The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World
The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World

Author: Aaron McDaniel

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1601635567

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College does not teach you how to be successful in the working world. There is no course or textbook that explains how to create the fulfilling careers many aspire to. The Millennial generation is 80 million members strong and each year more than 1.5 million enter the working world with little to no idea of how to succeed. While companies spend millions of dollars scrambling to learn more about Millennials and adapt their work cultures to fit this generation, there are remarkably few resources dedicated to teaching young professionals the traits and techniques that will help them succeed in an ever-changing and always-challenging corporate environment. The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World fills this void, offering relevant advice to young professionals seeking to build a strong career foundation. A fellow Millennial, McDaniel draws on personal experiences from the beginning of his own career to illustrate key lessons. The Young Professional's Guide to the Working World provides important insights on the topics essential to success within the first 5–10 years of any corporate career, including: How to get promoted faster and drive results not matter what your industry or job title The 25 attributes all successful young professionals possess How to avoid being a DOPE (someone who Disses Opportunity, Potential & Earnings) The keys to becoming a STAR in your career (someone who is Savvy, Tenacious, Adaptive & Resourceful) How to create and implement a career blueprint plan, the right way Leveraging mentoring to ensure career success

The Young Professional’s Survival Guide
The Young Professional’s Survival Guide

Author: C. K. Gunsalus

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2012-11-20

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0674070763

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Imagine yourself in your new job, doing your best to make a good impression—and your boss asks you to do something that doesn’t feel right, like fudge a sales report, or lie to a customer. You have no idea how to handle the situation, and your boss is hovering. When you’re caught off guard, under pressure from someone more powerful, it’s easy to make a mistake. And having made one, it’s easier to rationalize the next one. The Young Professional’s Survival Guide shows how to avoid these traps in the first place, and how to work through them if you can’t avoid them. Many of the problems that arise in the workplace are predictable. C. K. Gunsalus, a nationally recognized expert on professional ethics, uses short, pungent real-world examples to help people new to the work world recognize the situations that can lead to career-damaging missteps—and prevent them. Gunsalus offers questions to ask yourself (and others) to help you recognize trouble and temptation, sample scripts to use to avoid being pressured into doing something you’ll regret, and guidance in handling disputes fairly and diplomatically. Most of all, she emphasizes, choose your mentors for their characters as well as their titles and talents. You can’t control the people around you, but you can control what you do. Reliance on a few key habits and a professional persona, Gunsalus shows, can help you advance with class, even in what looks like a “casual” workplace.

The Requirements Engineering Handbook
The Requirements Engineering Handbook

Author: Ralph Rowland Young

Publisher: Artech House

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781580536189

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Gathering customer requirements is a key activity for developing software that meets the customer's needs. A concise and practical overview of everything a requirement's analyst needs to know about establishing customer requirements, this first-of-its-kind book is the perfect desk guide for systems or software development work. The book enables professionals to identify the real customer requirements for their projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. This unique resource helps practitioners understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. The book also explains how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, analysts find clear examples and checklists to help them implement best practices.

The 21st Century Professionals Handbook
The 21st Century Professionals Handbook

Author: Suvendu Ghoshal

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1649199562

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This book takes a fresh look at the 21st Century Managers. Being written like a story, the chapters inside provide deep insights about the values, motives and behaviors of Gen X and millennials at their work place. The 21st century defines a period where technology, independence and innovation are valued and where orthodox and old-school thoughts are banished. While Gen X, Y and Z take up cubicles and cabins in offices all over the world at the same time, clashes in ideologies and approaches are bound to happen. The book examines how, together, they can reduce work place conflicts and work more effectively. Professionals in this century face the most uncertain times. Businesses emerge or vanish overnight, world comes to a grinding halt because of a pandemic. The book gives you a road map to navigate successfully in 21st century. It talks about the emerging new careers, gig economy, the behaviors for flourishing in this century. And how Gen X can reinvent themselves in their second innings. The handbook also makes a strong case about the difficulty in implementing personal change management programs, where coaches and mentors falter and how managing change can be dealt better. Sharp, crisply-written with live cases and penned down by an expert in his field, a must read for all professionals.

The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults
The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults

Author: Cheryl Klein

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0393292258

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This master class in writing children’s and young adult novels will teach you everything you need to know to write and publish a great book. The best children’s and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and practical-minded voyage of their own, from developing a saleable premise for a novel to finding a dream agent. She delves deep into the major elements of fiction—intention, character, plot, and voice—while addressing important topics like diversity, world-building, and the differences between middle-grade and YA novels. In addition, the book’s exercises, questions, and straightforward rules of thumb help writers apply these insights to their own creative works. With its generous tone and useful tools for story analysis and revision, The Magic Words is an essential handbook for writers of children’s and young adult fiction.

Best Books for Young Adults
Best Books for Young Adults

Author: Holly Koelling

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2007-08-13

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 0838935699

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This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.

Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Author: Angela Carstensen

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2011-05-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 083899315X

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More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.

Media Ethics at Work
Media Ethics at Work

Author: Lee Anne Peck

Publisher: CQ Press

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1506315283

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A fresh approach to building integrity in all media Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals (By Lee Anne Peck and Guy S. Reel) transforms students into confident, self-reliant, and ethical decision makers, prepared to resolve moral dilemmas from day one of their first media job or internship. The highly anticipated Second Edition of this text continues to engage students with true stories of young professionals working in today’s multimedia news and strategic communications organizations, helping readers create meaningful connections to real-world applications. Each story is presented as a narrative, so students can work through the ethical dilemmas as they unfold, encouraging readers to think about and ask the question: “What would I do if this happened to me?” By creating a more personalized experience for students beginning their first entry-level media jobs or internship, this book helps readers develop their own ethical standards and apply in the workplace what they have learned.

The PR Professional's Handbook
The PR Professional's Handbook

Author: Caroline Black

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2014-04-03

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0749468432

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At a time when rapid changes in communications technology, such as social media, are having a major impact on the way businesses choose to communicate, more and more people are having to understand the principles of modern PR and how they can use it to underpin effective business management. The PR Professional's Handbook offers practical advice and solutions for anyone involved in the public relations function. The PR Professional's Handbook guides practitioners in preparing and evaluating campaigns. In addition to providing a full breakdown on the individual skills required in briefing, writing and presenting projects of different shapes and sizes, the book covers the role and importance of public relations and communications in organizations, addressing, in full, key theories for PR, skills and disciplines, channels and creativity. About the PR in Practice series: Published in collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the PR in Practice series comprises accessible, practical introductions to day-to-day issues of public relations practice and management. The series' action-oriented approach keeps knowledge and skills up to date.