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Subject search terms: Employment interviewing, Interviewing, Job hunting, Job postings, Résumés (Employment)
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Ask the Right Questions; Get the Right Job: Navigating the Job Interview to Take Control of Your Career by 
Best practices for faculty search committees by 
Hiring for Fit: A Key Leadership Skill by
Hiring for Fit goes to the heart of what fit really means and provides expert insight for anyone involved in making hiring decisions. A key skill for any leader is the ability to hire a great team, and this skill requires a considerable depth of knowledge of the complex subject of fit. Most organizations talk about the need to hire for fit, but many go about hiring in the wrong way because their leaders don't fully understand the concept of fit. Hiring for Fit goes to the heart of what fit really means and provides expert insight for anyone involved in making hiring decisions. The author studied the personality traits and attributes of successful hires and developed a comprehensive system to hire the right fit for any role. The entire process is an application of her unique Trait Alignment Protocol (TAP), which is the key to identifying fit and maintaining fit over the long term. By applying the thorough and practical fit strategy described in the book, leaders will gain expertise in the complex subject of fit, replace seat-of-the-pants hiring with a reliable process, gain confidence in assessing a candidate's fit, make well-founded hiring decisions that avoid common hiring pitfalls, and pave the way for effective employee retention and advancement and for succession planning.
How to Get Paid Far More Than You're Worth by
Here's how to get employers and business owners to share some of it with you.While in the process of clamping down on expenses and raises, many companies are stockpiling cash, just waiting for the best place to invest their surplus cash to show up. That's where you step in.Dr. Gary Goodman was mentored by one of the greatest business minds in half a century: Peter Drucker. Mr. Drucker was one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and teachers on the subject of business theory and practice. What Dr. Goodman has learned, applied, and taught others since then is a shortcut to high income for anyone willing to learn and apply a few simple techniques.How to Get Paid Far More Than You Are Worth is filled with shortcuts you can take and smart moves you can make that can earn you multiples of your current income. Dr. Goodman doesn't apologize for these simple yet highly effective ideas. After all, why make earning a high income hard if it can be easy?
Job Interview Basics by
Themes: LifeSkills, Job Interview Basics, Job Skills, Independent Living, Flip Book, Fiction, Nonfiction, Teen, Young Adult, Emergent Reader, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Each 5-book set in the series covers a key aspect of independent living, such as managing money, finding and keeping a job, or completing common household tasks. Developed for students reading at the most basic level, the books range in readability from 1.0-1.7 and have Lexile scores of 150 to 250. Each book is actually two books in one, with a nonfiction side and a fiction side. The nonfiction side teaches students about an important life skills topic, and the fiction side helps them generalize the skills as they read about teens in real-world situations. JOB SKILLS: Build students job skills with this five-book set. Important aspects of jobs and managing basic skills on your own are explored in these nonfiction/fiction flip books. Topics include: preparing a resume, finding a job, job interview basics, how to act on the job, and employee rights.
Powerful Phrases for Successful Interviews by 
Presenting Yourself: How to Make a Great Impression by
The saying goes, "You only have one chance to make a first impression." As a result, it's important to develop good manners and etiquette and strong writing and communication skills. Presenting Yourself will help you to develop the skills necessary to land and succeed in a career. It covers everything from developing key soft skills, to crafting job-winning cover letters and résumés, to acing the interview and your first day on the job. Presenting Yourself is just one of nine exciting titles in the Careers with Earning Potential series. Readers will discover seven careers that typically do not require a bachelor's degree, but provide a good middle-class income. In the other title, they will learn how to become invaluable in the workplace.
Title: How to Prepare for Interviews and Develop Your Career : As a Nurse or Midwife by 
Workplace Readiness by
Theme: Hi-Lo, life skills, career, achieve independence, skills, job success, job skills. There's more to finding a job than simply applying. First, figure out what you'd like to do for a living. Think ahead and set career goals. Understand what training and education you'll need to reach your dream. Then begin your job search, looking for work that aligns with your goals. Grab potential employers' interest with a polished cover letter and resume, then impress them further in an interview. You'll be ready for the workplace in no time. Combining practical content with visual appeal, the Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than books. These 120-page handbooks are designed to teach life skills to today's teens in an approachable and non-threatening way. Realistic scenarios help teens grasp the relevance of the information in these books, and tables, graphs, and charts add to students' understanding. Essential vocabulary is featured to help students build real-world literacy.