150 Best Jobs for Your Skills

This ground-breaking book offers an efficient, to-the-point format that helps job seekers and students discover the best jobs for their skills in just three simple steps.

150 Best Jobs for Your Skills

By Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D.
According to an NCDA Gallup Poll, 54 percent of professionals feel they are not using their skills in their current job. This book helps readers combat this frustrating situation and connect their best skills to jobs that make the most of them.
150 Best Jobs for Your Skills identifies the top ten skills that are the most important in today's economy, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the latest O*NET. It helps job seekers find a fulfilling job and students explore their future career options by focusing on the 50 most promising jobs for each skill. Readers won't waste time pursuing careers that don't make the most of what they do well.
This ground-breaking book offers an efficient, to-the-point format that helps job seekers and students discover the best jobs for their skills in just three simple steps:

A self-assessment helps readers discover their top three career skills.
Readers are then directed to the 50 best jobs for each skill.
More than 250 in-depth job descriptions let readers to explore the jobs they find interesting.

Key features and benefits include:

Lists for each skill that include the best-paying jobs, jobs with the most openings, jobs with the highest projected growth, best jobs based on education level, best jobs based on interests, best part-time jobs, and best jobs for the self-employed.
Bonus lists that give the skills paying the best and the industries in which the skills are concentrated.
265 job descriptions providing useful information on the wages, growth through 2014, openings, tasks, responsibilities, required education and courses, and the most important skills for each job.

480 pages. 7.5 x 9.25. Softcover. July 2007.
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