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Insider’s Guide to the Successful Job Search : Rebecca Metschke
Insider’s Guide to the Successful Job Search: Create a Winning Resume, Ace the Interview, Get the Offer, Take Charge of Your Career
The best qualified person doesn’t always get the job offer.
That may not seem logical, and might strike you as unfair, but it’s the reality of the hiring process. The best candidate, on the other hand, always takes the prize. And along with the job offer comes the freedom for that candidate to chart his or her professional course.
This comprehensive guide provides proven techniques and strategies – straight from an executive recruiter – that will significantly enhance your desirability as a candidate. It covers every aspect of the job search and gives you tips, tools and tactics you can use to create a professional advantage. Whether or not you’re currently engaged in a search, the book outlines steps you can take right now to increase your marketability.
Contents include:
- The Winning Resume
- Cover Letter: Useful Tool or Obsolete?
- Acing the Interview
- The Consummate Thank-You Note
- Common Interview Questions
- Questions Interviewers Shouldn’t Ask (But What if They Do?)
- Getting the Most out of Your References
- Executive Recruiters: What You Need to Know
- Looking for a New Job Without Losing the One You’ve Got
- The Passive Versus Proactive Job Search
- The Waiting Game
- Negotiating Your Compensation
- Last Impressions: The Importance of Resigning Well
- Succeeding in Your New Job: Hit the Ground Running
- Managing Your Career
- Advice for Candidates Over 50
- Surviving a Layoff
An American Truck Driver and Undercover Agent : Richard Windish
An American Truck Driver and Undercover Agent
I was an Independent Truck Driver for 40 years and 4 million logged miles. Trucking is near and dear to my heart and I wanted to tell some of the life of a truck driver and I chose a Christian Independent truck driver named Luke Sutter (fiction name) and Luke had a wife named Connie Jean.
Luke was an independent trucker with his own authority and permits and operated his business with a Kenworth (Kitty Kat) and a 53 foot refrigerated trailer. Being independent Luke could choose when and where he pulled loads to and from. When home he and Connie Jean spent time with their grown children, Brian, Donna, Brenda, and Melissa and their families. They also attended Church and other activities.The family is involved deeply with their Church.
One day Luke was approached by a Government Agent and given a request to work undercover looking for ISIS terrorists building a nuclear bomb in the USA. He could run the areas where the terrorists were known to be operating hoping to connect with hauling some of the material they were shipping. As the story unfolds there are many shoot outs and lots of action.
A good short read with a second in the series in the works.
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Finding Her Heart : Donna Wittlif
Finding Her Heart: A Christian Romance Novel (Heart of a Family Series)
Only true love can help Allison conquer Asperger’s and loneliness. Can she find it? Small-town living can be peaceful—but it can also be heartbreakingly lonely. Nobody knows this better than teenaged Allison. Living in her secluded forest home with only her Uncle Deb, her Aunt Harriet, and a bevy of woodland creatures for company, Allison’s world is a small one, and her recently diagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome only makes it seem smaller.
People are a mystery to Allison. She understands her animal friends. She understands her paintings. And her family? They love her, but they don’t understand her. They don’t know what’s going on inside her head. No one does.
That’s why Allison knows she has to leave. She needs to find somewhere she can find her star, where she can meet people who understand what it’s like to be Allison. Someplace where even she can find somebody to love, to share her life with. What she finds is David—David, whose kindness and blue eyes make her heart sing. David, who makes her world seem so much bigger. David, who says he loves her.
But does he? Or will a terrible secret concealed in this strange man’s past dash her hopes of finding true love forever?
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Dubai: An Insider’s Guide : Sujit Shome
Dubai: An Insider’s Guide
Dubai Dreamers… Many people view Dubai as the place to achieve their greatest dreams: bask in 365 days of sunshine; bag a tax free salary, with huge savings potential; access a red tape free, entrepreneurial economy; create an ideal base to launch the offshore family unit; enjoy a fabulous Dom Perignon champagne breakfast lifestyle in a beautiful Jumeirah beachfront home…
All of that is possible. But you need to be careful on the path to those dreams. This book aims to equip readers with the knowledge of exactly how Dubai operates; the inner Dubai, the real Dubai; the Dubai which most of the world does not see, and which some newcomers only discover at a very high price and often when it is too late.
Dubai: An Insider’s Guide, can help you keep your Dubai Dreams alive, achieve your goals and come out richer… and with your dignity intact!
So, don’t let your Dubai Dreams become Dubai Nightmares. Dubai: An Insider’s Guide is here to help! A help to make informed decisions about things that matter in Dubai to an expat: your career; your business & investments; your property purchases, the quality of life for the family… and about many other vital aspects of life in Dubai and that region, which in turn will ease the path of wealth creation while keeping a clear exit strategy in place.
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The Other Side : A. E. Costello
The Other Side
The Other Side is a young adult Christian urban fantasy novel about Jaxon “Xon” Reeves, a seventeen years old high schooler living in a small Georgian town. He goes to church, has a loving girlfriend, a clique of close friends and makes good grades. This perfect life is shattered when after a brutal attack, Xon is transformed from human to shifter.
His entire life now in shambles, Xon has to pick up the pieces and make a new life for himself, while learning to deal with the two sides of this new life, one side, the church boy his parents want him to be, and the other side, wolf, aggressive and the Pack. Xon has to reconcile who he is with his parents, his relationships, and as a son of God.
The Other Side trigger warnings: There is mention of abuse, both physical and sexual. There is physical violence and descriptive imagery of such things. The Other Side is a Christian novel, and there are Bible quotes as well.
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Cathedral of Time : Stephen Austin Thorpe
Cathedral of Time (The World of Agartha Book 1)
Ghostly sightings of a legendary murderer.
The discovery of a hidden stash from a bank robbery.
The disappearance of a well-known TV personality, and the most prominent family in town entangled in all of it.
Makayla Brown’s ideal life is about to be blown to smithereens. She’ll need to race across space and time, plunging herself into another world in hopes of saving her own.
When Makayla disappears off the face of the Earth, the dedication of her two best friends, Tanner and Andrew, will be tested as they attempt to follow her trail through a dangerous new world and encounter beasts and beings the likes of which they’ve never seen.
Will they reach Makayla in time to rescue her from certain death and bring her safely home, or will they be doomed to spend eternity in their new world, sealed by the rule of the fates?
Rules of Engagement : Jerry McColgin
Rules of Engagement
We live in a culture with a tragically high divorce rate. Of those that stay together, a high percentage find themselves in a state of boredom and mediocrity. Without focus and ongoing effort, marriages erode over time. Couples who were passionate at one time find themselves living like roommates.
God created marriage and intends for it to be the most intimate and dynamic relationship that we have while here on earth. A shocking marriage is one where a couple loves being together and commits considerable effort toward making it better over time.
Rules of Engagement is Jerry McColgin’s first book in the Shocking Marriage Series. In it, you will find a unique way to build intentionality into your marriage by crafting guidelines that can direct you in a variety of situations, from conflict to grief to intimacy. By sharing his own marriage in a transparent and humorous manner, the author gives you time-tested techniques that will keep your marriage growing stronger.
This book is designed for any couple who wants to add joy and satisfaction to their relationship. It will help make a good marriage great, and a great marriage shocking! A powerful tool for any couple or for use in a small group, Rules of Engagement will add life and joy to any marriage.
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Anuanna : Madeline McQueen
Anuanna : The Karda Jewel – Part 1
Anuanna – pronounced Ann-you-anna – is a fantasy romance which follows Anne through her eyes as her life drastically changes so suddenly. She begins hearing voices that only she can hear which made her question her sanity. She soon finds out what those voices truly are and that she is a witch, but she also has special abilities which are made more unique than other witch’s as she is one of the last of a dying race.
Anne is taken to an Academy with other witches and wizards like herself. She makes some friends but she also gains enemies alongside battling creatures she thought where only in fairy tales and meeting vampires, werewolves, and other magical beings. Anne also falls in love with someone at the academy causing her to have a complicated love life as she also has to deal with her boyfriend she had to leave back home.
As Anne struggles with everything she has to face, she is then plagued by nightmares from an old ancient spell which adds more stress to her as she tries to pass her exams. If she does not pass them, she won’t be eligible to receive her Soul Gem which is their version of a wand.
Anne and her friends enter a forest they have been forbidden to enter so they can try and break this ancient spell that’s on Anne. They run into some monstrous creatures who attack them and force them to fight for their lives.
More events unravel and Anne begins to find out a little more about her past and knowing that her story is only just beginning.
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Ready to Run : Alexis Zacheries
Ready to Run
Privileged socialite, Gina Voss, finds herself suddenly submerged in the life of the lower class. She discovers love, redemption, and herself on this ill-fated journey with Luke Riley, a man with a questionable past.
The tryst starts out as a temporary escape from her life as the perfect daughter of her aristocratic parents but this good girl unexpectedly falls for shy guy Luke and realizes too late that she must choose between a love she never thought was possible and the Voss legacy.
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Is That All I Get? : Daniel Hathaway
Is That All I Get?
The story is about a single mother who has grown tired of her life as a partner and a mother and wants to re-establish who she is as a person.
She has been a loving partner and fantastic mother but it still wasn’t enough for her cheating boyfriend.
Clarissa thought her life was fine. She has a 4 year old daughter who she loves dearly and a boyfriend she no longer trusts.
She wanted to take back her power and identity and she knew how to do it.
If she wanted to have the best sex of her life she knew she would have to be the one to make it happen.
Contemporary erotic romance for readers over the age of 18.
An English romantic and erotic TRUE story.
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