Creating Your Skills Portfolio is about gaining the critical edge in your job search career or life transition. It offers ways to differentiate yourself from the competition - a key factor in getting what you want. Any career move (employment change, job search or competition for promotion) is a marketing project, and the product is you. A portfolio can make you more visible when you market yourself to employers whether you seek traditional employment, project or temporary work or are starting your own business

This book begins with a series of practical activities to familiarize learners (and teachers too perhaps!) with the way the Internet works. It moves on to activities involving communication via email. The third section offers activities to do with retrieving information from the Internet. Finally, there are activities designed to help learners build their own websites. The activities are clearly described and user-friendly, and will go a long way towards dispelling the misgivings many teachers feel about computers and the Internet as a resource

From choosing the right investor to selecting the typeface, The One-Page Proposal is the one tool you need to propel your business idea to the top of any investor's to-do list. In a world where decisions are made between two rings of a cell phone, this is what a successful business proposal must be. Step by step, the author outlines how to create the perfect attention-grabbing pitch, offering dozens of strategies to help organize your research, focus your message, eliminate unnecessary language, and anticipate potential reservations

This book adds to that familar process an element that is critical in today's business setting, the customer's expectations and requirements. You will find out about the basics of benchmarking and the benefits it delivers

Preventing Job Burnout is a practical hands-on guide that will teach you what burnout is, what causes it, and how to assess the burnout potential of your job. After you apply the lessons and action plans, you will find you are better able to handle the unexpected, approach problems as opportunities, and manage your attitude. Most importantly, you will learn how to prevent job burnout in the future and bring a sustained sense of satisfaction to every aspect of your life

Author offers a fresh perspective, innovative strategies, and practical guidelines for the literacy development of young children in multilingual and multicultural settings. Presenting effective, research-based ways for early childhood and elementary teachers to develop a sound and lasting apprecation for, and love of, literature ammong their students

This book will increase the assets you bring to your job. Every organization wants employees that bring these Continuously Improving personal attributes: positive self-esteem; creative energy for discovering how to improve processes at work and home; increased feelings of power and influence; increased ability to hear the "voice of the customer" and to serve others

In this book you can read and learn what is a marketing approach to recruiting ; Why taking a marketing approach to recruiting will work for you ; How to spend less money attracting better recruits ; How to spend less time and money finding the right recruit

This handbook on internal consulting is a collection of principles, exercises, and practices that enable professionals to understand the scope of the internal consulting function while focusing on specific skills for development

This book offers some guidelines about peer relationships and how to build strong, constructive groups with common purpose. It isn`t always easy, and it isn`t only you that controls the dynamic of a peer relationship. Here you will find some guidance, some sound advice, clear cautions, and a helpful structure you can use in your working relationships