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A sabbatical may be just the change you need. More and more men and women are successfully taking an extended break from their jobs—a sabbatical. Once the exclusive preserve of academics, sabbaticals are revitalizing today's business world. Recognizing that the decision to take a sabbatical is a major step, Lisa Rogak mixes a wealth of practical how-to facts and advice with the real-life stories of over forty professionals detailing every aspect of the process. Whether you want the time off to travel, explore other careers, discover new interests, go back to school, stay with your family, do volunteer work, or simply slow down and recharge your batteries, you'll find information on:
- Approaching your boss and negotiating the leave you want
- Turning your sabbatical into a career asset
- Determining your eligibility for the Family Medical Leave Act
- Financing a sabbatical creatively
- Preparing and planning to get the most out of your time off
- Troubleshooting a sabbatical that's not working out
- Adjusting to the workplace once your sabbatical is over
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Tired of being a slave? Quit! (For awhile at least...).......2004-09-21
Curious about taking time off from work? This book provides great advice and inspiration on doing it. It's very similar to the book Six Months Off (see my review of that one), and you'll need to make the decision between them or decide to read both. I found that Six Months Off provides more ideas on what to do during your time off, especially terrific programs that would enhance both your life and professional resumes. Time Off From Work provides better coverage of the before and after concerns. Both do a great job of providing real-life case studies of people who've done it. In fact, the author of this book even covers one of the co-authors of Six Months Off as an example. In short, if you're stuck on the how's and why's then read this book; if you're convinced you want and can manage to take a sabbatical but don't have a clear idea of how to make the most of it, then read Six Months Off instead.
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Ferguson's Guide to Apprenticeship Programs (2 Volume Set)
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Internships is a comprehensive directory of internship opportunities across the U.S., and abroad. The guide provides detailed, pertinent, annually updated information on thousands of short-term positions available in numerous career areas. Listings are categorized according to the type of company or organization that sponsors the internship.
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Not all its cracked up to be!.......2004-01-23
I was eagerly awaiting this book only to find out that the 3 top local companies that I was interested in were not included at all. No big deal. They were little companies like Intel, Microsoft, and Nike.
Don't buy this doorstop.
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Forecast how jobs will change in the future and plan accordingly
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Career Survival helps organizations more accurately forecast their needs and helps individual employees effectively structure their priorities and future plans.
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Internships For Dummies provides criteria for deciding which internship -- and industry -- is right for you. This friendly guide helps you prepare your resume and references to land the internship. It also offers great interviewing strategies, and tells you how to succeed in the business world once you win the internship. Plus, this book includes real-life stories and examples, and shows you how to progress beyond the internship -- and win a job.
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Key to the Most Important Part of a College Education.......2001-11-23
Interships for Dummies should be required reading for all college students regardless of their program of study. And the sooner they read it the better. Out of classroom learning is the key to a successful college education, and this book shows every college student how to find an internship and get the most out of it. William D. Coplin, Professor and Director of the Public Affairs Program, College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, Syracuse University ...
INTERNSHIPS FOR DUMMIES.......2001-10-18
This is an excellent guide to the process of internships or "applied study" as they are sometimes called. Donovan and Garnett cover all the crucial topics in plain language, including finding an internship, securing that internship, getting oriented, handling common duties, coping with workplace politics, making evaluations pay off, and taking the next leap to job and career. The writing style is extremely readable. The book offers sound advice all along the way. I have been associated with internships for 25 years, first as an intern, then as director of two different programs, and finally as a teacher of internship seminars. Based on these experiences, I find Donovan and Garnett's insights impressive and useful. Everything the authors write is practical and should be helpful to anyone involved with applied study, ranging from students, to internship program supervisors, to sponsoring agency personnel, to academics teaching the topic. The authors' comments are applicable to public, private, and nonprofit sector placements. Finally, it seems Donovan and Garnett have learned a lot from their successes and failures, just as they say interns should do during their placements. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, `It is difficult to appreciate a problem avoided.' This book should help people avoid many potential internship pitfalls and greatly increase their chances for a successful placement.
Ken Oldfield
U of Illinois - Springfield
The Rosetta Stone for Internships.......2001-09-18
Within the familiar "Dummies" framework and easy to read format, lies a gem of a
book. "Internships for Dummies" makes me want to go out and be an intern all over
again, but this time to do it right!
This book should become the Rosetta
Stone for deciphering the intricacies of
internships not only for students setting out on their first challenge of the real work
world but also for those changing professions. The knowledge gleaned from this
preeminent book should be shared with anyone who is serious about taking this
crucial step on the path to a successful career.
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Whether you want to become an elementary teacher, a special education teacher, or a high school math teacher, there are many jobs out there for you. If you are choosing your first career, or are considering a career change, Teacher Career Starter can help
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Good overview of Teaching Careers.......2001-06-16
I liked this book because it gives inside information from a variety of teachers. Since I don't know any teachers personally, this was the information that helped me to get a realistic feel for the job of being a teacher. I found out that there are a lot of other people who feel the same way that I do about the importance of education, and I think that I will fit into the world of teaching very well. I liked the fact that the book included information about teacher training programs and certification requirements because it seems like that type of detail is hard to find. I am going to use this book in the future too, once I begin applying for my first teaching job because it has good info. on how to apply and also succeeding on the job once you get one. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about how to become a teacher.
Good overview of Teaching Careers.......2001-06-16
I liked this book because it gives inside information from a variety of teachers. Since I don't know any teachers personally, this was the information that helped me to get a realistic feel for the job of being a teacher. I found out that there are a lot of other people who feel the same way that I do about the importance of education, and I think that I will fit into the world of teaching very well. I liked the fact that the book included information about teacher training programs and certification requirements because it seems like that type of detail is hard to find. I am going to use this book in the future too, once I begin applying for my first teaching job because it has good info. on how to apply and also succeeding on the job once you get one. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know more about how to become a teacher.
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Bricker's International Directory 2003 (Bricker's International Directory, 2003)
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The premier source for objective information about leading executive development programs at universities and nonprofit institutions worldwide, this directory profiles more than 1,300 executive education programs in general management, e-commerce, finance, technology, manufacturing, and more.
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Cyberbranding: Brand Building in the Digital Economy
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The first complete framework for integrating offline and online marketing! ""Every business today needs to brand itself on the Web; they have seen the writing on the wall. Adapt or evaporate. For those who want to turn their brand investment into tangibl
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Essential 21st Century Readin.......2003-01-14
This book lays down the law on the new methods and rules for creating brand awareness in the Information Age. When clients are running from one methodology to another, often too busy and too uninformed to stop and learn about the incredible Internet opporutnities, Ms. Breakenridge is there to point the way. An accomplished public relations professional, her writing style is easy to understand and incorporate into any business plan. Whether you are a seasoned brand manager, guerilla marketer or newby just starting out in the field, the author has something to offer. The book is a fast read - I read it in a long weekend - and you will walk away with at least 10 good ideas that more than double your investment in time and money.
Cyberbranding.......2002-10-15
Cyberbranding is an easy to read Internet branding book. I found myself with several choices on this topic and felt I made the right one. The conversational style and the author's use of anecdotes and case studies is extremely helpful. It's critical to learn and understand the do's and the don'ts of branding online. Reading about some of the larger companies right down to the new dotcoms and their strategies was not only interesting but informative. This book covers it all from the simple 101 lessons to other detailed chapters that delve into relationship building strategies and ways to increase Website retention. I would recommend this book to people who are not looking for long drawn out technical explanations and charts, but rather those professionals that desire to read a book on the lighter side, one that breaks down a very complex topic into simpler terms.
Cyberbranding is a good choice for those who are in the marketing profession and need to take a crash overview course in what it takes to develop a brand online.
Rudimentary Brand and (e)Marketing 101.......2002-10-05
If you have just received your Introduction to Marketing certificate from the back of a matchbook school based in Siberia and, have never explored the Internet beyond your pre-set homepage, then this book is for you. Otherwise don?t bother with ?Cyberbranding?.
?Cyberbranding? (and let us hope this inane moniker doesn?t stick!) is an inconsistent, repetitive, contradictory and crammed full of e-codswallop apparently cobbled together from contrasting sources, views, opinions, out-of-date statistics and lists. For anyone with a smattering of e-marketing knowledge you will find that you have heard it all before ? probably 4 or 5 years ago.
If you are looking for a clear definition of what eBranding (cyberbranding) is and is not then I?m afraid your search must continue. The author finally does make a stab at a "simplistic'" definition of cyberbranding on page 72, but the explanation is so long in coming, and so long in explication (running on at 66 words) you know the author doesn?t know what it really is.
Most of the book deals with absolute basics: Chapter 1 is Brand 101; Chapter 2 - 5 is eMarketing 101; Chapter 6 is Web site Design 101; and so on. Chapter 11 is Traditional Research Methods 101 and is obviously adapted from broadcast research methods since the chapter text suddenly changes from ?online customer? to ?audience?.
Other chapters are modified lists and out-of-date survey quotes and statistics. One gets the impression that this book started out as a ?Lunch and Learn? 100,000-foot overview web site creation presentation and was brand-expanded via ?a camel is a horse built by committee? mindset.
"Back in 1999, companies were only just turning their brands in cyberbrands," declares the author. May I strongly suggest that as soon as a company creates their Internet channel they are cyberbranding ? AND that happen long before 1999 (the author even makes note of this in a detailed examination of Yahoo and Amazon).
The case studies presented are mostly irrelevant to eBranding; the comments are textbook marketing generalizations with an ?e? added for perceived value.
Is there anything of value in ?Cyberbranding?? Yes, a few hidden gems such as developing a Web site (Chapter 6, page 88) or online development issues (Chapter 23, pages 323-324). However, like real-life diamond prospecting, there is a ton of slag you have to dig through just to find the small deposits.
As I understand it, eBranding is an extension of the overall Brand Promise to ALL current and future corporate digital channels (Web, Wireless, email, etc.) It is Strategic. E-Marketing is the action on the promise. It is Execution. By not recognizing this, this book presents a narrow focus on the development of a corporate web site and the e-marketing and promotional tactics that should be applied.
In the end, ?Cyberbranding? ? like the 1999 online Toys ?R? Us holiday season fiasco ? doesn?t deliver.
The best that I've read.......2001-05-28
As a marketing professional who has struggled to make the transition from traditional to cyber marketing and branding, I have read many related books and articles. "Cyberbranding" has stood out among the others to make sense of a very complex topic. Breakenridge's writing style is clear and conversational, and the information she provides is more relavant and insightful than similar texts. I also found the unique page layout and frequest case studies/interviews helpful in making this book fast reading. I would recommend this book to anyone in a related field that needs to get a better grasp on cyber topics, or even to people not involved in brand development who just want an interesting read on a timely topic.
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