eBooks: Careers

Is it possible to chase your dreams in the face of rejection and self-doubt? CEO of College Magazine Amanda Nachman is here to share: "You are more qualified than you realize." There was a time when Amanda Nachman didn't believe in herself. It wasn't until she cast aside her soul-sucking 9-5 job that she was able to discover a life of true purpose. In #Qualified: You Are More Impressive Than You Realize, Amanda shares her journey from working a job she hated to transforming her side hustle, College Magazine, into her main hustle. The key was uncovering her passion, rather than settling into the first hamster wheel of employment she could find. Today, Amanda is the CEO and publisher of College Magazine, reaching 9 million students across 200 college campuses

Career development is no longer a case of climbing the corporate ladder The world of work has changed dramatically in the last decade and so has our expectations. Changing jobs, roles, locations, sectors, and careers is becoming the new normal. Furthermore, the shift to remote working due to the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the working world and for many, has led to reflection and a desire for a career change. This book will help you: Set career development objectives; Recognise your achievements to date; Build upon your strengths; and Identify personal and professional development opportunities. The book includes exercises and activities to help you understand what is important to you in a job and how to attain your career goals The author outlines the role of mentoring in career development, how to build your personal brand, present yourself professionally online and in person, and find the resources you need to achieve your development goals. The book also provides a practical example of a career development path in the cyber security sector.

This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they're interested in by using the author's proven Career Launch Method. Did you know only 20 percent of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80 percent of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. This book will teach you how to tap into that 80 percent!   O'Keefe, in partnership with the Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven eight-step Career Launch Method that will help any student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship building by teaching all the practical microsteps needed to succeed. And O'Keefe teaches readers how to "play the student card," turning inexperience and eagerness to learn into a powerful advantage.   Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, nonprofits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world.    The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed tool for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's return on investment.

Considering career development in the current and future work landscape, this book explores a leading-edge framework for careers, drawing on design thinking to apply career planning to a wide range of individual contexts. The book encompasses diverse stakeholders at various stages of the career process, including career seekers, employers, trainers and educators to demonstrate the creation and flow of value for effective careers in a fast-moving and dynamically altering labour market.  Using a design thinking framework, Ann M. Brewer presents compelling evidence of the need for career strategising to assist all workers in achieving their career aspirations and goals. This hands-on approach addresses the emotional and cognitive investment of career thinking and planning from an early career stage to a late career stage perspective, while the key emphasis on prototyping provides an opportunity to change the way careers are created.  This far-reaching, well-rounded, highly creative, solutions-oriented framework is a useful resource for professionals and students considering future career progression within any work context, and researchers of employability, career management and career thinking.

There are many paths to a fulfilling dental career with a competitive salary and benefits as well as a satisfying work-life balance. Today's dentists can excel in many fields outside of private practice—but only if you know what to look for. First, this guide refreshes the reader about best practices for navigating online job boards, writing standout application materials, and nailing an interview. Then the book explores the many rewarding fields outside of private practice, including community health, global health, academia, uniformed services, and large group practice. Finally, a chapter about emerging markets highlights other career sectors expected to see growth in the near future. Many chapters feature "spotlight" sections written by dentists with real-world experience sharing their insider knowledge of these fields. Whether you are a recent graduate or an established professional considering a mid-career transition, this book is a must-read to learn the ins and outs of these exciting new opportunities. The future is yours to make.

The essential theme of the book is "career" as a fluid process. A career is not stagnant or simply a "job." A career is a process that needs to be nurtured, constantly grown, and managed. A career is an opportunity for nurses to find their voice and use it to promote both the individual and professional impact of their expertise. A career should be challenging, always giving way to more learning and mentoring opportunities. A career has the uniqueness of being a global concept. The intricacies of career development and management across the globe cannot be overlooked. A career journey ebbs and flows, one of the great characteristics of a professional nursing career. There are always options to consider on one's career path. There are always opportunities to gain experience and expertise in diverse areas, often never considered, by a professional nurse. The second edition of Take Charge of Your Nursing Career will provide a unique and distinct perspective on career development and management for a nurse's complete career journey. The book covers timely and relevant topics, tips, strategies, and examples for professional nurses to use to develop and manage their careers from beginning to end. The topics discussed in the book are ones that professional nurses at all points on their career path are asking about and dealing with in their careers today and for their future. This "one stop shop" approach provides the professional nurse with a user-friendly book that can be referenced throughout their career, while also providing resources and applicable websites that they can access when they are needed as they create their personal career trajectory. Unique to this time, globally, as the Covid-19 pandemic, continues to impact our daily lives, career development and management has taken on even more importance to nursing professionals. New graduates are entering a nursing workforce where expectations are expanded and challenging. Many more experienced nurses have changed roles. Many nurses have seen their positions eliminated and are expected to change with the times, but without having the education or "skill set" and a "how to" approach to make those changes.

From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort's experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services.   Mizrahi observed and interviewed these physicians in six timeframes ending in 2016. Beginning with medical school in the mid-1970s, these physicians reveal the myriad fluctuations and uncertainties in their professional practice, working conditions, collegial relationships, and patient interactions. In their own words, they provide a "view from the front lines" both in academic and community settings. They disclose the satisfactions and strains in coping with macro policies enacted by government and insurance companies over their career trajectory.   They describe their residency in internal medicine in a large southern urban medical center as a "siege mentality" which lessened as they began their careers, in Getting Rid of Patients, the title of Mizrahi's first book (1986). As these doctors moved on in their professional lives more of their experiences were discussed in terms of dissatisfaction with financial remuneration, emotional gratification, and intellectual fulfillment. Such moments of career frustration, however, were also interspersed with moments of satisfaction at different stages of their medical careers. Particularly revealing was whether they were optimistic about the future at each stage of their career and whether they would recommend a medical career to their children. Mizrahi's subjects also divulge their private feelings of disillusionment and fear of failure given the malpractice epidemic and lawsuits threatened or actually brought against so many doctors. Mizrahi's work, covering almost fifty years, provides rarely viewed insights into the lives of physicians over a professional life span.

This volume explores all levels of the nursing profession, to give students and adult job-seekers real-world information about their many career paths.