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When a young squirrel named Moxie starts to feel odd and out of place, she decides to create disguises. Maybe Moxie can fit in with the other squirrels, or the raccoons, or maybe the porcupines! But can she really hide her true self from the other animals?Is there any place for a purple squirrel?

Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won't accept jobs at the wages offered. In this powerful and fast-reading book, Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, debunks the arguments and exposes the real reasons good people can't get hired. Drawing on jobs data, anecdotes from all sides of the employer-employee divide, and interviews with jobs professionals, he explores the paradoxical forces bearing down on the American workplace and lays out solutions that can help us break through what has become a crippling employer-employee stand-off. Among the questions he confronts: Is there really a skills gap? To what extent is the hiring process being held hostage by automated software that can crunch thousands of applications an hour? What kind of training could best bridge the gap between employer expectations and applicant realities, and who should foot the bill for it? Are schools really at fault? Named one of HR Magazine's Top 20 Most Influential Thinkers of 2011, Cappelli not only changes the way we think about hiring but points the way forward to rev America's job engine again.

Tuna, a quirky, pack rat squirrel, lives with her husband, Bubble, in a little room under the eaves of the old brick building just outside Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. One day, after feeling a knot of acrobats dancing in her tummy, Tuna gives birth to six babies-and soon discovers that one of her babies is not like the others. Brooklyn is purple! The Two-Leg world is a dangerous place, where Brooklyn and his siblings must learn how to survive. As he embarks on expeditions in Prospect Park and listens to lectures about Two-Legs, Brooklyn becomes more independent. He is thrilled when he receives an invitation to attend the park's annual spring celebration-but when Brooklyn is spotted, a hunt for the rare purple squirrel begins. Brooklyn the Squirrel is a tale for children of all ages that proves that being different is not so bad after all.

Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on the idea that co-authors are colleagues and mentors to each other, this book conceptualizes contributors as invested stayers in the education profession. Chapters feature how particular catalysts, or landmark changes in education, have been productive sites for growth, agency, and even resistance across the arc of contributors’ professional lives. The book recognizes that teacher educators and teachers persist because of multiple and overlapping factors between our professional and personal lives, including the relationships we develop with each other as colleagues and mentors in our professional learning. In the public sphere, PK-12 educators increasingly face challenges that limit their ability to initiate their own professional learning. In this book, we considered what might occur if educators had space and time to write together and reflect on how they’ve persisted. These authors narrate themselves as invested stayers who invite personal and professional growth through inquiry, creativity, and innovation.

This book will be appreciated by people who don’t ever need to be involved in the hiring of a new staff member. Everybody has to work in recruitment at some point in their life – even if it’s only to find a job. Mitch Sullivan has experienced recruitment from a number of different perspectives – not least those of a hiring manager and a job seeker. He’s spent nearly 30 years in the industry – in agencies, in large corporates and as a recruitment copywriter. His blogging style has been described as “three cords and the truth” – partly because each blog generally takes less than a couple of minutes to read and partly because of the unapologetic sarcasm (or wit if you're feeling generous) he uses to deliver this honesty. This book is a collection of some of the 160 blogs he’s written on recruitment, covering areas of the industry as diverse as agency culture, retained recruitment, assessment, employer branding, job advertising, the candidate experience and even employee engagement.