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The fully updated fifth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master's, MD, JD, Rhodes, and postdocs, with brand-new essays and the latest hot tips and secret techniques. Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents: Sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, including some available from no other source: medical residencies, postdocs, elite fellowships, academic autobiographies, and more! The lat...
You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love. The revised third edition of the popular guide for offbeat individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills, talents, and passions. Updated throughout, including new inspiration and tips for keeping a creative job notebook. Descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, Web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). Previous editions have sold more than 60,000 copies.Reviews“What a great manual for young rebels and older freethinkers who are plotting their next career move.”—Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.
Don Asher, author of the popular OVERNIGHT series, tackles one of the hottest topics in business today: the executive r?©sum?©. From V.P. on up to C.E.O., this book provides the largest compendium of executive r?©sum?©s available to the general public. Whether he's giving hints on getting head-hunted, upgrading your current position, or launching an all-out top-level job hunt, Asher has the tricks of the trade, and the successful executive client base to back it up. Through R?©sum?© Righters, his very successful service, he has helped many, many executive-suite types (from bank presidents to advertising directors, sales leaders to legal eagles) find that elusive dream job. Packed with hints and tricks discreet enough for the executive suite, but offbeat enough to be unusually effective. Includes hard-to-find information on such high-level requirements as the narrative biography, the modified chronological r?©sum?©, and the corporate presentation.
Peterson's Applying Successfully to Top U.S. Universities is a unique guide that assists highly ambitious Chinese students to get accepted to one of the top-ranked higher-education institutions in the United States, to both undergraduate and graduate programs of study. The book starts out with a general overview of what to expect from receiving a higher education in the United States, from earning a degree to financial aid, from campus life to the academic calendar. You will find an entire chapter dedicated to the rankings of schools and universities: who creates the rankings, how to read them, and what to do with the information provided by them. This book also offers extensive information ...
Peterson's The Best Scholarships for the Best Students is here to help ambitious, high-performing students get the most out of the educational process. This guide will help students find honors, awards, and life-changing opportunities. In addition to our descriptive award listings, there are also sections on writing about yourself, preparing a strong curriculum vitae/resume, and obtaining strong letters of recommendation. Peterson's also has advice for parents of accomplished students and advice from past student award winners. Peterson's The Best Scholarships for the Best Students provides expert strategies to help successful students apply for and win major academic and experiential awards.
Tempers flare between the sexy MacClaire twins. Cormac can no longer ignore the steamy looks Lila gets from his twin. Rumors of her infidelity force the couple back to Boston, to distance themselves from the trouble in Rosestone. Cormac doesnt know his wife will soon stage her death, by taking a rare herbal mix. Shell be returned to Scotland for burial then revived by Dermott. But Dermotts grown tired of her and has no intentions of bringing her back in his life. Lila is now history, trapped forever in the world of the Fae. Will Dermott change his mind or leave his lover as hostage forever? Join the MacClaires in this exciting tale of sex, seduction, betrayal, and murder.
MAKE YOUR JOB WORK FOR YOU In today's often-challenging job market, many of us want to feel more engaged with our current jobs rather than try to find the "perfect" position. Veteran leadership consultants and authors Milo and Thuy Sindell share eight thought-provoking strategies to help you create the end of work as you know it--their phrase for the ideal state of harmony among what you do for a living, why you do it, and the results you achieve. Strategies such as Initiate Change, Create Meaning, Spark Creativity, and Build Legacy will empower you to make your job work for you--instead of the other way around. Real-world examples and practical exercises put the strategies into context and are sure to inspire you to take action, transforming the daily grind into lasting, meaningful accomplishments. These tools can help you regroup whenever you find yourself disengaged at the office, regardless of your field or career stage. So when you're ready to quit singing the 9-to-5 blues, The End of Work as You Know It guides you toward aligning your values with your professional goals in order to fundamentally change your experience of work.
The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it. Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students and graduate admissions officers, Graduate Admissions Essays deconstructs and demystifies the ever-challenging and seemingly more impersonal application process for getting into graduate and scholarship programs. The book presents 50 sample essays in a comprehensive range of subjects, detailed strategies that have proven successful for some of the most notoriously competitive graduate programs in the country, as well as sample letters of recommendation, essays for residencies and fellowships, and postgrad applications.
What would you do if you suddenly found yourself trapped at a gathering with no way out and everyone at the party was dead? Locked doors and bulletproof windows. A basement with passageways but no exits. Food is running low. You found a gun. Two bullets. Who is missing could be the killer, or perhaps... just perhaps you've gone insane and you killed them all.