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From "botoxing" your resume to starting and improving your website or blog to updating your wardrobe, Mandell shares the secrets that will get mid-career job seekers noticed and on the payroll.
Unfortunately, getting older can be a career killer. That's what entertainment journalist Lisa Johnson Mandell discovered when she sent out a resume that made her sound like an aged veteran. Her new career makeover guide—expanded...

Graham, a career coach, psychologist, and corporate recruiter, shows readers how to switch careers and secure the job they want. She details the job search process, along with the psychological principles underlying the journey and how hiring managers and recruiters think. She explains how to figure out a plan, map the path to a career switch, craft a professional identity, explain ones career story, use a nontraditional job search process, network,...

Fully updated with advice reflecting the current job market, a revised and expanded edition of the best-selling career guide discusses digital resumes, online interviews, and making the most of social media tools. "The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold! For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether...

Mission Transition is an invaluable resource when dealing with the complicated world of retirement and transition from the military to civilian life, for both military service members and their families.

"On paper, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York's fashion world. After a string of unpaid internships, she's now a fashion columnist at Chic, lives in a quaint apartment in Manhattan, and gets invited to exclusive industry events. But life in New York City isn't as chic as Zoe imagined. Her editor wants her to censor her opinions to please the big brands; she shares her "quaint" (read: small) apartment with two roommates who never let her store kimchi...

"Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most celebrated and influential comics artists, but his work has been almost entirely unavailable to English-speaking audiences. The Man Without Talent, his first book to be translated into English, is an unforgiving self-portrait of frustration. Swearing off cartooning as a profession, Tsuge takes on a series of unconventional jobs--used-camera salesman, ferryman, stone collector--hoping to find success among the hucksters,...