Strengthening Career Guidance for Mid-Career Adults in Australia
In a rapidly changing world of work, adults in Australia are being challenged to upskill, retrain and consider alternative career paths. This report assesses the career guidance services that are currently available to mid-career adults in Australia and puts them into an international perspective.
Improving the Quality of Non-Formal Adult Learning
The COVID-19 crisis has reiterated the importance of adult learning and career guidance services as many adults have lost their jobs and now require upskilling and reskilling opportunities in order to keep pace with the rapidly evolving world of work. Yet, in order to achieve its positive gains, adult training needs to be of high quality and ensure successful learning experiences for all participants.
Escape the Middle
The usual money rules lead straight to mediocrity. Don't settle for it! You've probably done everything in life that you were told to do: get educated, secure a job, work hard and be careful with money. And where did that lead you? Straight to the middle! But weren't you made for more? Escape the Middle is your roadmap to breaking free -- free from financial stress, the nine-to-five grind and the monotony of the 'middle' way of living. Inside, investment strategist Todd Polke shares the tried-and-tested techniques he's used to help tens of thousands of people live a life unlimited by income. Escape the Middle reveals how you can grow the mindset you need to align your beliefs, thoughts and actions with your financial goals. You'll discover that the decisions you make and the money habits you master are the real difference between being stuck in the middle and going after something bigger. With this step-by-step guide to building unshakeable wealth and turning on your millionaire mode, you'll find: practical strategies to take control of your personal finances efficient systems to smoothly manage your money flow tips and tactics for getting started with investing methods to build a financial moat and protect yourself while growing wealth the tools you truly need to take back your freedom a healthy money mindset, free of the stress and worry True wealth and financial freedom demand a radical shift -- a hard 'hell no' to the norms we've been conditioned to accept. This book gives you the step-by-step path to break free, build your financial fortress and leave a secure legacy for your loved ones and the planet. Are you ready to plan your escape?
Cryptocurrency for Beginners Made Easy
It's not too late to make a lot of money in cryptocurrency. Far from it, in fact. Bitcoin has surged over 50% in the last year and even hit new all-time highs following the 2024 U.S. Presidential election and again on inauguration day. While prices have pulled back recently, this kind of volatility is normal in crypto-and often signals that new opportunities are emerging. Cryptocurrency has proven its staying power, but how can you get started confidently without feeling overwhelmed?If you're curious about cryptocurrency but confused by terms like blockchain, altcoin, and DeFi, you're not alone. Many new investors face the same challenges. Fortunately, there's a reliable way to enter the crypto world without risking your financial stability."Cryptocurrency for Beginners Made Easy" offers a clear, practical guide to help you understand crypto investing, step by step. You don't need to be tech-savvy or have prior investment experience. Here's what you'll learn inside: Blockchain Explained Simply: Understand the technology that powers cryptocurrencies in easy-to-follow terms so that you can be a better investor.Choosing the Right Exchange: Tips for selecting the best cryptocurrency exchange for your needs.Step-by-Step Guide to Purchasing Cryptocurrency: How to buy your first cryptocurrency confidently.Tax-Free Wealth Guidance: How you can invest in crypto through tax-free means to accelerate wealth building.Securing Your Assets: Key security measures to protect your investments from cyber threats.Evaluating Altcoins: How to assess the potential of altcoins based on the value of the technology behind them and their long-term viability.Risk Management: Strategies to safeguard your investments and minimize risks.This isn't another clickbait book that's going to share "the hottest altcoins of 2025." What sets this book apart from other cryptocurrency investment books is its focus on practical guidance and education, offering you the tools to understand, manage, and grow your crypto investments successfully over the long term so you can achieve financial freedom.Purchase this book to start your journey toward financial freedom and diversified wealth today.
Assessing Canada's System of Impact Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
This report on Canada is the ninth country study published in a series of reports on policies to connect people with jobs. It provides an assessment of Employment and Social Development Canada's system of impact evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMPs).
The New Workplace in Japan
This report examines how skill requirements have been evolving in Japan prior and during the COVID-19 crisis. It examines changes in the skills composition of Japan's workforce as well as policy efforts to improve the accessibility of career guidance, broaden training participation and foster the adoption of teleworking practices.
Career Guidance for Adults in Canada
In the context of considerable labour market change, many adults in Canada are being challenged to consider alternative career paths, and to upskill or retrain. Career guidance has the potential to facilitate employment transitions: not only from the education system to the labour market, but also from unemployment to employment, and from declining to growing sectors.
Overcoming Financial Trauma
An invaluable, hands-on guide to understanding your financial past while building a secure financial future In Overcoming Financial Trauma: How to Break Free from Guilt, Build Wealth, and Redefine Success, award-winning financial therapist Rahkim Sabree delivers a deeply honest and supportive discussion of how to get to the root of your financial trauma. The author helps you identify triggers for nervous system dysregulation that result in financial anxiety and financial stress, demonstrating the importance of financial psychology and behavioral finance, as well as financial therapy as an effective solution. This book introduces Rahkim's 3 E framework for overcoming financial trauma as a healing reframe for everyone who has been primed to view their financial failures through a lens of personal shortcomings. You'll learn how to navigate the guilt, shame, and fear that naturally arise from this old mindset. You'll also find: Introductions to effective financial education, along with an acknowledgement of systemic barriers to financial success and social commentary Exercises utilizing mindfulness and personal audits Culturally relevant personal anecdotes and real-life stories of overcoming formidable obstacles A powerful new resource for human resource professionals, first-generation high-income earners, and anyone else doing their best to make their financial way in a market that's increasingly challenging to navigate, Overcoming Financial Trauma is filled with actionable strategies and a liberating new way of understanding your financial choices and situation.
Career Guidance for Low-Qualified Workers in Germany
In Germany, the three 'Ds' - Digitalisation, Decarbonisation and Demographic change - are dominating the headlines. Countless studies analyse the impact of these megatrends on the world of work and document how job profiles are changing. The growing demand for high-level cognitive skills and complex social interaction skills is challenging particularly low-qualified workers.
Corporate Governance: An International Perspective
Corporate governance can be defined as the set of legal policies that stipulate the parties who have the right to make the most important decisions in business organizations, consisting of corporate control and the processes and procedures through which these parties practice the decision-making power and control. In many corporate governance structures, control is assigned solely to investors, who being the equity capital providers expect residual risk by right of having a claim on residual revenues and profits. The most important ethical question in corporate governance is how shareholders' exclusive right to control and profit from a company can be justified. The adoption of corporate governance systems, the convergence of corporate governance activities toward globally accepted practices, and initiatives taken to ensure effective corporate governance practices are all discussed in this volume. For instance, the government of Malaysia has taken significant steps to establish the infrastructure that is required for efficient corporate governance practices. Ultimately, the agenda for effective corporate governance requires serious focus on enforcement, monitoring, and advocacy. Financial markets globalization over the previous decade has necessitated international compliance with corporate governance standards.
'How to Public Sector?'
Whether readers are teaching service design in higher education or practicing it in the public sector, this publication provides critical insights and tools for successful service design collaborations. Often, university collaborations -- and especially student projects -- are the entry point for integrating service design into the public sector, and thus the gateway to citizen-centered, co-creative, innovation-driven change in the public sector. This publication and the associated Miroverse Toolbox will help service design partners to critically reflect on the value of these collaborations and to develop clear recommendations and tools for success.
Plough Quarterly No. 43 - Why We Work
Is our work merely a way to put food on the table, or does it have inherent value? Should our work define us? Does it play too large a role in our lives? Does it make us feel more human, or less so? This issue explores the realities of work for people with various jobs, but also probes the reasons people work and what they hope to gain from their labor. From warehouse workers to poets, food delivery specialists to cloistered nuns, farmers to police officers, this issue considers personal, spiritual, and social aspects of one of the most basic human activities.On this theme: James Rebanks prepares to pass on the farm to his children. Benoit Gautier rides a shuttlebus with dislocated French warehouse workers. Shira Telushkin asks why young women today are becoming cloistered nuns. Ben Wray talks to food-delivery riders in three countries about their attempts to organize. John Clair, a police chief, wants policing to be about relationships, not statistics. Norann Voll tells how her father taught her to embrace her blue-collar roots. Maureen Swinger honors the unpaid and unheralded work of caring for an aging loved one. Alastair Roberts recommends the divine rhythm of work and Sabbath rest God established in Genesis.Also in this issue: Adam Nicolson finds a different sort of freedom sailing a sixteen-foot wooden boat. Alister McGrath explores the connection between detective fiction and the spiritual quest. Tish Harrison Warren introduces Stanley Hauerwas to new audiences. Christian Wiman shares a new poem about a glass-eyed monk.Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to apply their faith to the challenges we face. Each issue includes in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art.
Playing a New Game
Drawing on first-hand clinical insight and scientific research, Dr. Wilborn offers much-needed advice on how women of color can be high-performing and successful professionally, without sacrificing their physical, mental, and emotional wellness. Now available in paperback! Black and brown women have been making profound strides in leadership and professional achievement, despite facing the added hurdles of both sexism and racism in the workplace. But so often, excelling at work comes at the expense of their wellness: the chronic stressors and demands on Black women can result in negative physical health outcomes such as sleep disturbance, hypertension, and diabetes, and negative mental health outcomes including anxiety and depression. We cannot talk about career advancement for Black and brown women without talking about strategies that promote their total wellbeing. Playing a New Game offers women a new way forward, in which ambition and wellness can not only coexist, but bolster each other. With insights from her 20 years of professional counseling experience and extensive research, mental health expert Dr. Tammy Wilborn expands the dialogue on BIPOC women's experiences of race and gender stereotypes at work, exploring them as a wellness issue. Through her evidence-based best practices that promote self-care and self-empowerment as necessary tools for professional success, Black and brown women can flip the script by prioritizing their wellness even as they advance professionally.
Mega Returns
CHOOSE MEGA RETURNS OVER MEDIOCRE RETURNS!If you follow the masses and adhere to media predictions then MEGA RETURNS is not right for you. If, however, you're not afraid to go against the grain and like to think outside box by buying when others are selling, and you enjoy undervalued assets then MEGA RETURNS is your bible for investing.For the last 13 years, the explosion of debt and ease of money printing has caused global stock market and property market expansion. However, it has also left governments worldwide vulnerable to a large downturn in the economy. The end result of these bailouts is grim; the impending downturn will inevitably bankrupt affluent Western nations and send shockwaves through second tier economies.With all that being said, this book is not all doom and gloom. While the current state of the global economy is indeed alarming, you must not let the failure of large governments and multinational corporations to properly manage their funds negatively affect your investment decisions. In fact, quite the opposite - with the bursting of the bubble, great opportunities will arise for the informed investor. The world financial system is experiencing serious changes in terms of emerging technologies, fluctuating commodities and precious metals markets, and debt servicing capabilities. Even the fiat system is evolving with the developments and implementation of cryptocurrencies globally. With so many rapidly emerging and changing markets and sectors of the economy, many opportunities will present themselves for financial gain in the short and long term alike.There is an old proverb that a crisis brings opportunity. John Templeton famously said you "buy at the point of maximum pessimism" While the current crises in debt and cost of living will bring pain to markets and the economies around the world there will also be opportunities for those who are patient and seize them. MEGA RETURNS can be your guide.
The Leader-Shift Playbook
The ultimate game plan to optimizing yourself, your team, and your impact Many believe the key to leadership is having the right combination of tools, strategies, and personal qualities. But leadership is about mindset. Beliefs influence behavior, which directly impacts the culture and the growth and development (or not) of the people on a team. Only by shifting one's beliefs can any leader affect real change. The Leader-Shift Playbook outlines four game-changing mindset shifts for leaders that result in better performance and culture. Author and leadership coach Phillip B. Wilson reveals how simple changes to your beliefs in (1) your own impact, (2) yourself, (3) others, and (4) your relationships can lead to game-changing improvements. Based on in-depth research, decades of coaching experience that has transformed tens of thousands of leaders, and Wilson's own hard-won lessons as a CEO, these leader-shifts will enable you to better connect with your team and contribute to a company culture where everyone feels encouraged to reach their highest potential. With practical takeaways and exercises, you will learn how to effectively transform your relationships, connections, and impact. The most effective, positive, and sustainable leadership starts with a leader's belief in their own potential and in the potential of everyone they lead, so make your leader-shift today.
Basics of Insurance
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the insurance landscape, designed to provide readers with a solid understanding of its fundamental principles, legal framework, and diverse applications. From the basic concepts of insurance to the intricacies of various policy types, this text aims to be a valuable resource for students, professionals, and anyone seeking to navigate the world of risk management. The book is structured to guide the reader through a logical progression of topics. It begins by laying the groundwork with an introduction to the core concepts of insurance, including its meaning, definition, features, functions, and principles. It also traces the historical evolution of insurance and examines its importance in modern society, along with an overview of the Indian insurance organization and recent sector developments.
Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate
Discover the property investing secrets that the wealthy use to create financial independence At age 21, Ravi Sharma bought his first property. By 32, he had acquired another dozen and amassed a $15M property portfolio. In Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate, he shares how he did it and shows how anyone can follow in his footsteps. Forget the traditional wisdom: Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate will transform the way you think about money, investment and property. Ravi answers all your investing questions and gives clear, actionable advice for anyone ready to change their future. Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate gives you a playbook for investing strategically and building lasting wealth. Inside, you'll learn proven methods for achieving financial freedom, from your first real estate purchase to a six-property portfolio. Discover practical advice for navigating the complex and competitive property market, including the basics of deposits, grants and loans -- plus more advanced strategies for maximising equity and cashflow. Refocus your objectives and take control of your finances Avoid the common money traps that hold people back Learn the rules of the property game (including what Monopoly teaches us about investing!) Invest smarter with strategies like rentvesting Create the future you want and live a life of choice Being 'filthy rich' isn't just about having a lot of money in the bank. It's about having the freedom to nurture your dreams, your relationships and a life you love. Retire Filthy Rich with Real Estate will show you how to use real estate to secure your financial future -- so you can live that dream life sooner.
Work How You Are Wired
It's no secret that some people are just better suited to their jobs than others. It's time to find out why and how you can achieve this same success and happiness too. Remember taking that career test in grade school where you were told you'd make a great federal judge or an exemplary lighthouse keeper? In this book, executive search CEO William Vanderbloemen takes that concept and maps it against hundreds of thousands of data points, forming a roadmap for all of us on how to choose careers that align with our personalities so that we are happy at work.William has become an unlikely business expert over his long and continuing career. Combining over fifteen years of ministry experience as a Senior Pastor with the best practices of executive search, William created a brand-new industry: executive search for faith-based organizations. Prior to founding his own search company, William studied under a mentor with over twenty-five years of executive search experience at the highest level. William has surveyed thousands of people in the workforce. He's asked what their job is and how they feel about them. He also asked them to report their scores on leading personality assessments.Now, in this groundbreaking guide, William helps you recognize the traits you possess that make you happy and then match those against your possible careers to find the best match.
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Sustainable Perspectives in Business, Economics and Education
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