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Career ResourcesNovember 2018
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Introducing At Your Best Playbooks A series of step by step handbooks for those interested in entering the skilled trades. These books are on order but you can place holds now.
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Questions are the answer : a breakthrough approach to your most vexing problems at work and in life
by Hal B. Gregersen
"What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem--in your workplace, community, or home life--just by changing the question? Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question. Take Debbie Sterling, the social entrepreneur who created GoldieBlox. The idea came when a friend complained about too few women in engineering and Sterling wondered aloud: "why are all the great building toys made for boys?" Or consider Nobellaureate Richard Thaler, who asked: "would it change economic theory if we stopped pretending people were rational?" Or listen to technologist Elon Musk, who routinely challenges assumptions with questions like: "What are people accepting as an industry standard when there's room for significant improvement?" Great questions like these have a catalytic quality--that is, they dissolve barriers to creative thinking and channel the pursuit of solutions into new, accelerated pathways. Often, the moment they are voiced, they have the paradoxical effect of being utterly surprising yet instantly obvious. For innovation and leadership guru Hal Gregersen, the power of questions has always been clear--but it took some years for the follow-on question to hit him: If so much depends on fresh questions, shouldn't we know more about how to arrive at them? That sent him on a research quest ultimately including over two hundred interviews with creative thinkers. Questions Are the Answer delivers the insights Gregersen gained about the conditions that give rise to catalytic questions--and breakthrough insights--and how anyone can create them"
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We : men, women, and the decisive formula for winning at work
by Rania H. Anderson
On almost a daily basis, we read stories in the news about high-profile male leaders, CEOs, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs harassing and acting inappropriately toward the women with whom they work. Following such revelations, these men generally lose their jobs, and their companies lose valuable female talent, customers/clients, and their reputations. And, although we regularly hear stories about the "bro culture" that obstructs women's progress and creates hostile work environments for them, we haven't heard as much about the efforts of good men who want to change the in-office behavior of their teams and companies so that they and women they work with can realize their full potential and their businesses can thrive. This book teaches men and managers how to respond in these situations and how to lead by example. In WE: Men, Women, and the Decisive Formula for Winning at Work, Rania Anderson lends her guidance on this exact topic. Social mores have changed, and yet, well-intentioned managers simply don't always know what to do and what's appropriate and useful to actively recruit, retain, and advance more women into leadership. They want to be told how this can make a difference to them and how they can make a difference— this book shows you how to improve your own results and win in business.
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The job : the future of work in the modern era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
"In a brilliant but sobering work of journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a hard look at the forces that are reshaping the nature of work in America, overturning the often espoused mythology that retraining workers in software, engineering, and the sciences is the key to job security and career success, and achieving the middle-class dream in the future. In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts, to a father of three in Appalachia finding purpose andmeaning working in a convenience store chain, to an unemployed autoworker retraining in "advanced manufacturing," Shell reveals how work is essential to our flourishing and pyschological well-being--and how so many of the avenues to well-paid and meaningful work will be challenged in the years ahead. The future of work is not being faced openly. We live in a world where the rewards of employment are concentrated in the hands of the few. Today, the top 10 percent of wage earners in the U.S. bring home 9 times the income of the other 90 percent, and the top.01 percent earn 184 times as much. The economic gap between the few and the many is so vast, Shell says, that we might as well be members of a different species. Moreover, since the 1970s, real wages for most of us have stagnated, and with it our purchasing power. Half of all Americans earn less than $30,000 a year. And the paths to landing those good-paying jobs that secure our financial future are disappearing in the wake of automation and the rise ofAI"
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How to talk to anyone at work: 72 little tricks for big success in business relationships : 100 Little Tricks for Big Success in Business Relationships
by Leil Lowndes
"From the bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone comes a book dedicated to helping business professionals at any level communicate for success on the job You face tough communication challenges every day at work, both in person and online. Here are immediate, effective, eye-opening actions you can take to resolve those infuriating problems. You will find stories and examples drawn from corporate communications consultant Leil Lowndes's more than 20 years of training business professionals, from entry-level new hires to CEOs. To succeed today, you must exhibit these crucial qualities, the 5 Cs: CONFIDENCE 10 ways to show your boss and colleagues you are 100 percent self-assured and can achieve whatever you want -- and reinforce this image throughout your entire working relationship CARING 14 strategies to demonstrate you care about your colleagues and the company because "people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care" CLARITY 12 techniques to get your ideas across clearly --and ensure you understand everybody you work with CREDIBILITY14 methods to win the trust and respect of everyone at your company -- and impress people who find you on the web COEXISTENCE (WITH CRUEL BOSSES & CRAZY COLLEAGUES)21 tactics to confront the number one workplace nightmare and come out shining Plus one final astonishing technique to guarantee success and happiness in your professional life. After you've mastered the unique "bag of little tricks" in this book, you will know How to Talk to Anyoneat Work!"
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Kick some glass:10 ways women succeed at work on their own terms : 10 Ways Women Succeed at Work on Their Own Terms
by Jennifer Martineau
"The rule-smashing guide for motivated working women who want to stop trying to follow someone else's rules and start taking charge of their own success You leaned in like a palm tree in a hurricane. You cracked the confidence code. You're determined notto be a nice girl, but a #GirlBoss. You've learned you can't have it all, but you still try anyway. You know all of this. You've read the books, downloaded the apps, vision boarded and journaled your way to oblivion and back. So why are you stuck in yourcareer? Unlike other books, which seem to focus on fixing you, Kick Some Glass is based on the premise that you are the expert on you -- so who better to uncover what you really want, what your definition of success is, what your values are, and what your goals are than YOU? This invaluable guide will help you do the deep inner work you need to create lasting, meaningful, personal, and professional change. You'll get beneath the surface to understand the mental models that manifest in self-sabotaging behaviors, missed opportunities, and fear. You'll reveal the values that will help you truly understand the tough choices and trade-offs you make daily. You'll learn how to tap into the powerful networks you need to provide support and hold you accountable to help you reach your goals. You'll learn realistic, doable, long-range solutions that will give you the power to take charge and move ahead. This book will help you uncover who you truly are to approach your professional life in ways that are authenticand most meaningful to you -- and no one else. After all, only you hold the answers. It's time to Kick Some Glass"
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Post Office Jobs : The Ultimate 473 Postal Exam Study Guide
by Nancy Ledgerwood
The all-new seventh-edition of Post Office Jobs provides an overview of what jobs are available, including many that don’t require written tests and how to apply for them. You will also find a comprehensive 473/473E study guide with helpful test-taking strategies that could dramatically improve many applicant’s exam scores. Seven other sample postal exams are included in this new edition for maintenance, clerical, technician, and other major occupations.
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Dare to Lead : Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts
by Brené Brown
Based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, a #1 New York Times best-selling author shows readers how dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness so that they can step up and lead
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