Jobs that Don't Suck
Author: Charlie Drozdyk
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780345424266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers everything from combing the Internet for jobs to staying cool in an interview.
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Betting on You
Author: Laurie Ruettimann
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1250269792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Indispensable reading for anyone seeking to improve their professional selves." —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When An essential guide for how to snap out of autopilot and become your own best advocate, with candid anecdotes and easy-to-adopt steps, from veteran HR specialist and popular podcast host Laurie Ruettimann Chances are you've spent the past few months cooped up inside, buried under a relentless news cycle and work that never seems to switch off. Millions of us worldwide are overworked, exhausted, and trying our hardest—yet not getting the recognition we deserve. It’s time for a fix. Top career coach and HR consultant Laurie Ruettimann knows firsthand that work can get a hell of a lot better. A decade ago, Ruettimann was uninspired, blaming others and herself for the unhappiness she felt. Until she had an epiphany: if she wanted a fulfilling existence, she couldn’t sit around and wait for change. She had to be her own leader. She had to truly take ahold of life—the good, the bad, and the downright ugly—in order to transform her future. Today, as businesses prioritize their bottom line over employee satisfaction and workers become increasingly isolated, the need to safeguard your well-being is crucial. And though this sounds intimidating, it’s easier to do than you think. Through tactical advice on how to approach work in a smart and healthy manner, which includes knowing when to sign off for the day, doubling down on our capacity to learn, fixing those finances, and beating impostor syndrome once and for all, Ruettimann lays out the framework necessary to champion your interests and create a life you actually enjoy. Packed with advice and stories of others who regained control of their lives, Betting on You is a game-changing must-read for how to radically improve your day-to-day, working more effectively and enthusiastically starting now.
Bullshit Jobs
Author: David Graeber
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1501143336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).
Ask a Manager
Author: Alison Green
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0399181822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
The Professor Is In
Author: Karen Kelsky
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0553419420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. 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. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.
Works Well with Others
Author: Ross McCammon
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1101984139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hilarious and indispensable guide to the weirdness of the workplace from Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon Ten years ago, Ross McCammon made an incredible and unexpected transition from working at an in-flight magazine in suburban Dallas to landing his dream job at Esquire in New York. What followed was a period of almost debilitating anxiety and awkwardness—interspersed with minor instances of professional glory—as McCammon learned how to navigate the workplace while feeling entirely ill-equipped for achieving success in his new career. Works Well with Others is McCammon’s “relentlessly funny and soberingly insightful”* journey from impostor to authority, a story that reveals the workplace for what it is: an often absurd landscape of ego and fear guided by social rules that no one ever talks about. By mining his own experiences at the magazine, McCammon provides advice on everything from firm handshakes to small talk in elevators to dealing with jerks and underminers. Here is an inspirational new way of looking at your job, your career, and success itself; an accessible guide for those of us who are smart, talented, and ambitious but who aren’t well-“leveraged” and don’t quite feel prepared for success . . . or know what to do once we’ve made it. *Entertainment Weekly
How Not to Suck At Marketing
Author: Jeff Perkins
Publisher: How2Conquer
Published: 2021-09-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1945783168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you’ve ever felt like you suck at marketing, you’re not alone. Survive and thrive in today’s digital world. Let’s face it, marketing today is really, really hard. From the explosion of digital advertising options to the thousands of martech tools out there on the market, it’s virtually impossible to stay on top of it all. Even more challenging is the deluge of analytics available, leaving marketers swimming in data but thirsting for knowledge. But you don’t have to feel like you suck at marketing. Join award-winning marketing leader Jeff Perkins as he examines how to avoid the pitfalls and survive in today’s ever-changing marketing landscape. Focusing on essential skills for modern marketers, How Not to Suck at Marketing prepares you to: - Create a focused marketing program that drives results - Collaborate effectively with the key stakeholders - Assemble a high-performing marketing team - Define and nurture your company (and personal) brand - Build a focused career and find the right job for you Digital tools allow us to track immediate results, but marketing has always been about the long game. Tackle your marketing strategy and build a focused career with this practical guide.
Jobs that Don't Suck
Author: Charlie Drozdyk
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers everything from combing the Internet for jobs to staying cool in an interview.
Love Your Job
Author: Kerry E. Hannon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1118898060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAWARDS: Independent Publisher Book Award 2015 (Silver) and National Mature Media Award 2015 (Bronze) Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun — again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement when you could reinvigorate your workday, transforming the daily doldrums into a daily dose of enjoyable activity? Kerry Hannon, The New York Times columnist and AARP's Jobs Expert, focuses on the little things that can make a big difference in how we feel about work. Love Your Job is all about the routines, habits, and thought patterns that, over the years, may have turned a dream job into a drudge or, worse, a nightmare. Changing these habits and attitudes is simple, and this book shows you how to identify the little things that make work enjoyable and engaging. Using these simple techniques, you can adopt the attitude that will keep you happy and that might just lead to bigger and better things, no matter what stage of your career you are in. In this book, you will learn to: Develop new habits that bring more purpose into every single workday Rekindle your hope and motivation by celebrating small successes Recognize negative patterns that keep you from enjoying your job Craft an entrepreneurial attitude that will get you noticed and enrich your work life We all deserve to experience happiness and satisfaction every day, at every stage of our careers. Kerry Hannon explains that you don't have to make a huge career transition to love work again. But if you reinvent the way you see work, who knows where your new outlook will lead? Wake up to the countless possibilities that await you with Love Your Job.
Job Moron
Author: Charlie Drozdyk
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781980691730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompetition for great jobs at great companies is fierce. What's needed is advice from people who have gone before you who have landed these jobs by doing things DIFFERENTLY and CREATIVELY. That's what this book is about.In this book I've interviewed young professionals who have great jobs at great companies to hear how they broke through the clutter of competition to get interviews, to get job offers, and to move up the ladder. Companies including; Geffen Records, The X-Games, MTV, The Whitney Museum, Chiat/Day Advertising, top Finance companies in NYC and leading Software companies in Austin and NYC. Plus, I offer proven techniques that have worked for me as well, a History major with no contacts and no internships.The people interviewed for this book primarily work in: software, advertising, accounting, marketing, publicity, film, television, Internet, fashion, radio, the art world, music and publishing. If you're not interested in any of these careers don't worry about it - this book is still for you. The creative strategies that I present are not industry-specific.Whether you're trying to get a job at Google, a marketing company in Denver or an Internet start-up in Austin, your big challenge is to somehow GET NOTICED above the many other applicants so you get an interview and an offer. This book tells you how.If you do not do things DIFFERENTLY and CREATIVELY then your odds of getting the job you really want will be slim. This book gives you real life examples from my life and from many successful young people on how we landed our dream jobs by doing just this.In a nutshell, here's what's in the book:- Simple and creative ways to network in order to make contacts without losing your soul and integrity.- How to contact your contacts in a way that will lead to an interview every time.- How to make cold calls in order to get interviews. I walk you through actual cold call phone conversations with potential employers.- Creative cover letter examples that will break through the clutter.- How to write resumes that get noticed.- Things you must say in an interview, and what not to say, in order to get an offer.- Examples of creative and strategic thank you letters that will lead to follow-up interviews and offers.- The honest truth from human resource execs from HBO, Condé Nast, Sony Music, Liz Claiborne etc. on how real people have done things differently to get jobs at their companies, and how people have blown it as well.- The truth on how to go from being an assistant at your dream company, to having one.About the Author:After graduating from college with a History degree, Charlie went to an island for a year and then moved to New York City and started waiting tables at night while writing crappy poetry and plays during the day. Finally, scared about his future, with zero contacts and zero internships, he managed to join the real world and get great jobs at great companies. How? By breaking the rules and doing this differently.He has worked in NYC in publicity and on Broadway as a theater manager; in Hollywood for CBS Television and William Morris Endeavor agency; in advertising in NYC, San Francisco and Dallas for DDB, Lowe & Partners and Publicis; as a Brand Consultant for Adidas and Heineken; and as the Chief Operating Officer of a software company in Austin, TX.Presently, he is a partner in a software company based in Austin, TX, and works remotely as a digital nomad in Central America.Charlie has written two books on how to get a job (published by HarperCollins and Random House), has written for Rolling Stone about careers and used to appear weekly on CNN. As he says, "I spent my life getting jobs, working in jobs and moving up the ladder at great companies. My advice comes from over twenty-five years in the trenches of Advertising, Marketing, Film & TV, Publicity and Software."Do something good for yourself and buy Job Moron today! It's your life. Make it great!
