Practical Career Advice for a Turbulent Working World is a unique and practical collection of fifty-six inspiring short essays on how to successfully navigate a career through todays turbulent workplace; and find peace, some sense of comfort and contentment in the process! Drawing on the inspiring words of many of the worlds most preeminent authors, lecturers and business leaders, this book provides you practical career management and job search advice. But more importantly, it also provides a much-needed dose of humanity, compassion and understanding to the sometimes cold, impersonal and grueling career management and job search processes replete in todays turbulent work place. This book can serve as a career planning and reference guide with specific essays pertinent to your unique career situation, or as an overall idea and inspiration source that can change your career and your life. Essay subjects include; Finding Peace through Career Turbulence Can Optimism be Learned? Be Practical, or Pursue your Passion? The Art of Career Wisdom First Things First When Downsized and many more!

This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields, it serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for specialists, professionals and post-graduate students in the careers field to study. This book allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs influencing the adaptation, adaptivity, adaptability and employability of individuals in a turbulent, uncertain and chaotic work world. In addition, it offers the practising professional new perspectives of career constructs and measures to consider in career counseling and guidance for the contemporary career.

Based on extensive market research from the U.S. Department of Labor, this classic job information resource offers easy-to-read descriptions regarding job skills, education requirements, advancement opportunities, and salary data. Also contains a special section on growth projections for the 500 largest jobs through the year 2005.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

One of today's best career books addressing employment issues and skills evaluations.