A USA Today–bestselling job-hunting guide to finding lucrative prospects, building confidence, and knowing your value on the job marketplace.Measure Up teaches those in a career transition, or considering it, how to discover lucrative job prospects before anyone else. Readers will learn through a series of tools and exercises how to build their confidence and understand, appreciate, and "sell" their true value in the job marketplace.Meas...

Measure Up helps those desiring or going through career transition understand their value and how to best communicate their value.For those considering career transition, Measure Up helps them create compelling and consistent messaging, resumes, and profiles that will attract the right leaders, peers, and hiring authorities. Within, readers learn how to identify and leverage companies hiring leaders, influencers, and peers in their career search and how to leverage process and tech...

**Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.**That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She stared at a long list of logistics--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pit...

The classic guide to working from home and why we should embrace a virtual office, from the bestselling authors of Rework“A paradigm-smashing, compulsively readable case for a radically remote workplace.”—Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of QuietDoes working from home—or anywhere else but the office—make sense? In Remote, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of Basecamp, bri...

Millions of artists entrepreneurs crafters and solopreneurs dream of making a living doing what they love. But turning their vision into a viable business plan can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Jennifer Lee knows what its like to make the entrepreneurial leap and how to do it successfully. The key is showing creative types how to use rather than stifle the imagination and intuition that make them creative in the first place. Lees illustrated colorful worksheets an...

Featured on CBS and WBZ Radio, Evan Pellett is the keynote guest speaker on Nightside with Dan Rea. You may have heard Evan as the radio expert on interviewing across the United States.Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview is a groundbreaking new scientific, proactive, cutting-edge, hands-on, proven approach to job interviews by an award-winning, highly decorated recruiter. This REAPRICH eight-step interview method will give you a proactive way to take control of your intervi...

The first interview book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles.Interviews instill fear in many a job-hunter, but this empowering guide from legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals that interviews are really just conversations to determine if the work—and workplace—is a great fit for both parties.For the first time, Bolles combines his decades of experience with the latest studies and job-market research to crea...

Don’t let destructive drama sideline your career.Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars erupt. But you need to work productively with your colleagues—even difficult ones—for the good of your organization and your career. How can you do that without compromising your personal values? By acknowledging that power dynamics and unwritten rules exist—and navigating them constructively.The H...

“Three Steps to Yes shows you how to sell your ideas or yourself . . . a clear guide for instilling trust and respect.” —BookPageEverybody has to sell something sometimes. Whether you’re a manager or an employee, getting your message across requires selling yourself and your ideas in a way that guarantees a positive response, even from the most stubborn listener. Three Steps to Yes teaches you how to get your way without becoming a high-pressure salesman, without ...

“Always be closing!” —Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992“Never Be Closing!” —a sales book title, 2014“?????” —salespeople everywhere, 2017For decades, sales managers, coaches, and authors talked about closing as the most essential, most difficult phase of selling. They invented pushy tricks for the final ask, from the “take delivery” close to the “now or never” close.But these tactics often alienated customers...

Negotiationwithout fear, for everyone, everywhereNicknamed “the negotiator” as a child,Fotini Iconomopoulos has been honing her skills her entire life. As asought-after expert, for more than a decade she’s been empowering Fortune 500executives and their teams to achieve their objectives, guiding them throughhigh-stakes scenarios in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail,professional services, energy, telecommuni...

Put yourself in the driver's seat of your success with tools from time management and planning for the future to conflict and accountability.In The Seven Mindsets of Success, readers will not only explore topics like embracing discomfort, healthy conflict, time management, perspective, safety nets, and future self, but the intrinsic motivation behind their success. They will learn secrets and steps that are easily overlooked in business today. They will we...