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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.
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Blaze 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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Blue Collar Resumes
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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Career Courage: Discover Your Passion, Step Out of Your Comfort Zone, and Create the Success You Want
This book serves as a personal coach through the soul-searching and planning process ahead, whether you’re a college grad contemplating choices, a seasoned professional seeking new directions, or a stay-at-home mom preparing to reenter the workplace. Packed with exercises and stories of inspiring second acts, the book poses tough questions about motivation, confidence, character, risk tolerance, and more.
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Career Information Center
This e-book provides the most current information available on careers in the United States and Canada to people of all ages and all stages of career development. Each volume covers a career cluster and its common career pathways. Job profiles cover the following: job facts, nature of work, work environment, education, licenses, certification and training, job outlook, similar occupations, and sources of additional information such as books, audio/visual materials, and organizations.
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Career Match: Connecting Who You Are With What You’ll Love To Do
This e-book is designed to help people discover their ideal work. Using the author’s revealing ten-minute self-assessment, the book helps readers determine their personality style and then walks them through the range of career choices best for them.
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Chilton Library
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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Excuse Me: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette
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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Job Seeking Resources
Explore the numerous resources for job seekers on the Idaho Department of Labor’s Job Seekers webpage. Wherever you are in your job-seeking journey, whether you’re new to the workforce or looking to make a career change, this site has resources for you!
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JobScape
The Idaho Department of Labor’s JobScape is an easy-to-use tool to help job seekers and students make informed career and educational decisions through access to education, career, and labor market information.
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LearningExpress Library
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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LearningExpress Library: Career Center
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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Life and Career Skills Series: Employment
This e-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.
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Life 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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Next Steps Idaho
College and career planning resources for high school students from the Idaho State Board of Education.
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Packaging 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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Shortcut Your Job Search: Get Meetings That Get You the Job
This book tells you how to find out whom you should be talking to and how to get those people to agree to meet with you.
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Top Secret Executive Resumes: Create the Perfect Resume for the Best Top-Level Positions
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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Up Is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility
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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Vocational and Career Collection
Provides coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
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