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Plastic surgery has become the answer for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs.

This book will walk you through the most common mistakes made when applying for a job. This could be resume mistakes or how you answer the questionnaire on the application. You want to make sure that you get the interview so you can shine. By following the tips and ideas in this book, you can improve your odds of landing your next job and impressing the interview panel. This book will help you become a success.

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before?

You can't get hired if you don't get noticed. Have you put hours into your job search and submitted so many online applications trying to land a job of your dreams only to be ghosted by the recruiters and hiring managers? If it’s been more than five years since you’ve searched for a job, you need to realize the rules to finding a job in today’s digital job search market has changed. Get Noticed Get Hired is a definitive guide to showcasing your experience and skills, while offering tips and strategies designed to land you in the interview seat.

Are you ready to find freedom with Instagram? Skyrocket your online entrepreneur path with the right Instagram mindset. Practical examples give you the big picture.

Do you want to know the 40 real questions that job interviewers have in their minds? I know what you are thinking. How can anyone read another person's mind? Well, the secret hides in the reality that there are only four kinds of interviewers. Imagine that you will make it easy for job interviewers to like you. Do you know that, if you can speak respectfully to just four personality types, you hold in your hand the key to have a powerful persuasive edge over most people?

Job interview? There's no stress for you. Just excitement that you will crush your next job interview with confidence and ease! Because you have the audiobook. Hired by Walt Disney World, Meijer Super Centers, the US Military, the US Postal Service, four-star restaurants, and the owner of seven different businesses, author Brian Mahoney gives you real-world expert advice from real-world experience on getting hired...by crushing your job interview with confidence and ease.

求职是一场激烈的竞争。职场如战场，用人单位步步紧逼，巧布“陷阱”；求职者必须胸有成竹，方能在瞬息万变之间镇定自若，洞若观火，灵活自如……求職是一場激烈的競爭。職場如戰場，用人單位步步緊逼，巧布「陷阱」；求職者必須胸有成竹，方能在瞬息萬變之間鎮定自若，洞若觀火，靈活自如……

Can't find good employees? Change your process! Businesses today are struggling to grow not because their customer base is not growing, but because they are hiring the wrong people. This book solves this problem! Get the blueprint to consistently hire A-players. Follow the steps in this audiobook to get the right people in the right jobs, and your company will thrive.

With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, our society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do on behalf of businesses and organizations.

Today's ways of working are not working - even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back.

In the wake of the November 2011 elections, the Tea Party has gone from a well-funded, media-savvy fringe group to become the new kids in Congress. Their presence is unpredictable and potentially explosive. Tea partiers Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Dan Coats now sit in the Senate alongside the GOP's new poster boy, Marco Rubio. In total, some 30 Tea Party supporters won seats in Congress. Their party is evidently here to stay - but what exactly does that mean for the future of the country?

Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do well if we focus on what we can control and worry less about things we can't. As head of the Roman empire, he encountered his fair share of difficult people, frustrating situations and political infighting. In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius encouraged us to accept other people's inevitable shortcomings, make the most of our short life, resist the temptations of fame and flattery and, when things get too much, take a cosmic perspective of our existence.

Law school doesn’t teach you how to get a job. This Book Does. It arms you with a fresh perspective from students who landed great legal jobs. These personal, enlightening stories and the insight they reveal form the foundation of a straightforward six-step process to take control of your career path and professional advancement, starting in law school, and create multiple job opportunities.

Are you a pharmacist who wants to launch your own business? You want to help others get off as many medications as possible, and have a larger impact in other people’s lives. Your job is frustrating and stressful, and you want to quit, but you feel trapped. Are you confused because of the amount of information out there, and you don’t know where to start? Are you ready to spend more time with your family and do what you love?

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!

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.

Eine Einladung zum persönlichen Gespräch mit dem Chef! Oh Gott, und jetzt? Hoffentlich vermassel' ich das nicht! Ob erstes Date, Vorstellungsgespräch oder Mitarbeitergespräch: Der erste Eindruck zählt. Hierfür gibt es keine zweite Chance. Mithilfe von sieben Tricks lernst du, wie du vom ersten Gespräch an sicher überzeugst und deine Persönlichkeit bestmöglich verkaufst. Wie bereite ich mich vor? Wie kann ich selbstbewusster werden und wirken? Woher weiß ich, was der Chef hören will?

Monster explains how we can responsibly engage with technology, and avoid its darker tendencies, while accepting its necessary gifts. For managers, leaders, and employees at companies of all sizes and in all industries, Monster will help you understand and take control of technology's powerful role in your life and your organization.