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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Employers report they can't find enough qualified staff with the critical thinking and soft skills they need while college students aren't clear on what soft skills even means. Colleges, whether focused on providing a liberal arts education or pre-professional degrees, don't seem to know how to bridge the gap, despite their best intentions. Launch Like A Rocket explains soft skills and breaks them into four major groups with clear subsets. Full of examples on how each skill is essential to future success in the post-graduation world, the book emphasizes a thoughtful approach in choosing extracurricular groups and activities. With some forethought, these activities will naturally create life experiences that painlessly lead to mastery of the essential soft skills. Also included are sections for parents and colleges on how they can better support their students' efforts.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Employers report they can't find enough qualified staff with the critical thinking and soft skills they need while college students aren't clear on what soft skills even means. Colleges, whether focused on providing a liberal arts education or pre-professional degrees, don't seem to know how to bridge the gap, despite their best intentions. Launch Like A Rocket explains soft skills and breaks them into four major groups with clear subsets. Full of examples on how each skill is essential to future success in the post-graduation world, the book emphasizes a thoughtful approach in choosing extracurricular groups and activities. With some forethought, these activities will naturally create life experiences that painlessly lead to mastery of the essential soft skills. Also included are sections for parents and colleges on how they can better support their students' efforts.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Launch Like A Rocket: Build the Soft Skills You Need for Your Career by Leveraging Your Entire College Experience. Book.

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Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2011 British Academy hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1 'Protests Butter No Parsnips': Lord Beveridge and the Rescue of Refugee Academics from Europe, 1933-1938 by David Zimmerman; 2 A Narrow Margin of Hope: Leo Szilard in the Founding Days of CARA by William Lanouette; 3 From Refugee Assistance to Freedom of Learning: the Strategic Vision of A. V. Hill, 1933-1964 by Paul Weindling; 4 Refugee Scientists in a New Environment by Gustav Born; 5 Max Perutz and the SPSL by Georgina Ferry; 6 Esther Simpson: A Correspondence by Paul Broda; 7 Eva and Esther by Lewis Elton; 8 'Dedicated to Represent the True Spirit of the German Nation in the World': Philipp Schwartz (1894-1977), Founder of the Notgemeinschaft by Gerald Kreft; 9 Organized Rescue Operations in Europe and the United States, 1933-1945 by Tibor Frank; 10 In Defence of Academic Women Refugees: The British Federation of University Women by Susan Cohen; 11 Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein: Refugee Sociologists in Search of Social Democratic Practice by E. Stina Lyon; 12 Austrian Refugee Social Scientists by Christian Fleck; 13 Plutarch's Thesis: The Contribution of Refugee Historians to Historical Writing, 1945-2010 by Antoon de Baets; 14 Within Two Tyrannies: The Soviet Academic Refugees of the Second World War by Marina Yu. Sorokina; 15 Czech Scholars in Exile, 1948-1989 by Antonin Kostlan & Sona Strbanova; 16 'Bending the rules': South African Refugees in the UK, 1960-1980 by Shula Marks; 17 Refugee Academics from Chile: WUS-SPSL Collaboration by Alan Phillips.…

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