Perfect Holiday Gift for College Seniors -- Career Development Books

La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) December 7, 2008

A new guide, "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days," is now available at Launch-Your-Career.com to help college seniors and recent graduates successfully begin their careers. It offers job-finding secrets that too few students know about - because no other career development books reveal them. LAUNCH! includes:

A career assessment quiz that shows how the student's job skills and attitudes compare to college seniors nationwide, and what career paths their unique traits suggest.
How to find job openings before they're advertised.
How to triple resume responses.
Proven networking tactics.
How to interview better.
Why Monster.com and Craigslist are time traps for recent graduates.
How a weekend project can make the student a top candidate for their chosen position.
Finally, LAUNCH! outlines a 90 day schedule for getting that first job.

If downloaded from the website in PDF format, this 339 page career guide costs $ 8.63 -- less than the price of a pizza. It's also available as a paperback book (for $ 16.23 - free shipping), an audio CD set (for $ 21.33 - free shipping), or a downloadable MP3 audio book ($ 11.74). An unusual money back guarantee is included -- if any college senior doesn't discover a new job search tactic, boost their resume responses, or learn something about themselves that they didn't know before; they get their money back plus one dollar.

"Unlike those fuzzy lectures and expensive textbooks or seductive student loans, this helps graduates actually find that first job," says LAUNCH! author Gary Sutton, a retired CEO who's been involved in advising, hiring, and firing countless employees during his illustrious career.

"This may be the most important book a college senior ever reads," added Dr. Linda Charles, clinical psychologist and former UCLA staffer.

Anxious students and their nervous parents can even sample the guide before buying by reading a few pages or listening to a brief audio clip at Launch-Your-Career.com. With the U.S. economy officially in a recession, it's predicted that many parents may tend toward practical holiday gifts this season in an effort to help their offspring launch their careers.

The career assessment quiz in LAUNCH! can also be taken online at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. It tells college seniors if they'll do better in large or small organizations, among other things. The quiz ranks students' energy, ambition, ethics, status needs, social abilities and fifteen other vocational traits. Results are translated into the best career path.

"Wow! That job quiz nailed me. Without those insights, I'd be waiting tables again," said one Drake grad.

About Career Development Book "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days":

LAUNCH is a career guide aimed at college seniors and recent graduates, with more practical, hands-on advice than offered in other career development books. It's available in paperback book, downloadable PDF, audio CD set, or downloadable MP3 audio book format at Launch-Your-Career.com. The guide includes an assessment quiz that may also be taken as an online career assessment at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. The author of the book and creator of the quiz, Gary Sutton, is a retired CEO. He's mentored seniors at several colleges and found a disturbing level of confusion and unreal attitudes about the world of work.

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Parents of College Students Panic, According to Career Development Book

La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) December 21, 2008

"Most seniors delay their job searches," according to 100 campus counselors across the country. "When they start, they mass-mail resumes blindly. Many students apply online only. They'll do anything to avoid personal rejection."

These findings come from "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days," a new career development book for college seniors. It includes a career assessment that ranks students' job skills against others nationwide.

The career development book is now available at Launch-Your-Career.com to help college seniors and recent graduates successfully begin their careers. It offers job-finding secrets that too few students know about - because no other career development books reveal them. LAUNCH! includes:

A career assessment quiz that shows how the student's job skills and attitudes compare to college seniors nationwide, and what career paths their unique traits suggest.
How to find job openings before they're advertised.
How to triple resume responses.
Proven networking tactics.
How to interview better.
Why Monster.com and Craigslist are time traps for recent graduates.
How a weekend project can make the student a top candidate for their chosen position.
Finally, LAUNCH! outlines a 90 day schedule for getting that first job.

If downloaded from the website in PDF format, this 339 page career development book costs $ 8.63 -- less than the price of a pizza. It's also available as a paperback book (for $ 16.23 - free shipping), an audio CD set (for $ 21.33 - free shipping), or a downloadable MP3 audio book ($ 11.74). An unusual money back guarantee is included -- if any college senior doesn't discover a new job search tactic, boost their resume responses, or learn something about themselves that they didn't know before; they get their money back plus one dollar.

"Unlike those fuzzy lectures and expensive textbooks or seductive student loans, this helps graduates actually find that first job," says LAUNCH! author Gary Sutton, a retired CEO who's been involved in advising, hiring, and firing countless employees during his lengthy career.

"This may be the most important book a college senior ever reads," added Dr. Linda Charles, clinical psychologist and former UCLA staffer.

Anxious students and their nervous parents can even sample the guide before buying by reading a few pages or listening to a brief audio clip at Launch-Your-Career.com.

The career assessment quiz in LAUNCH! can also be taken online at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. It tells college seniors if they'll do better in large or small organizations, among other things. The quiz ranks students' energy, ambition, ethics, status needs, social abilities and fifteen other vocational traits. Results are translated into the best career path.

"Wow! That job quiz nailed me. Without those insights, I'd be waiting tables again," said one Drake grad.

About Career Development Book "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days":

LAUNCH is a career guide aimed at college seniors and recent graduates, with more practical, hands-on advice than offered in other career development books. It's available in paperback book, downloadable PDF, audio CD set, or downloadable MP3 audio book format at Launch-Your-Career.com. The guide includes an assessment designed to help college students find the right career that may also be taken as an online quiz at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. The author of both the book and creator of the quiz, Gary Sutton, is a retired CEO. He's mentored seniors at several colleges and found a disturbing level of confusion and unreal attitudes about the world of work.

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ZK Wins IBM XPages Development Contest for Reusable Controls, Embed Excel Functionality into IBM Lotus Domino XPages Applications

London (PRWEB) September 07, 2011

ZK is pleased to announce that one of its developers Dennis Chen has been awarded as one of the three winners of the first ever XPages Development Contest for his effort in seamlessly integrating ZK Spreadsheet into IBM Lotus Domino XPages. This contest was sponsored by IBM Business Partner We4IT and hosted at OpenNTF.org.

Participants were required to contribute re-usable XPages controls along with a well documented reference understandable and consumable by other developers, in particular, specifying design elements in which developers are to copy in order to utilize the controls in other applications. Reusable controls are often custom controls with parameters to configure them enabling them to be used in different contexts.

The contest attracted a total of 49 contestants contributing 54 custom controls and 10 library controls. Nominations were judged by several criteria including reusability, consumability, wow factor, completeness of solution and documentation, overall business value and originality.

Despite the competitiveness, ZK Spreadsheet and XPages integration was proudly selected proving its value once again to the Java Community. In this ZK XPages project, ZK Spreadsheet and ZK Pivottable were integrated into XPages, providing extension libraries that can bridge XPages to ZK whilst essentially and effectively integrating the core of ZK into XPages environment, providing developers an architecture with great extensibility easily integratable with any ZK components. This in turn is the greatest value coming out of this project; by integrating ZK Spreadsheet into XPages, users are now provided with more convenience, versatility, efficiency and more over, enhanced applications. says Dennis Chen in an interview.

ZK Spreadsheet is an open source, embeddable web-based spreadsheet that delivers rich functionality of Excel within browsers using pure Java without the need to install Excel or applets on the server or client. With the ability to include Excel functionality in any web page, developers are able to create interactive, collaborative and dynamic enterprise applications at minimal cost. ZK Spreadsheet has become a mainstay in developers toolkits since its first release in February 2008 obtaining favourable reviews across the globe and deployed by various corporate financial institutions.

XPages is a rapid web and mobile application development platform based on JavaScript, JSF and a document orientated database. It allows IBM Lotus Notes data to be displayed to browser clients on all platforms and its applications are hosted by IBM Lotus Domino.

About Potix

Potix Corporation develops and supports ZK, the #1 Java based Ajax solution on SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source host. Innovation is the most driving force behind the growing Potix. Potix delivered the first Ajax framework to support Java and Android phones, the first embeddable Ajax spreadsheet, and the first to synergize the power of pure Java, markup and scripting languages.

ZK has more than 1,500,000 downloads since its first release in late 2005. ZK is deployed by a large number of Fortune Global 500 companies, including Barclays, Societe Generale, Swiss RE, eBay, Roche, Deutsche Bank, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Audi, EMC and Toyota, providing them with the ability to rapidly create rich Ajax enterprise level applications.

About IBM

International Business Machines (IBM) is a multinational technology and consulting firm headquartered in New York. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

In 2011, Fortune ranked IBM the 18th largest firm in the U.S. as well as the 7th most profitable globally, the company is ranked the 31st largest firm by Forbes for 2011. IBM employs more than 425,000 employees in over 200 countries, including scientists, engineers, consultants, and sales professionals.

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Rasmussen College Wins Grand Prize In Global Mobile Game Development Curriculum Contest

Minneapolis, Minn. (Vocus/PRWEB) March 03, 2011

After being chosen as one of only 20 schools to advance to a second round of competition, Rasmussen College has been selected as one of three grand-prize winners of the Unity Mobile Generation Education Giveaway, a global contest designed to encourage educators to develop innovative course curricula for game programming and design for mobile and tablet PC devices. With this honor, the higher education provider will receive 20 Android smart phones, 20 copies of Unity Pro, and 20 licenses of Unity Android Pro.

We are honored to be named a grand-prize winner of an award that showcases our dedication to developing advanced curriculum for our programs, including the Game and Simulation Programming Bachelors degree, Rasmussen College School of Technology and Design Director Hap Aziz said. Our winning proposal combined programming design and theory with practical applications, providing students the hands-on experience that is critical to learning new and challenging programs, as well as becoming qualified professionals within their field.

Rasmussen College has established itself as an industry leader in online and on-campus education and offers a Bachelors in Game and Simulation Programming degree, or Game Design Degree, along with several other technology and multimedia design programs. Faculty members Thomas Long and William Sattelmeyer submitted the colleges winning proposal Mobile Game Development with Unity 3D, which integrated Unity Pro 3D with opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience developing high-demand simulations that employ built-in mobile device features, such as the compass, GPS, and accelerometer.

The demand for courses and degrees addressing game and mobile design has increased as Android encompasses 27 percent of national smart phone sales and iPhone sales expand with the companys new relationship with Verizon. A course curriculum that is centered on this rapidly evolving industry will give students a strong advantage in the expanding mobile development field.

Nominees submitted an example curriculum using Unitys Android game software and two accompanying video lectures. Rasmussen College was selected to advance to the second round of the competition in November 2010.

Will Goldstone of Unity Technologies, author of the first textbook on Unity 3D, noted that the Rasmussen College proposal demonstrated excellent understanding of course requirements, student needs, and development process, as well as an existing understanding of industry needs.

Headquartered in San Francisco and named one of the top five game companies of 2009 by Gamasutra, Unity Technologies has more than 200,000 registered users worldwide using its platform to develop high-quality, interactive 3D content for the Web, mobile, and console. Schools such as Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have adopted Unity technology into their curricula. For additional information about Unity Technologies, visit unity3d.com.

See the winning universities online at http://blogs.unity3d.com/2011/02/01/unity-mobile-generation-great-education-giveaway-winners-announced/.

For additional information about Rasmussen College and its School of Technology and Design, visit http://www.Rasmussen.edu/degrees/technology-design/.

ABOUT RASMUSSEN COLLEGE

Founded in 1900, Rasmussen College is a premier provider of educational experiences, dedicated to the growth and development of its students, employees, and the communities it serves. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, Rasmussen College offers Bachelors and Associates degrees in fields with the greatest occupation opportunities to more than 15,000 students both online and through its network of 21 campus locations. By partnering with leading universities, Rasmussen offers opportunities to students beyond the Bachelors level. The Rasmussen Partner Network gives students the opportunity to earn Masters and Doctoral degrees completely online, at their own convenience, from prominent universities around the country. To learn more about Rasmussen College, please visit Rasmussen.edu.

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