Career Education

A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in...

We’re asking the wrong question. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is no longer serving our students. This question perpetuates the myth that all students need to pick one job title—for life. The world has changed. The information age has created thousands of career possibilities. Artificial intelligence is causing major disruptions in almost every industry, and will bring about seismic shifts in the way we work. To prepare students for this new reality, we need a different approach.

Tay Sweat knows money can’t buy you more time in life—but it can buy you more options for how to spend that time. F-U Money buys the freedom to spend time doing what you like, freedom to focus on your health and relationships, and freedom to be happy. Tay has spent years using multiple income streams to generate F-U Money to buy that freedom. Now, he’s doing what so few rich people are willing to—sharing the roadmap with you!

Never Split the Difference gives you back the power in any situation. Voss teaches you how to approach negotiations in all aspects of your life. Think back to the last time you had a disagreement with someone and walked away feeling like you could have done more to be understood. This audiobook gives you the knowledge you need to have an edge in any discussion. It will help improve both your personal and professional life.

Tens of millions of Americans owe a combined $1.5 trillion in debt for student loans. Much of this staggering expense has been unnecessary. Attending college is more of a tradition - a cultural rite of passage - than a necessary step toward a successful career, thus not justifying its steep cost. As countless entrepreneurs and creative hustlers have shown, there is a path to success outside of the institutions of so-called higher learning.

Do you want to become an expert in Rails programming, but do you find all the technical jargon challenging? Do you need a reference guide that walks you through step by step and skips all the challenging, intimidating technical data? This audiobook includes step-by-step details on creating all steps of articles, data, and forms! Take the correct step, download this audiobook now to begin your successful education in Rails - in a single day!

This is the audio summary of Find Your Why, a book that digs deep into one of the most crucial aspects of any business or career, and the first step to seeing progress - finding the why behind doing what you do.

From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor of physics at Amherst College and director of the academic program of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, comes this call to revisit the roots and reclaim the vision of higher education. The Heart of Higher Education proposes an approach to teaching and learning that honors the whole human being - mind, heart, and spirit - an essential integration if we hope to address the complex issues of our time.

Are you ready to embark on your journey to becoming a NHA-certified phlebotomist? Look no further! You are no doubt a busy individual with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study for the NHA exam. However, the truth is that the NHA test is a challenging exam. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test.

Although there are more women in higher education than ever before—and increasingly in leadership positions—their paths to success are more difficult than those paved for men. Nine Guiding Principles for Women in Higher Education is a concise and accessible resource aimed at helping women faculty succeed in their academic careers. Karyn Z. Sproles offers guidance, humor, and courage to women in higher education, paying particular attention to those with children and women of color.

In Mastering the Art of Quitting, the authors show us how to let go when we need to and how to start over. A guide to increasing our emotional and mental flexibility, assessing our goals, and knowing when to hang in or bail out, it tackles our tendencies to overanalyze, ruminate, and put a positive spin on situations we actually need to avoid. In a culture which perceives quitting as a last resort, Alan Bernstein and Peg Streep show that it’s an essential tool for a happy and successful life. They reveal simple truths which apply to goals in all areas of life including love, relationships, and work.

Facebook advertising provides an advertiser with a huge outreach opportunity. It has certain unique advantages over other forms of advertising that makes Facebook advertising a must-have in any savvy advertiser’s arsenal. The benefits that accrue from Facebook advertising are quite significant, and you'll learn why and how to get started.

This fact-pact and enlightening book covers everything kids need to know about becoming a vet. It also gives a realistic view of what daily life is like as a vet—the challenges and triumphs.

A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. “Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.”―BILL GATES...

This is an audio summary and analysis of the book Mind to Matter by Dawson Church. Quickly learn how you can focus your own energy to physically alter the world around and within you and connect with a higher plane of existence.

¡Enhorabuena! ¡Si estás por aquí, es porque estás interesado en aprender cómo invertir en ti mismo y gestionar su dinero para lograr la libertad financiera! La educación financiera es la educación y la comprensión de saber cómo se hace, se gasta y se ahorra el dinero, así como las habilidades y la capacidad de usar los recursos financieros para tomar decisiones.

It all looks so easy. You just make viral YouTube videos or get on a reality talent show. Right? Wrong! Nancy Bos speaks real to teen girls about how to BE a singer. This book and journal lets teens explore all of the options including (and way beyond) being a pop star or professional singer. This is also a book for parents who want to understand the complex and vital relationship of music and singing and how it empowers our daughters. The Teen Girl's Singing Guide is personal, profound, and surprisingly practical!

How to Animate is the first of it’s kind - a series of 26 books collecting everything I have learned so far in my 30-plus year career. It contains all of the advanced techniques that would normally take a lifetime to master! The first book, Advancing Your Animation Beyond The Basics, is the gateway to all of the others. It will show you what skills you need to learn to become a great animator. The other books in this series will teach you those skills. It doesn’t matter what style of animation you do, the techniques, theories, and mindset taught, relates to all of them.

Over the course of this audiobook, you're going to learn a whole lot about many different topics: from risk assessment to the different types of audits, all the way to how to perform all of them and file a report. You'll also discover how auditing relates to accounting and how you yourself can be a great auditor and perform your job extremely well.

A good idea not shared or understood by others is a shame. A brilliant idea not shared and understood is a tragedy. Public speaking is so much more than the courage to stand in front of a group and talk. For a presentation to be powerful, it must have the right amount of content, organized in a memorable way for both speaker and audience, delivered with power, warmth, and charisma, and it must be spoken in the language of the audience.