BAS 270: Business Employability Seminar

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 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.

n this newest cover letter guide, job search expert Martin Yate shows you how to increase your chance of landing an interview. The key, as Yate explains, is to use language drawn from the job posting itself, words that will send your application to the top of database searches. In this updated guide, you'll find numerous sample cover letters, along with Yate's tried and proven methods to: determine relevant keywords to get attention -- and use them effectively, clearly display your personal brand and the transferable skills you bring to the job, find the right contact information that gets your material in front of decision-making managers and recruiters, use social media sites such as LinkedIn to create an effective online profile and build professional and personal networks.

nbeatable Resumes takes you step-by-step through the resume creation process, including tips on how to utilize keywords effectively, use gaps in employment and job changes to your advantage, and enhance your resume with a concise, dynamic cover letter. Y

The Elements of Résumé Style, you will be provided: More than 1,400 action words, statements, and position descriptions that help sell your skills and experience; Hundreds of words, phrases, and vague claims to avoid; Advice for handling employment gaps, job-hopping, and requests for salary history and requirements; Sample résumés, response letter, inquiry letter, informational interview request letter, references; Surprising tips for acing the interview in today's competitive environment, competition is intense no matter the field or position.