Immigrants Guide to the American Workplace: Making It In America, The
by Anna Graf Williams
Category: Business & Economics

This easy-to-read book helps people who want to be successful in the U.S. job market--targeting the needed life and professional skills and providing the " how to" for integrating into the American workforce. It gives concrete, prescriptive techniques for workplace success to immigrant populations and the people who mento them. Coverage includes hygiene and dress, finding and working with a mentor, dealing with culture shock, learning to understand and communicate with others, getting around, government services, housing, handling money, getting and keeping a job, on-the-job benefits, being professional, and becoming independent. For human resource managers, construction mangers, and managers and supervisors in the fields of business, technology, hotel restaurant management, hospital and home health care, career placement, childcare--and basically everything else.