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The Career Doctor: How to Get – and Keep – the Job You Want

Saturday, 5th June, 2010 by Staff.

The Career Doctor: How to Get – and Keep – the Job You Want
Eoghan McDermott

Getting and keeping a job that is interesting, challenging and preferably well paid is a key goal for most people. The Career Doctor is the book you need if:

You’ve seen the job you want and you want to know how to get it.
You’re fresh out of college and dying to get your teeth into something interesting.
You need to return to the workforce to supplement your family’s income.
You’ve just been made redundant.
You’re bored in your current job and want to change to something completely different.
You like your job and want to maximise your promotion and earning opportunities.
You’ve taken early retirement but don’t plan to spend the rest of your life watching daytime television.

The Career Doctor provides a detailed, practical map for navigating the employment market: from networking, CVs, covering letters and interview skills to in-work presentations and performance reviews. If you follow this advice you will radically improve your chances of getting the job you want and making the most of it when you do get it.
Eoghan McDermott is Head of the Careers Clinic in the Communications Clinic in Dublin and has many years of experience working with people in the employment market, in good times and bad. On a daily basis he is helping people get the jobs they want. He is a frequent contributor on career-related, communication and media topics to newspapers, professional publications and other media.

“McDermott is a canny operator: he has recognised the dearth of jobs out there and, consequently, the need for any prospective job candidates to perform to a high standard to secure – and keep – employment.”

- Sunday Business Post (Read full review here)

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What Every Working Woman Should Know (and Do!)

Saturday, 5th June, 2010 by Staff.

What Every Working Woman Should Know (and Do!)
Terry Prone

In this book, Terry Prone, communications expert and adviser to politicians and top business-people, turns her attention to women at work, the choices they make, the obstacles they face in their search for a successful and rewarding career.
Areas covered include:

Getting the job: CV, interview etc.
Moving up the ranks, reviews, promotion
Women in management
Sexual harassment and bullying
Assumptions made by and about women
Appearance, clothes, weight, ageism: specific ‘women’ issues
Women and money, saving, shopping, pensions
Why women at work differ from men at work (if they do)
Babies, families, aged parents and other distractions: how best to cope
Ten things that every working woman needs to know

Written in Terry Prone’s inimitable lively and irreverent style, What Every Working Woman Should Know (and Do!) will inform and entertain readers.

“A must-read for working women everywhere.” – Sunday Business Post Book Review (read full review here)

Click here to buy What Every Working Woman Should Know (and Do!)

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Windows Live Help

Friday, 4th June, 2010 by admin.

Do one of the following:

Click to expand:

Create a blog post

In the main Writer window, type the information that you want to appear in your post.

Click Enter a post title, and then type the title of your post.

Create a blog post from a website

In Windows Internet Explorer, navigate to the webpage that contains the information that you want to create a blog post about.

Click Tools, and then click Blog This in Windows Live Writer. If you want to create a post about only a portion of the webpage, select the text that you want to create a post about before you click Blog This in Windows Live Writer.

If the Select Destination Blog dialog box appears, click the blog you want to publish on, and then click OK.

Prepare your text to be published.
Show me how

To format your text, select the text, and then click an option on the formatting toolbar. For more information, see Format text in a blog post.

To format your blog post using HTML code, below the main Writer window, click the Source tab.

To insert links, maps from Bing Maps, pictures, tables, tags (Keywords that can be assigned to a blog post to indicate which category or categories it belongs to. Writer allows tags to be added to blog posts from various social bookmarking websites. When the blog post is published, the tag is hyperlinked to the social bookmarking website, and automatically triggers a search for items with the same tag.) , or other rich content, click the Insert menu, and then click an option.

To preview your blog post in your blog, at the bottom of the main Writer window, click the Preview tab.

Add any optional advanced properties that you want to your post.
Show me how

At the bottom of the main Writer window, below the Edit, Preview, and Source tabs, click an option in the post properties toolbar. To see all the properties available for your current blog, on the right side of the post properties toolbar, click the arrows .
The advanced publishing features accessed through the post properties toolbar aren’t available for all types of blogs.

Do one or more of the following:

To assign the post to a category, click the Set category list, and then select a category.

To specify a publication date for a post, click Set publish date, and then select a date. If you set a date that’s in the past, the post will appear to have been posted on that date. If you select a date that’s in the future, the post will not be published until that date.

To allow or deny readers the ability to leave comments about the post, click the Comments list, and then click Open or Closed.

To allow or deny pings (Notifications sent to a blogger when another blogger has linked to one of their blog posts in their own blog.) , click the Pings list, and then select Allow or Deny.

To add one or more keywords (Words that blog readers can search for to find specific blog posts about a subject.) , in the Keywords list, type the words, separated by spaces.

To add a summary of your blog post, in the Excerpt box, type your summary.

To send trackbacks (A system adopted by many blogging tools that allows a blogger to see who has seen their original post and written another entry about it.) to one or more web addresses, in the Send TrackBacks to the following URLs box, type or paste each web address, separated by commas.

Click Publish.

Notes

If you’re not ready to publish, you can save your post as a draft and publish it at a later time.

To find out how many words are in your blog post, click the Tools menu, and then click Word Count. To track the number of words as you type, click the Tools menu, click Options, click Editing, and then click Show real-time word count in status bar.

If you’ve changed your blog’s default style, and you want blog posts created in Writer to reflect the new style, click the View menu, and then click Refresh Theme.

Windows Live Help

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Spin & Win

Friday, 4th June, 2010 by Staff.

Spin & Win: How Politicians Get Elected
Anton Savage

You’re an aspiring politician, desperate to be selected as a candidate. You’re a sitting TD, desperate to be re-elected. You’re a party leader or a party whip. You’re a press secretary in Dublin, a tallyman in west Cork or a keen observer of the Irish electoral process who makes use of all the preferences on the ballot paper on polling day. Whoever you are this book is for you. In Spin and Win Anton Savage, a communications consultant of considerable experience, explodes some of the myths surrounding politicians (that clothes maketh the man, that body language can be reliably read, that all politicians are liars) and draws interesting comparisons with other electoral systems, notably the US. He demolishes the myth of focus groups, brings the reader behind the hilarious scenes at ard-fheiseanna and suggests that politicians are harder-working and more put-upon than many of their constituents realise. But their real job is to get re-elected and it is in describing the myths surrounding that relentless preoccupation that Spin and Win excels.

“Anton Savage has produced a book that will give the reader a peep inside the bigger tent that is Irish political life, with its warm air, jibes, and all too easily peddled half truths…. The book even drew the occasional, knowing smile, from this participant in the political life.”

– Conor Lenihan TD Review, The Irish Times (Read full review here)

Click here to buy Spin & Win: How Politicians Get Elected

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