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The secret to business success? Get REAL and be HUMAN! Featuring case studies from top brands such as, Lyft, Starbucks, Mogul, and SoulCycle, to name a few, Bring Your Human to Work distills the key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to build a “human workplace.”

#1 New York Times Bestseller how to build--design--a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking.

The author covers all parts of the employment spectrum: she interviews hiring managers about how they assess candidates; attends personal branding seminars; talks with managers at companies around the United States to suss out regional differences--like how Silicon Valley firms look askance at the lengthier employment tenures of applicants from the Midwest.

This practical, step-by-step guide provides an insider's analysis of various start-up roles and responsibilities, including product development, marketing, growth strategy, and sales, to help you figure out if you want to join a start-up and what to expect if you do.

The author explores the landscape of employment in America. Chideya seeks to understand the many kinds of work we do--for example, not just job fields, but whether we seek to build institutions or seek social change while earning money.

How do you find a job that makes you happy - one that fits with your morals, makes you feel good about going to work, and isn’t just about making money? This guide is aimed at anyone who wants to do something meaningful with their working life.

This collection has six books, including HBR Guide to your professional growth, HBR Guide to changing your career, HBR Guide to getting the mentoring you need, HBR Guide to office politics, HBR Guide to managing up and across, and HBR Guide to work-life balance.

Based on her popular TED talk, "Why some of us don't have one true calling", Emilie Wapnick flips the script on conventional career advice. Instead of suggesting that you specialize, choose a niche or accumulate 10,000 hours of practice in a single area, Wapnick provides a practical framework for building a sustainable life around ALL of your passions.

Today's career trajectories aren't so scripted and linear. Technology has given rise to new positions that never before existed, which means we are choosing from a much broader set of career options--and have even more opportunities to find work that lights us up.

This book will teach students the things they need to succeed in the real world, such as how to organize a job search, how to ace job interviews, how to manage time effectively, how to manage and reduce stress, how to be an effective leader, how to run a meeting well, how to survive a bad performance review, how to become a powerful speaker, how to network, and many other skills that are the keys to success and fulfillment.

Preparing Students for College and Careers addresses measurement and research issues related to college and career readiness.

Stealing the Corner Office is mandatory reading for smart, hardworking managers who always wonder why their seemingly incompetent superiors are so successful. It is a unique collection of controversial but highly effective tactics for middle managers and aspiring executives who want to learn the real secrets for moving up the corporate ladder.

Help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation. A practical step-by-step plan every young professional can follow, exactly what students need to do to acquire the skills companies want.

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Current faculty who used the book themselves recommend it to their own students and postdocs. The many new first-person narratives provide insight into issues and situations candidates may encounter such as applying for an international job, combining parenting with an academic career, going from an administrative job to a faculty position, and seeking faculty positions as a same-sex couple.

This book is a practical guide to the appointment, promotion, and tenure (APT) process for clinical faculty members employed by medical schools.

This book invites doctoral students and junior faculty to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty position, and build a research record worthy of promotion and tenure.

The book identifies kinds of higher education institutions, and types of teaching positions along with the nature of each position's responsibilities and advantages and disadvantages. It explains how graduate students can promote their future as faculty members while they are still in graduate school and suggests ways to find suitable faculty positions and succeed at the application and interview process.

This book provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. A must-read for students preparing to embark on the doctoral journey, and essential reading for doctoral programmes that wish to equip students with important knowledge about the challenges ahead.

This book is a toolkit for young academic physicians and researchers to learn the behaviors and steps necessary for achieving success in academia. Written by a successful academic clinician, the book shares his personal experience alongside his years of successfully teaching and mentoring young medical professionals.

This book prepares graduate students of color for their first job in academia and offers strategies for succeeding in the early years of a tenure-track position. Through the voices of faculty who have experienced the rigors of the job search and a career in academia, it offers advice for graduate students of color on how to transition from graduate school to an academic position.

This book outlines guides to success in critical areas of a scientific career, including designing research, developing research programs, obtaining research grants, publishing in top journals, making sense of impact scores, grant writing do's and don'ts, applying for patents, and how to become a leader in a scientific field.

This book is a valuable resource for first-time job seekers in chemical sciences and newly hired Ph.D. graduates, as well as new faculty and graduate advisors.

This book summarizes career advice gathered during in-depth interviews with 106 biomedical scientists who lead their own laboratories. The participating principal investigators are from 44 research institutions in 11 countries.

This monograph highlights the connection between the theoretical work done by research statisticians and the impact that work has on various industries. Drawing on decades of experience as an industry consultant, the author details how his contributions have had a lasting impact on the field of statistics as a whole.

The authors bring together a diverse range of insights from HAI social scientists who have secured or created their HAI job. The book highlights six categories of work settings: academia, private practice, corporations/for profit companies, non-profit organizations, government, and other positions, to show the growing number of opportunities to blend social science interests with the desire to incorporate HAI into their careers.

It is an essential careers guide for bioscience doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. It contains a wealth of information and resources specifically targeted at research bioscientists, with practical strategies to enhance career success in an increasingly competitive job market. Advice on how to write a winning CV together with examples adapted for different jobs is presented, as well as practical exercises to assist with skills analysis and decision making. 

This edited volume contains the subjective narrative of each contributor's entry into academia, their pedagogic practice and the development of their multiple teaching identities.

This book provides advice to professionals in the humanities on how to forge a useful, compelling, and productive career.

Recommended by previous professor at NYU Shanghai Economics.

This book takes academics at all stages of their career through a journey, beginning at graduate school and ending with retirement. Written from a feminist perspective, it draws on the information offered in workshops conducted at national meetings.

This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with content to develop as competitive applicants to health-related graduate school and build a foundation from which they can establish successful careers in academia as future faculty, senior administrative leaders, and change agents.

This book considers the challenges faced by researchers pursuing an academic career. From applying for grants to supervising PhD students, it utilises practical research and real experiences to illustrate how marketing scholars can strike a healthy working balance between teaching and research to find success in academia.

This book provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science - their field.

This book shares meaningful stories of women working in the academy, from numerous disciplines, backgrounds and countries, to unveil the complex and distinct dimensionalities they experience in their life and work.

This book explores the infrastructure of the academy and provides a systematic account of where and why women and minorities fall behind men in the preparation for and development of their academic careers.

This book is a concise and conversational manual that guides readers through starting their academic journey, surviving the demands of their first academic position, and thriving in academia and beyond.

This book provides a frank and up-to-date assessment of the current career landscape facing science PhDs.

This first-of-its-kind book for underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URM), women, and sexual and gender minorities in medicine offers the core knowledge and skills needed to achieve a well-planned, fulfilling career in academic medicine.

A pocket mentor for the early career academic learning to strategically navigate the demands of an academic role, this book is a friendly and constructive companion providing hands-on advice about how to balance teaching responsibilities alongside other duties.

In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking--an "economic style of reasoning"--became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.

Readers will learn how to evidence that your research, teaching, and leadership has made a real difference and how to embed this evidence in an overall career narrative. The author provides insights into how a promotion panel evaluates your application, explain why external promotion is easier to achieve than internal promotion, but also outline the advantages of internal promotion.

Young classical singers, particularly recent graduates of music programs, need not only artistic ability, but also intelligence and an acute business sense to navigate the world of professional singing.

It is a handbook and essential guide to the business of living and working as an actor in the Los Angeles area. It seeks to provide an extra-competitive edge of experience and know-how for those actors who have the skills and determination to persevere.

The development of NFTs, web3 and the metaverse plays a huge role in the job description of artists and managers. This book is a step by step of what you really need to know to survive in the situation of modern technology and its new business models.

Prepare yourself for a career in music publishing and lean * understanding the role of the publisher * copyright * managing rights * income streams * contracts*.

This book provides all the information, resources, and tools you need to help you navigate these obstacles and successfully launch a career in fashion design, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design.

With an emphasis on portfolio requirements and job opportunities, this guide helps both students and individuals interested in entering the design field prepare for successful careers. Coverage includes design inspiration, design genres, and design education, with discussion of the specific career options available in print, interactive, and motion design.

This essential handbook goes beyond the usual "how-to," helping musicians tackle the core questions about career goals, and create a meaningful life as a professional musician. Beyond Talent is the ideal companion for students and professionals, emerging musicians and mid-career artists.

Presenting one's portfolio is where every designer begins his or her career. This book talks both to the professionals who have both designed their own portfolios and those on the other side of the table who have looked at scores of portfolios, to uncover the tips and tricks that have won jobs, as well as the must-avoid moves that have lost opportunities.

The author presents vital info in a conversational tone and an easy-to-scan format regarding five vital areas that musicians need to succeed: Career Execution, Business Relationships, Pro Teams, Deals and Dollars, and Future Predictions.

Readers will gain vital and accurate knowledge about the music business, how musicians get paid, the legal framework for business, and will learn to recognize and leverage opportunities through overcoming the inevitable obstacles to success in a rapidly-changing industry.

In this essential guide for self-taught and emerging artists, we discuss not only business tactics, sales strategies, and how to promote your art online and in person, but also actionable information about how to deal with creative burnout, overcome imposter syndrome, and avoid the comparison game!

This book includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Artist/Animator Producer, Sound Designer, Video Game Designer, Video Game Developer, and Video Game Tester Writer.

An essential update to this classic book from the ultimate insider, award-winning director Tom Logan. It contains everything you need to know about the profession of acting from both sides of the camera, making it a must read for today's aspiring and working actors.

The author drew case studies from interviews with leading experts and practitioners, including artists, gallerists, and curators, with resources to explain the core business principles of being an artist and reveals how to make it.

These practical strategies will help you to prepare for and land your dream job in the music business. The third edition includes a new career tool kit and social media strategy.

This book compares and contrasts the skill sets and responsibilities of creatives with those of managers who direct creative teams. Drawing on interviews with top creative directors, art directors, and advertising managers, the author explores how the roles of creative team managers are evolving in response to changing technologies and business models.

This book shines a light on the enigmatic live music business, offering a wealth of inside advice and trade secrets to artists and bands looking to make a living in the industry.

The music industry offers the opportunity to pursue a career as either a creative (artist, producer, songwriter, etc.) or as a music business "logician" (artist manager, agent, entertainment attorney, venue manager, etc.). This book speaks to the dilemma experienced by those struggling with career decisions involving whether to work in the industry using their analytical abilities, or to work as a creative, or to do both.

This book is for introductory courses such as Introduction to the Music Business, Music and Media, the Record Industry, Music Careers, Artist Management, and more.

This book answers the most common music career questions through research-based career advising strategies, a comprehensive inventory of music careers, bibliography of print and on-line music career resources, and additional information gathered through interviews with leading musicians in the field, and faculty members in some of the most prestigious university music programs.

This book features an analysis of the changing landscape of the music industries and the value of the entrepreneur within them through a series of focused chapters and case studies.

A music-career book like no other, The Music Producer's Survival Guide offers a wide-ranging, exploratory, yet refreshing down-to-earth take on living the life of the independent electronic music producer. If you are an intellectually curious musician/producer eager to make your mark in today's technologically advanced music business, you're in for a treat.

An honest look at the reality of creativity and the joy and difficulty of crafting good (and bad) art, this book belongs in the hands of every exhausted creative, every starry-eyed dreamer, and every artist who is trying to make their way in the world-and keep a roof over their head while they do it.

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities of today's art world, providing a wealth of practical advice for any artist seeking to make a career of their art. It includes an extensive appendix of organizations, agencies, and services to further guide the artist. 

This book covers topics essential to the emerging artist, such as building community through networking, collaborating, and finding mentors; setting up a studio; health and safety for artists; artist's resumes and CVs; developing marketing plans; finding alternative exhibition venues; and refining career aspirations.

This third edition has been completely revised to address the photography industry's transformation to digital and help readers start, run, and grow their own successful photography business

The book starts off by giving an overview of animation and talking about all the various positions that you can do in the animation industry. It is filled to the brim with interviews.

This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research.

This book offers a creative approach to strategy development and planning for companies in today's turbulent business environment that prepares them for an unknowable tomorrow. It is based upon Hank Moore's trademarked approach to growing and strengthening businesses, tested by his actual work in guiding corporations over three decades.  

This practical guide explores the business analyst role including typical responsibilities and necessary skills. It signposts useful tools and commonly used methodologies and techniques. A visual career roadmap for business analysts is also included, along with case studies and interviews with practising business analysts.

This book provides unique information to prepare graduates and newly hired corporate and investment banking professionals for a career in the global markets environment of large universal and international investment banks. It shows the interrelationship between the three specific business functions of sales, trading, and research, as well as the interaction with corporate and institutional clients with case studies, anecdotes, and industry color.

The BE-EDGE Method provides a step-by-step guide that connects job seekers to target employers through a process of case consulting. It creates an opportunity for the new or established professional to carve out their own space in an industry of choice, by establishing a relationship of trust with and proving their value to an industry insider.

Starting with understanding the types of consulting projects and how they originate, this book shows the reader how to develop networks that can play an important role in generating prospects for consulting projects. The author introduces a process that will guide consultants through the steps of generating a project strategy, tactics and execution plan, and how to present recommendations to the client. 

This book introduces the basics of FinTech and equips readers with the knowledge to get on the cutting edge of age we live in today.

Written by prominent thought leaders in the European, UK and Hong Kong fintech investment space, this book aggregates diverse industry expertise into a single informative volume to provide entrepreneurs and investors with the answers they need to capitalize on this lucrative market.

This book underlines the key industry trends, highlights where the opportunities lie and constructs a skill set for the ideal fintech candidate. It will help you to: Identify the type of jobs and career opportunities the Fintech space offers today; Get a structured view of the taxonomy of Fintech job families to see what verticals you can grow into during your career; Understand the hard skills, soft skills and mindset needed to get a job in fintech; Make a guided decision for a career transition or job change in Fintech; etc.

A top-notch resource for anyone who wants to break into the demanding world of investment banking. This book offers the perfect preparation for the demanding and rigorous investment banking recruitment process. It features an overview of investment banking and careers in the field, followed by chapters on the core accounting and finance skills that make up the necessary framework for success as a junior investment banker.

This book serves as an invaluable and indispensable guide for everyone in the business of selling professional and consulting services. It provides a masterclass in teaching the practical techniques and concrete strategies that professional services providers were never taught in school or on the job.

The role of the business analyst sits at the intersection of business operations, technology, and change management. This book teaches you how to effectively harness skills, techniques, and hacks to grow your career.

Using a step-by-step, how-to approach for each methodology, the authors build a chronological knowledge base and define key terms, financial concepts, and processes throughout the book. The genesis for the original book stemmed from the authors' personal experiences as students interviewing for investment banking positions.

This book remedies common misconceptions with a straightforward assessment of banking fundamentals. Written by experts in stock market proceedings, it runs parallel to an introductory course in investment banking. 

In this practical guide to initial public offerings, the author explains the pros and cons of turning private businesses into listed companies. It includes many real-life case studies, sample documents, an extensive glossary of terms, and a review of listing requirements for major stock exchanges. It also discusses recent developments in global equity capital markets.

Everyone struggling to accelerate their career in consulting industry can keep this book at their fingertips for its rare, real-world advice for ascending through the levels of management--all of which require specific mindsets and capabilities that only a handful of people ever master.

Once an obscure niche of the investment world, private equity has grown into a juggernaut, with consequences for a wide range of industries as well as the financial markets. This book is a hard-hitting and meticulous exposé from an insider’s viewpoint. Jeffrey C. Hooke—a former private equity executive and investment banker with deep knowledge of the industry—examines the negative effects of private equity and the ways in which it has avoided scrutiny. 

This book is authentic and practical, and shares the knowledge and skills required to start and grow a successful consulting business. From how to make a smooth career transition, to how to determine a consulting fee, to how consultants inadvertently create a bad reputation, it covers everything you need to know to thrive and flourish in this competitive field.

Putting employability - and the realities of the workplace - at its heart, this handy guide provides the means and motivation to help you get the most out of your time at university, focusing your skills on helping you achieve a great job on graduation.

This book provides a detailed yet accessible guide to this controversial business model. Economist Eileen Appelbaum and Professor Rosemary Batt carefully evaluate the evidence--including original case studies and interviews, legal documents, bankruptcy proceedings, media coverage, and existing academic scholarship--to demonstrate the effects of private equity on American businesses and workers.

Would I be happier in consulting, marketing, or auditing? What's the difference between venture capital and private-equity? And what exactly does a trader do all day? Before embarking on a business career, you must discover the role that suits you best. Understanding what people do in different business careers, how they earn those positions, and the challenges and rewards that come with those roles helps you select a fulfilling career.

Much has been written about equal opportunity issues but little has been published about how organisations might provide more structure and support to ensure women's progress to the most senior business levels. This book looks at the career experiences of a group of women managers and consider what helps, and what still hinders their progress.

This book shows you how to: Look for five key traits when choosing a tech startup Get hired at a tech startup with your existing degree, skills, and experience Develop the leadership attributes and entrepreneurial mindset that can launch you to the top Make better decisions and get better outcomes in the tech startup world and beyond Be a Startup Superstar provides the expert insider guidance you need to ignite your career by joining the tech startup revolution.

This book dispels all the myths, dissolves all the obstacles and takes you on a business startup journey that will help you to assess all your options, appraise your ideas, write a great business plan and establish a sensible, functioning and profitable new business using the wealth of knowledge, expertise and insight your employment will have taught you.

This book is the first hands-on publication to set out in concrete and practical terms the various steps and considerations necessary to successfully launch and manage a hedge fund in Asia, with a particular focus on Hong Kong and Singapore.

Growing a successful business is not easy, but it's not impossible. In this book, you will learn: An easy-to-understand framework that can be applied to any business. How to navigate the ins and outs of finding and hiring the best candidates available to you. The best way to organize your company structure to maximize your skills and allow you to identify areas best handled by someone else. And much more.

This book shows you how to develop your ideas into a profitable venture, taking you step by step through everything from business plans to branding.

You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases, and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

This book provides a practical toolkit for potential entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds that will help them navigate complex issues such as raising capital, IP protection, product development, and more.

If you’re dreaming of starting a business, Zero to IPO will not only inspire you but empower you with the necessary knowledge and confidence to make your dream a reality.

This guide to social work careers conforms to accreditation standards, core competencies, and licensing requirements, along with presenting opportunities for social workers resulting from health care reform and the Affordable Care Act.

This book explores the journey of becoming a social worker. It is based upon the experiences of social work students themselves and therefore provides a unique 'inside-out' perspective.

This book helps future psychologists find their optimal career path. The chapters describe 30 different graduate-level careers (i.e., careers for those holding a PhD, EdD, or PsyD) in three distinct areas of endeavor: academia clinical and counseling psychology specialized settings such as for-profit businesses, nonprofits, the military, and schools . Each chapter explores a different career, including typical daily activities, the approximate range of compensation, advantages and disadvantages of the career, opportunities for employment and advancement, and how to plan one's educational and professional experiences to prepare for this specialty. 

This book provides readers a practical guide of the steps in the transition from law school to employment and highlights different law career pathways; identifies differences between areas of law practice and how to prepare for the chosen law career; and provide an insight into the future of law professions.

This book gives you exposure to careers in each of the areas of psychology and prompts you to explore whether or not a major and career in psychology is a good fit for you. Salary and career information, advice on getting a job after graduation, and information on applying to graduate school in psychology help you make decisions about the career that is right for you.

This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about legal education or is thinking of getting one. With enormous insight, wit, and eloquence, Ben Barton describes the challenges facing law schools and their students, and the profession’s inadequate responses.

This book is designed to give you the edge in pursuing a U.S. government attorney or law-related position over your competitors, but also to provide a solid understanding of the U.S. government''s legal employment opportunities and hiring processes so that you can make an intelligent decision about whether you want to work for-and where you want to work within-this giant legal system.

Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. The author not only answers these questions but provides an invaluable overview for attorneys who occupy or aspire to leadership positions in public and private practice settings. This book proves essential to law students, law faculty, and lawyers holding or seeking governance positions.

This book provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, it shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. 

This book provides readers with a clear path from law student to lawyer, with a fundamental understanding of what it expected of him or her as a new attorney: the triumphs and tragedies, the ups and downs, and the wins and losses. It will provide a foundation from which new lawyers can grow and build their own successful careers.

The author draws compelling parallels between being a successful trial lawyer and living a purposeful life.

This book explains the skills and requirements needed to pursue this rewarding career. Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of paralegal skills, from preparing documents and performing legal research to obtaining certification, job hunting, and understanding legal concepts.

This book identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills.

This book is for lawyers who are just beginning their careers, who want to do more than show up, act eagerly, and not get fired. This is for lawyers who want to know what their role is in a law firm from day one and take their careers head-on, with direction and purpose.

This book predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the legal world and offers essential practical advice for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law.

This book steers you to the experiences outside the classroom that will build your professional portfolio and show prospective employers and grad school programs that you have the skills they want -- researching, writing, public speaking, and statistical reasoning.

This book covers all essential aspects (staffing, communications, charity governance, donations, corporate social responsibility, crowdfunding). It contains useful case studies, resources and links, but avoids jargon and intellectualizing.

This book is the essential resource and job-hunting guide for all those interested in international careers in the US government, multi-national corporations, banks, consulting companies, international and non-governmental organizations, the media, think tanks, universities, and more.

Drawing on research in intercultural communication, psychology, and public and nonprofit administration, Culturally Mindful Communication provides useful strategies for students and practitioners of public service to improve their intercultural communication skills.

This book presents occupational profiles, alongside overviews of the green job that cover such details as, what job it is most similar to, what skills are required to perform the job, and what a typical day in the life of that job is like.

This unique career guidance book, based on labor market research, covers green jobs representing almost every area of career interest. The authors' extensive experience in workforce development will help you explore tomorrow's green career options.

With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture.

The book opens with helpful background information about nonprofit organizations, then shares case studies that take readers more deeply into the challenges and successes of various organizations. Given the trials nonprofits face in the current economic climate, this timely book helps readers move beyond the good intentions in nonprofits to find successful practices.

This book reveals how international secretariats have emerged and evolved, focusing on both structures (international public administrations) and the practitioners (international civil servants). It fills a gap in the literature by exploring the full evolution of international secretariats, covering global and continental developments as well as regional integration practices around the world. 

This book engages voices on issues and leadership topics important to those seeking to understand more about this dynamic sector of society. A major focus of this two-volume reference work is on the specific roles and skills required of the nonprofit leader in voluntary organizations. 

Learning and Volunteering Abroad for Development aims to unpack the complex benefits and disadvantages of learning/volunteer abroad programmes, using insights from the volunteers who travel abroad and the communities who host them. Supported by a website with additional learning resources, this book is an integral resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in going abroad, as well as for scholars or development professionals who are leading or researching such programmes.

This manual presents a data collection strategy for measuring volunteer work that is cost-effective and reliable. It provides a definition of volunteer work, a measurement methodology to identify volunteer workers and their characteristics, and an estimation methodology to value their work.

This book reviews what matrix system is and how it works at the World Bank. It can help you to learn more about World Bank if you would like to work in an international organization, such as World Bank.

This book walks you through the steps of deciding whether an NGO career is right for you and understanding the types of roles available within the sector, which includes interviews with professionals in the field.

This book provides nonprofit professionals with the conceptual frameworks, practical knowledge, and concise guidance needed to succeed in the social sector. It is filled with sage advice and insights from a variety of trusted experts that can help nonprofit professionals prepare to achieve their organizational and personal goals, develop a better understanding of what they need to do to lead, support, and grow an effective organization.

This Handbook of International Organization brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as process and international organizations as institutions.

Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics.

This book offers an engaging guide for cause-oriented people dedicated to begin or enhance careers in the now burgeoning fields of international affairs. It shows ten new and four significantly updated profiles as well as new and expanded concepts that include work-life balance, the importance of informational interviews, moving on, and key building blocks for international careers.

Youth employment issues are a major concern for many countries because they have negative effects on the welfare of young people, and may also adversely affect economic performance and social stability. This is the first Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation of the World Bank Group.

The authors of the essays in this volume describe a wide variety of careers for which a background in the mathematical sciences is useful. Each of the jobs presented shows real people in real jobs. Their individual histories demonstrate how the study of mathematics was useful in landing well-paying jobs in predictable places such as IBM, AT & T, and American Airlines, and in surprising places such as FedEx Corporation, L.L. Bean, and Perdue Farms, Inc.

This book spells out how nurses can recognize and document their accomplishments and then use them to advance within health care.

This book investigates the people who carry out mathematics rather than the topics of mathematics, containing material from the research carried out in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Canada and Brunei as well as Australia.

This book covers seven of the many, many careers in this growing and well-respected field. You’ll also find interviews with professionals talking about their day-to-day and their take on the future of their fields.

In this volume, authors provide engaging and informative perspectives on success in industry. Success stories discuss the process of applying for different kinds of positions, common pitfalls for early career chemists, and how to create a plan that will help shape your career development process.

This book is intended to be useful for all scientists and engineers in general, and particularly chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, biochemical engineers, and others in chemistry-related fields.

This book shows physicians how they can serve society and patients in innovative ways, and make a notable impact on health care delivery, policy and quality when they use their medical background in a non-traditional career pursuit.

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms. A career in biology can mean the study of evolution, the study of health and disease, the study of the preservation of the natural environment, the study of pollen, or the study of animal behavior, to name a few. Biologists can work in a classroom, in a laboratory, on a farm, or under the ocean, so someone who is interested in a career in this field has many options to choose from.

This book conveys the breadth and depth of today's chemical and biomolecular engineering practice, and describes the intellectually enriching, socially conscious and financially lucrative opportunities available for such graduates in an ever-widening array of industries and applications.

This book is an essential guide to the role of data analyst. Aspiring data analysts will discover what data analysts do all day, what skills they will need for the role, and what regulations they will be required to adhere to.

The author provides information on the types of environmental compliance roles, how to make sense of job postings, and how to make your resume stand out. It also contains example interview questions and interviews with current environmental compliance professionals at various stages in their careers.

This book provides a complete overview of the most popular careers in health care, helping you make an informed decision in choosing a profession. It includes the roles and responsibilities of different occupations, and the skills and competencies that each health career requires. Clear explanations of anatomy and physiology, disease processes, and treatments provide essential knowledge of the human body and show how health concepts apply to the work of various professionals.

This book offers accessible coverage of an increasingly important aspect of medical and health professional education. This concise text includes how to identify and develop professional behaviours, how they are assessed, and how to challenge unprofessional behaviours.

This book is intended to be useful to a wide range of audiences in the global chemistry enterprise, including scientists and engineers in academia, industry, government, non-profit organizations, and small businesses, as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

Learn How to Infuse Leadership into Your Passion for Scientific Research Leadership and Women in Statistics explores the role of statisticians as leaders, with particular attention to women statisticians as leaders.

This book presents some of the latest research findings from Germany, South Africa and Austria on women's careers in science and research. The volume provides insights into the research system from a female career perspective, and highlights the lessons women can learn from the findings in order to promote their own careers.

This book presents useful information, insights and tips to those pursuing a career in the biomedical and life sciences. It focuses on making educated choices during schooling, training, and the job search in both the academic and non-academic sectors.

This book provides unique insight into women’s experiences, challenges and presents information from academia, research, and industry into STEM careers from multidisciplinary perspectives.

This book provides a thorough explanation of what prospective students can expect to study at veterinary school, and it discusses career options available to new graduates.

This book will help you decide whether a STEM-related career might be right for you and, if so, how to explore the options and put yourself in the best possible position to secure your dream job.

is a comprehensive and accessible manual containing career advice, mentoring support, and professional development strategies for female scientists in the STEM fields.

This collection of personal short stories offers an informal, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of these esteemed professionals, encapsulating their transformative “aha” moments within a whimsical hodgepodge of instructive and inspiring anecdotes.

This book is the result of seeds that were planted duringnumerous informal conversations at the annual meetings of the CCR, as well as during such discussions at national and regional meetings of the ACS, and at the ACS employment clearing houses.

Case studies have proven to be valuable learning tools and Roger Forsgren (NASA’s former Chief Knowledge Officer) includes twelve compelling historical case studies that demonstrate the critical knowledge needed for STEM students as they progress through their careers.

This book begins with an examination of the numbers of women in physics in English-speaking countries, moving on to examine factors that affect girls and their decision to continue in science, right through to education and on into the problems that women in physics careers face.

This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field.

The CEO playbook, with lessons from the world's best leaders. It shows today's CEOs how to become exceptional leaders and bring value to their organization.

This practical book describes the change manager role in depth including purpose, typical responsibilities and required skills.

Configuration management is the tracking, recording and monitoring of the elements of a business IT system and any changes and developments. This book provides invaluable advice and real-life examples for IT professionals who are implementing configuration management and also for technology-savvy business managers who need to use automated business services.

Cracking the Tech Career is the job seeker's guide to landing a coveted position at one of the top tech firms. This book provides new information on what these companies want, and how to show them you have what it takes to succeed in the role.

This book includes interviews with professionals in the field, and covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions: Security Analysts/Engineers, Security Architects, Security Administrators, Security Software Developers, and Cryptographers/Cryptologists/Cryptanalysts.

Kickstart a career in cybersecurity by adapting your existing technical and non-technical skills. Cybersecurity Career Guide unlocks your pathway to becoming a great security practitioner.

Fast-Tracking Your Career provides engineers and IT professionals with a complete set of soft skills they can use to become more effective on the job and gain recognition from management and colleagues.

This book collects comments on matters of interest to new and experienced information professionals alike in 1-2 minute "quick takes," inviting further thought. This unique resource will be illuminating for anyone in library and information science, career development, or knowledge and information management.

This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers the following areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions. •Technical Support Staff •Programmers •Web Developers •Systems Analysts •Network Architects •Security Analysts

This book highlights personal stories from five SOC professionals at various career levels with keen advice that is immediately applicable to your own journey.

This book explains engineering practice, what engineers actually do in their work. The first part explains how to find paid engineering work and prepare for an engineering career. The second part explains the fundamentals of engineering practice. Other chapters explain engineering aspects of project management. Later chapters provide guidance on sustainability, time management and avoiding the most common frustrations encountered by engineers at work.

Learn what you need to succeed as a developer beyond the code. The lessons in this book will supercharge your career by sharing lessons and mistakes from real developers.

This is a book for all engineers. It distils the knowledge of many experts in one volume. The book will help engineers enjoy a more satisfying and rewarding career and provide more valuable results for their employers and clients.

The author delivers a practical and insightful discussion designed to assist aspiring cybersecurity professionals entering the industry and help those already in the industry advance their careers and lead their first security teams.

Public Service Information Technology explains how all areas of IT management work together.

This book was written based on the author’s experience gained over 40 years working with and in technology-related fields and companies. It provides practical guidance on remaining relevant as changes are expected to occur in technology at ever faster rates in coming decades.

The book reveals how to optimize both your code and your career, from achieving a good work-life balance to writing the kind of bug-free code delivered by pros. You’ll master essential skills that you might not have learned as a solo coder, including meaningful code commenting, unit testing, and using refactoring to speed up feature delivery.

A collection of personal narratives exploring issues faced by women in information technology jobs in libraries, reflecting on themes including imposter syndrome, career trajectory, and experiences of sexism, including advice and encouragement to women entering the field.

Women in Tech combines practical career advice and personal stories from female entrepreneurs and tech professionals to motivate, inspire, and show women what a career in the field is like and how to succeed in it.