Are you exhausted in your job search? Do you have a job but not sure to maintain your position for long? Do you want to get promoted in a tough work environment? Read this book. This is a how-to guide for every job seeker. You'll not only survive in the modern workplace but thrive. This book reveals a host of strategies that can help you redirect the hiring manager's focus to where it should be: on the wealth of experience and benefits that you, as an older candidate, bring to the table.

In the modern workplace, corner offices and water coolers have given way to open layouts and office dogs. But while the workplace itself is changing, what it takes to be a good employee and reliable coworker remains steadfast. From maximizing your productivity to navigating office dating and communal kitchens, Work Life is a handbook for the modern office--whatever yours looks like.

There is more to excelling at work, than just being effective at your job. To survive and thrive, you must also master interaction with your coworkers. In It's Not You It's Your Personality, mother-daughter team, Diane Hamilton and Toni Rothpletz, explore personality assesments including in the workplace. Find out: Why this is the essential guide for the anyone in the post-baby boomer workforce What makes the current younger workforce unique How to understand new generation personality issues How to recognize different personalities and their individual needs Why understanding different character types can make you more tolerant of others How to work together more effectively, no matter the scenario How to recognize your own personality issues for better interpersonal relationships How to utilize personality assessment to climb the ladder of success Filled with tips, tricks and techniques, the authors cover all the major personality tests, giving examples of modern day celebrity personalities to send their point home. Written in a lighthearted yet professional manner, The Young Adult's Guide to Understanding Personalities outlines various scenarios with different personalities to give you a more detailed look at how different people can more effectively work together, both in team situations, and when various activities require them to better understand one another. You'll learn how to recognize character traits in others, as well as in yourself, and what to do about the traits that need work. Entertaining as well as educational, The Young Adult's Guide to Understanding Personalities makes personality assessment as essential as having a good briefcase.

The loss of a job can result in the complete destruction of your personal wealth. In unsettled economic times, remaining employed is even more critical because a lost job may be impossible to replace. In such periods, a different set of rules needs to be followed-rules far more Darwinian than in normal times. Author Robert Lerner examines the decisions and actions of an ancient Roman businessman named Titus Pomponius Atticus, who lived in the cut-throat world of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Marcus Brutus, and Cicero. Atticus was a sophisticated financier who did business with these giants of history, witnessed their rise and fall, and endured the years of civil war they engendered. Atticus was a survivor who knew how to manoeuvre through the political traps and intrigues of this dangerous world. From Atticus' ancient decisions and actions, Lerner has developed 20 lessons that can be applied to situations found in today's workplace. The goal of this book is to help readers better prepare for periods of career turbulence and survive in the modern jungle we call "the marketplace."

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn’t just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure.

The Real World Survival Guide What if career success was about more than following your passion? What if triumphing on the job had little to do with the latest career-guru buzzwords, and everything to do with the small, seemingly insignificant choices you make every day? In this practical, funny and refreshingly honest take on the modern workplace, Wall Street veteran, author and podcaster, Greg Campion calls on 20 years of personal experience--and mistakes--to bring readers 50 Unwritten Rules that take the guesswork out of success in today's workplace. Avoid common pitfalls that can derail your career, and build a foundation for long-term success. - Learn to love routine - Avoid email battles like the plague - Consider (gasp!) taking the earphones out - Handle compensation discussions with tact - Bite your lip (more than you think) - And remember to keep it all in perspective

Work can leave you frazzled – but it shouldn't. What you need is some sane advice to get you through. Your body aches. Your brain feels like a mouldy wrung-out dishcloth. You can barely get anything done and, hang on, why are you even doing this anyway? Is there something wrong with you? Nope. You're just burnt out. Burnout Survival Kit offers practical advice for when things are already bad. There's no mystical magic about unleashing your inner corporate superhero, no weird productivity diagrams, and certainly no crap about working 'smarter'. Instead, this is the calm inner voice that you need, served with a sense of humour on the side. As well as helping you to take time to ground yourself, there are brilliant hacks for all the causes of stress and anxiety, from how to approach networking (no one likes it) to practical advice on sleeping better. And the jokes help too. This may not be a cure, but it really does offer instant relief and give you the chance to take a breath. So whether you're just starting to burn or fully scorched to a crisp, rest easy. You've got a Burnout Survival Kit.