Write a successful CV, cover letter, and job application following the advice in this practical guide. It offers clear, step-by-step guidance on all these matters, and whether you are seeking your first job, coming back to work after a break, aiming to progress in your chosen career, or changing car[...]
From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew v[...]
George and Milo are desperate to earn some money to buy their favourite comic, MegaBuzz. They come up with a brilliant plan but will Nathan, the class bully, ruin it for them? Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropriate content with imaginative[...]
Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made path-breaking contributions to the analysis of markets with search and matching frictions, which account for much of the success of job search theory [...]
Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides are the recipients (with Peter Diamond) of the Nobel memorial Prize in Economics 2010. They have made path-breaking contributions to the analysis of markets with search and matching frictions, which account for much of the success of job search theory [...]
Write a successful CV, cover letter, and job application following the advice in this practical guide. It offers clear, step-by-step guidance on all these matters, and whether you are seeking your first job, coming back to work after a break, aiming to progress in your chosen career, or changing car[...]
An academic career in the biological sciences typically demands well over a decade of technical training. So it's ironic that when a scholar reaches one of the most critical stages in that career - the search for a job following graduate work - he or she receives little or no formal preparation. Ins[...]
This study of how 282 men in the United States found their jobs not only proves "it's not what you know but who you know," but also demonstrates how social activity influences labour markets. Examining the link between job contacts and social structure, the author recognizes networking as the crucia[...]
Refrains about monetary hardships are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed with the idiom "to be a man is not a one-day job." But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns about the shifting meanings of masculinity, marked by ch[...]
This candid book dispenses essential advice for academic job hunters and gives them the skills and knowledge to land a job in the humanities. Fully revised and updated, this book offers a comprehensive look at the do's and don'ts of the application and interview process and provides indispensable ti[...]
Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical [...]
Before rising to fame on the BBC's "Dragons' Den", James Caan spent thirty years setting up and running recruitment companies, placing hundreds of thousands of candidates in the jobs they really wanted. Now in "Get The Job You Really Want" James brings his experience to bear to help everyone from re[...]
Secret Service Agent Mike Byrne is too late...Too late to save the one man who knew the truth - the star witness who was about to blow the whistle on the biggest banking scandal in history. Too late to stop an innocent man from dying, and so plunging the world of high finance into a death spiral of [...]
Job Creation and Destruction is the culmination of a long, ongoing research program at the Center for Economic Studies. Using the most complete plant- level data source currently available--the Longitudinal Research Data constructed by the Census Bureau--it focuses on the U.S. manufacturing sector f[...]