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Category: BooksBy Kate Lorenz on Oct 7, 2009 in Books, Featured, Interviews, Job Search | 0 Comments
I can’t tell you how many books on job search, leadership, management and general workplace issues come across my desk every week. Rachel, Anthony and I receive so many, it’s difficult to keep up with them all, and I do a purge of our bookshelf about twice a year. (I think we need a bigger bookshelf [...]
By anthony balderrama on Sep 22, 2009 in Books, Featured, Job Search, Unemployment | 4 Comments
We get a lot of questions from readers here at The Work Buzz (and if you want to ask us one, feel free to leave it in the comments here) and on Twitter. Looking at what everyone is saying, we realize that people are struggling to not only find a job but also stay sane [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 31, 2009 in Books, Featured | 0 Comments
Last week we told you about our new book, CAREER BUILDING: Your Total Handbook for Finding a Job and Making It Work .
Expanding on CareerBuilder.com’s popular content, CAREER BUILDING takes readers from résumé and cover letter tips to office etiquette to career troubleshooting to job hunting while you’re working and leaving gracefully when you go. It’s [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 27, 2009 in Books, Featured | 6 Comments
These days, job seekers need all the tools they can get their hands on. CareerBuilder.com just released “CAREER BUILDING: Your Total Handbook for Finding a Job and Making It Work” (Collins Business) and it’s filled with advice you can use not only in your job search but also throughout your career.
Here’s an excerpt:
Are you employable? [...]
By Kate Lorenz on Mar 25, 2009 in Books, Career Advice, Featured | 4 Comments
Looking for a new job search tool? We’ve got just the thing.
From the editors at CareerBuilder – including TheWorkBuzz writers Anthony, Rachel and yours truly – comes CAREER BUILDING: Your Total Handbook for Finding a Job and Making it Work, a no-nonsense handbook that tells workers of all ages and all stages of their careers everything you need to know about [...]
By rachel zupek on Feb 5, 2009 in Books, Employment, Employment Trends, Featured | 5 Comments
It’s no secret that the unstable economy is making most workers feel uneasy about their jobs. A new survey by CareerBuilder.com reveals that 26 percent of workers worry about losing their jobs more today than a year ago and 35 percent said the workplace has become more competitive because of a fear of job cuts. [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Dec 4, 2008 in Books, Fun stuff | 0 Comments
All of us have to navigate a tricky world in the workplace. There’s office politics, interpersonal relationships and channels of communication that are often blocked off or loaded with metaphorical landmines.
It can make you wish things were as easy as they were in childhood, when communication was simple and where you were more open to [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Nov 17, 2008 in Books | 0 Comments
A few weeks ago, noted author Studs Terkel passed away. He was a well known figure across the country and especially in Chicago, where he lived, wrote and worked for years.
Terkel wrote dozens of books, but perhaps one of his best-known works is a non-fiction book called Working.
Working was initially published in 1974, but it’s [...]
By CareerBuilder blogger on Jul 23, 2008 in Books, Career Advice, Work/Life | 0 Comments
Here on the job seeker blog, we do a lot of talking. A. Lot. Of. Talking. We do it in an effort to give our readers all the tools, information and resources that we can so they can be total rock stars, whether they are on a job interview or on the clock.
But even the [...]
