In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, "there is nothing more personal than doing your job." This riveting quest, at once...

Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace because of their experience, skills, reliability and sense of responsibility before going on to show how to demonstrate these qualities to prospective employers....

Provides strategies for answering interview questions, discussing what they are really asking with each question.

Learn the stages of a reference interview and the behaviors necessary to conduct a successful reference interview. Produced with a content committee of reference librarians and trainers. The program also discusses the unique challenges of online reference interviews. "Although an online reference interview is a lot like that done in-person, the librarian needs to be also be able to emulate the unseen visual cues while conveying a sense of personality,"...

La presente obra busca desentrañar las carencias del sistema de inspección del trabajo en el Perú, de cara a convertirse en un sistema de garantía de derechos. La óptica es principalmente normativa, lo que quiere decir que se busca interpelar aquellas normas jurídicas que regulan a la inspección del trabajo y a la Superintendencia Nacional de Fiscalización Laboral (SUNAFIL), a fin de analizar su idoneidad para crear un sistema potente y fuerte. Para...

Los regímenes laborales especiales son regulaciones que se elaboran en base a las particularidades de las prestaciones laborales dentro de las actividades económicas sustentadas en el artículo 103 de la Constitución. Sin embargo, su abundancia ha conducido a que un significativo y creciente número de trabajadores asalariados del sector privado se ubiquen dentro de un régimen especial, en vez de concentrarse en el régimen general, lo que ha...

Hace doscientos años, la prestación personal se regulaba por el contrato de arrendamiento de servicios, que formaba parte del derecho civil. Sin embargo, los criterios de libertad e igualdad aplicados a relaciones sociales inequitativas, como las que existen entre el empresario y el trabajador, condujeron a un régimen de extrema explotación y generaron las bases para su ruptura. Se constituyó así el contrato de trabajo y el área que rige las...

In a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or knew of a coworker who had been subjected to some form of discriminatory conduct. Indeed, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the filing of religious discrimination charges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, national...