Aimed at workers 50+ looking for a new job - whether they've been laid off or taken early retirement, need supplemental income, or want to pursue an encore career - this is the definitive guide to finding lasting financial security, and personal and professional fulfillment. Whether readers are interested in trying jobs they've long dreamed of doing, or just want something with flexible hours that brings in a little income, this book covers all the...

With 100 best jobs lists and 250 job descriptions, 150 Best Jobs for Your Skills, 2nd Ed helps readers identify their best skills and then connect them to the best jobs. A self-assessment zeroes in on your three best career skills. The skills used in the book represent the most important ones in today s economy: 1) communication, 2) computer programming, 3) equipment use/maintenance, 4) equipment/technology analysis, 5) management, 6) mathematics,

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Ehrenreich enters the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a job--undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs, networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected....

Are you still looking for that perfect job six months after graduating from college? Are you also still firing off hundreds of resumes from your parents' house with little or no results? Then you need the real-world advice of executive recruiter John Henry Weiss. In Welcome to the Real World, Weiss provides much-needed guidance to recent college graduates seeking their first jobs in the real world of work. Weiss explains that companies do not hire...

Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their PhD. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help job seekers...

The host of the Sportsman Channel's "Meat Eater" presents facts about the natural world and history of hunting while also tracing his evolution as a sportsman, exploring such topics as Manifest Destiny, the ethics of killing, and humanity's responsibility toward prey.

The latest edition of this ground-breaking guide offers seasoned advice to ex-offenders facing numerous barriers to employment. Indeed, finding a good job is the number one challenge facing hundreds of ex-offenders re-entering the Free World each day.

Offers advice on preparing for a career in law enforcements; provides overviews of positions at the local, state, and federal level as well as other related areas of work; and explores the job outlook in the field.

"First published in book form in 1849, Life in the Far West describes the amazing true adventures of George Frederick Ruxton as he forges a path through the yet-untamed wilderness of a young America, seeing firsthand the relationships between the US Army and Comanche Indians and the incredible lifestyles of Colorado mountain men. With a literary style that makes it feel more like a novel than the true account it is, Life in the Far West is the compelling...