader? How can I further build my brand and my business? How can I speak with more confidence and credibility? How can I increase my focus on my goals? How can I build even stronger relationships? How can I deliver a pitch that really packs a punch? You'll find answers to all these questions and many more inside this book — from mastering influential networking...
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10. |  By: Peter Shaw Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Thriving in Your Work
The pressures in your work are relentless. There is always more to be done. Expectations are high from your boss, your customers and your clients. Resources are tight and there is a perpetual squeeze on the support available to you. How on earth do you thrive and succeed in such an environment? This book contains practical approaches to enable you to clarify the outcomes, choose your impact, develop your skills, work as a team, build your approach, recognise your emotions, be aware of the risks, be alert to the unexpected, use your energy well and keep it all in perspective. In such...
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11. |  By: Richard Maun Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-APR-2010 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Job Hunting 3.0
Competition is fierce. Employers and recruiters are becoming more skilful and discerning. Finding the job you want today requires more than a brilliant CV and the ability to answer tough interview questions. Job hunting has become a sophisticated game, and to play it well you must have the right set of tools and skills that can really make a difference. This book, based on a successful seminar taught at Cranfield University to high-flying business and MBA students, provides tools, tips, skills and secrets to turn you from an amateur to a professional player in today's job hunting market....
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12. |  The A-Z of Careers and Jobs, 20th Edition By: Susan Hodgson Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 23-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The A-Z of Careers and Jobs, 20th Edition From accountant to zoologist, this new edition of The A-Z of Careers & Jobs offers detailed insights into more than 300 career areas. For those looking for their first job after school or university, or for anyone considering a change of career, the book provides reliable and up-to-date careers advice on a wide range of professions, covering practical issues such as job opportunities in each market, personal skills and qualities, entry qualifications and training, useful contact details and realistic salary expectations. The A-Z of Careers and Jobs is also a valuable reference for careers...
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13. |  BSS: The New Rules of JobHunting By: Rob Yeung Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSS: The New Rules of JobHunting
Job hunting is a job in itself. But too many books are aimed at helping career no-hopers get into a job - any job. This book is aimed at helping ambitious high fliers to, well, fly even higher. It will make sure you get the right job and maintain upward momentum in your career. The book helps you to understand the product - ie, you - that is on offer. What are your strengths and weaknesses, achievements and the kind of career that you should be chasing? It then helps you to scope the job market (investigating jobs, using the grapevine, building a profile with headhunters). It lays out...
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14. |  STTS: Professional Image-Your Road Map to Success By: Pang Li Kin Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: STTS: Professional Image-Your Road Map to Success
Experience and paper credentials are often not enough in today's highly competitive workforce. One's image is an often-overlooked aspect in the workforce, but when considered, many limit one's image to that of mere appearance. However, one's professional image is about much more than just looking the part, but also behaving and sounding it. In this book, you will understand how your dressing can impact your superiors and subordinates perception of you, and how your behavior and personality can affect the impression that you want project. Learn to communicate in a fashion that reinforces -...
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15. |  Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement By: Nido R. Qubein Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-APR-1997 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement
Success is not a matter of good fortune or an accident of birth. It is a matter of decision, commitment, planning, preparation, execution, and recommitment. Nido Qubein's six-step program for personal and professional achievement will help you make the most of your potential. With Qubein's blueprint, you'll be able to identify your unique traits and talents, develop realistic goals, and create powerful action plans to make your dreams a reality.
"This is the best step-by-step, definitive work on authentic achievement in this decade. It's a life-building guide that is both timeless and...
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16. |  Le CV, la lettre et l'entretien By: Charles-Henri Dumon; Jean-Paul Vermès Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 01-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Le CV, la lettre et l'entretien
PrésentationSpécialistes reconnus du recrutement de cadres, les auteurs ont évalué des milliers de candidats. Illustrés d'exemples, de modèles et d'études de cas, leurs conseils vous seront précieux pour préparer et mener à bien votre recherche d'emploi. Cet ouvrage accorde une large place à l'entretien de recrutement, étape aussi délicate que décisive, qui exige une préparation sans faille.Faire de la lettre d'accompagnement le tremplin du CVMaîtriser les particularités du CV américain, espagnol, anglais, allemand et italienSe préparer avec méthode aux différents types d'entretienSavoir...
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17. |  S'orienter dans les domaines artistiques et culturels By: Corinne Bocher Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: S'orienter dans les domaines artistiques et culturels
PrésentationComment trouver sa voie dans les domaines artistiques et culturels ? Coment choisir le métier qui nous correspond le mieux ? Peut-être en se posant les bonne questions : "Qui suis-je ?" et "Qu'est-ce que je veux faire de ma vie ?"Corinne Bocher propose une méthode simple et originale pour s'orienter dans le dédale des domaines artistiques et culturels : graphisme, cinéma, photographie, design d'objet, textile, médiation culturelle, conservation et restauration de patrimoine, etc.Grâce à cet ouvrage, vous allez construire votre propre carnet de bord, étape par étape, en...
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18. |  By: Cécile Debray; Sarah Famery Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Le bilan de compétences
PrésentationConçu par des experts, ce guide de référence propose une démarche complète de bilan de compétences, d'un point de vue à la fois personnel et professionnel. Reposant sur une double démarche, de psychologue et de consultant, il constitue un outil nouveau, pertinent et efficace. Chaque partie est complétée par des exemples, des exercices et des conseils.Identifiez vos compétencesAnalysez votre trajectoire professionnelleCernez votre personnalitéDéfinissez vos prioritésÉlaborez votre projetPréparez votre changementPlanifiez votre réussitePassez à l'actionAu sommaireIdentifiez vos...
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19. |  By: Patrick de Sainte Lorette; Corinne Goetz Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Le bilan de vos compétences
PrésentationCe livre s'adresse à vous, étudiants ou professionnels, qui vous interrogez sur votre orientation ou qui pensez à une éventuelle reconversion : il vous donnera des outils pour cerner votre personnalité, évaluer votre potentiel de progression et construire un projet professionnel en phase avec le marché du travail.À l'aide de tests commentés et de conseils pratiques, faites le bilan de vos compétences et trouvez l'emploi qui vous convient.Au sommairePour quel métier suis-je fait ?Identifiez votre profil personnelDéfinissez votre profil professionnelEtablissez votre...
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20. |  Travailler après 60 ans, c'est possible ! By: Agnès du Boullay Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Travailler après 60 ans, c'est possible !
PrésentationPlus de 60% de cadres pensent qu'ils devront travailler après 60 ans. Cependant, ils envisagent ce moment avec beaucoup d'appréhension : travailler certes, mais y a-t-il du travail pour eux ?Pourtant, il n'y a pas lieu de se résigner !Beaucoup de personnes de plus de 60 ans travaillent et ne sont ni grands patrons, ni hommes politiques ou artistes connus.Ce livre, alimenté par de nombreux entretiens auprès de seniors en activité et la recherche de leurs bonnes pratiques, propose des pistes concrètes afin d'aider le lecteur à concevoir et à mettre en oeuvre son projet.Au...
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