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This book is a very useful condensed version that lets you look at how people actually end up getting jobs and then consciously manipulate that real process to be better and more effective than it is when done without awareness.
In truth you rarely land a job by responding to an ad then getting picked. It's too much like the line up on the playground where there can be only one captain and everyone looks too pathetic except the shining star.
What this book does is help you find the people who will see you as a shining star and make choosing you for a job you convince them they need, or that they already know they need, the no-brainer option.
If this book is counterintuitive, it's only because people have been trained to pretend that the prescribed way to find a job is actually how you GET one, and it's not. If you think about it, the way you get jobs is by being recommended for something that you'd be good at by people who know what you're good at, or knowing someone who can see that you might be good at a job. This let's you get to the people who need to function in that way for you, whether you already know them or not.
I used to work training developmentally disabled for the work force. We didn't try to match our clients to the job. We were job developers. We found companies who needed our clients and helped them realize why. Finding a job is not a hunt, it's a development process. This book is the guide for THAT.
I found Tortilla Curtain to be a cross between a political commentary, a satire, and a story about individuals. It definitely gives you a lot to think about and discuss. The characters are kind of hard to like in lots of ways, but from what the author is bringing attention to, you probably shouldn't like them very much. It's a good rendition of the tension between not liking the social injustices of various systems in our country and culture, but not wanting to give up the desirable things that are gained by exploiting certain groups of people. It shows how a person decides in increments that doing harm can be justified, with enough motivation to keep or get some wanted state of living.
We are using this book as a community activity at Foothill College. TC Boyle will be coming to our campus in Los Altos in California to speak in May of 2008. For more commentary, or to participate in discussion, check our blog. foothill.edu/weblog/onebook/
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This book is an excellent jumping off point for teachers, mental health care providers, anyone working in the special education field who wants a deeper view into some of the more standard testing instruments. It also is very educative in terms of the formal metrics associated with testing, what constitutes a valid and reliable result, what is a reasonable expectation in terms of what a test will reveal, how to pair testing with functional assessment concerns, and what impact the interpretation of a test should have on educational programming. This is a great tool for special educators. Having worked in special education for 16 years, I highly recommend it.
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Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job by Jeffrey Fox
tahiya, July 14, 2008
This book is a very useful condensed version that lets you look at how people actually end up getting jobs and then consciously manipulate that real process to be better and more effective than it is when done without awareness.In truth you rarely land a job by responding to an ad then getting picked. It's too much like the line up on the playground where there can be only one captain and everyone looks too pathetic except the shining star.
What this book does is help you find the people who will see you as a shining star and make choosing you for a job you convince them they need, or that they already know they need, the no-brainer option.
If this book is counterintuitive, it's only because people have been trained to pretend that the prescribed way to find a job is actually how you GET one, and it's not. If you think about it, the way you get jobs is by being recommended for something that you'd be good at by people who know what you're good at, or knowing someone who can see that you might be good at a job. This let's you get to the people who need to function in that way for you, whether you already know them or not.
I used to work training developmentally disabled for the work force. We didn't try to match our clients to the job. We were job developers. We found companies who needed our clients and helped them realize why. Finding a job is not a hunt, it's a development process. This book is the guide for THAT.
The tortilla curtain by T C Boyle
tahiya, January 9, 2008
I found Tortilla Curtain to be a cross between a political commentary, a satire, and a story about individuals. It definitely gives you a lot to think about and discuss. The characters are kind of hard to like in lots of ways, but from what the author is bringing attention to, you probably shouldn't like them very much. It's a good rendition of the tension between not liking the social injustices of various systems in our country and culture, but not wanting to give up the desirable things that are gained by exploiting certain groups of people. It shows how a person decides in increments that doing harm can be justified, with enough motivation to keep or get some wanted state of living.We are using this book as a community activity at Foothill College. TC Boyle will be coming to our campus in Los Altos in California to speak in May of 2008. For more commentary, or to participate in discussion, check our blog. foothill.edu/weblog/onebook/
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Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment: A Practical Handbooka Volume in the Educational Psychology Series (Educational Psychology) by Donald Saklofske
tahiya, August 15, 2006
This book is an excellent jumping off point for teachers, mental health care providers, anyone working in the special education field who wants a deeper view into some of the more standard testing instruments. It also is very educative in terms of the formal metrics associated with testing, what constitutes a valid and reliable result, what is a reasonable expectation in terms of what a test will reveal, how to pair testing with functional assessment concerns, and what impact the interpretation of a test should have on educational programming. This is a great tool for special educators. Having worked in special education for 16 years, I highly recommend it.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)