Career Research: Advancing Your Career Exploration

This book provides the first English language account of the interview method known as the PCI. Offering a way of collecting knowledge by means of involving people actively in the research process, the interviewer takes the role of a well-informed traveller. With careful preparation and planning, the interviewer sets out with priorities and expectations, but the story the interviewer tells about his journey depends on the people encountered along the road. Novice and experienced interview researchers across the social, educational and health sciences will find this an invaluable guide to conducting interviews. Andreas Witzel is senior researcher (retired) at the University of Bremen and former director of the Bremen Archive for Life Course Research. Herwig Reiter is senior researcher in the Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology of the German Youth Institute in Munich.

Cracking the Project Manager Interview is designed to help you land your ideal project management job. The book's unique two-part organization helps you through the job application process, the interviewing process, job training, and everything in between! In Part I you will learn the ins and outs of the interviewing process: how to get your application noticed, how to prepare for the interview, how to uncover hints in an interviewer's questions, and more. Part II is an extensive review of what you need to know in order to ensure success in your interview. This section includes an overview of fundamental of project management and techniques, providing a quick review for those about to go into an interview, and for those considering project management as a profession, it is a great resource to know what you will need to learn. The book provides practice interview questions and solutions, so readers can go into their interviews confidently. In addition to interview tips and tricks, readers will learn how to sell their value and determine if they fit within a specific organization. Project managers will be given an overview of the hiring process, a detailed walk-through of the various project manager careers available to them, and all the information necessary to identify and pursue their ideal career.

Crack the marketing case and interview like a CMO' is intended to help students and working professionals in their marketing case training and interview prep. It shows you how to acquire and become expert at skills required to solve any marketing case problem and successfully crack your marketing interview (personal and technical).It leverages Nitish's and the cmofactory.com team's extensive marketing experience (in more than 20 countries building brands for P&G, Coke, Yum etc) to cull out the first principles that can be used to approach any marketing situation or problem you are faced with. The principles listed in the book are simple & logical and can be readily used for any industry/category type.The book is a fantastic tool to gain perspective on what a Chief Marketing Officer looks for and it systematically goes about helping you develop and showcase those very skills. The frameworks and tools discussed in this book have been used to train thousands of students across all IIMs & top B-Schools and have got rave reviews unanimously