Professional Services

Passar em um concurso público é o sonho de muitas pessoas: estabilidade, boa remuneração e excelentes benefícios. Mas a concorrência é grande, o que exige perseverança, dedicação, prática com as provas anteriores e muitas horas de estudo do candidato. Thiago de Luca traz nesta obra conceitos administrativos que são cobrados em diversas provas para cargos públicos de todo o país. De forma didática, explica as teorias administrativas e apresenta mais 271 questões, 137 questões respondidas e comentadas e 134 para que o ouvinte pratique o que aprendeu.

It's no secret; starting a company is hard. So many decisions are interdependent on factors outside of our control. Some founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. But all entrepreneurs need a personal framework to follow. With hard-won insight, humor, and an insider's knowledge of the entrepreneurial space, Chop Dawg founder/CEO Joshua H. Davidson dispels the myths and false promises that entrepreneurs are often too keen to believe in when starting out, and lays out a practical framework for lasting success.

If you have never lost a job, congratulations! I hope you never do lose your job! But if you have lost one, and specifically, if you have been terminated, you know the range of emotions a person feels. With wit and wisdom, Bill Mulligan tells the story of what happened after his job suddenly came to an end, and how, in a most unusual turn of events, he learned to find joy and contentment in serving others.

What do fleas, betrayal, and bankruptcy have to do with building a technology business? Everything. In Standing on Shoulders: From Fleas and Failure to Building a Culture of Service in Tech, Sam Sapp shares his raw, unfiltered journey from near-collapse to creating a company built on faith, resilience, and service. From the sting of broken partnerships to the grind of clawing back from bankruptcy papers, from ransomware stand-offs to rebuilding trust in technology, Sam’s story is as much about people as it is about IT. This isn’t a how-to manual.

When it comes to civil service, William James has been there, done that. Starting at the lowest rung in federal service, he achieved the rare feat of climbing to the highest levels of leadership, shaping decisions that impacted millions. The Accidental Executive chronicles William’s remarkable career from a GS-1 clerk handling routine paperwork to the federal Senior Executive Service, balancing mission and bureaucracy while navigating the revolution of global technological change.

Idiom Lee is a man alone, millions of miles from home. A chance encounter with an alien shape-shifter sent him into a Cold Cosmos devoid of humanity. After the events of book one, he's established himself in the lowest bar on the moving asteroid Panadaras, gambling and serving as a bouncer. Until a sloth-cat creature he calls Slowhand appears and tells him Ginn is in trouble.

A chance encounter with a strange beast sends Idiom Lee into a galaxy, teeming with life and trouble. Can he bring a little humanity to an utterly cold cosmos? Find out in this epic space opera adventure.

Hiding in Plain Sight is not another war story or celebration of strength-it's a brutally honest account of how thirty years of service as a veteran and first responder slowly dismantled one man's identity, marriage, and sense of self. Doug White opens up about post-traumatic stress injuries, emotional collapse, and the fallout of a life spent serving others while ignoring his own breaking points. But this isn't a story about trauma-it's a story about growth, honesty, and the long road back to being whole.

Steve Rangoussis has been there. He started his first career as a sales rep, learning the ropes and steadily climbing the sales ladder. Nearly 25 years later, Steve has served in just about every position in the sales hierarchy, uniquely qualifying him to demystify the sales world for sellers and non-sellers, alike. Sometimes, sales feels like alchemy. Sometimes, it feels like science. Sometimes, it feels like a foreign world, hard to penetrate and even harder to successfully navigate, with its particular jargon, professional pressures, and overall culture.

Myrna was a vivacious and active youth, who, at the age of 14, was paralyzed from her waist down by polio in 1951. This is an inspiring story of how faith, positive attitude, persistence, and the unconditional love and support of family and a community led to her miraculous recovery from polio.

Ever wondered what it takes to succeed on the National Police Officer Selection Test and launch a career in law enforcement? The NPOST is more than just a test it’s a comprehensive evaluation of the skills, knowledge, and judgment required to excel as a police officer. Passing it is the first step toward a rewarding career, and the right preparation makes all the difference. This all-in-one NPOST study guide gives you the confidence and competence to succeed.

Patented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly reveals the importance of Piggly Wiggly in the invention of self-service and goes beyond the history of a single firm to explore the role of small business entrepreneurs who invented the first self-service stores in a grassroots social process.

Rick Bucher had a normal enough childhood, but his life has been extraordinary since. An adventure sports athlete, racer and instructor, Rick served as a firefighter/paramedic/rescue tech in Scottsdale, Arizona for 27 years. He answered over 16,000 calls for service.

Having worked in the emergency services for more than 15 years, Dan Farnworth has seen it all. There was the time he was called to take away a dead body - only for the 'corpse' to jolt back into life and demand to know what he was doing in her house. Earlier in his career, he unwittingly disturbed a crime scene as he shared the sad news of the victim's death with her son.

When you think of a great business, you often think of its clients. They’re not just happy customers; they’re raving fans who’ll take time out of their day to tell you or anyone within range just how much they love that business. They’ll line up before dawn for its latest product offering, create buzz, and treat the brand as a personal status symbol. Does your business have super-fans like this? Do you want them? If so, ...And the Clients Went Wild! is your essential marketing toolbox.

Ben Cheever was a senior editor for Reader’s Digest for 11 years and has published three novels. In 1995, however, his latest book proposal had been rejected, so he went looking for work. This is his wry account of the dozen jobs he held as an entry-level employee in the service sector. He gained a new respect for the millions of people who work long hours for low wages. Now that downsizing is a permanent part of the workplace, his observations provide a valuable perspective of how our jobs define who we are.

Designed to help you achieve your best score, ASVAB Crash Course Study Guide is perfect for test-takers of all levels, whether you're brushing up on the basics or fine-tuning advanced skills. Packed with targeted insights, real-world examples, and engaging explanations, this book will empower you to walk into the exam room with confidence. Your dream career in the military starts here, and this guide is your key to unlocking it!

A fantasy, science fiction, and horror anthology featuring seven short stories by well-received authors. They may scare you, thrill you, and capture your imagination. If you enjoy high-quality short stories that will excite you, then this is for you! E. R. Robin Dover’s “The Trees” (horror): In a remote desert region of southwestern New Mexico, centered along the Rio Grande, is an ancient grove of trees permeated with an evil that has always existed.

A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, near the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers, Buddhist bonzes, shopkeepers, nurses, the mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source for his memoir.

सोसायटीशी संबंधित कामांमध्ये बागकाम हे महत्वाचं ठरतं. एकूण सोसायटी किंवा बंगले यांचं आवार हे नीटनेटकं आणि उत्तम देखभाल केलेलं असेल तर त्याचा प्रभाव चांगला पडतो. अशाच बागकामाचा व्यवसाय करणाऱ्या, अवघ्या 27 वर्षांच्या शुभम काळदातेची ही गोष्ट.