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Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft

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9780735693616f We’re thrilled to offer another free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft, by Katherine Murray. The ebook contains eight chapters and an appendix describing how you can assess and build your technology-based job skills.

To give you a sense of the ebook’s content, here is its Foreword, by Microsoft Learning’s Lutz Ziob:

Foreword

In the midst of a struggling economy, our fast-changing, knowledge-based
economy has created unprecedented challenges for employers and workers
alike. Employers increasingly need workers with a broad range of information
technology (IT) skills. These skills will become even more important as we
continue to retool major sectors of our economy, such as healthcare, transportation
and energy. By 2014, more than three-quarters of all jobs in the
United States will require some level of computing or technology skills, and
the vast majority of newly created jobs will require post-secondary education
or training.

To meet this demand, students need a solid foundation in science,
technology, engineering, math, and design, as well as in related disciplines
such as computer science. And this means that workforce training systems
need to be improved and expanded to meet the needs of all workers—the
underemployed, the unemployed, and students who need better access to
the requisite skills. Everyone entering or already in the workforce should have
access to the resources they need to become lifelong learners who can adapt
to an ever-changing workplace.

Technology is only one piece of the puzzle, but it has a pivotal role to play in
these efforts. It can offer students, workers, and employers the training tools
they need, and it can help to quickly and efficiently expand access to educational
resources. IT also helps people develop other essential 21st-century
skills such as collaboration and teamwork, finding and interpreting information,
and using data to aid in decision making.

In this book, students will find a wealth of Microsoft resources they can
use to identify the technology skills they need, and gather knowledge and
experience to help them take charge of their careers. Here at Microsoft, we
care about students’ career success and hope these resources will open doors
to learning that will lead them to better opportunities and a deeper understanding
of the way technology continues to change and improve the ways
people work—both here in the U.S. and around the world.

Lutz Ziob
Microsoft Learning General Manager

You can download the ebook in XPS format here and in PDF format here.

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2010
    Have you considered releasing the ebook in the ePUB format?  It is the industry standard format now.

  • Anonymous
    March 04, 2010
    Have you considered releasing the ebook in ePUB format?  it is the industry standard format.

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2010
    Sincerely interested in learning

  • Anonymous
    March 07, 2010
    Nice and thanks to the msdn group.

  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2010
    I'm a contractor that lost funding and looking to expand my skills

  • Anonymous
    March 12, 2010
    Great Book..! Thanks for sharing! You folks have been amazing in sharing information.

  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2010
    Second the ePub call folks. I'm now searching for a process to convert them to ePub.

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2011
    Nice Work. Thanks

  • Anonymous
    August 16, 2011
    Reading with other MSPS. TKS.

  • Anonymous
    September 29, 2011
    Thanks for providing this book.Thanks to MSDN buddies

  • Anonymous
    November 29, 2011
    super book

  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2011
    Nice Work. Thanks

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    December 18, 2011
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    January 25, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2012
    Sincerely learning..

  • Anonymous
    June 25, 2012
    ePub version here: download.microsoft.com/.../Microsoft_Press_ebook_Own_Your_Future_EPUB.epub

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2012
    Thank you author Katherine Murray for providing such e-book and special thanks to the Microsoft Press and Microsoft Company.

  • Anonymous
    December 11, 2012
    thanks a million.  thanks for sharing.  other companies need to follow your example.

  • Anonymous
    May 21, 2013
    hope this ll help me for my examinations .. i was preparing for my global certification ..

  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2014
    Great book, million thanks to microsoft!

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2014
    Such a fruitful Ebook

  • Anonymous
    April 10, 2017
    nice book