A slightly different guide to master the challenges of job-search, to retain a happy life and to stay confident! & ;& ;Overwhelmed by the challenges of looking for a job? Demonstrating usual and unusual steps on the way to landing your desired job, this book guides you through the process and at the same time shows you that it is very important to understand that YOU are the most important person in the world.& ;Based on a true story, this book explains how to start the job-search game with seriously analyzing yourself, then getting the information you need and actively reaching out to employers, even contacting managers directly.& ;Moreover, you will find out that every situation in your life offers an opportunity. Realizing this will keep you positive and confident. You will see that by applying this approach and knowing the rules of the job-search game, even unemployment could turn out to be an opportunity!& ;& ;A practical and also inspirational easy-to-read self-help guide that also offers the reader a behind-the-scene look at the hiring process in the corporate world.

Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and responses to their problems. Direct evidence of the impact of unemployment drawn from extensive personal biographies complements economic and statistical analysis.

This books arises from the observation that mainstream psychology, especially work and organisational psychology (WOP), suffers from critical limitations in its attempts to deal with the complexities of work as a cultural phenomenon. We can only mention a few examples here. In the WOP field, especially in Anglo- Saxon tradition, work experiences are seen through the lenses of traditional behavioural approaches, whereas culture is seen as a ‘software of the mind’, to use a popular definition found in this field (based on cross-cultural mainstream psychology). ‘Competences’, to take another example, are thought of as something that do or do not people have inside them. Suffering, like stress (a common work-based problem of our times), is considered to be dependent on a person’s personality, perceptions or as a set of behaviours triggered by facing an ‘objective’ environment. Even meaning-making process can be found to be defined from a WOP mainstream point of view: meanings are ‘social cognitions’ shared by people by means of unidirectional socialisation processes. Therefore, the goal of this book is to deliver to the reader a new and challenging theoretical and methodological tool box, inspired by insights developed from a broad cultural psychological perspective. Its focus is on the consideration of work and organisations based on core concepts developed inside cultural psychology. Therefore, it is designed to discuss potential extensions of these concepts to work psychology.

This book contains contributions from the conference Salzburger Anstosse 2010 that was devoted to the multidisciplinary exploration of resilience and unemployment. Resilience is a universal phenomenon, albeit it is differentially distributed within the human species in terms of its modes of expression and effects. One might refer to it as a fundamental element in the adaptive survival make-up of persons and social groups. The book contains a range of illustrations of resilient adaptation in the context of unemployment, one of the fundamental problems of our time. (Series: Perspectives on Social Ethics - Vol. 4)

When Kenneth F. Wassell discovered his days on the job were numbered, he immediately began searching for alternatives. But like so many others, he searched for months without landing a single interview. As time went on, the pressure mounted to pay the bills - especially after friends began looking at him as a charity case. He managed to get through the rough period, and he wrote this book to help others struggling with unemployment. Learn how to: - overcome the depression that often comes with losing a job; - manage finances while unemployed; - write cover letters and resumes that get noticed; - network with friends and colleagues to find opportunities. By applying the strategies that worked for the author, you'll find that unemployment is a season with a beginning and an end - and you can get through it as long as you don't give up on finding your next job. Get advice from someone who has been through the trials and tribulations of being unemployed, and find out how to keep your life intact until you find a new position in Surviving Unemployment.

Richie was the real deal. He knew how to work a corner. Yet, his book isnt a run-of-the-mill boxing story. Its a record of a time when a guy from the streets would fi nd a place like Mack Lewiss in Baltimore, not to learn a sport, but to survive. The fact that he spent time in two of the toughest gyms in America, Mr. Macks place and Johnny Toccos in Vegas, gives him a unique angle on the game. He knew the greats. Oh yeah. And he could write as well as he could throw a left hook. Gene Kilroy, trusted confidante and business manager for Muhammad Ali My friend John White digs deep into the typewritten reminiscences of a troubled man, Richie Westcott, and pulls forth a story much richer than any of us who knew him could ever have expected. Amazing Layla McCarter, Six-time world champion & female boxing pioneer I bought Richie a computer when I took over the gym. Of course, I had no idea he was turning out such a story. I really liked the guy. He worked hard to help the young fighters. Luis Tapia, highly successful boxing manager and trainer, and former owner of Johnny Toccos Ringside Gym