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The job market has never been more competitive, and marketing yourself can be tricky. And nothing raises a red flag for an employer than a poorly-written or badly-presented CV or resume. This handy guide offers practical, step-by-step advice on preparing, writing, and presenting an impressive document - either on paper or online - that will help you to 'get your foot in the door' with prospective employers.

Covering essential issues such as identifying your goals, creating different types of CV, or coming up with a fantastic and persuasive letter to go with them, this is a must-read for job hunters at any stage of their career.

Get Business Essentials: Get That Job: CVs and Resumes: How to make sure you stand out from the crowd (Paperback) by Bloomsbury Publishing and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

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If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school’s motto, you need power.

Is power the last dirty secret or the secret to success? Both. While power carries some negative connotations, power is a tool that can be used for good or evil. Don’t blame the tool for how some people used it.

Get 7 Rules of Power: Surprising-but True-Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career (Hardcover) by Jeffrey Pfeffer and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

This indispensable guide is ideal for teenagers and newly qualified graduates. Career counsellors will also find this a trustworthy companion for helping students with their future career planning. So, whether you want to become a nurse or home decorator, a chef or cyber-security analyst (or you simply have no idea!), this book is your ultimate source.

Get The Careers Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Future (Paperback) by DK and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A Wall Street Insider's Guide to getting ahead in any highly competitive industry

In The Way of the Wall Street Warrior, 25-year veteran investment banker and finance professional, Dave Liu, delivers a humorous and irreverent insider’s guide to thriving on Wall Street or Main Street. Liu offers hilarious and insightful advice on everything from landing an interview to self-promotion to getting paid.

Get The Way of the Wall Street Warrior: Conquer the Corporate Game Using Tips, Tricks, and Smartcuts (Hardcover) by Dave Liu, Adam Snyder and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2022.

 “One of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it isindisputably the most popular.”—Fast Company

In today’s challenging job market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever.

Get What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success (Paperback) by Richard N. Bolles and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Data has dramatically changed how our world works. Understanding and using data is now one of the most transferable and desirable skills. Whether you're an entrepreneur wanting to boost your business, a jobseeker looking for that employable edge, or simply hoping to make the most of your current career, Confident Data Skills is here to help.

Get Confident Data Skills: How to Work with Data and Futureproof Your Career, 2nd Edition (Paperback) by Kirill Eremenko and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Wherever you are in your career, Confident Web Design can help. The ultimate beginner's guide to designing, building and publishing basic websites, this book features exclusive online exercises to help you practice your new skills in context. Covering the basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, as well as giving you a thorough grounding in the real-life application of these principles, this book provides helpful examples, explanations of technical terms, and clear, easy-to-understand language - meaning your first website is only a few chapters away.

Get Confident Web: Design How to Design and Create Websites and Futureproof Your Career (Paperback) by Kenny Wood and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Are you considering a career in social media? Are you an entrepreneur or freelancer looking to boost your online content marketing? Maybe you're looking for your next career pivot, or you're simply seeking skills to give your CV that competitive edge? Wherever you are in your career, Confident Digital Content can help.

This updated second edition features advice on the latest trends, including fake news, the importance of stories and social listening analysis. Though trends, fads and hashtags change, the principles of great online content remain the same - let Confident Digital Content give you the grounding you need to ace your social channels and supercharge your career.

Get Confident Digital Content: How to Create and Manage Amazing Social Media and Web Content for a Futureproof Career, 2nd Edition (Paperback) by Adam Waters and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

BRONZE RUNNER UP: Axiom Awards 2018 - Business Technology Category (1st edition)

This new and improved second edition of the award-winning book gives you a step-by-step learning guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, building iPhone and Android apps and debugging. For entrepreneurs, being able to create your own website or app can grant you valuable freedom and revolutionize your business. For aspiring developers, this book will give you the building blocks to embark on your career path. 

Get Confident Coding: How to Write Code and Futureproof Your Career, 2nd edition (Paperback) by Rob Percival, Darren Woods and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Learn how to succeed at interview mind games and win job offers at A‑list companies, with more than eighty difficult and devious questions, puzzles, and brain teasers

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It reveals more than eighty notoriously challenging interview questions and supplies both answers and a general strategy for creative problem-solving.

Get How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want, International Edition (Paperback) by William Poundstone and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Despite booms and busts, technology advances, talent wars, layoffs, and even a global pandemic, people want what they’ve always wanted. Employees want—and now expect—meaningful work, supportive bosses, regular recognition, and a chance to learn and grow. And managers want their amazing people to stay—for at least a little while longer. 

This new edition will ensure that Love ’Em or Lose ’Em will continue to help managers all over the world create a supportive workplace culture so they can fight burnout and keep the people they can least afford to lose.

Get Love 'Em or Lose 'Em, Sixth Edition: Getting Good People to Stay (Paperback) by Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The practical guide that gives you the skills to succeed at presenting

DK's Essential Managers series contains the know-how you need to be a more effective manager and hone your management style.

Find out how to improve your presenting skills by learning how to prepare properly, capture attention, speak confidently and deliver your message. You'll discover how to structure your presentation, engage with your audience and make an impact. 

Get Essential Managers: Presenting (Paperback) by DK  and other career books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

The workplace has become a hotbed of social toxicity – from the #MeToo movement to WeWork, it's clear that abusive bosses and entrenched cultures of discrimination have become more prevalent than ever. Such behaviour is not only simply wrong and damaging to its victims – it also results in reduced productivity, higher employee turnover, and can often leave a stain upon the wider reputation of an organization.

Get Toxic: A Guide to Rebuilding Respect and Tolerance in a Hostile Workplace (Paperback) by Clive Lewis and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.

Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world’s foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. 

Get The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy (Paperback) by Chris Bailey and other Business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

A fresh and practical approach to diversity—as a mindset, not as a formula.

The Essential Diversity Mindset provides answers to businesses, organizations, and people searching for alternate perspectives and strategies to advance diversity and inclusion. It is for those who feel different or alienated, and want to foster their sense of self-empowerment and connect with others. And it’s for those who want to deepen their capacity to build greater empathy, open-mindedness, and connection.

Get The Essential Diversity Mindset: How to Cultivate a More Inclusive Culture and Environment (Paperback) by Soo Bong Peer and other human resource books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.

Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century.

In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. TED Talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED which stands for technology, entertainment, and design brings together the world's leading thinkers.

Get Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds (Paperback) by Carmine Gallo and other business books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.