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Personal Marketing

cover of Personal Marketingauthor: Ed Bagley
asin: 0965809412
binding: Paperback
list price: $18.52 USD
amazon price: $15.00 USD


Helps America's 124 million employees personally market themselves better by using new ideas and techniques to get a job, get a better job, build a new career, or reposition themselves in the economy following a merger, acquisition, restructuring or downsizing. Learn how to create, write and format a quality resume with interview getting ability. Written by a marketing consultant who helps people get where they want to go, Personal Marketing and Quality Resumes has excellent advice for first time job hunters as well as executives and professionals in management positions with higher incomes.

Developing Successful Grants

cover of Developing Successful Grantsauthor: Mike DuBose
Martha Davis
Anne Black
asin: 0975321226
binding: Paperback

As president of Research Associates, a nationally recognized grants development and training firm, Mike DuBose brings readers an easy-to-understand book that reveals many of his company's tips on how to find, write, and evaluate successful grant programs. With more than 50 years' combined experience among them, DuBose and co-authors, Anne Black and Martha Davis, are three of the country's most successful grantwriters, securing more than $200 million in grants with a success rate of 90 percent.  read more »

Conquering Your Undergraduate Thesis (Students Helping Students series)

cover of Conquering Your Undergraduate Thesis (Students Helping Students series)author: Nataly Kogan
asin: 0971939209
binding: Paperback
list price: $6.95 USD
amazon price: $6.95


No doubt you've been bombarded with "expert" advice from your parents, professors, and countless advisors. It's time you got advice you can really use - from fellow students who've been where you're headed! All Students Helping Students guides are written and edited by top students and recent grads from colleges and universities across the U.S. You'll find no condescending advice here - just stuff to help you succeed in tackling you academic, social, and professional challenges!  read more »

Successful Self-Publishing : Making and selling your own book

cover of Successful Self-Publishing : Making and selling your own bookauthor: Sherryl Clark
asin: 0868066265
binding: Paperback
list price: $19.95 USD
amazon price: $19.95 USD


What does Self-publishing really mean? Is it printing thousands of copies which moulder in your garage?  read more »

Writing on the Wall: The Campaign for Commonsense Business

cover of Writing on the Wall: The Campaign for Commonsense Businessauthor: Geoff Burch
asin: 184112043X
binding: Paperback
list price: $29.95 USD
amazon price: $29.95 USD


This is the business book we have been waiting for. Whilst we watch in horror as the consultants, the gurus and the management experts interfere with our jobs and lives with no apparent benefit, along comes this latest book from Geoff Burch that confirms that all our fears were true.This waspish, funny and often downright vicious expose of everything from marketing to HRM and even change management leaves no stone unturned and no taboo untrampled.But this is no mere hatchet job.  read more »

Webster's New World Fundamentals of Grant Writing

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A proven formula for assembling a winning grant proposal! Each year the government and private endowments award hundreds of millions of dollars in grant money to businesses and educational institutions. Webster's New World Fundamentals of Grant Writing gives practical, up-to-date advice on writing proposals that tap into these funding sources. Packed with essential information on research and preparation, this book shows you how to efficiently cover and prepare each aspect of a grant proposal, using the language style, and formatting grant reviewers expect to see.

CVS and Job Applications (One Step Ahead)

cover of CVS and Job Applications (One Step Ahead)author: Judith Leigh
asin: 0198606141
binding: Hardcover
list price: $15.70 USD
amazon price: $15.70 USD


A book of practical advice and useful tips on how to design your CV and write successful job applications. This lively, accessible, and illustrated guide is divided into two sections. The first provides comprehensive advice on what to consider when putting a CV together, compiling an application, and going to the interview. Also covered are speculative and online applications, circumstances such as returning to work after a break or changing direction, references, and clarifying the job offer.  read more »

The Business of Writing (Allison & Busby's Writer's Guides) (Allison & Busby's Writer's Guides)

cover of The Business of Writing (Allison & Busby's Writer's Guides) (Allison & Busby's Writer's Guides)author: Gordon Wells
asin: 0749003626
binding: Paperback
list price: $12.95 USD
amazon price: $12.95 USD


It is a big mistake for any writer to overlook the business side of writing. Inspiration and creativity are the writer s starting point, but it takes business acumen and a professional attitude to do well in the race. Gordon Wells here offers detailed advice to all would-be professionals.  read more »