The first guide to show secretaries and other office workers how to create dazzling, powerful resumes that get the job!
As a secretary or office worker in today's office, you are at the forefront of an office automation revolution. You possess technical skills and abilities as never before. Yet on resumes, these skills are routinely oversimplified and underestimated, and presented in a "one-size-fits-all" format that no longer works in today's fiercely competitive job market.
This savvy resume-writing guide--the first and only designed expressly for office personnel--shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell your special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a targeted resume that zeros in on a prospective employer's exact needs. In addition, the book is packed with special features, including: Visual resume guides that build your resume right along with youReal-life before-and-after winning sample resumes for all types of clerical jobsInnovative strategies for new grads, career changers, and others
Whether you're an executive, legal or medical secretary, an administrative assistant, office manager, clerk, receptionist, word processing or data entry operator bookkeeper, or customer service rep, this book will arm you with everything you need to produce a top-notch, targeted resume that stands head and shoulders above the rest.
The Commercial Break Workout: Firm and Tone Two Minutes at a Time by Linda Buch, ISBN 0761528180
Shape Up "and Improve Your Health--from the Couch!
No more excuses: With this fun and motivating book, you can actually get a workout and enhance your physical condition "while watching TV!
It's true. This lighthearted book produces serious results and is the work of top-notch fitness experts. Inside are spirited and spunky beginner, intermediate, and advanced exercises that cover everything from posture and balance to stretching and strengthening. "The Commercial Break Workout will guide you through a series of safe and progressive exercises that work on your chest, back, and shoulders and shape up the arms, torso, butt, gut, legs, and heart--all during commercial breaks! Best of all, there's no equipment to buy, no special clothing to wear, and, of course, no schedule changes to your TV plans.
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Keep Your Fork: A Collection of Favorite Recipes
500 recipes. Destined to become a family heirloom type of gift book, this is a well crafted collection of home style comfort food. Recipes were developed by the author through her 25 year involvement with Le Cuisine Cooking Club. The author is a Texan, but the recipes will be well received in any market. Most are simple to prepare, but she has included some elegant, take your time and enjoy the process ideas for entertaining and special family meals. Cover is lightly padded and book has a substantial look and feel.
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Barron's ACT
Revised and updated to reflect the current ACT Assessment tests, this manual and its accompanying CD-ROM offers high school students comprehensive preparation for a major national college entrance exam. In-depth reviews cover all test areas: English, Math, Reading, and Science. Because the ACT also offers an extra and optional, half-hour-long Writing Test, the manual includes a writers guide specifically tailored to meet test-takers needs. In addition to subject reviews, this book contains an overview of the ACT, a diagnostic test, and three full-length practice ACTs with all questions answered and explained. Students will find additional practice exercises in all subjects, study advice, and test-taking strategies. The accompanying CD-ROM simulates test-taking conditions for the actual 2 hours, 55 minutes ACT test. It presents computerized versions of all tests in the book plus automatic scoring.
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Freddy Goes Camping by Walter R. Brooks, ISBN 014230249X
When Mr. Camphor tells Freddy about an abandoned summer hotel and the unfriendly ghosts that live there, Freddy is determined to find out just what's going on. Freddy needs the perfect cover-up, so he packs up for some camping. Illustrations.
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Keeping Pet Chickens
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KEEPING PET CHICKENS
When you're looking for fresh eggs, what could be better than going out to your backyard and collecting them, courtesy of your own home-bred chickens? Food doesn't come any fresher, and the good news is that keeping two or three chickens is easy. They don't require farmland or much special equipment, and today's modern chicken houses are designed so that anyone with even a little backyard or terrace space can keep poultry. But you will need some essential "must-know" information, which you can find in this easy-to-understand book. The authors provide all the advice you'll require, and the instructive captioned illustrations will show you exactly how to master every aspect of keeping and raising healthy and productive poultry.
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Little Lamb by Inc Scholastic, ISBN 0439544297
Little Lamb loves to play hide-and-seek. While searching for the perfect hiding place, she discovers that there is a world beyond her "green, green field." She meets a cow, a pig, and a duck along the way, but soon Little Lamb is lost. Eventually, she meets a kind sheepdog who leads her safely back home and into her mother's loving arms. Beautifully illustrated by Piers Harper, LITTLE LAMB features glorious flocking on the cover and throughout the interior. Children will delight in caressing the soft - to - touch animals on every page.
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The Future of the American Labor Movement by Hoyt N. Wheeler, ISBN 0521893542
Coming at a time of profound change in the global conditions under which American organized labor exists, The Future of the American Labor Movement describes and analyzes labor's strategic alternatives. It casts its net broadly, taking into account ideas that range from the current European Social Dialogue to the methods of the nineteenth Century American Knights of Labor. There are a number of intriguing strategies that have potential for reviving the U.S. labor movement, of which worker ownership and labor capital strategies are examples. There is a necessity for a number of diverse strategies to be pursued simultaneously. For this to work, there has to be a a broad movement of labor, consisting of diverse parts, held together by a clear idea of its purpose and a new structure. Hoyt N. Wheeler is Professor of Management and Chair, Management Department, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Wheeler is a former president of the Industrial Relations Research Association,...
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I'm Just Here for More Food: Food X Mixing + Heat = Baking
The popular host of "Good Eats" explores the science behind our favorite sweets, and savories, explaining it all in his own inimitable style. More than 80 recipes cover all the basics any baked-good lover could covet, from pie crust to funnel cake to homemade Pop Tarts to cheese souffl.
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