Posted on November 21st, 2011 by How to Build a Resume
Great Jobs for Criminal Justice Majors (Great Jobs For… Series)
Fighting crime pays!
You’ve worked hard for that criminal justice degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options.
Great Jobs for Criminal Justice Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You’ll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs.
Great Jobs for Criminal Justice Majors will help you:
- Determine the occupation that’s best suited for you
- Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest
- Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job
- Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession
Go from criminal justice major to:
* legal researcher * lawyer * police officer * paralegal * FBI agent * parole officer * bailiff * victim advocate * court administrator
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Posted on November 20th, 2011 by How to Build a Resume
Autobiography of My Mother
After her mother dies at birth, Xuela is left by her father with his laundress for the next seven years in a home where she feels no love or affection, so when she moves in with her father’s friends, the LaBattes, she finds pleasure however she can. Reprint. NYT. “My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity,” writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing, compelling novel set on the island of Dominica. Born to a doomed Carib woman and a Scottish African policeman of increasing swagger and wealth, narrator Xuela spends a lifetime unanchored by family or love. She disdains the web of small and big lies that link others, allowing only pungent, earthy sensuality–a mix of blood and dirt and sex–to move her. Even answering its siren call, though, Xuela never loses sight of the sharp loss that launched her into the world and the doors through which she will take her leave.
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Posted on November 19th, 2011 by How to Build a Resume
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
A philosopher / mechanic destroys the pretensions of the high- prestige workplace and makes an irresistible case for working with one’s hands
Shop Class as Soulcraft brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be receding from society-the experience of making and fixing things with our hands. Those of us who sit in an office often feel a lack of connection to the material world, a sense of loss, and find it difficult to say exactly what we do all day. For anyone who felt hustled off to college, then to the cubicle, against their own inclinations and natural bents, Shop Class as Soulcraft seeks to restore the honor of the manual trades as a life worth choosing.
On both economic and psychological grounds, Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker,” based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing, the work of the hand from that of the mind. Crawford shows us how such a partition, which began a century ago with the assembly line, degrades work for those on both sides of the divide.
But Crawford offers good news as well: the manual trades are very different from the assembly line, and from dumbed-down white collar work as well. They require careful thinking and are punctuated by moments of genuine pleasure. Based on his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford makes a case for the intrinsic satisfactions and cognitive challenges of manual work. The work of builders and mechanics is secure; it cannot be outsourced, and it cannot be made obsolete. Such work ties us to the local communities in which we live, and instills the pride that comes from doing work that is genuinely useful. A wholly original debut, Shop Class as Soulcraft offers a passionate call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.
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Posted on November 19th, 2011 by How to Build a Resume
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
Owen is seventeen and smart. He knows what he wants to do with his life. But then he meets Natalie and he realizes he doesn’t know anything much at all.
A slender, realistic story of a young man’s coming of age, Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one of the most inspiring novels Ursula K. Le Guin has ever published.
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Posted on November 18th, 2011 by How to Build a Resume
Occupational Therapy Student Primer: A Guide to College Success
This text provides you with all you need to know about becoming an OT or COTA. It contains the basic information that is then built upon OT education. The process of learning OT theories, techniques, terminology, and concepts is challenging and this book addresses the core understanding of the profession that all students should know as they embark on their OT careers. This book is designed to be a companion to refer to for both OT students and clinicians. It provides essential information not found in textbooks. It addresses OT specific issues in the context of what OT students are learning.
Topics of Discussion
- Essential OT Concepts for Students
- Look at the Future of OT
- Fieldwork Issues
- Documentation Skills
- Therapeutic Communication
- Ethical Dilemmas in OT
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