The Career Catapult
The Career Catapult

Author: Roopa Unnikrishnan

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1632659190

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Take charge of your career and leap confidently into your future: “Intriguing, insightful, useful, and very readable.” —Jon R. Katzenbach, bestselling author of The Wisdom of Teams When change is a constant and the nature of work rapidly evolves, it’s easy to become fearful and discouraged. In The Career Catapult, innovative career consultant Roopa Unnikrishnan shows you how to gaze into an uncertain future and shape it to your advantage—regardless of your current position in the job hierarchy. Leaping into a revised career trajectory requires quick and purposeful movement. Roopa offers five essential disciplines that will catapult you along the fast track: Dig Deep to Soar: Examine your skills and resources to accurately assess your marketplace value Stalk Innovations and Trends: Explore the context in which you can offer your value Jolt Your Network: Use your assets, including networks that can drive significant value Prototype Possibilities: Free yourself to imagine—visualize the full array of possibilities and test-drive them Go Extreme: Recognize opportunity when your desired future is within reach—and reach for it Disruption isn’t just for tech moguls. When you dare to change the status quo and bring an innovative spirit to your own career, the sky becomes the limit!

The Career Playbook
The Career Playbook

Author: James M. Citrin

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2015-04-21

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0553446967

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Are you about to graduate and begin your job search? Or are you a young professional trying to choose the right field or looking for that perfect position that will catapult your career? Figuring out a career and getting a great job has never been more difficult. On top of that, today’s graduates are looking for not only good jobs but positions that will help them launch careers in which they can grow and prosper. But knowing what to look for and how to actually land a great job is exceptionally challenging when you’re trying to get an interview, make enough money, and position yourself for advancement. Based on an in-depth survey of thousands of graduates and young professionals, and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders—not to mention James Citrin’s decades of experience as a senior partner at the premier executive search firm Spencer Stuart—The Career Playbook offers recent graduates and aspiring young professionals actionable advice for excelling. From his practical tips on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, and negotiating compensation to strategic advice on the arc of a career, the importance of relationships, how to cultivate a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries, Citrin provides an invaluable guide to the most urgent questions that are at the heart of every person’s career deliberations. Packed with first-person advice from graduates and young professionals themselves, as well as the perspectives of seasoned CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders, and experts, such as Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, author Malcolm Gladwell, and US Navy SEALs’ Admiral Eric Olson, The Career Playbook is an essential resource for landing, launching, and thriving in your career.

Competencies That Catapult Careers
Competencies That Catapult Careers

Author: Adelle Dantzler

Publisher:

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578729428

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This easy-to-use, informative workbook contains 100 developmental strategies to obtain the knowledge, explore leading change ideas through coaching and mentoring, and lead change through career experiences. A definition of leading change and description of non-technical leading change competencies is mapped to relevant and practical education, exploration ideas, and on-the-job experiences. Assessments, checklists, templates, and plans help assess one's ability to lead change, select appropriate developmental strategies, document the experience, and plan for success. In addition, the appendix contains books, websites, and organizations to obtain leading change competencies to catapult careers.

Crush Your Career
Crush Your Career

Author: Dee Ann Turner

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1493428683

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We all know someone who is dissatisfied with their career but feels trapped in their current trajectory. What's not always clear is how they got there or, more importantly, how we can avoid the same fate as we develop our own careers. In a competitive job market, we need concrete, field-tested advice to help us ace the interview, land the job, and launch a career we love. Enter Dee Ann Turner. After more than three decades leading teams and coaching staff members at Chick-fil-A, she knows what it takes to build a fulfilling career. In this practical, hands-on book she reveals the secrets of - finding a job - preparing for an interview - conquering the first 90 days - managing work relationships - overcoming mistakes - adding value to your team - and so much more Anyone entering the job market or hoping to make a transition in their career--along with the parents, teachers, college counselors, or career counselors who coach them--will find invaluable, hard-won advice on how to create a work life you love.

Not Doing List
Not Doing List

Author: Alexander Bant

Publisher: Advantage Media Group

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9781642252446

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This is your playbook for saying no to the right things every day so you can finally get ahead. We have a significant yes problem that's stunting our growth and career. Yes, more meetings, projects, clients, initiatives, reports, data, dashboards, collaboration, emails, notifications, and social media. Yes, make it digital, faster, and always-on. We organize. We prioritize. We delegate. We calendar. We "focus." Yet, we always feel behind. Eventually we hit a ceiling or burn out. The truth is that you, Oprah, Elon Musk, and Melinda Gates all get the same 168 hours each week. So, how do some leaders cut through and accomplish great things? Their yes-to-no ratio is just radically different from yours. They start each day by selecting all of the things they won't spend time on. This allows them to channel enormous energy into the few things that matter most. Saying no is really hard. It's high risk. Most professionals get it wrong. Your strategy to get it right is a Not Doing List (NDL). This step-by-step guide shows you how to build your NDL, message no to everyone you work with (including your boss), and train your colleagues to do the same. Not Doing List is the perfect gift for your team, colleagues, boss and mentors. Leave Not Doing List out in your office or Zoom background, as a reminder to only spend time on what's important. Complete with Not Doing Digital How to Guides that allow you to practice and implement the concepts real-time.

Unforgettable Presence
Unforgettable Presence

Author: Lorraine K Lee

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2025-04-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781394281725

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Are you an ambitious hard worker and high-achiever—but feeling stuck, unseen, and struggling to move up in your career? Lorraine K. Lee faced this exact challenge. It took countless conversations with industry leaders and a completely new mindset to show her that more hours and more output weren't the tickets to career advancement. To reach her professional goals, she realized it was necessary to become the CEO of her own career—and that to do that, she had to be strategic and intentional about how she established her professional presence in a rapidly changing world of work. In Unforgettable Presence, Lee—who speaks to Fortune 100 organizations, teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies and LinkedIn Learning, and whose career content and courses reach millions of professionals around the world—shares the practical and tactical advice she learned during more than a decade as a founding editor at top tech firms like LinkedIn and Prezi. This practical guide reframes what you need today to succeed in a competitive corporate landscape and redefines professional presence in the modern workplace. No longer is presence restricted to “executive” appearance and how others see us in a physical room. In a post-COVID world where competition grows fiercer each day, presence stretches far beyond our physical spaces and relies just as much on how and where we show up in virtual spaces, like LinkedIn, video calls, and beyond. It's about the career brand we build for ourselves and the reputation that speaks for us even when we're not in the room. It's the critical two-part equation of how and where we're seen. In addition to sharing her own insights, Lee weaves in advice and lessons from the world's top business leaders and professionals, including best-selling author Daniel Pink, Radical Candor's Kim Scott, C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, renowned communications expert Vinh Giang, and many more. Unforgettable Presence teaches the tangible and practical techniques to take the great work you're already doing and uplevel the essential hard and soft skills that will ensure it gets noticed. Through personal anecdotes, research-backed principles, and insights from the top minds in business, you will learn to: Adopt mindset shifts that put you in the driver's seat of your professional journey Create an authentic and memorable brand that can evolve with you as your career grows Communicate masterfully on video calls so that you build stronger relationships and create more productive teams Lean into your introvert superpowers Build confidence and authority in any professional situation Make easy-to-implement changes to your professional presence that will make you stand out in a crowded field Advocate for yourself without feeling slimy Cultivate strategic relationships that boost your credibility and help you be seen as a leader This book is a perfect blend of practicality and real-life anecdotes with actionable tips you can implement immediately. Unforgettable Presence will guide you to overcoming our modern-day professional obstacles and give you the confidence and skills needed to reach that next level.

The MBA Slingshot for Women
The MBA Slingshot for Women

Author: Nicole M. Lindsay

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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A recognized expert in diversity and founder of DiversityMBAPrep.com illustrates how women in an MBA program can leverage the graduate school experience to catapult their professional careers. Despite the fact that women have been in the workforce for decades and in top graduate schools for years, they represent only 15 percent of corporate boards and a paltry 3 percent of CEO positions. Is it that female executives run into professional roadblocks, or do they underestimate their own abilities to succeed in a business leadership environment? Accomplished author and speaker Nicole Lindsay explores this subject in great detail, providing a gender-based roadmap for developing the knowledge, skills, and relationships to succeed in business school and beyond. Organized into four main themes, this powerful handbook provides a systematic approach, or "slingshot," for harnessing the business school experience to accelerate professional success. Topics covered include utilizing the social networking aspects of graduate school to pave the way for successful careers; preparing for the issues facing female students as they advance in their careers; developing a new approach to relationship management by leveraging personal connections to get ahead; and creating a consistent, powerful, personal brand.

The Catapult on Jobweb
The Catapult on Jobweb

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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List of links to jobs, corporations, universities, community colleges and career guidance.

Tofu Takes Time
Tofu Takes Time

Author: Helen H. Wu

Publisher: Beaming Books

Published: 2022-04-19

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 1506481507

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All good things--and foods--take time, as Lin learns in this beautifully illustrated story about patience, family, and a good home-cooked meal. CLICK CLACK WHIRRRR . . . Lin and her grandma, NaiNai, are making tofu from scratch! When NaiNai goes through each step, from blending soybeans with water to molding curd into shape, Lin gradually becomes impatient. But she soon discovers that making tofu not only takes time, but also takes the whole universe! It takes the seed from soil and sunshine, the cloth from thread and fiber, weight and space, books of words and pictures. And most of all, it takes spending lovely time with her beloved grandmother. In this charming tale by Helen H. Wu, readers will marvel at how patience brings a whole universe together in a simple dish made by a modern Chinese American family. Perfect for fans of Fry Bread, Drawn Together and Thank You, Omu.