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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Are you wanting to make a career change or trying to figure out what to do with your life? This book is written to help readers create change and get hired in any business because the skills that are most valuable are not industry-specific. Mo learned this by pounding the pavement of NYC, and she takes you on that journey, outlining the lessons she learned.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth -- the idea...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring, irreverent manifesto for those seeking to blaze their own path to entrepreneurship and find fulfillment and happiness through bold action and big ideas.
With zero experience and no capital, Miki Agrawal opened WILD, a farm-to-table pizzeria in New York City and Las Vegas, partnered up in a children's multimedia company called Super Sprowtz, and launched a patented high-tech underwear business called THINX.
Miki, a successful serial...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the story-;the growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"According to recent studies, barely a third of American workers, and even fewer globally, feel "engaged" at work, and nearly half are "unhappy" doing what they do for a living. In the post-pandemic era with its turbulent job markets and spiraling economic landscape, many workers find themselves wondering: is my work worth it? In Is Your Work Worth It?, a prominent philosopher and an organizational psychologist investigate the purpose of work and...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb, business consultant and former partner at powerhouse McKinsey and Co., brings together the findings on behavioral economics and neuroscience--subjects that have led to dozens of bestselling books over the last decade--to show us how we can use these revolutionary new findings to improve how we work. Organized around seven factors that determine whether we have a good day at work, Webb offers us specific tools...
Author
Series
Orca think volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, with photographs and illustrations throughout. This book explores why we work and why people around the world end up in the jobs, careers and professions they do."--
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