Training Wheels: A Candid Guide to a Career in Business

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An insightful guide to corporate America

A Solid start.

A Solid start.

An indispensable business guide for young professionals

Training Wheels: A Candid Guide to a Career in Business
Joseph J. Del Casino
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Guides | Job Hunting & Careers | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 073886966X

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An insightful guide to corporate America.......2004-05-17

This book is an insightful and interesting guide into corporate America and the evolution of jobs in this country. The author's insightful look into finding a job is very helpful, especially for those new to business careers. Going hand in hand are the author's tips for getting and keeping jobs, which are perfect for those seeking new careers. The author's passion for this topic is evident and the look into the workings of office politics is very good. Also, I thought it was good that he addressed recruiters and headhunters as well as pointing out that job-related print ads are a very small part of what's offered and that often the best jobs are never advertised. This book is well thought out, with a good easy-to-read structure and very thorough in content.

A Solid start........2004-04-29

So you are looking for a career. Not just a job that you could care less about in the long run. I mean a real career. The position you have dreamed about, studied for, and want with all your heart. Well there are many other people out there that want the same position you do. You must put your best foot forward and make yourself stand out.

That is where this gem of a book comes in handy. This book takes you from the first step of deciding upon your career, to past the last step of landing a position and beginning your long climb up the corporate latter. Chapters one - eight help readers develop an idea of what career they wish to strive for. Then shows how to build a strong strategy, research for opportunities, create a resume that won't get passed over or filed and forgotten, and how to shine during interviews. Chapters nine - eleven give sound advice in what to do once you have been hired. Chances are that the position you get hired for is not the one you have dreamed of. It is simply the first step to the climb up the corporate latter so you may reach your coveted position. These last few chapters will show you how to get up those first few rungs faster than normal.

***** The person who gave me this book said that I would probably cruise through the book in an afternoon. After all, it is only 118 pages. I recall thinking to myself that it should not even take me that long to read it. WRONG! I found myself going back and rereading sections. I high lighted parts, took notes, and carried the book with me to work for a few days. Personally, I have been climbing the corporate latter for several years now and found lots of advice that I could immediately put to use.

Whether you are in high school, college, or been part of the work force for a few decades, this book is worth every cent you pay for it. (And costs much less than going to even one business seminar.) This little book is rock solid and highly recommended. *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

A Solid start........2004-04-29

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

An indispensable business guide for young professionals.......2004-02-18

Newly-minted college graduates and inexperienced business professionals new to the sometimes tricky world of white collar treachery are well advised to consider this "candid guide to a career in business," author Del Casino's instructional primer to many of the trial-and-error pains inherent along the unescorted path of the daily grind.

Del Casino, a veteran consultant, advisor, and principal in the investment management business, launches into several inspiring to-the-point rants along the way, crossing such territory as: "Taking Stock of Yourself," "Interviews," "Evaluating Offers," Lessons to Learn" and "Manage Your Career."

This is a powerful, effective, and at times brutally frank crash course in all the workplace necessities that cannot necessarily be found in any textbook. It is probably the most no-nonsense guide to business careers I've ever read and its organization and style make it an easy and enjoyable read.

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Makes one of the most popular tools of market analysis available to a wider audience of traders and technical analysts
Pioneered by John Ehlers in the late 1970s, the MESA method of price pattern analysis uses powerful wave theory analysis techniques, originally developed for the field of electrical engineering, to measure market cycles. MESA systems are currently used by technical analysts the world over. Top brokerages lease them and supply their clients with MESA signals and charts. And MESA systems consistently have been rated #1 by Futures Truth, the consumer reports organization of the futures industry. In this highly anticipated Second Edition of his classic work, Ehlers updates his MESA theories and makes them more accessible to a wider trading audience. Completely revised, featuring five new chapters, this new edition incorporates Ehlers's digital signal processing research into MESA. It also includes EasyLanguage programming code that makes it extremely easy for traders to take the leap from theory to practice.

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Very Good Book.......2006-05-08

I was a disciple of John Ehlers' in the early 1990s when I bought
the MESA3 and Epoch analysis programs (both for DOS) and my trading abilities improved greatly. I use those two programs to this day with superlative results.

I cannot give a similarly positive review to his newer software offerings as I have not examined them personally and information provided to be by users who have indicated that their results were less than satisfactory.

Ehlers' books are, in a large sense, amplifications of the instruction manuals of these progams and set forth the basis on which to study trading according to his ideas and theories.

This book is an excellent read for both the casual and professional trader regardless of whether or not one actually uses his software. Ehlers is highly intelligent, extremely experienced, and the practical application of his theories is adequately explained herein.

This work ranks as yet another significant contribution to the arena of securities trading by the author.

Professor John W. Kercheval, III
Georgetown
Washington, DC

A Theorist with communication skills problems.......2002-12-21

This book is just plain horrible. I am a trader and a cyclical investor. I am also an engineer with Engineering Mechanics background, and very familiar with the complex math explained by Ehlers. But let me tell you, for people without any background in math this book is an absolute waste of time.

The most important thing that Ehlers should have focused, he simply forgot or ignored. The book fails to show real life examples with buy-sell signals using the indicator. It goes on and on along the theoretical lines of cycle analysis and it stays at that throughout the book.

It would have been much more entertaining to explain the indicator and show real life examples. But from my experience as a researcher and writer of research articles, people from this field tend to embelish and emphasize the theoretical size while completely ignoring the pure and simple aspects.

A simple cycle analysis done with moving average detrending as explained by Pring is much easier. Also, a simple look at the charts and the drawing of a simple cycle lines is all that it takes to show you the turning points.

Important Update of a Gem of a Book.......2002-03-29

The broad trading public has been slow to recognize John Ehlers work to apply cycles methodologies (from the sciences) to trading markets .... which is good for those of use who have discovered Ehlers' work with MESA (Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis).

The first edition of this book is still the clearest and most concise discussion of applying cycles theory to markets I've ever read. This new edition retains all of the content of the first edition, but updates it with a lot of new and additional information from Ehlers' recent research into cycles and his development of trading indicators and tools.

Many are familiar with the J.M. Hurst classic: "The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing". Ehlers goes far beyond Hurst's pioneering work. Ehlers is an original thinker, applying new techniques and research using MESA to the market. Hurst was using a multi-million dollar mainframe in the 60's .... all of us have 10,000X more computer power sitting on our desktops than Hurst had .... Ehlers techniques can help the serious trader and investor turn all that "horsepower" loose on the market today, making it accessible to even us small traders.

Hurst was also constrained to using Fourier Analysis for cycles detection .... Ehlers' MESA overcomes the need of Fourier for long data spans to compute cyclic content.

If you're serious about the markets, this book needs to be part of your library .... along with Ehlers other book: "Rocket Science For Traders"

More Obtuse than the Average TA Book.......2000-06-25

Perhaps with time Ehlers writing improved but I found most of this book to be unclear - except the parts at the end about how to use the MESA cycles for trading. He has one idea, a ELI (Ehlers Leading Indicator), that sounds intriguing but darned if I can figure out how to calculate it based on his passing description of it. When he tries to explain phasors by "think of an engine" example, he only made me more confused. I really want to understand the mathematical ideas presented herein so I'll keep at it but I'm hoping I'll find a cycle writer with a style I can decipher better. Haven't read his later stuff yet though. Maybe he got alot more clear.

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Volume 4 of Advances in Developmental Biology and Biochemistry consists of five chapters that review specific aspects of fly and mammalian development. In Chapter 1, Y. Mishina and R. Behringer discuss various aspects of Müllerian-inhibiting substance (MIS) in mammals, from a brief history of its discovery to recent studies of the MIS gene in transgenic and knock-out animals. In Chapter 2, C. Rushlow and S. Roth discuss the role of the dpp-group genes in dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo. In Chapter 3, M. Yip and H. Lipshitz discuss the terminal (asegmental termini) gene hierarchy of Drosophila and the genetic control of tissue specification and morphogenesis. In Chapter 4, R. Bachvarova discusses induction of mesoderm and the origin of anterior-posterior polarity in the mouse embryo, using the frog embryo as a paradigm. In Chapter 5, P. Vogt discusses human Y chromosome function in male germ cell development.

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The only reference on the use of GIS and related technologies in terrain analysis
In this landmark publication, reflecting the collaborative effort of thirteen research groups based in four countries, leading experts detail how GIS and related technologies, such as GPS and remote sensing, are now being used, with the aid of computer modeling, in terrain analysis. Continuing the innovative work of Professor Ian Moore, a visionary who saw terrain analysis as a robust method for modeling the large areas and complex spatial patterns of environmental systems, Terrain Analysis puts into action TAPES, or Terrain Analysis Programs for Environmental Sciences, Dr. Moore's innovative tool for terrain analysis. The book's contributors describe how TAPES are applied to specific geomorphologic problems, explain the algorithms used in current terrain analysis software, and examine the interpretation and use of terrain attributes in predictive models.
With expert coverage of terrain analysis in the digital age, Terrain Analysis will be welcomed by ecologists, environmental engineers, geographers, and hydrologists who increasingly depend on GIS, GPS, and remote sensing.

Terrain Analysis - Principles & Applications

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Terrain Analysis - Principles & Applications
JOHN P. (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA) GALLANT WILSON
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N5F1X8

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Handbook of Thermoluminescence
C. Furetta
Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Thermoluminescence dating (Handbooks for archaeologists)

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Thermoluminescence dating (Handbooks for archaeologists)
Gunther A Wagner
Manufacturer: European Science Foundation
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Binding: Paperback

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Edith Wharton
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0786160675

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Like finding an old dusty diary in an ancient sea trunk..........1998-01-23

I found this book to be a facinating treasure of information from ships which sailed over 150 years ago to observations of island natives, all reflected in the actual words of this "Journal". Daily entries of locations, temperatures longitude, lattitude, wind, observations, personal notations and more make this a great addition to any collection. A few errors in the illustration's pagination noted in an errata do not detract from the quality of this book. Great evening reading for lovers of sailing, history or first-hand accounts/diaries. I like this very much and highly recommend it.

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