Soft Skills That Make Or Break Your Success

"The 12 soft skills that are covered in this book are industry and culture neutral. In whichever industry and country you may belong, they enable you to achieve extraordinary results in your personal life, career, and business."--Back cover.

What's the hard truth? Soft skills get little respect but will make or break your career. Master your soft skills and really get ahead at work! Fortune 500 coach Peggy Klaus encounters individuals every day who excel at their jobs but aren't getting where they want to go. It's rarely a shortfall in technical expertise that limits their careers, but rather a shortcoming in their social, communication, and self-management behaviors. In The Hard Truth About Soft Skills Klaus delivers practical tools and techniques for mastering soft skills across the career spectrum. She shows how to: manage your workload handle the critics develop and promote your personal brand navigate office politics lead the troops and much more! Klaus reveals why soft skills are often ignored, while bringing their importance to life in her trademark style—straightforward, humorous, and motivating. Perfect for readers at all professional stages—from those who are just starting out to seasoned executives—this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to take his or her career to the next level.

The book "Soft Skills for Career Success" plays a vital role in the soft skill development and career success of young talents. Since most of the companies are giving more importance to soft skill of their employees, along with the technical skills, the topic soft skills become more important than ever. Today, as companies increasingly need to become more dynamic, interconnected and flexible, soft skills are critical. These skills important to fostering employee retention, improving leadership, and building a meaningful culture. The good news is that soft skills are learnable. This book covers all the topics related to the area soft skills, that you're sure to get some interesting nugget of wisdom from it. Each topic has a clear description which would enable the readers to comprehend easily. This book will also support young people in choosing rewarding and successful careers consistent with your personality and character. This book is an excellent tool for individuals preparing to look for or start new jobs, as well as individuals who are currently working but need to step back and evaluate their performance. It is a practical, helpful book about the employability skills which are absolutely necessary to attain glorious career success. The book style is challenging and playful, serious and engaging and a stepping stone to developing the soft skills indispensable to climb heights in one’s career.

As liaison librarianship has evolved from a collections-centric to an engagement-centric model, liaisons have had to grapple with new and evolving competencies and skills that are focused on how to engage with diverse constituencies and stakeholders. But what does that mean practically? Liaison Engagement Success: A Practical Guide for Librarians will answer that question for academic liaison librarians, whether they are new to the profession or new to the liaison role. It offer specific proven strategies for engaging with user communities. Every community is different, and a liaison who takes up the tasks of engagement will need to be committed to building relationships, being flexible, and listening well, in order to understand the community’s needs and meet them. This book offers specific strategies for : Getting to know a user community Finding effective strategies for proactive outreach Collaborating with others for effective engagement Evaluating and assessing the engagement that is happening The book features practical tips and case studies for engagement with different disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, STEM, arts, professional disciplines, and with non-academic units.

Imbue your career with purpose and meaning In Own Your Career: Break the Corporate Blueprint and Build Your Own Ladder, popular financial analyst and entrepreneur Michela Allocca delivers an exciting new discussion of how to break the corporate blueprint and forge your own path to a fulfilling and rewarding career. You'll learn to find happiness and purpose at work, whether you're interested in climbing the corporate ladder or embarking on a different path. The book offers a collection of tactical strategies you can apply immediately within your career to start getting more out of your day job and redefine what success means to you. You'll find: Effective tactics for positioning yourself in your resume, articulating your skills in interviews, and negotiating your compensation to ensure you are not only landing the job, but that it's as lucrative as possible. Practical strategies to navigate career changes and make intentional career decisions with confidence. Systems to maximize your earning potential and build a successful side hustle you can take to the next level A can't-miss guide for young professionals, the newly graduated, and aspiring entrepreneurs, Own Your Career offers realistic advice to excel at work and take your professional power back, both inside and outside of the office.

Communication Skills in English” is a basic book that can provided a foundation for further study in the field of English language, literature, grammar and its usage. It will benefit students who are learning the essentials at the Diploma level and those who wish to review the concepts previously learned. The premise of this book is to understand English language and its practice thus enabling us to use it more effectively. This skill can enhance personal communication, college/university work finally percolating down to professional lives. Therefore, the present book will be useful for advanced level students who face difficulty with grammar and need a book for reference and practice. In writing this book, I have drawn on many years of my expertise in teaching, research, and writing. I Have taught the English language in a range of institutions and to multiple age groups at different levels: at a college of further education, and universities. Therefore, this book in front of you is a systematic account of grammatical forms and the way they are used in standard British English today. The emphasis is on the meanings and how the govern the choice of grammatical patterns. The book is thorough in its coverage but also pays attention to the points that are of importance to the intermediate and advanced learners of English, and to their teachers. It would be equally suitable for quick reference to details and the more leisured study of grammar topics. A useful feature of the book is the inclusion of example text and conversations, many of them authentic, to show how grammar is used in connected writing and speech. Study the rules, review the examples, and look for more examples of good writing in newspapers, magazines, and other available sources on the internet. Complete the exercises to practice what you have learned, but also remember to apply the rules whenever you speak and write. There are writing test exercises too for assessing the reader’s progress. Although every effort has been made to make the book as useful and accurate as possible but if students of teachers have any comments, criticisms, or suggestions I would be very pleased to hear from them. The more you use what’s written in this book, the better you would be able to apply it in real life. In the end, you will be a better and more effective speaker and writer. You’re on your way—good luck! Some salient features of the book: · This book is designed to help the reader’s master the basics of English grammar that they need to succeed in their studies. Best of all, when students understand the underpinnings of English language, learning will be fun – as it should be. This book has multiple purposes. It is primarily designed as a course book for Diploma students, but b it has also been adapted to the needs of the teachers who are interested in exploring a new approach to grammar, communication skills, and English literature, or of any person keen to catch up with a subject so wretchedly neglected by our education system. That is why a part of this book is devoted to the correction of preconceptions. · This book has been arranged into five units for a total of five chapters. · Each chapter ends with a series of review exercises. These help you reinforce what you have learned during the courses of a particular chapter. The exercise include tests like MCQs or multiple-choice questions, true-false, and completion of sentences. · By the end of this book, you’ll be using the English language with enhanced confidence and skill. You’ll be able to handle Technical Communication with aplomb thus enabling you to climb up the Professional ladder. Remember that mastering the rules of grammar, usage, punctuation, and spelling is well within your abilities. · I wish you very success in your pursuit of English proficiency

10 Strategies for Reentering the Workforce: Career Advice for Anyone Who Needs a Good (or Better) Job Now is an easy-to-read guide for anyone who needs to reenter the workforce because of economic necessity, a plant closing, corporate downsizing, divorce, injury, or other life-changing circumstance—including the simple desire for a new challenge. Expert career counselor Mary E. Ghilani identifies each type of career changer and discusses the unique challenges each group faces, the options available to them, and strategies for finding a new job or successfully returning to school to upgrade skills. The book also offers numerous ways to overcome obstacles and defeat the common yes, buts that prevent people from achieving a satisfactory work life. This book will directly help unemployed and mid-career workers who need to find a better job quickly to keep their heads above water. But it will also be of great service to those who can take some time to completely reassess where they are and where they are going. In her practice as director of a career center, Ghilani often hears common laments like, I wish I had a job that... or I always wanted to be a... These statements are usually followed up with, But now it's too late, or, I don't have the skills, or, It will take too long or cost too much. Her response: Do work that you enjoy for the remaining working years of your life, even if it means going back to school or starting at the bottom of the ladder. That, she explains, is a much better alternative to toiling unhappily while awaiting retirement. Besides great advice, the book also contains hands-on tools for figuring out what constitutes a great job, sample resumes and cover letters, and a list of Web sites catering to those eager to reenter the workforce or find a better job.