Today, more than a third of Americans are working in the gig economy-- mixing together short-term jobs, contract work, and freelance assignments. For those who've figured out the formula, life has never been better! Mulcahy presents your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world, supplying strategies to help you construct a life based on your priorities and vision of success. It's time to take charge of your own career and lead the life...

Make your job fit your life. Find out how to request a more flexible schedule or find a new job that offers flexible work. Do you want to work from home, adopt a more flexible schedule, or transition to a freelance role? Flexible work options for career-oriented professionals have been rapidly expanding, but it's not always easy knowing how to break into the market. This course is designed to help you build a career that fits your life, whether that...

Learn how to implement a flexible work program in your company, help employees navigate this new way of working, and measure the success of your efforts. Flexible work isn't a temporary benefit that can be ripped away once the COVID-19 pandemic is in the rear-view mirror. To retain employees and create more equitable work opportunities, HR leaders must continue to offer the ability to work remotely in some situations. In this course, Catherine Mattice...

Aimed at workers aged 50+ looking for a new job, whether they have been laid off or taken early retirement, need supplemental income, or want to pursue an encore career. Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ is the definitive guide to finding lasting financial security and personal and professional fulfillment. Opportunities abound, the trick is knowing where to look and what to expect. Whether readers are interested in trying jobs they've long dreamed of doing,...

"How soon could you share with us what's next--what we need to plan for--beyond working from home? This is the question people are asking their employers and decision makers about the future of work. What is next, and how do we thoughtfully prepare for it? These questions are the focus of Karen Mangia's new book Success From Anywhere. One year after the release of her first book Working From Home, Returning to Work offers a "one year later" snapshot...

"A detailed look at the evolution of employment and its far-reaching implications Beyond Employment takes an incisive look at the evolving nature of work, and how it's affecting management and productivity at the organizational level. Where getting things done once meant assigning it to an employee, today's leaders are increasingly at risk if they fail to recognize that talent can float into and out of an organization. Long-term employment has given...

Provides entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Features revised and expanded coverage to reflect the most current small business topics.

No matter how visually appealing or content packed a web site may be, if it doesn't reach the widest possible audience, it isn't truly successful. In Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition , bestselling author and web designer Dan Cederholm outlines standards-based strategies for building designs that can accommodate the myriad ways users choose to view the content. Each chapter starts out with an example of an unbulletproof approach--one that employs...

"With The Custom-Fit Workplace, Blades and Fondas offer an indispensable handbook for business professionals that will transform the way we work, highlighting proven best practices for breaking free from the old, inflexible, 40-hour schedule. The authors know that change is afoot in businesses across America and throughout the world: Dual earning households continue to grow in record numbers; men and women are taking time off from their careers to...

Publisher's description: Here they come: the fourteenth generation of Americans. Self-confident and optimistic. Independent and goal-oriented. Masters of the Internet and PC. Young adults who believe education is cool, integrity is admirable, and parents are role models. They're blunt. They're savvy. They're contradictory. They're the children of Baby Boomers and the upbeat younger siblings of Gen X. They are the 29 million young adults born between...