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The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. The completely updated OOH reflects employment projections for the next decade. It includes information on the fastest-growing occupations, number of new jobs, and a summary of the highest-paying occupations. This handbook contains numerous occupations profiles and includes information on: duties required by the occupation, work environment,...
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After recovering from a soccer injury that ended her Olympic dreams and still grieving the death of her beloved grandmother, seventeen-year-old Hannah Klein must navigate a new summer job working with her ex-best friend, her younger brother, and her brother's suddenly-attractive best friend.
4) What color is your parachute? 2022: your guide to a lifetime of meaningful work and career success
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With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world's most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2022.
5) Hot dog girl
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Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life. There are just a few things standing in her way: She's landed a job at Magic Castle Playland ... as a giant dancing hot dog and her crush, the dreamy Diving Pirate Nick, already has a girlfriend, who is literally the Princess of the park. But Lou's never liked anyone, guy or otherwise, this much before, and now she wants a chance at her own happily...
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Is it really better to have loved and lost? Louna's summer job is to help brides plan their perfect day, even though she stopped believing in happily-ever-after when her first love ended tragically. But charming girl-magnet Ambrose isn't about to be discouraged now that he's met the one he really wants. Maybe Louna's second chance is standing right in front of her.
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Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates is a clear and concrete guide to What Works to Launch a Gen-Z Career. A new volume in the best-selling Modernize Your Career series, it lays out in crisp, clear language exactly what college students need to do to land their first professional job: from developing a super resume and LinkedIn profile to conducting a networking-based job search and acing their interviews.
8) Stay sweet
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Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.
9) Lawn boy
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Things get out of hand when a stockbroker neighbor convinces a twelve-year-old boy to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
10) Nantucket red
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"Before starting college, Cricket Thompson returns to Nantucket for a summer filled with hard choices and infinite possibility"--
Cricket's lifetime of overachieving has paid off: she's headed to Brown University in the fall, with a spot on the lacrosse team and a scholarship that covers almost everything. When Cricket is offered the chance to earn enough cash to afford a real college experience, she heads back to Nantucket for the summer. But it's...
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While the American workplace affords many and varied career options, the process of determining what to do with one's life remains a significant challenge. The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification, selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental process—the career development process. This book addresses the incredible importance that change plays in education and career. What we need to know and the skills
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"In today's high-tech, fast-paced world, the job market is incredibly competitive. Searching for even part-time summer work, much less the perfect job, can be time-consuming and challenging. Fortunately, this title has readers covered, with practical tips for honing in-person networking skills and using a variety of reputable online resources to find the positions most suited for their passions and skills. They'll also learn how to craft superstar...
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#1 New Release in Career Development Counseling and Vocational Guidance This book of professional advice about career preparation may be the best college graduation gift you'll receive. Too many people end up working jobs they didn't study for. It's time you proactively prepare for post-graduate life. The Prepared Graduate speaks to Generation Z and Millennials, addressing many of the concerns students (and parents) have about pre- and post-graduation....
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Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl" at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business.
17) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
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An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.
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"Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only meant to help Sterling realize she's dating a jerk, and maybe...
20) Sister Carrie
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"The story of a young woman from Wisconsin who goes to Chicago, becomes an actress, marries and moves to New York, and when her husband loses his job, returns to the stage." ***"A powerful account of a young working girl's rise to the 'tinsel and shine' of worldly success, and of the slow decline of her lover and protector Hurstwood." Oxford Companion to Engl Lit. ***"Plain, unaffected, and unconventional story of the actual life of the lower middle-classes...