The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about job interviewing. You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use ‘best practices’ to land your ‘dream’ job. If you are a sports fan, you will recognize that any sport has a set of rules and varying degrees of competition. Searching for a job, your job, is a competitive situation. It could come down to two or more possible candidates, hopefully you, being one of them, having very similar qualifications. Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice! This is a three book bundle containing:Book #1 You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work; Book #2 You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work & Book #3 You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work

There’s an old saying that goes “the squeaky wheel... gets the grease.” The saying may have been true at one point in time but now... The business world is a busy and crowded place. How can a business professional standout from the cacophony of others clambering for attention and recognition? Some will tell you it is easy now-a-days to create an on-line reputation The author believes creating your on-line persona is important however, it is but one step at a self-promotional and marketing strategy. Blow Your Own Horn! Personal Branding for Business Professionals delivers strategies to build your on-line presence and gain recognition in your community. Your goal may be to raise your prominence at work to apply for a job you have been eying. Perhaps, your goal is to run for political office, but it seems no one knows who you are. This book is for business professionals who want to raise their visibility in a crowded workplace or a personal interest venture. Some will tell you blowing your own horn is bragging. The author argues against that belief. If we are to move forward and benefit from our accomplishments, we need to self-promote. Blow Your Own Horn! Personal Branding for Business Professionals offers: Strategies for personal branding and marketing. Self-promotion utilizing Linkedin as a tool. Effective networking techniques for self-promotion. Self-promotion strategies related to job searching. On-line reputation management and... Additional social media venues that could be helpful to you in developing your personal brand. Now is the time to let the world know what you have offer. It’s time to start blowing your own horn! This book shows you how.

It is often said "it takes a village to raise a child." The same can be said about helping an elder age at home. Perhaps not a village, but certainly a family. Caregiving at home has proven its value in offsetting the high costs of in-facility healthcare, and at the same time, improving the quality of life for many elders. However, educational training and support for caregivers has been in short supply. The focus of this book is to help you as a family caregiver create a safe living space and conditions to support an elder living semi-independently in the community or adapting your family household to support an elder as a member of your family. Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home is a compilation of safety tips, and sage advice to help support an elder in aging semi-independently and safely. This is a book meant to be read, and then put into action. A downloadable home safety inspection sheet is provided so you can complete an elder's home inspection, or yours for that matter. There is also a companion workbook to this book entitled Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home - Companion Workbook available that may make your task a little easier. As a recently retired Registered Nurse of over 40 years, author Rae A. Stonehouse has worked predominantly in the field of mental health/psychiatry. He has experience working with all ages of adults including the elderly in senior's facilities, psychogeriatric units, mental health facilities and in the community. While working as a Registered Nurse, Rae A. Stonehouse was actively involved with occupational Health & Safety in his workplaces. That experience has been beneficial in developing his skills to take an analytical look at a home's potential safety hazards and to provide strategies to rectify those hazards to make it safe for an elder to live there. Make it Safe! A Family Caregiver's Home Safety Assessment Guide for Supporting Elders@Home begins with an overview of home safety. Then it provides a strategic method of completing an assessment of the home's safety status and develop strategies to rectify the problems or hazards to make the home safe. The book goes on to address elder driving safety. How to face the issue with your aging elder. Financial scams targeting the elderly is discussed. The final section addresses maintaining your elder's ongoing health and welfare and day-to-day healthcare supervision. With the Covid-19 pandemic in full force at the time of publishing this book, many families are considering alternatives to institutions for their elderly loved ones. This book can help determine if supporting your elderly loved one in the community or in your home is not only feasible, but safe for you and your elder.

Over 40% of North Americans describe themselves as being shy. Would you? Do your hands start sweating and your legs shake with the thought of having to not only attend a business networking session but actually talk to people? Do you feel paralyzed by the fear of rejection when you are at a business networking event? Would you rather have a root canal than attend a business networking event? Would you rather send an e-mail to a business lead than meet them in person? Well if any of these apply... you may be shy! "Get over it!" That's what our extroverted friends would say. "Just do what we do!" Life isn't that simple. We aren't all extroverts and it would probably be a noisy world if we were. Being shy isn't a personal defect. You aren't the only one out there, even if it feels like it sometimes. The world is full of shy people and that doesn't prevent you from being an effective networker and reaping the benefits that networking can bring to your business. In Power Networking for Shy People: How to Network Like a Pro you will: - discover proven strategies to reduce your fear [that's what shyness really is] that will help you become an effective, power networker. - learn practical tips to strengthen the networking skills that you already have. - discover easy to use techniques that will take you from shy to sly. - discover the three phases of networking and how you can use each of them to your advantage. - learn about common fears or barriers that shy networkers often experience and how to overcome them. - The author knows what it is like to be shy. He knows how avoidance & denial can be a good friend. He knows how uncomfortable it can be to attend a networking event and not know a single person. He also got sick and tired of his inhibitions getting in the way of opportunities and decided to do something about it. The result... Power Networking for Shy People: How to Network Like a Pro. This is a must have book for those who want practical, proven tips & techniques on how to network effectively, especially if you are shy. I'm not really shy. Will this book be of any use to me? This program manual explores the fundamentals of relationship networking. If you don't have the added challenge of being shy, you will likely find it easier to use the tips & techniques to strengthen the networking and relationship building skills that you already have.

Forrest Gump is known for having said Life is like a box of chocolates. It occurred to the author in a dream one night, that life is more like a bowl of strawberries. More precisely, public speaking is like a bowl of strawberries. A few strawberries, freshly picked off the plant and immediately eaten, can be delicious. A bushel basket of them sitting in front of you with the expectation you had to eat them, here and now, wouldn’t be. But what about a nice strawberry sundae or a good-sized, mouth-watering portion of strawberry shortcake? When it comes to public speaking, there are times when fewer words are better. There are times we are bombarded with a speaker telling us everything they know about a subject. There’s too much to absorb... so we tune out. Then there is the strawberry shortcake of presentations. This is where the speaker whets your appetite, gives you just enough of a serving that you are close to being full and leaves you wanting more. Working With Words: Adding Life to Your Oral Presentations provides you with the recipe for using words to help you become a dynamic speaker. Veteran Toastmaster of over 26 years, Rae A. Stonehouse provides sage advice and helpful tips to whet your appetite to become a more dynamic speaker and presenter. The book explores the following public speaking strategies: The Language of Speaking Improving Your Descriptive Powers Using Vocal Variety to Make Your Presentations Come Alive Using Gestures for a Powerful Speech... and much more! Working With Words: Adding Life to Your Oral Presentations is for any speaker or presenter who wants to take their speaking to the next level.

Looking for work? Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. How’s your networking working? You may think you don’t know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first. You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work, offers tactics to help you reach out to build and leverage your personal and professional network. “It’s not who you know... it’s who knows you know...” You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network -- Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to create a professional network that will increase your success in landing your job. The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about professional networking. Networking... is work. Your immediate job is to let people know ‘what’ you know and get to know ‘who’ they know. Your next connection may be looking for a candidate to fill an open position. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

Your manuscript is complete. Now what? Self-publishing is well within the reach of many authors however, the learning curve can be frustratingly steep. Author Rae A. Stonehouse, veteran of a dozen of his own self-help, personal/professional development books and others for his clients, shares sage advice from his self-publishing career and from the pros. There is nothing wrong with sending your manuscript to a traditional publishing company, but only self-publishing allows you to make all the choices – cover art, interior design, even story content – based on your vision, and your goals. Plus, you can have a finished copy in months, not years. Book Two Self-Publishing for Fun and Profit in The Successful Self Publisher Series: How to Write, Publish and Market Your Book Yourself demonstrates the ins and outs of self-publishing and explores the following topics essential to publishing your manuscript: - Self-Publishing vs Traditional Publishing - Proofreading - Editing Your Manuscript - Copyrighting - File format - Digital Rights Management - ISBNs - Pricing - Royalties - Publishing And much more... Other books in the series... Book One Writing & Publishing as a Business in The Successful Self Publisher Series: How to Write, Publish and Market Your Book Yourself, addresses writing books and self-publishing based on business best-practices. Book Three Content Marketing Strategies That Work in the series focuses on how to market your book, yourself.