Category: Job Interviews

How to Survive your Nursing or Midwifery Course

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gribben M,McLellan S and McGirr D
Pages: 296p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Sage, (23 Feb. 2017)
eISBN-13: 978-1473969230

Nursing and midwifery are inspiring and amazing professions – but as you face the realities of juggling work, study and life, you may now be thinking ‘what did I let myself in for’?
This book is designed to help anyone who is struggling and needs a little (or a lot of) guidance. It’s packed with useful information and practical exercises to help nursing and midwifery students cope with all the major sources of stress  – including:

  • juggling time
  • succeeding in assignments and exams
  • understanding what’s expected in real life and on placements
  • managing finances
  • coping with stress
  • applying for jobs and more

Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Joan E. Pynes, Donald N. Lombardi. Pages: 450 Size: 4 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 27 December, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781118152737

This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for the New Health Care Manager and Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations , the book covers the context of human resources management in the unique health care business arena from a strategic perspective includes SHRM and human resources planning, organizational culture and assessment, and the legal environment of human resources management. Managing volunteers and job analysis performance appraisal instruments, training and development programs, and recruitment, targeted selection and hiring techniques are covered. Compensation policies and practices, employer-provided benefits management, implementation of training and organizational development programs, as well as labor-management relations for health care organizations and healthcare human resource information technology are covered, with practical examples and proven strategies amply provided in each chapter.

Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Michael Dodd. Pages: 313 Size: 1.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Capstone Publishing Ltd
Published: 24 May, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780857086419

The essential guide to turning tough questions into positive opportunities Difficult questions can be thrown at you from your first job interview through to challenges you get when you ve made it to the top. If you find yourself on the firing line on a regular or occasional basis this is the perfect go-to guide to help you turn tough questions into positive opportunities. Great Answers to Tough Questions at Work promotes a confident `win-win-win` mindset for questioner, answerer and wider audiences beyond. Author Michael Dodd provides golden formulae and proven strategies for constructing inspirational answers however challenging, vicious, tricky or stupid the question. He outlines simple but successful techniques for dealing with the kind of nightmare questions which all ambitious people in the workplace have to face along their journey, whatever stage of their career.

  • Contains critical communication skills for executives, managers, leaders and those aspiring to fill these roles
  • Covers a wide range of work place scenarios such as job interviews, performance reviews, negotiations, customer relations, parliamentary inquiries and cross-examination
  • Discusses how to see the issues underlying tough questions that you face in a different, more positive, solution-oriented way
  • Includes case study examinations of key moments where people in the public spotlight have done something particularly well or particularly badly while answering questions and draws out the lessons for readers.