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Jobs & Education Information

TeresaB
U.S. citizenship comes to some by birth, but others achieve it.
CarrieH
What in the world is a Cottage Food?
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Looking for a job?
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Gale Virtual Reference Library has a new look for 2012.
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Take a community education class!

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The shift
Lynda Gratton

Work is a defining, all-consuming part of our lives. Now, more than ever, the speed at which the nature of work is changing is having an extraordinary impact on working lives everywhere. Lynda Gratton's groundbreaking book looks at the five forces that will fundamentally change the way we work in the next 10 to 15 years: globalization, society, demography, technology, and energy. 

Cracking the New Job Market
R. William Holland and Barbara Ehrenreich

The rules for finding professional work once seemed clear and unwavering: capture career highlights in a resume, practice answers to standard interview questions, and do lots of face-to-face networking. Cracking the New Job Market shows how these rules have changed and delivers new job-hunting strategies that actually work. 

push has come to shove
Steve Perry

Steve Perry is like no other educator you’ve ever met. He understands why some parents are downright panicked about what’s going on in their kids’ classrooms, and how other parents, whose kids supposedly attend the “good” schools, still fear that their children are falling behind.  As principal of one of the best performing schools in America -- one that sends 100% of its mostly minority students to four-year colleges -- Perry delights in poking the system. 

Are you smart enough to work at Google?
William Poundstone

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions.

Class warfare
Steven Brill

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children — and points the way to reversing that failure.

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