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The 5 Choices: The Practical Path to Extraordinary Productivity
by Kory Kogon
Citing the productivity challenges posed by today's high-demand, interrupted environments, a guide by three FranklinCovey leadership experts identifies five strategic choices that help professionals to establish top priorities, focus their mindsets and achieve important goals.
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Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Hired, and Rewarded at Work
by Jessica Kleiman
Shows anyone looking to land a new job, attract freelance assignments, stay essential in a current position, or get that coveted promotion by using public relations skills to achieve his or her goals. Be Your Own Best Publicist will teach you how to set a personal PR strategy that gets results, build key message points and deliver them with style, craft the perfect "pitch" for each situation, network and develop relationships that will help you get ahead, and use creativity to stand out from the competition.
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Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
by Chris Guillebeau
The best-selling author of The $100 Startup demonstrates how to enjoy greater career success and personal fulfillment by finding one's life calling, expanding his recommendations beyond the entrepreneurial sphere to outline an actionable method for rendering one's passions profitable.
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The Career Fitness Workbook: How to Find, Win & Hold Onto the Job of Your Dreams
by Peter Weddle
This guide provides an engaging way for job seekers to rethink their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and goals, and challenges and opportunities in the new world that has emerged after the "Great Recession." It compares the principles of developing a strong career to the practices of building a healthy body. Exercises and worksheets cover topics such as discovering individual talent, setting goals, nurturing the facets of a healthy career, how to define personal victories, and getting back on track.
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
by Jon Acuff
A consultant, public speaker and best-selling author describes how to make career changes and to avoid feeling trapped in the wrong job by changing the way workers view their skills, relationships and work ethics through the use of a “Career Savings Account.”
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Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace
by Carla A. Harris
Carla Harris, one of the most powerful and respected women in business and Chairperson of the National Women's Business Council, shares advice, tips, and strategies for surviving in any workplace environment. While climbing the corporate ladder, Harris had her own personal missteps and celebrated numerous victories. She vowed that when she reached senior management, and people came to her for advice, she would provide them with the tools and strategies honed by her experience. Expect to Win is an inspirational must-read for anyone seeking battle-tested tools to fulfilling their true potential and for fans of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In.
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Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life
by Karen Finerman
Wall Street investment banker Finerman offers advice to women on how to succeed at work, relationships and finance. She noticed numerous ways that she and her female colleagues sabotaged themselves both professionally and personally by failing to apply the same logic they used in other spheres of their lives. Covering three major topics (Career, Money, Love), Finerman's Rules serves up unvarnished advice about getting ahead in your career, overcoming failure, meeting your ideal mate, and navigating the challenges of work-life balance. She also offers the reader a crash course in taking control of her financial destiny.
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#Girlboss
by Sophia Amoruso
The founder of the Nasty Gal fashion e-tailer shares an irreverent manifesto for ambitious young women that explains how to channel personal passion and energy while overcoming insecurities, outlining straightforward advice on doing meaningful work and garnering recognition. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller. 150,000 first printing.
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Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success
by Adam M. Grant
An award-winning researcher and consultant explains how effective networking, influence and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers and givers that dramatically shape success rates, citing the essential roles of behind-the-scenes contributors to famous organizations while outlining a revolutionary approach to networking and productivity.
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Happy @ Work: 60 Simple Ways to Stay Engaged and Be Successful
by Jim Donovan
Even in a tight economy, job satisfaction isn’t a luxury; fulfilled, happy employees are productive, innovative, and loyal. And workplace fulfillment spills over into happier families and better communities. Jim Donovan, a small-business owner, consultant, and speaker, has worked with employees and employers for twenty-five years. In that time he has tested and honed these shift-producing strategies on everything from managing time, making decisions, and marking milestones to breaking patterns, bouncing back, and becoming exceptional. Each tip’s method and rationale are clearly explained. Real workplace vignettes demonstrate the benefits and results that can be gleaned from simple shifts and actions. These tools will empower you with the knowledge that no matter the circumstance, you can think, act, and feel in ways that create purpose, success, and, yes, happiness.
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HeadTrash! : Cleaning Out the Junk That Stands between You and Success
by Tish Squillaro
In this book, we refer to thought patterns and emotional tendencies that hinder your ability to respond to business issues in a productive and professional way as HeadTrash. Put another way, HeadTrash is the negative voice of your subconscious, engaging you in a deadly inner dialogue that only you hear, consciously or subconsciously, but which affects everything you say and do and everyone around you. HeadTrash is any pattern of self-defeating feelings and thoughts that leads you into trouble and keeps you stuck there. Learn to probe beyond symptoms to identify the forms of HeadTrash you need to address. This book will show you how to change your behavior and become a better leader--for yourself, your business, your employees, and your family
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How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work
by Megan Hustad
Based on the experiences of twenty- and thirty-somethings, as well as the advice of experts ranging from Andrew Carnegie and Emily Post to Napoleon Hill, Helen Gurley Brown, and Stephen Covey, a hip and practical guide explains how to negotiate the often difficult ins and outs of office life with wise and whimsical advice on how to move up in the world.
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I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know
by Kate White
As a follow up to her bestselling Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead...but Gutsy Girls Do, author and Cosmo magazine editor-in-chief Kate White is back with a wealth of no-nonsense advice for working women of all ages and professional levels. Including behind-the-scenes stories and unique perspectives (including her own), White aims to help women get the most out of their careers. She offers advice on topics that range from tangible (how to get a job) to less so (how to read work situations, or develop a "golden gut") as well as on special situations (how to handle maternity leave). Though not all of her tips will appeal to everyone, they are on the whole "useful and delightfully no-nonsense," says Kirkus Reviews.
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
by David Zweig
A full-length reference based on the author's Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?" recognizes the essential contributions of behind-the-scenes workers to reveal what motivates them, how they define success and their unknown but pivotal roles in high-profile innovations.
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
In this bestselling book, Facebook chief operating officer and influential businesswoman Sheryl Sandberg urges women to take risks and seek new challenges in order to find work that they can love and engage in passionately. Though she's clearly done her research, she's also included plenty of candid anecdotes from her own life. Women -- whether or not they have as privileged a background or illustrious a career as Sandberg's -- will hopefully find much to relate to, think about, be inspired by, and act on.
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The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great
by Rick Smith
The co-author of the best-selling The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Success reveals how he transformed an unfulfilling career into one that was more rewarding, sharing the stories of others who have escaped from humdrum jobs by pursuing their passions, enlisting teams, and minimizing risks.
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Personality Style at Work: The Secret to Working with (Almost) Anyone
by Kate Ward
Make every workplace interaction positive and productive. Personality Style at Work outlines the four principal personality styles--Direct, Spirited, Considerate and Systematic. It explains how to determine which one describes you and shows how to use this knowledge to interact more successfully with others.
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Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success
by Dan Schawbel
Draws on proprietary research and interviews with leading business experts to counsel young professionals on how to land a desirable job and promote oneself by forging strategic perceptions, outlining step-by-step methods for creating unique personal brands that reflect the qualities that managers value.
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The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career
by Jack Welch
The business titans and bestselling authors of Winning return with a modern, essential guide for everyone in business today—and tomorrow—that explores the most pressing challenges related to creating winning strategies, leading and managing others, and building a thriving career. Going beyond theories, concepts, and ideologies, they tackle the real stuff of work today. When you get down to it, they argue, winning in business is all about mastering the gritty, inescapable, make-or-break, real-life dilemmas that define the new economy, the old economy, and everything in between. Coupled with Jack’s years of iconic leadership and Suzy’s insights as former editor of the Harvard Business Review, their new database of knowledge infuses The Real Life MBA with fresh, relevant stories and equally powerful solutions that every manager at any level can use right now.
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Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success
by Rick Newman
An incisive analysis of nine qualities that have enabled 12 noted leaders, innovators and other role models to rebound after career setbacks includes portraits of chef Thomas Keller, character actor John Ratzenberger and Yankee Joe Torre.
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Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead
by Nancy Ancowitz
Shows introverts how to leverage their quiet skills and talk about themselves and their businesses, ideas, and accomplishments confidently and with minimal stress to get the recognition they deserve, in a book that includes exercises, case studies, and interviews with Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, and more.
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Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success
by G. Richard Shell
A Wharton School professor and award-winning author helps readers discard their old definitions of success, particularly ones promoted by outside influences, and create new ones based on their own unique talents, values, personalities and motivations.
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The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
by Reid Hoffman
The one thing anyone can count on is that change is inevitable in life. This is as true of a career as it is a personal life, and the most successful are those who can adapt to new challenges and changes. In The Start-Up of You, authors Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha suggest that the skills that will serve you and your career best are those that serve new businesses best: the abilities to innovate, to be self-reliant, and to network. And investing in yourself is imperative. Change is inevitable, but Hoffman and Casnocha will help you "not only survive professionally in times of uncertainty but stand out from the pack and flourish" (Publishers Weekly).
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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace
by Karie Willyerd
In a resource filled with advice, anecdotes, insights and recommendations, two established experts, and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning, offer evidence-based guidance and five practices to help readers start, enhance and lengthen their careers by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment.
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Think and Grow Digital: What the Net Generation Needs to Know to Survive and Thrive in Any Organization
by Joris Merks-Benjaminsen
Think and Grow Digital teaches young talents how to align with company "seniors" without giving up their ideals. The author explains how readers can help companies focus on moon shots: things really worth going for that help both the company and the world. Readers learn how to systematically create their own job roles, drive their personal growth engine, and connect effectively with people allowing them to do meaningful work with great rewards.
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Who Says It's a Man's World: The Girls' Guide to Corporate Domination
by Emily Bennington
For the first time in U.S. history, women form the majority of the workforce, filling more managerial positions than their male counterparts. Today's women are primed to take over the corporate world - if they don't stumble on the way up. Packed with insights from extraordinary women who have climbed the corporate ladder, this guide helps women navigate the rocky path from cubicle to executive suite. This ultra-practical guide based on the latest research on women in the workplace offers an ideal "Success Profile" along with the measurable action steps needed to excel in each of five reputation-enhancing areas: personal development, social skills, effectiveness, team building, and leadership.
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What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
Thoroughly revised, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, career searching online and more, in a guide that reflects the current market.
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What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
by Joan Williams
An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies--which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers.
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Working in the Global Economy: How to Develop and Manage Your Career cross Borders
by Roblyn Simeon
As global competition forces firms to adjust rapidly to changing market conditions, affecting the structure and content of jobs, careers and career markets around the world, the need for individuals to be proactive is becoming clear. This book offers readers the tools they need to evaluate and manage their career environment and personal career profiles, and ultimately, to have a rewarding career.
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Zoom: Surprising Ways to Supercharge Your Career
by Daniel Roberts
Offers the secrets to success from the top business leaders and entrepreneurs as featured in Fortune magazine's 40 Under 40 series, including wisdom and advice from Mark Zuckerburg, Jack Dorsey, and Ryan Seacrest
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WorkOne
WorkOne provides resources to help you plan your career, including information on current job openings, resume assistance, workshops, skills assessments, training, and special programs for veterans, dislocated workers, job seekers over 55, job seekers with disabilities, and more.
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A.K. Smith Career Center
The A.K. Smith Career Center offers a comprehensive program in Adult Basic Education for adult learners who have not completed high school and high school graduates who need remediation in basic skills. Classes are conducted in reading, writing, math, English as a Second Language, and GED test preparation.
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Grace Learning Center
Grace Learning Center provides assistance in developing the skills necessary to get entry level and more advanced level jobs. The center provides literacy and pre-GED training through a partnership with A.K. Smith, and offers workshops on a number of financial, technical, and career topics. Grace Learning Center is a WorkOne access point, and provides assistance with computer-based job searches.
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Job Search & Career Info
Find resources to help you get a job, create a resume, file for unemployment, or improve your work skills.
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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