Dives into the history of employment discrimination toward people of color in the United States. This title looks at legislation that has helped battle employment discrimination, as well as race-based discrimination at work today

Features advice for first-time job seekers on finding employment and building a professional career, addressing such topics as raesumae writing, interviewing, negotiating, advancing within a company, and changing jobs.

Presents a set of rules and guidelines for effective job interviewing, providing the thought behind three hundred common interview questions and answers and including tips on stressful situations and strange interview venues.

MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's employment market. The 3rd edition includes new resume samples along with companion LinkedIn profiles and writing guidelines, special chapters for challenging circumstances (career change, consulting/freelance, military transition, return to work), and updated e-resume recommendations. In this book, you'll learn to: Write tight, lean, clean, laser-focused...

"Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to write a dynamic, effective resume that: stands out in a resume database, builds a strong persona brand employers will want ton their team, passes recruiters' six-second scan test, speaks to exactly what employers are looking for"--Provided by publisher.

Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.

The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers." The end of retirement? -- On frequently traveled routes between seasonal jobs, Jessica Bruder meets people from all walks of life: a former professor, a McDonald's vice president, a minister, a college administrator,...