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Product Description: Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever tried to educate, whether that act has taken place in a classroom, a church or synagogue, a museum, or at the kitchen table...read more

Product Description: Corporate to Classroom is designed to help new teachers, especially those entering education from the corporate arena, embrace the paradigm shift that is going to take place in their first few years of teaching. Out there in the vast community of new teachers, there are career-switchers that are wondering why they left Egypt (their last jobs), only to be miserable in the desert (their first year or so teaching)...read more

Product Description: Favorite authors discuss the day jobs they left behind. These authors tell good tales. Contributory autobiographical essays by: John Grisham, Pat Conroy, Howard Bahr, Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Connie May Fowler, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay, Winston Groom, Silas House, Suzanne Hudson, Joshilyn Jackson, Barb Johnson, Cassandra King, Janis Owens, Michelle Richmond, Clay Risen, George Singleton, Matthew Teague, Daniel Wallace, Brad Watson, Steve Yarbrough and Sonny Brewer...read more

Product Description: With more than 3 million copies of previous editions in print, this book has set the gold standard for military-to-civilian career transition. It covers everything from organizing an effective job search, obtaining transition assistance, identifying transferable skills, developing employer-centered objectives, and conducting research to writing resumes and letters, networking, interviewing, negotiating salary, finding a government job, and starting a business...read more

Product Description: The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for Sector Switchers is the comprehensive resource for transitioning professionals pursuing new career options in the nonprofit sector.Get indispensable advice, relevant strategies, and nonprofit-specific resources to strengthen your job search...read more

Product Description: Are you or someone you know standing at an occupational fork in the road? This book will introduce you to 22 lawyers who successfully left private practice to pursue new opportunities. From a Broadway star to the Commissioner of Baseball, this book is not only an entertaining read, but proof positive that with a law degree and a little perseverance, anything is possible...read more

Product Description: There is an epidemic facing our world today. People everywhere, even those who are successful by most standards, are utterly disconnected from what they really want out of life. We've abandoned our true passions and dreams in exchange for a daily grind that offers no fulfillment...read more

Product Description: Are you frustrated by the indignities of life in today’s workplace? More work, longer hours, fewer benefits, incompetent bosses―career consultant and expert Andrea Kay has heard it all. In her new book, Kay connects with the 85 percent of the workforce who feel unsatisfied with their careers...read more

Product Description: 10 Strategies for Reentering the Workforce: Career Advice for Anyone Who Needs a Good (or Better) Job Now is an easy-to-read guide for anyone who needs to reenter the workforce because of economic necessity, a plant closing, corporate downsizing, divorce, injury, or other life-changing circumstance―including the simple desire for a new challenge...read more

Product Description: From PinkSlip 2 GreenPower is a career-resurrection guide written for individuals who are experiencing the uncertainty of having to plot a new course in their lives, particularly individuals who have lost their jobs. From PinkSlip 2 GreenPower is a spiritually-based alternative to the traditional career replacement and enhancement materials commonly available to those whose jobs and careers have ended unexpectedly or prematurely...read more

Product Description: Since the recent attacks of September 11, 2001, the intelligence community has been on a hiring binge. According to some estimates, over half of those currently employed in the agencies and departments that comprise the U.S. intelligence community have less than six years experience...read more

Product Description: Are you ready for a change?Whether you’re seeking a more fulfilling job or rethinking your career goals after a layoff, the questions you face are crucial. In Strategies for Successful Career Change, seasoned business and career journalist Martha E...read more

Describes the best civilian jobs for which military training will offer good preparation; presents lists of them by organized demographic, interests, and personality type; and discusses the military jobs that provide training for them.

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Describes alternative routes to teaching, covering how they were developed, national programs, and state certification requirements.

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Product Description: As never before, workers are searching for a life that is richer, more balanced, authentic, and challenging. And when they find that their needs can't be met in the traditional workplace, they are taking control and walking away. "The Opt-Out Revolt" delivers the facts behind this growing phenomenon: how the universal need for authenticity, balance, and challenge drives career and life decisions for women and men alike; the critical role gender plays in the patterns of today's careerists; what choices women are making and why; how men's priorities differ from women's and how they affect their career paths; and what the best organizations are doing to stem the flow of talent heading out the door...read more