Job Development

Imagine losing your high-paying job as an executive after almost thirty years at a multibillion-dollar company. How would you react? When it happened to author James Brian Kerr, the answer was simple: Walk more than twenty miles home. In The Long Walk Home: How I Lost My Job as a Corporate Remora Fish and Rediscovered My Life’s Purpose, Kerr invites us to join him on his strange journey from impending unemployment to self-discovery, and reminds us that the only true journey is the journey within.

Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers. Work Matters brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Drawing on years of research and more than fifteen hundred family interviews, Maureen Perry-Jenkins describes how new parents cope with the demands of infant care while holding down low-wage, full-time jobs, and she considers how managing all of these responsibilities have long-term implications for child development.

This is a quintessentially American story of one man's journey through his career and life. Wall Street veteran Ben Carpenter chronicles the people he met, the experiences he had, the mistakes he made, and what he learned along the way. Listeners will encounter a colorful cast of real-life characters which include Big Hank, Hoops, Sweater Girl, The Zombies, Mr. Nuts, The Cheese, Deep Throat, and The RAT.

Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us.

Erfahre die geheimen Gewohnheiten und Strategien von großartigen Persönlichkeiten und programmiere Dein Leben auf Erfolg um! Außerordentlich erfolgreiche Menschen und leuchtende Vorbilder triumphierten in ihrem Leben nicht durch Zufall. Die Erfolgreichsten der Erfolgreichen haben weder von Geburt an besonders gute Voraussetzungen vorgefunden noch einen unglaublich hohen Intelligenzquotienten oder steinreiche und einflussreiche Eltern gehabt.

The Movement Teacher’s Guide to Fearless Teaching is a comprehensive guide for movement teachers to confidently express their authority and expertise through their work - without the pressures of imposter syndrome. With actionable advice and practical tools, You’re Doing A Great Job offers step-by-step guidance on how to build trust in your work, provide effective coaching, create meaningful boundaries and be fulfilled by your teaching.

Most of us are not new to health problems, sickness, or suffering, but what if there is a cure that does not require drugs, surgeries or other medical procedures for our well-being? Your body has an interconnected capacity for self-healing, an exceptional self-repair system that works day by day and strengthens your ability for a cure. You have the ability to be safe and remain healthy, as your recovery comes from inside. This is all and more that the strength of self-healing will help you to do!

The Mindful Living series is a new series of short mindfulness books dedicated to enhancing three important areas of our lives: work, relationships and parenting. Best-selling author and mindfulness guru Oli Doyle shows that all the key domains of life provide great opportunities to practice mindfulness and discover peace of mind. In Mindfulness at Work, Oli guides the listener through a six-week guide to show that even with demanding bosses and stressful environments, we actually can be happy at work.

In this audiobook, the author teaches you everything you need to know to have success in TV. If you want to know how to improve your communication skills and start achieving your objective then Answer to My Questions is the perfect audiobook for you. Here it is what you will find inside: The problems of a job interview, overview of interview preparation, how to add value and significance to your proposition, how to manage your time, and much more!

We believe that family life is beautiful and that motherhood is a privilege. But we also believe it is often really hard to see all that beauty when we’re in the midst of mothering. Power of Moms is an online community of deliberate mothers. Since 2007, millions of mothers from all backgrounds who are striving to be the best they can be have gathered to our website to learn and grow together. We've selected dozens of our most popular posts and compiled them neatly into this audiobook - just for you.

This inspirational book was written to assist the loved ones of those with substance addiction with finding inner healing through awareness, self-love, changed perception, and non-judgement. Anyone experiencing external pain and adversity will benefit from the author's inspiring journey. Brenda shares her personal experiences of living with a drug addict and alcoholic for nine years, and the following nine years of clean and sober living.

If you’re tired of doing the same thing day after day, feeling unappreciated, underpaid, and just bored of what you do, then you need a change—and sometimes, that change is best in the career that you work. Are you ready to figure out how you can get through the work that you do in just seven easy steps?

If you're in a job interview, how should you think about the mindset of the interviewer? If you've just been promoted, how do you handle the tensions of managing former peers? And what are the telltale mental signs that it's time to start planning your next career move? Professor, author, and popular radio host Art Markman focuses on three essential elements of a successful career - getting a job, excelling at work, and finding your next position - and expertly illustrates how cognitive science, especially psychology, sheds fascinating and useful light on each of these elements.

Everybody knows that Patricia Heaton plays the hilarious, wise, and tempestuous married-with-kids everywoman on Everybody Loves Raymond. What they might not know is that in real life, she is married, has four boys under eight years old, and is just as funny offscreen as on. Motherhood and Hollywood is Patricia Heaton’s humorous and poignant collection of essays on life, love, marriage, child-rearing, show business, having parents, being a parent, spousal rage, surviving fame, success, and the shame of underarm flab. She is warm, witty, and refreshingly irreverent.

Is work working for you? If you experience the "Sunday night scaries", count down the days to the weekend, or dread the thought of another day at work, maybe you can only see two options to escape your current misery: quit your job or stay and suffer. There is another option. In Own It. Love It. Make It Work., one of America's top productivity consultants reveals why you don't have to rely on your company, nor your boss, for your professional fulfillment. Instead, you can take ownership of your career, your life, and your happiness - right now.

"Kommen Sie doch bitte mal in mein Büro!" Da rutscht einem das Herz schon ganz gern einmal in die Hose. Der Chef will ausgerechnet mit dir reden. Das kann doch nur schiefgehen. Nur Mut! Mit Chefs zu reden ist gar nicht so schwer wie man denkt!

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Ce-ai face dac-ai fi şoarece şi ai trăi într-un labirint, iar cineva ţi-ar tot lua caşcavalul şi l-ar muta din loc în loc? Pornind de la această întrebare, s-au scris două cărţi extraordinare. Elementele care stau la baza lor sunt analoge: personajele sunt câţiva şoareci ce trăiesc într‑un labirint şi umblă după caşcaval. Caşcavalul reprezintă ceea ce ne dorim, iar labirintul este locul în care căutăm ceea ce ne dorim. Primul răspuns la întrebarea de mai sus a fost dat cu mai bine de 10 ani în urmă de Spencer Johnson în bestsellerul Cine mi-a luat caşcavalul?.

Do you feel at the end of your rope, plagued by one ailment after another, and wondering how you’re going to keep it all together for even five more minutes? If your health is interfering with your ability to do your job and live your life the way you want to live it, it’s time for a change. I Love My Job, but It’s Killing Me is the step-by-step guide you need to get back to the career you love, without compromising your health any longer.

In these troubled economic times, looking for a new job or searching for that very first job opportunity can be extremely stressful. There's more competition out there, and fewer jobs to compete for.

In How to Find a Job, Career and Life You Love, Louis Efron ( Forbes and Huffington Post contributor and award-winning Fortune 300 human resources executive) reveals how to find purpose, fulfillment, and more happiness in your career and life. His distinct self-discovery process helps you create new excitement and vigor in your current job and career. If you're ready for change, he'll help you find new direction that brings you in alignment with your purpose and goals.