Employability Skills Resources for Students

The book also includes: Invaluable advice to power up your people skills and soft skills, and how to care for your career like you would any other relationship. Effective perspectives to help balance your working life and personal life and to build stamina for the long haul. A global outlook that reveals how to excel in today's hybrid, often dispersed world of work. Whether you're just starting your first job or you're ready to rise to the C-suite, Don't Quit Your Day Job will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.

An exploration of the twenty core emotional skills we need to flourish at work.

In Get Hired Now!, ZipRecruiter founder and CEO Ian Siegel tells you exactly how to find a new job fast. With an insider's view of how over a million employers really make hires, Ian pulls insights from the data to give you step-by-step instructions for writing a resume that works, finding the right jobs to apply to, acing a job interview, and negotiating a job offer. Debunk the conventional wisdom Break the unconscious habits that are sabotaging your success Get hired in record time Relevant for every stage of your career and for every industry, Get Hired Now! is a one-stop resource for job seekers looking to level up, stand out, and land the job.

Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning skills, The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning, continuing professional development and work-based learning.

This excellent book will encourage students to think about the diverse range and broad character of issues encountered at work. It highlights both enduring dilemmas and emerging issues in contemporary employment. Each concept is carefully explained with engaging examples provided throughout.

This book guides the reader in gaining job skills, seeking work, interviewing, negotiating salaries and benefits, and thriving in the workplace. It also offers information that applies to all job seekers, as well as guidance for first-time job applicants and workers returning to the workforce after an absence.

Alph Keogh draws on his wide international experience to ensure that you begin your career with an informed, inquisitive and positive mindset: • Preparing yourself in terms of self-awareness and attitude • Handling the key relationships in the workplace • Understanding how organisations function in a world of change • Being a collaborative, but not a naïve, colleague • Staying engaged, healthy and fulfilled

Soft skills for Workplace helps us in dodging the derailers such as ego and stress that can negatively impact our behaviour, and replacing them instead with humour and emotional intelligence as tools to find joy at the workplace.

Street Smarts: Beyond the Diploma is the result of three years of interviews with hundreds of successful people from all walks of life. This book summarizes 125 lessons that were identified over and over as to what students need to understand and master.

No-Nonsense Resumes begins with a thorough but easy-to-understand explanation of the key elements that are vital to creating an “attention-grabbing” resume, including how to:— Strategically “position” your resume— Showcase your skills and achievements— Format and design a professional-looking resume— Select and integrate key words— Prepare and distribute your electronic resume. Subsequent chapters offer specific tips on creating winning resumes for job opportunities in virtually every profession.

No-Nonsense Cover Letters begins with a thorough but easy-to-understand explanation of the key elements that are vital to creating attention-grabbing letters, including: Why writing a cover letter is all about selling yourself. How to craft targeted cover letters. When to use bullets or paragraphs. Creating E-Letters for today's E-Search environment. Subsequent chapters offer tips on creating winning letters for opportunities in virtually every profession.