150 Best Jobs for a Better World

by JIST Editors and Laurence Shatkin

Improve the world through your work while enjoying many rewards, including good pay. This special book covers jobs that let you do good for others or society and yourself. Through 100 best jobs lists... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593574762
• ISBN13: 9781593574765
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: JIST Works
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A core and essential addition

For more and more people today, it's not enough to simply have a job in order to pay the bills, that job must also contribute to making the world a better place to live in and to pass on to our children. Based on governmental research data and part of the 'Best Jobs' series from JIST Publishing, "150 Best Jobs For A Better World" is the collaborative project of career counselor and expert Laurence Shatkin in cooperation with the editorial staff of JIST Publishing, a premier publishing house that specializes in publishing descriptive guidebooks in the field of jobs and careers. "150 Best Jobs For A Better World" lives up to its title as a compendium of the one hundred 'best jobs' characterized by their pay rates, growth potential, and 'most available' openings. These descriptive job entries are organized according to interests, education, earnings, compatible personality types, and more. Each job entry also provides details about what can be earned, what the responsibilities are, what training is required, what skills are needed to qualify, and what working conditions are to be expected. Replete with charts, the jobs themselves are organized alphabetical for easy access by the reader. A core and essential addition to both job center and community library Job & Career reference collections, the only recommendation for the next edition of "150 Best Jobs For A Better World" is to make it 151 and thereby allowing for the inclusion of the occupation of Book Reviewer to this roster of desirable jobs for a better world!