Invaluable Resource in your Job Search: "Best Jobs for the 21st Century"

Published in 2001 by Farr & Ludden, Best Jobs for the 21st Century lists the best jobs overall and, more specifically, by various criteria such as personality, interests, geographic location, age, sex, and level of education. At the level of an associates's degree, the best jobs are dental hygienists, registered nurses, paralegal, and legal assistants. Of all jobs, the best paid are dentists, physicians, aircraft pilots, and flight engineers. Almost half of the top 15 jobs are in the computer field, followed by those that are health-related.

Review Guide for Chapter 2

Importance of "people" skills and a reason that executives fail; diversity, first impressions, stereotypes, prejudice includes ways to challenge it, discrimination, multiculturalism, assertiveness: mild, moderate, and intense degrees and how to use each communication, behaviors included in the communication process, characteristics of a positive communicator, listening: three steps in listening, barriers in the listening process, active listening nonverbal behaviors, paraphrasing, clarifying, and verbal feedback, types of listening, styles of verbalizing, closed communication, dogmatic, commando, grandiose, Open: two types of "I" statements, tentative phrases and qualifiers, verbal effectiveness, content, semantics, dialect, clarity, bias-free language, levels of content, paralanguage, body language and presentation of self

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