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For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work)
Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Binding: Paperback

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This brief and practical text is a perfect supplement for program planning and evaluation courses. Program planning, grant writing and program evaluation are discussed, with emphasis on the inter-relationship between these components and how each component emphasizes the others. Readers will learn the development and the implementation of grant proposals, program evaluation plans, data collection and analysis, and report writing.

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Executives and senior managers are frequently called upon to make presentations. It can be a very important function of their work, and yet most executives have no training whatsoever in making presentations. Herman Holtz, an author of many business/professional how-to books, now shows executives how to give presentations like pros and sell their messages in any situation. It offers tips, techniques, and discusses choosing the type of presentation that will work best for you. Some of the specific presentation skills and enhancements that are covered include: the use of audio-visual aids, the most suitable presentation language for a particular situation, getting the message across, image making, the use of humor, and more.

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The most specialized job search book ever written-for one of the world's most desirable places to work. For job-hunting techies Microsoft is Mecca, Oz, the Promised Land. Its turnover rate is virtually nil. Its stock option plan has made many an employee fabulously rich. All making Microsoft one of the world's hardest places at which to land a job. Until now. This insider-track guide, by an eminent Silicon Valley career journalist, reveals what kinds of jobs are available (non-technical as well as technical) and what types of people succeed in Microsoft's demanding corporate culture. It also offers a candid look at the company's recruitment quirks and its notoriously grueling interview processes. Here too is a wealth of preparation material, including lessons learned from past hiring practices, online and off-line resume samples, and key URLs to consult before applying. Everyone interested in the glamour, the challenge, or "merely" the financial bounty of working at one of Microsoft's international locations will seize this book!

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Inaccurate and not helpful.......2001-03-21

Take it from someone on the inside, this book is not going to help you. I picked up the book while killing time at a bookstore and was amazed at the bad advice. Some of the sample questions were outright illegal ("Do you own a computer?" -- If I asked this, the HR department would have a fit!), while others were industry standard ("Tell me about a time when you had a problem in a group and how you solved it.")

You can get similar information online for free, and it will probably be better quality.

Don't waste your money.......2000-08-02

There is nothing in this book that you can't get from any free internet site on job search and interview help. I have interviewed microsoft and know of others who have interviewed Microsoft, some work there some don't. Nothing in the book helped my experience with MSFT and nothig will help anyone else either. If you buy this book you will be wasting your money. As far as the interview with Microsoft it can be said in one sentence. BE YOURSELF. If they like you they hire you if they don't they won't. It's mostley a beauty pagent and each set of interviewer will have his/her notion of who they want to hire. DON'T WAST YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK.

Two BIG Reasons To Read This Book!.......2000-04-21

So many people are in awe of Microsoft (MS) that, on one level, this book fulfills the basic purpose of telling the reader what the rudiments are of getting a job there. Sure, if you're planning to apply for the job of personal assistant to Bill Gates or establish yourself as the imminent software guru who's going to develop the MS strategic thrust for 2005 -- then this book may be too basic. But, keeping in mind that MS employs lots and LOTS of people, the book is a true getting-started guide which can help someone honestly considering how to get a job at MS -- at multiple levels of the company. (Despite the "Unofficial" word in the book's title, Smith had to have had some critical sources who really KNOW how MS works).

Moreover, there's a second reason why this book clicks. So many people admire the company and list it on their most-favored list (and invest in it!), that here's a whole new way to look at the company. By reading about how the employment game works at MS, one can perhaps glean how it is that the company competes and performs. Which makes the book valuable even if you're planning to continue working in automotives or clothing sales.

For most people, Microsoft is now a monolith. Smith sought to unlock the basics of how MS hires people. In the main, she succeeds. (There's also a wealth of addresses and links for MS worldwide!)

Will everyone who reads this book and applies for a job at MS get hired there? Probably not. Will everyone who reads this book and applies for a job at MS have a better shot at getting employed? Yes.

This is how we should be thinking for the 21st Century.......2000-04-19

I know people who apply at Microsft obviously have top notch skills. After reading this book, I realized top notch does not mean knowing everything (which is basically what everyone thinks). If I'm good at what I do, I can consider my skills top notch as well. This book gave me the confidence that I am good at what I do and how to capture that in my resume and my interviewing skills. It's this approach that should be adopted all over. This book helps you to focus your job search better, or focus what you want to do for a particular company like Microsoft.

And now as a hiring manager, I found the chapters on behavorial interviewing extremely useful. The tips showed me how to probe more effectively the skills my candidates are good at and how they use them; how they apply their ideas and how they think; and that it's okay to have weaknesses as long as they know what they are and how to manage them.

If you are looking to interview, go on interviews or change the way your company thinks in interviewing, I would highly recommend you buy this book. The fellow who called this book stupid sounds like he's got a chip on his shoulder. I found his review to be well...unhelpful.

This book delivers!.......2000-04-18

Author and educator Rebecca Smith's newest book cuts right to the quick. The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Job at Microsoft doesn't mince words. Nor is it filled with fluff. In its tight, concise 192 pages it opens the doors of Microsoft's hiring practices as no other book or reference ever has.

All of the book's ten chapters and numerous appendices are significant, insightful and well documented. Readers will want to read and re-read the entire book. However, two chapters need reviewing over and over again: Preparing for Microsoft's Infamous Interviews and Typical Microsoft Interview Questions are chock full of heady, thought-provoking material culled from actual events and actual interviews at Microsoft.

McGraw-Hill's editor's report states, "...the book looks at the strategies Microsoft employs to draw the best available people to the company and keep them there for the long term and what these [strategies] mean to the potential job seekers." The greater benefit of The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Job at Microsoft is that it transcends the Microsoft workplace. While the book's focus is absolutely on Microsoft under Smith's microscopic eye, Rebecca Smith goes deeply into the process of the behavioral interview and how Microsoft recruiters use it. Since other companies are adopting this Microsoft hiring model on a daily basis, this book is a must read for anyone interested in working for a high tech - high energy, growth company. Smith's newest book is a true eye-opener. It contains new and highly relevant information and references. If you are looking for a Microsoft recruiter in Morocco, Slovenia or Denmark you'll find the email address and complete contact information in this book. Smith also includes a refresher course on the best ways to get your resume in the right hands at Microsoft, how to get your resume read, and how to keep your qualifications at the top of Microsoft's call list.

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The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Job at Microsoft
Rebecca Smith
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFZPLA

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This book is an designed to be a easy tool to read and utilize on a daily basis for those who want to live a fail proof life. This book encompasses five areas to help begin your journey to Achieving the life you always wanted. The five areas are as follows: Let Go of Your Past Renew Your Mind Set Goals To Accomplish Give Back SHARE Your Testimony By examining these five Keys in your life, you will be well on your way of achieving the life you deserve.

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What was the "battle in Seattle" over trade all about?
You may know...but do your students?

With John Rothgeb's concise text U.S. Trade Policy: Balancing Economic Dreams and Political Realities, your students will learn about international trade, the political tensions it rouses, and its historical roots. Rothgeb carefully traces the forces that affect U.S. trade policy's development and implementation, including:
* the strategic and competitive international arena
* policymakers' views on the value of trade
* the influence of special interest groups
* the impact of institutional rivalries

Supplement your foreign and economic policy course with a balanced discussion of the enormous changes spurred by the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the Bretton Woods system, and the GATT, to the controversy surrounding current trade relations withteh European Union and China.

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Modeling the obvious.......2004-02-09

This book is a typical work of American political science: it removes most things that make politics interesting, substituting for them dry and ponderous "empirical study" that seldom does more than model what is already obvious, or is even trite or banal. The author thus presents as "insights" born of statistical analysis what are mostly and merely basic, journalistic observations that one might find in any newspaper discussion of trade policy. Neither policymakers nor students with a serious interest in trade policy will find this book of much use.

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