Many people who are car enthusiasts and are mechanically inclined dream of a career in automotive care and service. This work is essential and incredibly valuable since so few know how to do it. As the nation has again begun to embrace the opportunities offered by trade schools and vocational education, the time is again ripe to encourage mechanically skilled teens to pursue this career path. This guide describes the wide range of jobs and specializations...

Building maintenance workers are engaged in operating and maintaining high-tech, computerized power plant systems, as well as light plumbing and electrical work in various types of buildings. This valuable guide instructs readers in how to parlay their handyman skills into a stable, secure, varied, and never boring career in a variety of buildings and institutions. The skills required for each specialty and type of building are spelled out, and proven...

Health care offers many possible job settings. This is the guidebook needed to locate where to work, doing what, and how to make it happen. Covering the wide range of health care jobs--technicians, counseling, laboratory science, medical imaging, radiation therapy, and vision-related services, among many more--this is a comprehensive guide to the field. Complete with suggested educational pathways, training and licensing/certification requirements,...

Describes the job responsibilities of IT workers and explains what is needed to get a position in the field.

"Finding work in the transportation industry puts employees at the center of the action: helping move people and goods, whether that means driving a municipal bus, moving consumer goods via trucks or trains, or helping coordinate the complicated, interconnected web of international civil aviation. In this book, the numerous types of jobs in this field, driver, pilot, logistics professional, transportation engineer, and many more, are highlighted,...

"A growing service economy in the United States has made retail a major growth industry. This book details the preparation and training or schooling involved in securing a job in retail, depending on the position and ones career goals, both short and long term. From clerks and cashiers to secret shoppers, working in online marketplaces and brick and mortar stores, retail work includes positions in many different kinds of stores: apparel, electronics,...