Employability Skills Resources for Students

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

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.