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About the Author Shelly Field is a nationally recognized motivational speaker, career expert, and author of over 20 best-selling books in the business and career fields. Her books instruct people on how to obtain jobs in a wide array of areas including the hospitality, music, sports, and communications industries, casinos and casino hotels, advertising, public relations, theater, the performing arts, entertainment, animal rights, health care, writing, and art; and how to choose the best career for the new century. She is a frequent guest on local, regional, and national radio, cable, and television talk, information, and news shows and also does numerous print interviews and personal appearances. Field is a featured speaker at conventions, expos, corporate functions, casinos, employee training and development sessions, career fairs, spouse programs, and events nationwide. She speaks on empowerment, motivation, gaming, careers, human resources; attracting, retaining, and motivating employees; customer service; and stress reduction. Her popular seminar, "Stress Busters: Beating The Stress In Your Work and Your Life" is a favorite around the country. Field is a career consultant to businesses, educational institutions, employment agencies, women's groups, and individuals. President and CEO of The Shelly Field Organization, a public relations and management firm handling national clients, she has represented celebrities in the sports, music, and entertainment industries as well as authors, businesses, and corporations. For information about personal appearances or seminars contact The Shelly Field Organization at P.O. Box 711, Monticello, NY 12701 or log on to www.shellyfield.com.

The Unofficial Guide Reader's Bill of Rights.

The Unofficial Guide Panel of Experts.

Introduction.

I. What Is a Hot Career?

1. If You Get a Job You Love, You Have a Hot Career.

2. Looking for Jobs in All the Right Places.

3. When Is Your Career Hot Enough? Career Transition.

4. Savvy Search-and-Seize Career Strategies.

II. Success Strategies So Hot They Sizzle.

5. The Hot Career Toolbox.

6. Hot Career Choices.

III. Hot Careers in Helping and Heating.

7. Hot Careers Helping Others.

8. Hot Health Care Careers That Keep Getting Hotter.

9. Geriatrics: Gleaning Gold From the Golden Years.

IV. For Creative and Talented People.

10. The Creative Career Corner.

11. Let's Communicate…Tell It Like It Is.

V. Hot Careers Serving Others.

12. Welcome to New Vistas: Hospitality and Travel Careers.

13. Hot Careers in Sales and Service.

VI. Computers, Information, and Technology.

14. Hot Careers in the Information Age.

15. The Environment, Sciences, and Engineering.

VII. You're So Lucky…Careers Everyone Wants.

16. The Best Boss Ever—You.

17. People Pleasers.

18. Looking for Love in All the Right Places.

A. Glossary.

B. Resource Guide.

C. Recommended Reading List.

D. Statistics.

E. Career and Job Web Sites.

Index.