How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records
by Frank Broughton
from Grove Press
Construction Management JumpStart
by Barbara J. Jackson
from Sybex
Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively
Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core information you need, whether you're considering a new career or expanding your responsibilities:
- Understanding the functions of construction management
- Understanding the design and construction process
- Working with contracts documents
- Estimating project costs
- Administering contracts
- Managing the job site
- Creating and maintaining a project schedule
- Measuring project performance
- Controlling quality
- Ensuring project safety
Job Hunting Online: A Guide to Using Job Listings, Message Boards, Research Sites, the Underweb, Counseling, Networking Self-Assessment Tools, Niche Sties (Job Hunting on the Internet (Online))
by Mark Emery Bolles
from Ten Speed Press
The Internet can be an invaluable tool in any job hunt--but only when you know how to use it. Cowritten by career guru Richard Nelson Bolles and his son, nontraditional career expert Mark Emery Bolles, JOB-HUNTING ONLINE helps job seekers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available on the Internet to find the most useful sites and avoid common pitfalls. Filled with hundreds of annotated website recommendations and newly reorganized to follow the action steps of a successful job hunt, this time-saving desktop guide is essential to an effective online job search.
The IT Career Builder's Toolkit
by Matthew Moran
from Cisco Press
Your complete guide to building your information technology career in any economy
The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit features market-focused skills and proven methods you can use to jump-start and advance your career. While other books cover just the mechanics of preparing your résumé, writing a cover letter, and interviewing, this book provides all that plus additional insight from IT career development expert, Matt Moran, to help you plan and create a rewarding IT career over the long term.
The toolkit approach allows you to use this book to suit your unique needs:
- Are you new to the IT field? Benefit by reading the book cover to cover.
- Just need to fine-tune your IT career? Choose a topic and dive in.
Understand and prepare for the various and changing factors that affect your career in both positive and negative ways. Learn how to
- Present the value of your technical skills in the job market
- Position yourself as the primary commodity of your career
- Remove the guesswork out of job searches
- Highlight on-the-job skills and gain meaningful professional exposure
The companion CD-ROM includes career management tools such as résumé and cover letter templates, forms to track important contacts, and self-assessment tools. Start or further your consulting career with sample proposals, opportunity tracking forms, and a time-tracking and billing database. Financial tools, including budget and cash-flow summary worksheets, help you gain financial well-being. Use the Value-Added Technologist presentation to gain a clear understanding of the career-building process and how to use the toolkit to build a dynamic career.
Most of all, have fun! Every year, people advance along the path to career stardom. Let Matt help you to be one of them through his career philosophy “Do not accept mediocrity as a career objective–demand more of yourself.”
“I want you to see the [toolkit] techniques as one more set of skills to adopt in your overall career development program. They are skills, just like your technical skills, that you will use daily during your career. Just as you adopt new technical skills, use the toolkit to define those soft skills that you must learn and put to use. The result will be a more well-rounded and complete professional skill-set.”
~ Matthew Moran, from the Introduction
Companion CD-ROM
The CD-ROM contains valuable tools, forms, spreadsheets, and documents that work with the Toolkit to help you master key areas of your career development.
MCSE Windows 2000 Server Study Guide (EXAM 70-215) (Book/CD-ROM)
by Inc. Syngress Media
from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Windows 2000 advantage includes decreased cost of ownership through improved directory services, increased security, better integration with database and development tools, and vastly expanded network and /Internet/Web capabilities. Explains how to optimize and maintain the Active Directory, plan the active directory namespace, develop the organization and implementation of a domain, and manage Active Directory replication. Visually maps complicated processes wth frequent screen shots to help build familiarity with the new functions. CD-RO contains more than 300 practice questions on TEST YOURSELF Personal Testing Center software along with lings to the chapter in the book for review.
Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry (New Riders Games)
by Marc Mencher
from New Riders Games
Have you dreamed of obtaining a game industry job? Get in the Game will help you achieve this! This friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to prepare yourself for a game industry career. With insights from over a dozen industry experts, it's the only guide you will need for training yourself then finding a game industry job. Discover how to research, meet the right industry people, access the unadvertised job market, sell yourself, create the perfect demo, beat the competition, handle interviews, and negotiate a salary package. This book will show you how to tailor your job search, answer tough interview questions, transition into the game industry from other careers, hone essential resume writing skills and networking skills.
It's a crash course on everything you need to know about the game industry! You will learn about the following careers;
- Game Designer
- Game Programming
- Game Artist
- Game Production
eCommerce: Formulation of Strategy
by Robert Plant
from Prentice Hall PTR
Human Resources JumpStart
by Anne Bogardus
from Sybex
Launch Your Human Resources Career—Quickly and Effectively
Written by an experienced HR specialist, Human Resources JumpStart provides all the core information you need to approach a human resources career with confidence:
- Introduction to the essential employment laws
- Staffing requirements
- Compensation and benefits
- Occupational health and safety
- Employee relations
- Employee communications
- Training and development
- Performance management
- Maintaining employee records
- Introduction to strategic management in HR
Conducting the Programmer Job Interview: The IT Manager Guide with Java, J2EE, C, C++, UNIX, PHP and Oracle interview questions! (IT Job Interview series)
by Janet Burleson
from Rampant Techpress
Complete Idiot's Guide to a Career in Computer Programming
by Jesse Liberty
from Alpha
Today there is a tremendous demand for professional programmers. This is the single most lucrative and rewarding career path available to the self-taught and self-motivated, and this book tells you everything you need to know to get started. Take this road map and completely understand the work environment, alternative career paths, and the skills needed to be a professional computer programmer. Find out about the really important stuff, too: salary ranges, paths of self and assisted training, interview preparation, obtaining job experience, and how to network for job advancement. The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Career in Computer Programming puts you in control.
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