Job Almanacs

• Home
  Do you believe that you can define a person by the home they live in and the possessions they surround themselves with? Do the books on their shelves and the paint on their walls give away their personality, and what would you think about someone who lived in a white, minimal space with nothing at ...
• Careers for Homebodies and Other Independent Souls
  This is the only career series to match the right job with the right personality. Vital information provided in each book includes: suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors a selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements advice on competing i...
• Careers for Persuasive Types and Others Who Won't Take No for an Answer
  This is the only career series to match the right job with the right personality. Vital information provided in each book includes: suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors a selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements advice on competing i...
• Jobs and Careers Abroad
  This revised twelfth edition of the comprehensive guide to all kinds of work abroad provides essential information on permanent career opportunities around the world for people of all walks of life, from school leavers still deciding on a career to fully qualified professionals. The types of empl...
• Vault/Inroads Guide to Corporate Diversity Programs
  This annual Guide describes diversity programs at 500 major corporations--diversity internship and entry-level programs or efforts profiles of diversity team members, part-time/flex-time options, family leave policy, quantitative information regarding diversity staffing levels, and special programs...
• Best Careers for Bilingual Latinos
  Best Careers for Bilingual Latinos provides information on how to find a job in hot industries, leverage Hispanic language and culture skills, deal with stereotypes, handle job interviews, and play the corporate game....
• Gender Trials
  This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for wome...
• Career Creativity
  Careers are changing-a simple linear development is now rare. People need to be creative about their careers, and society needs to generate creativity from its work arrangements. Many believe that the so-called creative industries (media, high-tech, IT, etc.) offer a model for likely working patter...
• I'm an English Major, Now What?
  What do Joan Rivers, Steven Spielberg, Alan Alda, Barbara Walters, Clarence Thomas and Chris Isaak have in common? That's right - they were English majors who now have dream jobs. I'm an English Major - Now What? debunks the myth that English grads have to be teachers, editors or writers and provid...
• Big Book of Jobs
  This title offers comprehensive, up-to-the minute information on top jobs and job search techniques from the United States Department of Labor. With up-to-the-minute data from the U.S. Department of Labor, plus cutting-edge career strategies from McGraw-Hill, The Big Book of Jobs saves you precious...
• Career Anchors
  Lead your employees, clients, or students on a career path to success with the new third edition of Career Anchors. This edition features: three user friendly products that have been thoroughly updated and redesigned an integration of the Career Anchors Self Assessment with job/role analysis in one...
• Career Anchors: Facilitator's Guide Package
  Lead your employees, clients, or students on a career path to success with the new third edition of Career Anchors. This edition features: three user friendly products that have been thoroughly updated and redesigned an integration of the Career Anchors Self Assessment with job/role analysis in one...
• Career Guidance and Counseling Through the Lifespan
  The Sixth Edition of Career Guidance and Counseling Through the Lifespan: Systematic Approaches is a comprehensive treatment of career development theory and practice in a world of work which is undergoing profound change. The book examines the current changes in the organization and content of wor...
• Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development
  Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Developmentis a comprehensive, up-to-date text written by a leading expert in the field. This new edition contains a stronger emphasis on technology and on cross-cultural issues, and has an increased emphasis on application. As in previous editions ...
• Careers for Perfectionists and Other Meticulous Types
  This work provides vital information including: suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors a selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements advice on competing in hot job markets and, tips on transforming hobbies into job skills....
• Class and Occupation
  Miner, servant, farmer, doctor - the occupation made the man. The first substantial way of British immigrants into New Zealand brought this way of thinking and subsequent waves strengthened it. The New Zealand Census reflected the attitude by introdu...
• The Career Troubleshooter
  Most people tend to suffer from the same basic career problems, and the good news is that they can all be solved - and even transformed into valuable opportunities - if they're handled correctly. The Career Troubleshooter provides readers with the advice and strategies they need to triumph over 21 ...
• Opportunities in Holistic Health Care Careers
  Start a Robust Career in Holistic Health Care! Get started in a career that has a future and is financially rewarding. "Opportunities in Holistic Health Care Careers" provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the f...
• Whistle While You Work
  Everyone has a calling - something they were born to do. Heeding your calling is about deliberately choosing a way of life and work consistent with your gifts, passions, and values. It's a labor of love that is intrinsically satisfying. Whistle While You Work: Heeding Your Life's Calling is a liber...
• Adams Executive Recruiters Alm
  Profiling over 7,300 executive recruiters and employment services, this second edition gives up-to-date information on all major industries nationwide. Indices are arranged alphabetically and by specialization....
• Careers for Acquatic Types & Others Who Want to Make a Splash
  The only career series to match the right job with the right personality. . Vital information in each book includes: . . Suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors. A selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements. Advice on competing in hot...
• Discovering Your Perfect Caree
  Explains how to trade in an unsatisfactory job for a fulfilling career by providing a series of self-assessment tests designed to answer key questions about one's talents, values, interests, personality, and goals, as well as helpful advice on how to make a smooth career transition and how to land ...
• Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors
  A liberal arts degree offers abundant job possibities! You've worked hard for that liberal arts degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options. "Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors" wil...
• Opportunities in Cartooning and Animation Careers
  This book offers: The latest information on a field of interest Training and educational requirements for each career Salary statistics for different positions within each field Up-to-date professional and Internet resources...
• Career Counseling Over the Internet
  This is one of the first books on the subject of counselling clients via e-mail. The author has taken the area of counselling practice and systematically reviewed relevant counselling theory, counselling ethics and counselling skills in relation to web counselling. The objective is to provide a pra...
• Top 100 Computer and Technical Careers
  Jobs requiring computer and technical skills continue to grow. Explore 100 careers focused on computers and other technologies, assess which ones match your skills, and get the job you want quickly with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything...
• Careers in International Business
  As the global market for goods and services expands its scope, the world of international business has become a fertile source of fascinating career options. However, the competition is intense in this job sector, and only those with top-notch skills will survive and thrive. If you have ever consid...
• The Color of Teaching
  One of the major concerns in education at present is how to recruit and attract more teachers of colour to the profession. In an attempt to move beyond the superficial and simplistic responses as to why students of colour are not entering teaching, this work presents in-depth interviews with over 2...
• For Here or to Go
  A strong brew of resentment and righteous indignation marks this collection of stories, interviews, cartoons and personal essays by service workers. As one waitress declares, if I died and went to Dante's hell, I would spend eternity as a waitress serving white men in business suits. Ryan, Punk Pla...
• How To Start A Small Business in Canada
  This book is not just a primer, you will find it a kind of bible on starting and managing a small business in Canada. It covers the basic to advance principles of starting and growing a new business or buying a running business or franchise in Canada. This book will help you to take control of your...
• Survival Jobs
  In the first-ever guide to finding a satisfying job that will keep food on the table while you focus on your perhaps less lucrative dreams, Deborah Jacobson presents a detailed survey of employment possibilities that keep stressful money worries away and allow plenty of time for pursuing one's true...
• The Silk Weavers of Kyoto
  The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centred in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe...
• Young Adult's Guide to a Business Career
  How do you decide which career path to follow? How do you know which will be the most gratifying? Whether you are a high school student just preparing for college, already attending a university, or a recent graduate ready to enter the realm of full-time employment, you are facing decisions about a...
• Career Opportunities in the Internet, Video Games, and Multimedia
  After making its debut onto the computer scene in 1993, supporting a mere 50 servers, the World Wide Web has grown exponentially into a universal medium that can be accessed around the world by millions of people. Harboring unlimited amounts of information that can be found with the click of the mo...
• Careers for Extroverts and Other Gregarious Types
  It's a fact - different people thrive in different kinds of jobs. Careers for Extroverts & Other Gregarious Types encourages you to embrace your individuality by finding the job that matches your character traits - often jobs you'd never think of, but that take advantage of your strengths and abili...
• Careers for Introverts and Other Solitary Types
  It's a fact - different people thrive in different kinds of jobs. Careers for Introverts & Other Solitary Types encourages you to embrace your individuality by finding the job that matches your character traits - often jobs you'd never think of, but that take advantage of your strengths and abiliti...
• College Achievement And Vocational Efficiency
  This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages,...
• EZ Occupational Outlook Handbook
  A career classic made quick and easy--think of it as the OOH lite. This new book features engaging one-page descriptions of every career--nearly 270 in all--described in the Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook. More accessible than the OOH itself and not youth-oriented like the Youn...
• Ferguson Career Resource Guide for Women and Minorities, 2-Volume Set
  Each two-volume book contains four major sections: - Introduction and Overview: Provides forewords by notables in the field and an outline of the book - Essays: Features eight to 10 essays on topics such as workplace issues, financial aid, diversity, and more - Directory: Contains descriptions ...
• Great Jobs for Chemistry Majors
  Answers the question What can I do with a major in chemistry? It isn't always obvious what a chemistry major can offer to the workplace. But it does offer you valuable skills and training that can be applied to a wide range of careers. Great Jobs for...
• If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else
  This updated edition of a widely successful book offers sound, practical guidance for attaining the best possible future. This easy-to-read book offers a simple method for setting goals, followed by advice for prioritizing, pursuing, and ultimately achieving those goals....
• Salary Facts Handbook
  Based on a current and official U.S. Department of Labor survey of 1.2 million businesses, Salary Facts Handbook gives the most accurate and detailed pay information available on 800 jobs at 11 levels of education and training. No other resource matc...
• Teachers and International Labour Standards
  There are 40 million teachers in the world, they constitute the backbone of their nation's educational system and their status is of critical importance to educational quality and hence to national development. This publication offers a basic guide to international legal texts of relevance to the t...
• Today's Hot Job Targets
  This book's 100 hot-job snapshots include information on job tasks, projected growth, openings, salary, education required, personality type, and more. The education required for the careers range from short-term on-the-job training to a bachelor's degree. The industries discussed include energy, e...
• Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consumer Products Employers
  Vault brings its famed journalistic, insider approach to the insurance industry. The Guide provides business profiles, hiring and workplace culture information on more than 30 top employers, including The Coca-Cola Company, Kraft, Procter & Gamble, a...
• Tampa Cigar Workers
  From the founding of Ybor City in 1886 to the dispersal of Tampa's Latin population in the years following World War II, this book documents the history of the Cuban, Spanish, and Italian immigrants who created the cigar industry in Tampa and the extraordinary multi-ethnic community that flourished...
• Appalachian Coal Mining Memories
  Mary B. La Lone and 18 student researchers interviewed more than sixty people to document life styles of coal miners in the New River Valley, where coal is no longer mined. Miners and their families were dedicated to making a good life together and creating a real sense of community between themsel...
• Careers for Nonconformists
• Creating Your Career
  Ideal for students approaching work for the first time, as well as for anyone who hasn't yet stepped into the right career, this guide should help readers to make the best career decisions. Accepting that nobody has a guaranteed career for life, the book shows how it is still possible in today's co...
• The Career Psychology of Women
  Summarizing literature from the twenty-year-old field of women's career development, this book brings scholars and professionals up-to-date in their understanding of the factors influencing women's career choices and career adjustment across the life span. It serves as a vital base for theoretical ...
• The College Grad's Guide to Purgatory
  The dot.coms have all gone bust. Corporations are laying off workers by the thousands. The economy is in its worst state in nearly thirty years. Congratulations, you've just graduated from college, what are you going to do next? Finding a job after college has never been easy, but the 21st century ...
• First Job, Great Job
• The French Worker
  This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives spanned the 19th century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. These stories convey the ambitions, hardships and reversals of ordinary people strugg...
• The Glassworkers of Carmaux
• Having a Job Just Like Recess
  As a parent, you must wear all the hats: doctor, disciplinarian, nutritionist, counselor, coach, entertainer, educator, etc. How about career counselor? For most parents, that hat doesn't fit as comfortably. Many parents feel the extent of their career guidance is contained in these encouraging wor...
• Having a Job Just Like Recess:A Parent's Manual for Guiding and Gracing Your Child's Career Path
  As a parent, you must wear all the hats: doctor, disciplinarian, nutritionist, counselor, coach, entertainer, educator, etc. How about career counselor? For most parents, that hat doesn't fit as comfortably. Many parents feel the extent of their career guidance is contained in these encouraging wor...
• The Houston Job Bank
  JobBanks include company profiles featuring full company name, address, and phone number, contacts for professional hiring, a description of the company's products or services, listings of professional positions commonly filled, educational backgroun...
• Jobs 98: From Entry Level to Executive Positions Leads on More Than 40 Million Jobs
  Job seekers at every level will find what they need in the latest edition of this comprehensive, practical survey of what is happening in the job market today. As it reveals trends in the growth (or decline) of all leading industries, the guide covers in detail the prospects for jobs in every regio...
• Key Questions in Career Counseling
  The purpose of this book is to provide a tool for career services personnel to deliver more effective, consistnet career counseling. Its primary objective is to present a career counseling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method (the Key Questions Technique) for su...
• The Los Angeles Job Bank
  -- Full company name, address, and phone number -- Contacts for professional hiring -- Description of company's products or services -- Listings of professional positions commonly filled -- Educational backgrounds sought -- Fringe benefits -- Internships offered -- And more! Each JobBank also inclu...
• The MLA Guide to the Job Search: A Handbook for Departments and for PhDs and PhD Candidates in English and Foreign Languages
  For over two decades graduate students--more than 25,000 of them--have relied on the Modern Language Association's guide for job seekers in the academic market. Updated and greatly expanded, The MLA Guide to the Job Search offers students invaluable advice on seeking jobs at two- and four-year coll...
• Stage Writers Handbook
  Written in a straightforward manner, with complicated matters clearly explained, Stage Writers Handbook is truly a work no writer for the stage can afford to be without. Here, for the first time, Dana Singer gathers the information and ideas stage writers need to conduct their careers in a business...
• Vault Career Guide to Pharmaceuticals Sales & Marketing
  Get the inside scoop on pharmaceutical sales careers with this new Vault Guide. Overview of the industry functions in pharmaceutical sales: field sales, sales management, training and development, instructional design/content development, project management jobs and career paths getting hired - edu...
• Vault Guide to International Careers
  An estimated 90 million people work outside their country of birth. This guide introduces readers to major career opportunities from foreign service employees and corporate transfers to English teachers and entrepreneurs....
• Vault Guide to the Top Financial Services Employers
  From the author of the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers, now in its 4th edition, this Guide profiles 55 employers, including American Express, AIG, Capital One, Fidelity, FleetBoston, GE Capital, Prudential, Vanguard Group, and Visa. The inside scoop on what it's like to work and what it...
• What Do I Do with My Major in Psychology
  This book provides the reader with useful information for pursuing the major of Psychology. Each step for meaningfully studying the major of Psychology is explained. Steps from deciding on the major to where to look for career and graduate school information are explained....
• Careers without College: Emergency Services
  Ideal solutions for job seekers without a college degree....
• Getting Real
  The author of "The Couple's Journey" presents ten truths one must master to live an authentic life. These simple yet practical awareness practices—culled from Campbell's 35-year career as a relationship coach—require individuals to "let go" of the need to b...
• Vault Guide to the Top Nonprofit & Government Employers, 2006 Edition
  The Guide provides business profiles, hiring and owrkplace culture information on top employers....
• Effective Teacher Hiring
• Employment & Business Opportunities with Major US & International Corporations with Business and Investment Projects in Russia, CIS & Baltics
  Major investment, export-import and other strategic business opportunities and contacts, basic information for conducting business in the country...
• Local Job Bank Carolina
• Local Job Bank Connecticut
• Loving Your Work Ever After
• Careers for Talkative Types and Others with the Gift of Gab
  Vital information in each book includes: suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors a selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements advice on competing in hot job markets and tips on transforming hobbies into job skills....
• Wartime Shipyard
  In 1942, Katherine Archibald, a graduate student at Berkeley, left the halls of academy to spend two years working in a nearby Oakland shipyard. She arrived with a host of preconceptions about the American working class, race relations and the prospect for their improvement, and wartime unity. Her ...
• Career Choice and Development
  The fourth edition of Career Choice and Development brings together the most current ideas of the recognized authorities in the field of career development. This classic best-seller has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the most influential theories of career choice and development, a...
• A Coat of Many Colors
  For more than a century and a half - from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th - the garment industry was the largest manufacturing industry in New York City, and New York made more clothes than anywhere else. For generations, the industry employed more New Yorkers than any other a...
• Best Jobs For The 21st Century
  In just two steps, Best Jobs for the 21st Century helps readers quickly and easily focus their career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions). This new edition offers bonus lists showing careers with the most-improves outlook since the last e...
• Career Development and Counseling
  'This is a must-have for any researcher in vocational psychology or career counseling, or anyone who wishes to understand the empirical underpinnings of the practice of career counseling' - Mark Pope, EdD College of Education, University of Missouri - St. Louis past president of the American Counse...
• The Book of U.S. Government Jobs
  With over half of the federal workforce eligible for retirement, abundant job opportunities are available. The new 10th edition offers job seekers all of the tools necessary to land a high paying job with Uncle Sam, this country's largest employer. Uncle Sam employs over 2,700,000 civilian workers ...
• NetSlaves
  Beyond the media frenzy of the dot.com bust, here is a behind-the-scenes account of what became of American tech industry workers. Technology professionals, former employees of failed Internet start-ups, downsized corporate workers, and entrepreneurs eager to avoid mistakes of the recent past shoul...
• Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms
  The only annually updated insider's guide to consulting firms, The Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms, now in its 10th edition, is an unbiased, investigative look at the top management and strategy consulting firms. Based on interviews and surveys of more than 1,500 consultants, the guide p...
• The Fabric of Gender
  The years of the Third Republic (18701940) in France were ones of intense social and economic transformation as workers struggled to defend their rights in the face of growing industrial capitalism. In The Fabric of Gender, Helen Chenut paints a vivid picture of working life during these years by f...
• Fairness and Division of Labor in Market Societies
  The author posits that the US and the German automotive industries undertook similar patterns of industry modification during the 1990s, which departed from their traditional national patterns. Investigating the processes, he reconsiders the prevalent paradigms of political economy....
• Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire
• Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy
  In Russia's Cotton Workers and the New Economic Policy Chris Ward uses a wide range of published and unpublished Soviet sources to examine key aspects of life on the shop floor of the Russian cotton mill in the 1920s. He reveals the existence of a complex world of work which grew out of the interac...
• Artisans in Europe, 1300-1914
  This book is a survey of the history of work in general and of European urban artisans in particular, from the late middle ages to the era of industrialization. Unlike traditional histories of work and craftsmen, this book offers a multi-faceted understanding of artisan experience situated in the a...
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  The OOH is the most widely respected and used career reference available. It features well-written, interesting descriptions for nearly 270 major jobs in the U.S. and summary information on additional jobs. For each job, the book discusses the nature of the work, working conditions, job outlook, tr...
• Enhanced Occupational Outlook Handbook
  With more job descriptions than in any other career reference, this resource provides a practical way to obtain and use the information from the three most authoritative occupational data sources. It includes the complete text of the latest Occupational Outlook Handbook, plus related job descriptio...
• Vault Guide to the Top Financial Services Employers, 5th Edition
• 150 Best Jobs Through Military Training
  Which military jobs lead to the best civilian careers? No other resource gives in-depth, important facts for connecting military training to desirable jobs in the civilian world. This new book covers 75 military occupations and their 150 best civilian counterparts through a total of 225 detailed jo...
• 150 Best Jobs for Your Skills
  Employers need workers with good skills! However, most people find it difficult to identify the skills they already have. Knowing your skills is important in the job search for writing resumes, interviewing, and showing employers your value. Plus, people are happier doing jobs they are good at and ...
• O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  This best-selling career reference puts the official jo . descriptions and other important information from the U.S. epartment of Labor's massive ONET database into useful and manageable print form. It provides high-quality, current labor market information covering nearly 100 percent of the workfo...
• Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts
  Established in 1659 as Mision de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de los Mansos del Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juarez is the oldest colonial settlement on the U.S.-Mexico border - and one of the largest industrialized border cities in the world. Since the days of its founding, Juarez has been marked by diff...
• Careers for Women
  Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork....
• Paradise Laborers
• Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers, 2008 Edition
• Farewell to the Factory
  This study exposes the human side of the decline of the US auto industry, tracing the experience of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. In includes ext...
• Job Descriptions for Film, Video & CGI
  Job Descriptions is the standard and definitive A-to-Z reference guide to the duties and responsibilities of film and video industry craftspersons. It offers detailed descriptions of what each craftsperson in more than 150 categories is expected to contribute to a production and to whom that crafts...