TRU Library Book Displays

Begin Boldly provides a framework for making the kind of bold moves that will get your career off to its best start! Despite recognizing the benefits of making bold moves, most women-especially those early in their careers-struggle to harness the power of risk-taking. Christie Hunter Arscott equips readers to take risks using an actionable model built around three mindsets: a curious mindset, a courageous mindset, and an agile mindset. With a step-by-step method for taking risks, assessing rewards, and refining approaches, she gives women a flexible and repeatable framework to help them develop this critical career skill. Begin Boldly inspires women to take chances on themselves and turns risk-taking into an enlightening and empowering antidote for self-doubt.

Launch Your Career will help students explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by teaching them how to create 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 advantages.

This book examines and expands understanding and career development competencies for diverse purposes and audiences as well as highlights key areas to consider to enhance job satisfaction within organizations. Career development and job satisfaction are important issues for organizations. It is the evolutional process an individual experiences to advance their occupational status, deciding to align personal needs and wants to that of their career advancement opportunities. The end result of successful career development and job satisfaction practices will result in both individuals and organizations to better adapt and successfully navigate a competitive business and organizational climate while equipping them to face a promising future.

Considering career development in the current and future work landscape, this book explores a leading-edge framework for careers, drawing on design thinking framework 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. 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.

Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier— Young Professionals edition continues the journey in the SIWIKE movement. With topics like job interviews and salary negotiations, personal finance, essential life skills, self-care and much more, this book will help you maximize your potential to reach new heights. Through clear language and inspiring stories, the authors break down experiences from within their respective professions and share life-accelerating tips, strategies and information that will truly help you live your best life.

The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works--who has it, where it hides, and how it's used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success. Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them while playing by a set of rules they never agreed to or were ever trained for. In this book, Francine Parham shares her knowledge as a Black woman and a former global executive of two major corporations on how to move up in the workplace while maintaining a sense of sanity.

This guide aims to give young people all the keys to build effective strategies for their job searches and successfully find jobs. The guide focuses on optimal use of digital tools (websites, applications, social networks) as well as how to successfully integrate into the new place of work.

Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career. Readers will learn how to: Set a vision, strategy, and plan for their careers. Learn who they are, what they offer, and how to tell their stories. Seek and act on feedback to guide their paths. Prepare and practice for the best outcomes. Enlist help and support from others. Effective women leaders inspire innovation, sustain profitability, manage risk, and create environments for inclusion and diversity to increase. Chock full of strategies, stories, and practical skills, this book will hasten a woman's progress and impact as a professional woman and liberate her to excel in her career on her own terms.

Clocking Out gives readers a new way to think about their careers and delivers practical advice to first assess and consolidate individual power then make thoughtful, meaningful changes and choices for a successful transition. Ten fascinating stories bring to life the key components of effective career transition - choice, mindset, agility, and trust - and highlight how each interplay during a career change.

Law school is only the first step towards a fulfilling career, as it only teaches law students how to think like lawyers. Without being provided a roadmap for how to maintain a satisfying and successful career, many recent law graduates find themselves feeling stuck, unsatisfied, and unable to better their career. This book offers guidance and models for any legal career transformation, even if it means starting over. You will learn how to assess where you are, determine what needs to change to get where you want to be and create a plan to do so. Every situation has its a solution, and you will learn how to find yours.

Designing an Anthropology Career provides undergraduates, graduate students and career changers with the tools they need to identify their professional goals and follow through on them. Part I establishes a framework for how to design -- or update -- a career in anthropology or related fields. The authors discuss how social science is needed now more than ever and offer ideas for how to find employment in many different realms. Part II contains a series of professional development exercises to help workbook users articulate their personal and professional histories, special abilities and career goals.

A reflective guide for all those studying for the range of professional disciplines within the area of children and families. This book provides students and practitioners with opportunities to reflect upon work-based placement challenges and solutions within a variety of settings, supporting employability and the development of a professional identity. Practical and practice-based, it addresses issues of self-confidence, voice and agency, resilience and self-care, relationships and partnerships, risk assessments and reflective practice, all within the context of children and families. Chapters take a supportive and reflective approach, including clear objectives, case studies, critical questions and spotlights on new debates, helping to build essential skills and promoting a clear sense of self as individuals transition from student to professional.

The continuous wave of digital disruptions is demanding something new from each of us, whether you work for a large corporation or a small business, own a startup, or are a recent graduate looking to break into the industry. Your ability to think beyond what's possible and solve problems with a different lens is the secret sauce that will set you apart-and increase your uniqueness in the market. Becoming a Digital Unicorn is your personal pocketbook masterclass, providing you with a practical, step-by-step approach to reinvent yourself and secure your future by cultivating your unique mindset, purpose, gifts, and the digital skills needed to thrive in this rapidly changing economy. Today's needs are great with no shortage of problems to solve-and the digital universe is wide open.

Today, nursing professionals across the globe and at each stage in their career consistently ask how to navigate, grow, and expand their careers; change their career trajectories; and develop, hone, and promote their nursing identities. Nurses are focused on career-development and management areas that are far beyond writing a resumé or curriculum vitae. They are looking for career resources that apply to the many roles and challenges they face at all points and phases of their career. This book provides nurses with a unique and distinct perspective to develop and manage their careers from beginning to end. With timely and relevant topics, strategies, tips, and examples, the author, helps nurses define their personal career trajectory no matter what point they are in their journey.