Career Education

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts. Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful postgrad career. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education.

This SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis offers supplementary material to The Five Second Rule to help you distill the key takeaways, review the book's content, and further understand the writing style and overall themes from an editorial perspective. Whether you'd like to deepen your understanding, refresh your memory, or simply decide whether or not this book is for you, SUMOREADS Summary & Analysis is here to help. Absorb everything you need to know in under 20 minutes!

Every day at work, people do three things: talk, listen, and pretend to listen. That's not surprising when you consider that the average attention span has dropped to 8 seconds. To break through, says high-stakes communications expert Paul Hellman, you need to focus on your audience, be slightly different, and deliver with finesse.

It can be challenging to find the time to read and study for the project management professional (PMP) test! But now you can learn to ace the PMP exam without memorizing a thing! This audiobook teaches you to see processes in a totally new way so that you will understand and remember. In stark contrast to the traditional, boring, long PMP exam prep books, this audiobook simplifies everything down to make learning logical and simple.

This is the audio summary of Designing Your Life, a book that teaches you how to take a design-based approach toward your life in order to live better and optimize the life you lead in every way, and in every area....

Enjoy figuring out creative solutions to real-world problems that have led to important inventions, discoveries, and innovations throughout history! The problems in this audiobook are related to erudition in fundamental areas - nature, technology, business, science, how things work, or why things are made in a certain way. But, unlike in trivia or jeopardy, you most probably do not know the answer. Instead, logic, out-of-the-box thinking, or intuition leap should be added to your knowledge to puzzle out the correct solution.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering all CDL Endorsements and topics you need to know to pass your written exam. The material is accurate, up to date, and broken down into bite-size chapters. There are quizzes and key takeaways sections following each chapter to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

Filled with practical tips and helpful advice, Dear Ally is a treasure for aspiring writers at any stage of their careers. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how books get made, from idea to publication, and gives you insight into the writing processes of some of the biggest and most talented YA authors writing today.

Don't miss out on the groundbreaking theory behind Carol S. Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. This summary includes full chapter synopses, key takeaways, and analysis to help you quickly soak up the essence of her deep insight. Follow her simple steps to turn your fixed mindset into a growth mindset and change your life!

Depuis plusieurs décennies, nous réfléchissons au sens de la féminité, à l'éducation de nos filles que nous voulons fières et émancipées. Nous luttons à l'école, dans la rue, auprès de nos familles pour tordre le cou aux clichés et leur offrir des chances égales à celles des garçons. Mais nous continuons d'élever nos fils dans le même moule patriarcal, comme si nous pouvions déconstruire le sexisme sans nous interroger sur la masculinité !

Few things affect the day-to-day lives of everyone more than the economy. Economics is a subject everyone should know at least a little about. How your country’s economy is doing directly affects you, even though you may not be able to see it. Understanding the basic terms and definitions, so when the financial news comes on you won’t have to skip it because you don’t understand it. In this practical glossary, you'll learn about economics, including some of its foundational topics and concepts.

Do you feel prepared for the upcoming years ahead? Are you struggling to determine what the next best steps to take are? As a teen or parent of a teen, chances are, you have been doing a lot of questioning and reflecting on the future. Now is a time of rapid growth and change that lays the groundwork for the next decade and beyond. If you are looking for ways to gain a stronger understanding of who you are, what you want, and which strategies to implement going forward, look no further than Career Planning for Teens: Smart Questions, Bright Future.

Use this amazing positive thinking book to help guide you on your journey starting today! Life is tough, that’s a fact. Zen Buddhists say it is full of suffering! Nonetheless, some people are still able to find something to smile about, be happy, and live a fulfilling life irrespective of how challenging the situation seems as others languish in self-pity, self-hate, and a cycle of negative thoughts.

Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. For instance, words and phrases from the realm of sales can also apply to management or finance under a variety of circumstances. In Word Power for Business, Dan presents 500 words and short expressions from a variety of different business categories.

This book contains the essential strategies used by leading social confidence expert Dr. Aziz Gazipura, who has helped hundreds of men overcome their shyness and social anxiety. If you have been struggling with shyness and social anxiety for any period of time, there is only one way out - by taking new action. Once you start trying new things, your whole world will open up. Get started today!

If learning is not memorable, should it even be considered learning? For too long, traditional education has used outdated practices to deliver complex and well-intended content to students with very little hope of that subject matter being retained. It doesn't have to be this way anymore. In The Epic Classroom, Trevor Muir uses the power of storytelling and brain science to give educators practical and proven practices to achieve real student engagement.

Smoke jumpers jump out of aircraft to fight wildfires in remote locations. They work as a team to keep people safe. Learn about their gear, their techniques, and the dangers these firefighting heroes face.

First of a two-book series to address problem solving and writing skills among your team or students via a simple proven formula that is the foundation to structured thinking, to write clearly, to persuade a target audience to say yes. You can put it into practice right away!

Straight-forward advice for how to start narrating audiobooks in a quick-to-digest package. With humor, a straight-forward tone, and anecdotes from his career, audiobook narrator and award-nominated voice actor Brian Wiggins shows you how you can get started narrating audiobooks while avoiding many of the pitfalls that he discovered (and sometimes fell into) along the way.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.