Topic: Skill Building
Beating the Workplace Bully: A Tactical Guide to Taking Charge
This book shows those dealing with a workplace bully how to fight back and out-strategize them. Whether the bully is a boss or a coworker, whether you’re the target of manipulation, intimidation, verbal abuse, or deliberate humiliation, this book will be your personal coach and show you how to avoid bully traps, remain calm during any confrontation, keep your dignity intact, and understand the steps that your employer or supervisors can take to address the issue.
Access ResourceLearn MoreBlaze Your Own Trail: An Interactive Guide to Navigating Life with Confidence, Solidarity, and Compassion
This book suggests women blaze their own trail through stories and supportive data that explore workplace sexism, career changes, marriage, child-rearing, existential crises, and more. It includes how to embrace your journey, feel less alone, and change or make different choices.
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This e-book provides the latest tips and strategies regarding social network sites such as LinkedIn, personal networking, and interviewing to shorten your job search, advance your career, and increase your income. It includes a special section of resume examples for military veterans returning to the workforce.
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Step-by-step instructions for your auto repair needs. Includes videos and animations, close-up images, wiring diagrams, diagnostic information, and maintenance and specification tables.
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Merging classic rules of behavior with new realities of modern business, this book spotlights dozens of puzzling situations with suggestions for bridging divides. It untangles the nuances of meeting etiquette, interview expectations, proper office attire, electronic manners, privacy in tight spaces, eye contact and nonverbal cues, small talk, business dining, social media use, working remotely and flexibly, and more.
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Designed for educators, Explora Educator’s Edition has lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources. This database includes full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics.
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A comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources. Use to prepare for college and career, education tutoring, software tutorials, and workforce development.
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This center offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, prepare for high school equivalency tests, and U.S. citizenship.
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Are you preparing for a professional exam? Curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? This center will set you up for a bright career future.
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Learn to use the most popular software programs from Microsoft Office, along with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and the Windows operating system.
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This e-book guides readers in making prudent decisions about spending, saving, and borrowing, walking them through major life events, such as buying or renting a home, purchasing or leasing a car, and saving for college and retirement. It also offers practical guidance about purchasing insurance, applying for government benefits, and being an informed consumer.
Access ResourceLearn MoreLife and Career Skills: Series: Social Skills
This e-book helps readers understand and hone the social skills necessary for success. Although the essays offer advice applicable to many aspects of life, the focus is primarily on the workplace. The essays guide readers in effective communication and conduct, emphasizing the characteristics of verbal, nonverbal, and written communication, stressing the importance of ethics and etiquette, and providing tips for conflict resolution and teamwork.
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Covers a vast array of general reference subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more.
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Full text coverage of major newspapers, videos, and podcasts covering critical news topics.
Access ResourceLearn MorePackaging Yourself: The Targeted Résumé
This e-book guide uses case studies to teach the nuances of résumé preparation, as well as how to combine it with a LinkedIn profile. It provides guidance in making a resume stand out, highlighting strengths and hiding weaknesses, and creating a marketing piece that dynamically presents you just the way you want prospective employers to see you.
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This book shows you how to create a high-impact resume that develops and markets your skills and abilities to shorten your executive career search. It provides real-life resume examples, each with documented results, to cover the essential points of persuasive, keyword resume writing, cover letter writing, design, and format, as well as the latest tips and strategies on networking, interview techniques, and leveraging your LinkedIn page.
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This book shows how managers, coaches, and employees can partner to determine what’s best and what’s next, whether it is to keep the same job but discover new ways to learn and grow, move to a position that is a better fit, or step back, to create a unique, personalized path to a truly rewarding career.
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