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The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection provides a state-of-the-art review of theory, research, and professional practice in the field of selection and assessment.The volume contains five sections covering: activities that precede selection; tools of selection; decisions and their contexts; criterion measures; and emerging trends and assessment for change. Each section includes contributions from internationally eminent authors in the field. The contributions clarify concepts, describe models and theories, summarize evidence from empirical research, and discuss the practical implications of research evidence and trends. Attention is drawn to the ways in which academic and practitioner perspectives complement one another and, at times, conflict as highlighted by trends toward a science-practice divide.The Handbook will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and faculty in psychology and related fields, and for professionals working in human resources who want to maintain and enhance a high level of selection practice.
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This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Federal Republic, and today its lessons can be of use to states throughout the world. Weimar legal theory is a key to understanding the experience of nations turning from traditional, religious, or command-and-control forms of legitimation to the rule of law.
Only two of these authors, Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt, have been published to any extent in English, but they and the others whose writings are translated here played key roles in the political and constitutional struggles of the Weimar Republic. Critical introductions to all the theorists and commentaries on their works have been provided by experts from Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. In their general introduction, the editors place the Weimar debate in the context of the history and politics of the Weimar Republic and the struggle for constitutionalism in Germany. This critical scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis offers an invaluable overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism.
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Perceptions of the Poor: Poverty Consultations in Four Districts in Sri Lanka
Marian S. Pal
Manufacturer: Asian Development Bank
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A series of poverty consultations were carried out in four districts of Sri Lanka in mid-2000. This study presents the results of these consultations, which were intended to help the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gain a deeper and more meaningful appreciation of the scope and breadth of poverty in Sri Lanka based on the perceptions of the poor. In turn, the process helped the ADB better understand Sri Lanka's development needs and priorities as perceived by the poor and to identify the most appropriate sectors to which ADB support can be channeled towards sustainable poverty reduction.
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* A JIST best-seller—very popular with job seekers!
* More than 215,000 copies in print!
* Rated one of the top job search books ever!
Millions of people have used Michael Farr's job search methods to find better jobs in shorter amounts of time. The reason: Farr's methods are practical and results-oriented, the very kind of information that job seekers want.
"The Very Quick Job Search," Third Edition is completely updated and current with a substantial amount of new job search methods and research. It's comprehensive, yet designed in such a way that job seekers can quickly find just the information they need on topics such as the two best job search methods, three employer expectations that must be met, four strategies to use a resume effectively, and much more!
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This Book Will Help Entry-Level Workers Find A Job.......2003-03-25
This book is designed for entry-level job seekers who can look for work at least 25 hours a week. Tells how to get a job by obtaining interviews, which is redefined as a conversation with a person who can hire you, whether or not they have a job open at the time of your discussion. Describes seven step to get a job, which are: 1) Know your skills. 2) Have a clear job objective. 3) Know where and how to look for openings. 4) Spend at least 25 hours a week looking. 5) Get two interviews a day. 6) Do well in interview. 7) Follow up on all contacts. The book is organized so you only have to read the parts that are relevant to you. Very helpful to people with learning disabilities.
From Annotated Bibliography of Learning A Living; A Guide to Finding A Job and Planning A Career for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown
Need employment? Start HERE!!.......1999-06-09
This book was actually used as a textbook for our career strategies class in college. Unlike most college textbooks, this book is very reader-friendly, and gets straight to the heart of the matter - getting you the job you want. Covering all essentials of job searching, resume writing, interviewing, and more, the author has provided a clear and simple road map to the layman. If you follow the guidelines this book teaches, I personally promise you the position you wish is in reach - now!
A little too quick for me.......1999-03-27
My job search wasn't enhanced by this book. I felt that it didn't focus enough on choosing the right career and the right job like Vaultreports.com. Thus, it didn't help me a great deal in choosing what to pursue.
Book Description
More than half a million job seekers turn to this classic guide to write better resumes. It has been updated and revised to satisfy the needs of today's candidates. Readers now get more than 150 resumes covering an array of careers, with variants reflecting all career stages. All resume types and formats are covered, with a wealth of word-processing formatting solutions. In addition, there are expert tips on how to conduct a successful job search, compose dynamite cover letters, and ace any interview.
Customer Reviews:
I wish I bought this sooner!.......1998-09-21
I followed Gary's advice in the GET THE JOB YOU WANT IN THIRTY DAYS, and then bought this one! Within thirty days I was hired and promoted! You shouldn't buy one book without the other!
The most help I ever had!
A great resource for helping you through the job search.......1998-07-26
Everyone I talk to that's finding a new job or interviewing for a career change, I give them this book. It is a great reference with practicle examples that help you through the steps of landing the job. Why re-invent the wheel?. Get this book and alot of your work is already done. Now taylor it to your style and you're off and running to get the job you want. Highly recommended for your personal library.
Read this book and give a great first impression.......1998-07-21
After reading this book I re-formated my resume. When your searching for a job and only have the newspaper as a resource, mose businesses receive hundreds of resumes. I received callbacks from 95% of employers I sent my resume to and during the interviews I was appraised on how my resume was one that stuck out in the crowd. I got the job I wanted because I made a great first impression with my RESUME
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Men and women seeking business leadership positions require a special kind of résumé. Updated, and filled with tips on getting the most out of internet facilities and word processing software, this book presents more than 100 model résumés that apply to business management positions. Readers can use them as models for their own résumés . Model résumés include editorial director, controller, software engineer, systems engineer, mainframe programmer, and many others.
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The stodgy, old-fashioned typewritten résumé is a thing of the past—and Barron's has a brand-new résumé manual designed to propel today's job seekers toward success! The emphasis is on organizing one's job qualifications and career experience to make the best possible presentation, but this how-to book focuses on a far broader range of job-seeking techniques than simply writing a good résumé. The author advises on taking full advantage of career planning internet sources and college career service centers. She also points out differences between paper résumés and electronic résumés and discusses methods of preparing each. In many career fields, a well-presented paper résumé will never go out of date, and this book explains how to organize résumé material, present past accomplishments succinctly, then “sell” one's skills with dynamic sentences and power verbs. It also shows how to prepare scannable and e-mailable résumés, create dynamic cover letters, include photos and references when required, select appropriate type faces and paper colors, and much more. The author also inspires job seekers with scores of model résumés that apply to everyone from first-time job hunters to executives seeking to advance their careers.
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Robert Gerberg's Job Changing System: World's Fastest Way to Get a Better Job
Robert Jameson Gerberg
Manufacturer: Andrews Mcmeel Pub
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How to Do a Great Job& Go Home on Time (Books That Make You Better)
Fergus O'Connell
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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150 Best Jobs for a Better World
Laurence Shatkin
Manufacturer: JIST Works
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ASIN: 1593574762 |
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150 Best Jobs for a Better World helps readers discover job opportunities that allow them to improve the world through work, while enjoying many rewards including good pay. This groundbreaking resource helps job seekers, career changers, and new graduates explore careers in health, education, fine arts, public safety, social service, natural resources, and many more fields and industries. The careers are ranked according to pay, growth, and openings, so readers are able to see which jobs will allow them to do good for others, society, and themselves.
The jobs featured in this book are organized into 6 world-saving criteria, 3 economic factors, 11 eduction and training levels, 15 interest clusters, 6 personality types, and more. This book provides in-depth job descriptions that reveal information about each world-saving job's salary, growth through 2014, annual openings, skills needed, work enviroment, and more.
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Arco Your Resume: Key to a Better Job : Software User's Manual
Leonard Corwen
Manufacturer: ARCO
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ASIN: 0028613155 |
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BETTER BOOK.......2004-11-30
This is a BETTER BOOK for being hired because it has all the mighty details written by Canadian writer ROBERT P. DOWNE, such as what to write in your resume and how to access businesses that might not advertise the fact they are hiring, but if you show up at the right time . . . . There are many sample resumes which illustrate many different styles - change your resume depending on what position you are going for, says the author.
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Better Resumes for Computer Personnel (Barron's educational series)
Adele Lewis , and
Berl Hartman
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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Mondays Stink!
Carl Dierschow
Manufacturer: Imprint Books
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ASIN: 1591099080
Release Date: 2003-09-04 |
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Do you dread going to work every day? Has your career stalled? Have you lost all sense of satisfaction and challenge? Mondays Stink! engagingly describes 23 concrete ways in which you can revive your career and create the kind of work environment which energizes and excites you.
Customer Reviews:
This really helped me!.......2006-02-26
This book had a whole bunch of ideas that I could start work on immediately. I'm already feeling less stressed out at work.
And I love the cartoons!
The book and price stinks!.......2004-06-27
This book is a very disappointing read. It promises so much, especially from reading the 9 reviews thus far, but delivers so little and is far too overpriced for such a slim paperback. I have since learned that the book reviews so far are all from friends and family of the author and so very misleading. Well, at least here, the 'advice' within is taken--'seek out people who appreciate what you do!
You should first know that the author published this book himself, and in doing so, apparently didn't take his own advice of doing the best job one can, respecting the gifts other's have to offer to any professional endeavor, instead, taking short cuts, readily apparent even from the book's poorly designed cover and uninspired font usage. Not only has the author assumed he can do the work of a professional book designer, but he has substituted the work of a professional editor who could have caught the unnecessary typos, and improper sentence structure, etc. This is again evident in having had an amateur student cartoonist produce very poor cartoons that are somehow meant to help the book. (Yes, I know some people actaully like them!) There are plentiful needless "widows" and even paragraphs at the top of the page (above the cartoons) that are less than half a sentence long only to then carry on to the next page for the rest of the paragraph when there was sufficient room to simply move everything together to the following page.
Anyone in the publishing industry will see its shortcomings al too quickly. It is poorly presented and seems to have been quickly rushed for publish. It seems to be more in line with technical writing for papers, rather than something akin for a real book. Although it starts out well, the careless copywriting errors get very tiresome as one reads further into the book. By the end, I found I was quickly tiring of this book as the advice within comes off as shallow when it's so clearly not followed in producing the author's very own book! An apt (tale-tale) end for this book is it's own back cover's picture of the author, clearly crudely Photoshopped, and even the picture itself is not only blurred, but is poorly lit and dingy as well.
Let me give you just one example of the careless writing and perhaps suggest an alternative that could have been written, had this book either been better produced or at least properly proofed:
Actual sentence (Pg. 12):
"How should a manager communicate a decision he or she might personally disagree?"
Alternative:
"How should a manager communicate a decision with which he or she might personally disagree?"
Ok, so what about the content? The advice given is pretty basic and actually even trite in some spots. I will say there are about 10 pages within that are fairly decent as they at least contain questions that might help one examine one's own work situation, but rather than spend the time and money buying this book, if you really want to get your hands on it, simply read pages 49-54, in particular, if anything.
To conclude, I'll leave you with one of the basic observations within the book: "Important things are rarely easy"! Hmmm.
A great handbook!.......2004-04-01
"Mondays Stink" is truly a handbook for every employee in any industry. It is a practical yet thought provoking set of "secrets" that we can all use. I am tempted to hand it to any employee who feels ineffectual or any manager who is struggling or for that matter any leader wondering about the culture they want to drive in their company. Carl Dierschow has created something usable without all the fluff that often goes with these "how to" books. Read it, use it, it works!
- Vice-President of Human Resources in a Fortune 50 company.
Simple but inspiring.......2004-03-30
For anyone who feels overwhelmed by corporate life, here is a great little book with lots of practical tips and case studies on how to get more from your work, to discover yourself, and to find greater personal fulfillment.
The writer works for a large global company, which, like many others, has undergone significant change in the last few years.
In simple coaching style, he takes the reader through the many facets of work, its value to both employee and employer, and the ways in which conflict arises and can be resolved.
For me, the central message is that the reader should take responsibility for getting the most out of work, and for looking after himself.
Thanks!.......2004-01-26
This book is practically the only reason I've stayed in my current position with a national insurance company and been able to improve my performance from barely meeting expectations to far exceeding them since October when I first read Mondays Stink. My first impression of the book was that it gave me the ability to tolerate my job. I found myself referring to it as a resource, hung a few of the bookmarks around my cubicle and noticed people reading them, including my boss. The one that really hits people is the one about how I should surround myself with people who appreciate me (not a quote but that's the idea I got from it). Now I think that message to the readers who stop by my desk actually changes their approach to me and we are all happier. Imagine if they had read the whole book. I would really like more book marks so if my company of several hundred employees don't read the book, they will at least get the message by reading excerpts. If you sell those separately, I would like to buy more. They could become my own motivational posters for my benefit and visitors.....Thanks.
Martha S.
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- Excellent manual for novice and experienced salespeople
- Street smart saleman speaks from Heart about success.
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It's Your Deal: A Real World Guide to Selling Well and Sleeping Well
Joseph Sowerby
Manufacturer: Sage Creek Press
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A user friendly handbook for today's professional in any job involving sales; with real life wisdom and universal truths on how to achieve goals and create success, while keeping a balance between living and working for a living. Based on the author's years of sales experience, written in a candid, no nonsense manor it gives readers powerful tips that will enable anyone to master the science of selling.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent manual for novice and experienced salespeople.......1999-08-28
Joe Sowerby has culled from years of experience in at least two professions and numerous other expert's in the sales field to provide a valuable resource for the novice and the experienced professional. I am in the real estate finance field and agree with everything Joe presents in "It's Your Deal." His breezy style is easy and fast to read and I found it an excellent refresher course in what it takes to be a sucessful salesperson in any line of sales.
Street smart saleman speaks from Heart about success........1999-03-09
Very successful sales people know it can be simple things which trigger riches. This book can be all you need. I especially enjoyed discussions regarding consistent persistence, follow-up and wholeheartedly agree with need to just "ask for the order". This book offers little foo-foo and lots of practical advice.
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