New! Work-Readiness Tools to Get and Stay Hired is holistic. Trainees discover via instruction and practice the foundational skills proven to be effective in getting a job/career and keeping it. Now these trainees are equipped with the basic tools for the workforce, but also for school, home, and the community. They demonstrate their strengths in learning, coping, communicating, and interacting with others. This New! Work-Readiness Tools to Get and Stay Hired is also a how to for succeeding in life.

Get an edge in the job market and develop the soft skills - the personal qualities, habits, attitudes, and social graces needed to work successfully with anyone, anywhere. Job Readiness for Health Professionals, Soft Skills Strategies for Success, 2nd Edition provides a unique tool for soft skill programming to help graduates succeed on the job as effective, engaged, and high-functioning employees. This handy resource uses an 8th grade reading level and a consistent, easy-to-follow modular format to guide you through the essential entry-level soft skills like how to dress, speak, and collaborate in the healthcare setting. With two new chapters, new Video Case vignettes, and 48 soft skills and behavioral competencies, it gives you the tools you need to join the healthcare workforce. Behavioral objectives provided for mastering each skill. Worktext format with journaling activities and multiple self-reflection activities offers valuable review exercises. Critical thinking exercises woven throughout skills include multidisciplinary scenarios from the field. What If? boxes feature short scenarios that encourage you to think about how you would handle a situation in the workplace. Case studies throughout use fictional vignettes to illustrate the issues involved with the specific skills. Down a Dark Road vignettes depict what can go terribly wrong when a skill is ignored or not mastered. Experiential Exercises are actions or experiments that you can perform on your own to gain a deeper appreciation for the skill. Cross Currents with Other Skills ties together and cross-references related skills, pointing out the synergies and connections between them. NEW! Highly anticipated Finding Your First Job chapter highlights competencies that you need to consider and prepare for when starting your job search, beginning a career in the health professions, writing your resume, and interviewing. NEW! Video Case vignettes with assessment and implementation tools on interview skills, active listening, dealing with others, problem solving and decision making, communication, presenting yourself for the workforce, working as a team, dealing with authority, and enhancing your promotability provide a multimedia component with real-life workplace scenarios for your review. NEW! Being a Student chapter covers competencies where students often struggle, including: taking meaningful notes, remaining calm and confident during assessments, and successfully preparing for practicum interviews. NEW! New content on financial literacy, including managing finances and paying back students loans, covers the impact financial decisions have on your life - both personally and as you look for a job.

Help! I Need a Job: A Work Readiness Guide - 2nd Edition is a step-by-step guidebook to finding and keeping a job, from identifying career goals to crafting a resume and cover letter. Learn how to prepare for the job interview, determine the key behaviors and characteristics that employers want in a great team, and even how to leave a job with style. This practical book gives the tools and insight needed to master the job search. Author Simmone L. Bowe founded a women's empowerment organization called Recharge Empowerment Group, which hosts inner healing retreats, events, and forums for men and women to renew their vision, redesign their life, and reignite their passion for life. She also founded the nonprofit youth empowerment organization Life Success Principles. It supports at-risk youth from urban and rural communities with life readiness skills to inspire their own personal vision, set goals, and manage relationships, time, and conflict. The program connects youth with positive inspirational role models who demonstrate that it is possible to overcome challenging situations and live life to the fullest.

Master the soft skills you need to succeed as a healthcare professional! A guide to personal behaviors, Job Readiness for Health Professionals, 4th Edition covers 48 different soft skills, including effective communication, collaborating with colleagues, time management, and searching for and applying for jobs. Engaging, hands-on exercises help you apply these skills in a variety of circumstances and practice settings. Easy to read and easy to follow, this book describes the proven strategies and practices that will help you find your first healthcare job and advance in your career. Guidelines to building a professional portfolio include checklists, a certificate, mock interviews, and ways to keep resumes up to date, all helping you create an effective tool demonstrating job readiness and advancement. Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills prepare you to analyze and handle situations, to better manage conflict and to quickly and effectively adapt to changes. Case studies show how specific soft skills are related to the challenges and issues of the healthcare profession. Work-text format includes journaling and self-reflection activities, providing opportunities to practice and apply skills. Learning objectives for each chapter provide measurable outcomes for you to achieve. Logical organization of topics begins with self-management and interpersonal skills, and moves on to communication skills, career building skills, and finally planning and advancing a career. Storytelling approach uses vignettes and realistic scenarios to make the content more personal and relatable. NEW! Preparing for the Externship chapter is added to this edition. NEW job readiness content includes up-to-date information on the use of social media, as well as certifications and registrations for healthcare professionals, mentoring, work-life balance, and continuing education. NEW! Updated content on diversity, equality, and inclusion is also added to this edition. NEW What If? scenarios and case studies are added.

This is the classroom book (no answers to the exercises, no chapter reviews) for Workplace Skills, the second book in Jay Goldberg's work readiness and customer service training program. The instructor should own a copy of Workplace Skills before their students purchase (or are provided with) a copy of this book. Workplace Skills can be purchased at online bookstores or at the book's web page https: //www.createspace.com/4108161. Workplace Skills' ISBN is 9781481826938. This book covers topics that help employees add value to their existing jobs and, therefore, provide them with skills that can lead to raises and promotions. The topics in this book include: time management, creative thinking, problem-solving skills, report generation, ethics, task completion, using procedure manuals, importance of continuing education, and more. In order to accomplish these skills, the proper use of reading, writing, and mathematics is explored since the way most were taught these topics in school does not apply in the workplace.