Books for Job Seeker

Are you out of job? Or looking for a career switch?
Well, do not despair as the economic downturn is spread worldwide. It is important to keep ourselves in high spirit at this gloomy period.
If you have lost your job recently, do not be disheartened. You should constantly upgrade yourself so as to find a better career in your next employment. Being a recruitment personnel myself, I see a growing trend of hiring of more contract/temp staff. I would encourage all to be open to opportunities. Even if it is just a temporary assignment, take it up! You never know what will lies ahead for you in the company. If performance is good and they are have additional headcount, you will have a higher chance of conversion.
What is important to gain a foothold in a company? You have to impress during the interview. Here are some books which can be helpful in your comin interviews.

1. Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions by Martin John Yate
2. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative by William Poundstone

The books are available for rental at a rate of $6. Email me at prettyfly07@hotmail.com to enquire for more.

Everyone, let's just stay motivated!!!

Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.

Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history -- from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.

Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know -- not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil -- and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of"outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

You pay: $22
You get back: $16