The Assistants

Author : Camille Perri
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698180801
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assistants written by Camille Perri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ocean’s Eleven meets The Devil Wears Prada” (The Skimm) in this hilarious, razor-sharp debut novel about a group of overeducated and underpaid women who decide they’ve finally had enough... Rule #1: All important men have assistants. Rule #2: Men rule the world. Still. Rule #3: There is enough money. There is so much money. Tina Fontana is a thirty-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the CEO of Titan Corp., a multinational media conglomerate. She’s excellent at her job and beloved by her famous boss—but after six years of making reservations and pouring drinks from bottles that cost more than her rent, the glamour of working for a media company in New York has completely faded, but her student loan debt has not. When a technical error with Robert’s expense report presents Tina with the opportunity to pay off the entire balance of her loans with what would essentially be pocket change for her boss, she hesitates. She’s always played by the rules, but this would be a life-changer. As Tina begins to fall down the rabbit hole of her morally questionable plan, other assistants with crushing debt and fewer scruples approach her to say that they want in. Before she knows it, she’s at the forefront of a movement that has implications far beyond what anyone anticipated...

Author : Bernard Malamud
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374504847
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assistant written by Bernard Malamud and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank, a troubled, somewhat desperate, Italian American, works long hours in the grocery store of a struggling Jewish family in a Brooklyn neighborhood where he develops a secret passion for his employer's attractive daughter.

Author : Roberto Pieraccini
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262542552
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AI Assistants written by Roberto Pieraccini and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Have you talked to a machine lately? Asked Alexa to play a song, asked Siri to call a friend, asked Google Assistant to make a shopping list? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a nontechnical and accessible explanation of the technologies that enable these popular devices. Roberto Pieraccini, drawing on more than thirty years of experience at companies including Bell Labs, IBM, and Google, describes the developments in such fields as artificial intelligence, machine learning, speech recognition, and natural language understanding that allow us to outsource tasks to our ubiquitous virtual assistants. Pieraccini describes the software components that enable spoken communication between humans and computers, and explains why it's so difficult to build machines that understand humans. He explains speech recognition technology; problems in extracting meaning from utterances in order to execute a request; language and speech generation; the dialog manager module; and interactions with social assistants and robots. Finally, he considers the next big challenge in the development of virtual assistants: building in more intelligence--enabling them to do more than communicate in natural language and endowing them with the capacity to know us better, predict our needs more accurately, and perform complex tasks with ease.

Author : Jeremy Burrows
Publisher : Assistants Lead
ISBN 13 : 1544509448
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant written by Jeremy Burrows and published by Assistants Lead. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assistant, you are a leader. As an assistant, you constantly face obstacles that hold you back from accomplishing your career goals. Whether it’s a job change, shifting deadlines, a micromanaging executive, a toxic co-worker, a high-pressure project, or an intense negotiation with a vendor, the administrative profession is not for the faint of heart. If you’re looking to maintain the status quo and be “just an assistant,” this book is not for you. But, if you want the confidence and ability to conquer the challenges that most try to avoid, then you’re in the right place. The Leader Assistant outlines four pillars—embody the characteristics, employ the tactics, engage in relationships, and exercise self-care—that will help you rediscover your passion for the profession and become a confident, future-proof, game-changing Leader Assistant. If you neglect even one pillar, you’ll head for burnout, stagnation, and anonymity. You are meant for so much more. Are you ready to be the Leader Assistant the world needs?

Author : Maggie Balshaw
Publisher : David Fulton Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1136756361
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Assistants written by Maggie Balshaw and published by David Fulton Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical book is intended to support schools and LEAs in developing effective strategies in working with teaching assistants. It is related to the DfEE's recently published Good Practice Guide (2000). Suggested approaches are supported with real examples from practice, showing the reality of how schools can review and develop practice and so become more effective in their management and support of teaching assistants. The aim is to enable managers in schools and LEAs to work effectively with teaching assistants; teachers to plan classroom approaches for working with teaching assistants; teaching assistants to improve their practice; and children to learn more effectively in inclusive settings. This book will be of use to headteachers, senior staff in schools, SENCOs, LEA support staff, class teachers and teaching assistants.

Author : Tennessee Valley Authority. Personnel Department. Training Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Training Program for Assistants in the Personnel Department written by Tennessee Valley Authority. Personnel Department. Training Division and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lee Goldberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440633606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants written by Lee Goldberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.

Author : Glenys Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135245932
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Learning Support Assistants written by Glenys Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the context of recent legislation in England and guidance to schools, this is a practical handbook for learning support assistants and teachers working with them. It can be used to ensure that: support assistants know what to expect of colleagues and colleagues know what to expect from support assistants; children are given the best support possible by support assistants who understand the nature of their needs; support assistants and teachers work together effectively to support the child with special needs; and that training is relevant an helpful.

Author : Lilit Marcus
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1401395139
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Save the Assistants written by Lilit Marcus and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you're tired, you're poor, and you're a huddled mass of an assistant yearning to breathe free, look no further than Save the Assistants." --Yahoo! "Lilit at Save the Assistants . . . feels your pain." --Marie Claire What happens when nine-to-five turns into nine-to-eleven? How do you outmaneuver the office Underminer? Is it appropriate to have a cocktail at a company lunch? How do you get reservations for a restaurant with an unlisted phone number? What do you do when your boss throws a stapler at your head? As Page Six Magazine recently noted, bosses are "going from mean to monstrous -- and making The Devil Wears Prada look like a love story." What's an office drone to do? Call on Save the Assistants, the addictive and insightful guide to workplace sanity by Lilit Marcus, renowned assistant expert. On your first day at work, you learned how to answer the phone and turn on the computer. But four years of college hardly prepared you for the coffee-fetching, back-stabbing, and you-should-have-done-it-yesterdays of office life. Save the Assistants is here to help you not only survive your job, but ultimately get the career you want.

Author : Glenys Fox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131729677X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook for Teaching Assistants written by Glenys Fox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised new edition provides essential guidance for all teaching assistants, especially those who are new to the job, and to the teachers working with them. Glenys Fox details the roles and responsibilities of the TA, as well as providing helpful advice on how to best support the teacher, the pupil, the curriculum and the school. This practical handbook will bring experienced TAs up to date on changes to National educational guidance, including changes in the National Curriculum, assessment, and the Special Educational Needs framework. This text enables the assistant and the teacher to work together more effectively in supporting and promoting the progress of children and young people. Written in light of recent research and updates in legislation, this guide will ensure that: teaching assistants know what to expect of colleagues, and vice versa pupils are given the best possible support by teaching assistants who understand their needs teaching assistants and teachers are able to work together effectively to support the learning of all children, especially children who have special educational needs and disabilities any training received is relevant and helpful. A Handbook for Teaching Assistants is an ideal textbook for training, as well as a useful classroom handbook for teaching assistants working in early years, primary and secondary settings.