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Show GaRBABDaUBABTalaOBN First steps on the career path BY SHARON SECOR Not making a decision IS a decision, says a friend. He should know. After graduating from a fine law school he lounged for two months on a sofa in his parents basement watching Oprah, Ricki Lake and all forms of daytime TV in his bathrobe. Was he afraid of work? No, he was avoiding the ; then Dunning guides the novice through ine itable decision of what to do with the options for each type. Don't be his law degree. Not making a decision embarrassed if youre an introvert. about a job meant he didn't have to face the fact that he didn't want to work for Dunning highlights the usefulness of that personality type in the healing arts the traditional large law firm. No time is more uncer(not to mention writing) and outlines why some tain for college or professional school graduates outgoing people may be drawn to certain careers. than the summer they're No Parachute about to enter. 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Worksheets on your inevitable and upcoming help you determine your personality Prelife Crisis is priceless. Gunhus, 28, type (analyzer? visionary? explorer?). up-clo- ; soup-to-nu- ts : i k, i has experienced these feelings of angst and personally, not and doubt to mention, recently. I loved his exercises to help weed parental expectations from your garden of experience ("My Tommy has always wanted to be a Doctor!) and wish I had read this book before I filled my college course load with chemistry classes. Rick Nelles, author of Proof of Performance: How to Build a Career Portfolio to Land a Great New Job (Impact Publications, $17.95, ISBN 1570231486), is a professional recruiter with 20 years of experience, but his book is about the times, right after college, when he made all his mistakes. Looking back, he says he waited until the last quarter of college to job search, w inged it going into interviews (thinking they would hire me on my good looks and great personality) and didn't even know what he wanted to do. In this book, he shows recent grads how to land a job by documenting their job skills and showing proof of their performance. Build Your Own Life Brand! (Free ' se HalaSaTaQaRaY nrn ftmim (71? gjrzrtm mrrnrcn PrrfTW n-:r-wi TIME LORD Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time By Clark Blaise Pantheon, $24 ISBN Expert Resumes for Computer and Web Jobs and Louise Kursmark The ONLY resume guide focused exclusively on the computer science field! Features 150 letter-perferesumes created by professional resume writers who understand the technical job market. ct $16.95 ISBN The Unauthorized Teacher's Survival Guide, Second Edition and Clyde Bryan with Diane Warner Hundreds of interviews with teachers and administrators provide inside secrets, anecdotes, and practical advice that can save years of frustrating trial and error. By Jack Warner $14.95 ISBN Inside Secrets to Finding a Career in Travel ...... By Karen Rubin One of a kind guidebook for the thousands of people interested in careers in the travel industry! Describes numerous travel-relate- d jobs and gives valuable tips, contacts, and sources to help readers land these highly coveted jobs. $14.95 ISBN WWW.JIStlCO BY MICHAEL SIMS Time Lord continues a recent trend of By Wendy S. Enelow small, focused books that closely examine particular topics in history and present them in clear, prose for nonspecialists. Inevitably the book brings to mind such recent works as Dava Sobd's Longitude and Tom Standages book on telegraphy, The Victorian Internet. Like Sobel and Standage, Clark Blaise uses his narrow focus to examine in detail an important historical event that is largely overlooked. Tune Lord is the fascinating story of how one man devised and promoted (and finally achieved) worldwide consensus on the measurement of time. It may surprise readers to learn that Standard Time, measured into official days with official time zones, was established as late as 188-4- during an era marked by transoceanic ships and transcontinental trains a period in which the world grew smaller. Local variations in timekeeping were no longer acceptable. well-writt- , 18 MftY meaningful. So how did my friend fare? He finally got off the couch and became a public defender. Later he took a job as the child advocate for a court system. he moved Recently, after to a small law firm he loves. Life Brand, perfect personality matching, whatever you call it. with careful planning the right career choice lies just ahead, i' five-coun- ty g. To remedy the situation, Sandford Fleming, a Canadian surveyor and engineer. worked behind the scenes to facilitate a scientific consensus, then took his battle for standardized time to political representatives. The result is recorded in the imaginary lines drawn on every globe time and map to this day: 24 zones: the International Date Line; and a consensus on the measurement of longi-- : tude and the establishment of a prime meridian at Greenwich, England a not-- j Victorian way of cementing Europes hegemony, even in abstractions such as time. Blaises style in this compelling narrative is lively and witty. Illuminating other issues raised by the changes of Sandfords hectic era, he also provides clear and fascinating discourse on such topics as the impact of railway travel on philosophical and aesthetic debates not to mention social etione-ho- 0375401768 REVIEW Press. $25. ISBN 0684856972) by Stedman Graham is an atypical career book. The long-tim- e companion of Oprah Winfrey, Graham owns a successful management and marketing consulting company. He shares his philosophy that "each of us has a unique blend of talents, knowledge and other personal assets called a Life Brand. Borrow ing from marketing strategy, Graham says you create a method for sharing your gifts and putting them to their highest use when you build the brand that is You. Above all, Graham advises, remember that transforming your talents, values and passions into your career will help to ensure that your work will be 2001 quette. The reader cant help but wonder what Sandford Fleming would have said about our own era of jet planes, automobiles and Such speculation helps clarify the virtues of books such as Time Lord: these narratives help us stop taking our own time for granted and make us remember that even the most overlooked aspects of our daily lives are rich with history and romance. K BookPage.com |