Germer, Fawn
Summary: "A street smart, inspiring, practical and utterly honest book for renewing or resuming your career. Millions of mid- and late-career professionals are wondering why our careers are dying. We've been fired, downsized, job-eliminated, or we've left work voluntarily to raise children, care for loved ones, or go to school. Our unemployment rate is more than three times the national average. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 GERTsuge, Yoshiharu
Summary: "Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Comics 2019
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2 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TSUBlake, Jenny
Summary: "Jenny Blake, bestselling author of Life After College and former career development program manager at Google, shows how to move into your next career phase by leveraging what you already do well. Now, more than ever, we need to navigate career changes deftly and frequently. The average employee tenure in America is just four or five years, and even those job roles often change dramatically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETHain, Randy
Contents: What am I really looking for? -- What obstacles are in my way? -- The psychology of job search -- The unconnected leader -- Networking with intention -- Practical LinkedIn -- Being intentional about business relationships -- Asking our friends & network for help -- Not overthinking resumes -- Advanced interviewing -- Negotiating 101 -- Turning age into an asset -- Should I go into business for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serviam Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 HAISummary: When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary school where he meets Megan, a teacher, and becomes close with a young boy named Charlie. His world is turned upside down when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2009
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHRBolles, Richard Nelson
Summary: With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2020, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Hoffman, Reid.
Summary: The founder of LinkedIn demonstrates how to apply effective entrepreneurial strategies to an individual career, explaining how to navigate modern challenges by becoming more innovative, self-reliant, and networked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Schlesinger, Jill
Summary: "Ten timely financial steps to build the life you really want. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to rethink everything. Now, when it comes to envisioning a post-pandemic future, financial expert Jill Schlesinger hears one question over and over: IS THIS REALLY HOW I WANT TO LIVE? The Great Money Reset is your guide to getting real and building your best life. A bible for navigating our present...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 ALBHennessey, Brian
Summary: "Don't just survive... thrive in the new economy! Feeling stuck or in need of a leg up? These tips, strategies, and resources can shorten your learning curve dramatically and get you on a path for moving forward. Inside this book you'll discover: Essential steps to get out of your own way and create the right mindset for optimal achievement; 47 proven tips to jump-start your own journey;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yajna Publications 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 HENKeller, Julia
Summary: "Grit isn't always great. Perseverance doesn't always pay off. In Quitting: A Life Strategy, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Julia Keller dives into "the neuroscience of nope," and the cultural messaging that drives our reluctance to throw in the towel, to dismantle the myth of perseverance once and for all. Combining reportage from the front lines of scientific research, pop culture, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balance 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 KELBrown, Damon
Summary: An author, two-time start-up founder and four-time TED speaker offers testimonials, plans of action, and road-tested insight to encourage job seekers to use their existing skills and resources to change careers, manage transitions, and thrive in the current job market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 BROGale, Mary Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Careerscape 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 GALSachs, Wendy
Summary: Offers guidance for women looking to succeed in the rapidly changing job market intended to help them overcome cautiousness and embrace opportunities with confidence by taking cues from the agile business culture of Silicon Valley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM, American Management Association 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650 SACRubin, Harriet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 RUBTurliuk, Jennifer
Summary: "A surefire guide to planning your next career move and discovering the job you really want. Jennifer Turliuk was dissatisfied in her corporate job, so she quit. But she had no idea what to do next. After university, she, like so many graduates, focused on just getting a job rather than figuring out the career she really wanted. Yet how did she even begin to find out what exactly that would be?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dundurn 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.702 TURAcuff, Jon.
Summary: Many people think that dreaming big means you quit your day job, and sell everything you own. What if there were a different way. This book is based on Acuff's experience in cultivating a dream job that changed his life-- and the world in the process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lampo Press, The Lampo Group 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Lipman, Joanne
Summary: "The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life--and probably more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.14 LIPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 650.14 LIPHeaton, Patricia
Summary: "Patricia Heaton knows what it's like to stage a second act and navigate pivotal transitions in life. When Heaton's children left the nest, she found herself in a new and unfamiliar stage of life, compelling her to evaluate which direction to take next. She discovered she had the time to pursue passions that were previously placed on hold, both personally and professionally. She made her move...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon &Schuster 2020