Author: Lola Kakes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781449017408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
As a business owner, you want to expand your company by building a solid team, not a three-ring circus. There's a reason human resources work is often compared to running a daycare center. Managing employees can cause headaches for a company of any size, but especially for a small company where one person is doing the hiring, managing and firing. If You Don't Own a Circus, You Shouldn't Be Hiring Clowns! walks the small business owner or manager through the entire employment cycle, including: [ Understanding whether you're ready to bring on employees. [ Writing job descriptions. [ Posting employment ads. [ Reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. [ Creating offer letters. [ Conducting background checks. [ Training new employees. [ Keeping proper employment documents. [ Retaining good employees. [ Evaluating the performance of your workers. [ Surveying employees and customers. [ Understanding employment laws. [ Handing out discipline. [ Firing employees who don't meet your company's needs. Written as a layman's guide to human resources, this book provides the tools you need to operate your company professionally and legally before your organization grows large enough to hire an entire HR department. You'll find essential tools that include checklists, tips, sample forms and letters, charts of important legal information, helpful Web links, and an extensive glossary of employment terms. Keep this close by for reference as you grow your business!
If You Don't Own a Circus You Shouldn't Be Hiring Clowns!
Author: Lola Kakes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781449017408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
As a business owner, you want to expand your company by building a solid team, not a three-ring circus. There's a reason human resources work is often compared to running a daycare center. Managing employees can cause headaches for a company of any size, but especially for a small company where one person is doing the hiring, managing and firing. If You Don't Own a Circus, You Shouldn't Be Hiring Clowns! walks the small business owner or manager through the entire employment cycle, including: [ Understanding whether you're ready to bring on employees. [ Writing job descriptions. [ Posting employment ads. [ Reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. [ Creating offer letters. [ Conducting background checks. [ Training new employees. [ Keeping proper employment documents. [ Retaining good employees. [ Evaluating the performance of your workers. [ Surveying employees and customers. [ Understanding employment laws. [ Handing out discipline. [ Firing employees who don't meet your company's needs. Written as a layman's guide to human resources, this book provides the tools you need to operate your company professionally and legally before your organization grows large enough to hire an entire HR department. You'll find essential tools that include checklists, tips, sample forms and letters, charts of important legal information, helpful Web links, and an extensive glossary of employment terms. Keep this close by for reference as you grow your business!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781449017408
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
As a business owner, you want to expand your company by building a solid team, not a three-ring circus. There's a reason human resources work is often compared to running a daycare center. Managing employees can cause headaches for a company of any size, but especially for a small company where one person is doing the hiring, managing and firing. If You Don't Own a Circus, You Shouldn't Be Hiring Clowns! walks the small business owner or manager through the entire employment cycle, including: [ Understanding whether you're ready to bring on employees. [ Writing job descriptions. [ Posting employment ads. [ Reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. [ Creating offer letters. [ Conducting background checks. [ Training new employees. [ Keeping proper employment documents. [ Retaining good employees. [ Evaluating the performance of your workers. [ Surveying employees and customers. [ Understanding employment laws. [ Handing out discipline. [ Firing employees who don't meet your company's needs. Written as a layman's guide to human resources, this book provides the tools you need to operate your company professionally and legally before your organization grows large enough to hire an entire HR department. You'll find essential tools that include checklists, tips, sample forms and letters, charts of important legal information, helpful Web links, and an extensive glossary of employment terms. Keep this close by for reference as you grow your business!
The Secret Life of Clowns
Author: Jeff Raz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997904819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jeff Raz has drawn on his life's work to write a pair of fictional narratives - one following a professional clown performing with Cirque du Soleil and one following a clown student who just wants a job in a circus. It captures the sweat, the sinew and the soul of clowning.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997904819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Jeff Raz has drawn on his life's work to write a pair of fictional narratives - one following a professional clown performing with Cirque du Soleil and one following a clown student who just wants a job in a circus. It captures the sweat, the sinew and the soul of clowning.
The Pilo Family Circus
Author: Will Elliott
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 073049652X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 073049652X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Jamie's tyres squealed to a halt. Standing in the glare of the headlights was an apparition dressed in a puffy shirt with a garish flower pattern It wore oversized red shoes, striped pants and white face paint. It stared at him with ungodly boggling eyes, then turned away...this seemingly random incident triggers a nightmarish chain of events as Jamie finds he is being stalked by a trio of gleefully sadistic clowns who deliver a terrifying ultimatum: you have two days to pass your audition. You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got? Jamie is plunged into the horrific alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have been perpetrated. Yet in this place peopled by the gruesome, grotesque and monstrous, where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself - for when he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. And JJ wants Jamie dead.
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143415190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143415190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Autobiography of a Clown
Author: Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"The Autobiography of a Clown" by Isaac Frederick Marcosson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"The Autobiography of a Clown" by Isaac Frederick Marcosson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Farmer and the Clown
Author: Marla Frazee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442497459
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee. A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmer’s vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some surprising discoveries about themselves—and about life! Sweet, funny, and moving, this wordless picture book from a master of the form and the creator of The Boss Baby speaks volumes and will delight story lovers of all ages.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442497459
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Whimsical and touching images tell the story of an unexpected friendship and the revelations it inspires in this moving, wordless picture book from two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee. A baby clown is separated from his family when he accidentally bounces off their circus train and lands in a lonely farmer’s vast, empty field. The farmer reluctantly rescues the little clown, and over the course of one day together, the two of them make some surprising discoveries about themselves—and about life! Sweet, funny, and moving, this wordless picture book from a master of the form and the creator of The Boss Baby speaks volumes and will delight story lovers of all ages.
Memoirs of a Circus Clown
Author: David Figlioli
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494310141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The true story of film and television actor David Figlioli's journey from a hard fought steady career in Hollywood to his life changing decision to run away and join the circus. Attempted human rights violations, drug use, imprisonment, deportation, sex, bureaucratic buffoonery, world travel, cultures clashing, artistic growth and the reality of living the dream are candidly unveiled in the new book, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN." Unapologetically honest and yet filled with the belief in the importance of dreams, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN" is a unique, first person account of an actor following his dreams of working in television and the subsequent midlife crisis that propelled him to get a job touring and performing as a clown in the circus. Discover the reality of working in Hollywood and an insiders view of what it takes to audition, train, tour and perform for millions of spectators in the modern day circus. Follow the experience of one man's journey of conquering his biggest fears and the ultimate discovering of himself while hidden behind a mask of clown make-up.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494310141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The true story of film and television actor David Figlioli's journey from a hard fought steady career in Hollywood to his life changing decision to run away and join the circus. Attempted human rights violations, drug use, imprisonment, deportation, sex, bureaucratic buffoonery, world travel, cultures clashing, artistic growth and the reality of living the dream are candidly unveiled in the new book, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN." Unapologetically honest and yet filled with the belief in the importance of dreams, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN" is a unique, first person account of an actor following his dreams of working in television and the subsequent midlife crisis that propelled him to get a job touring and performing as a clown in the circus. Discover the reality of working in Hollywood and an insiders view of what it takes to audition, train, tour and perform for millions of spectators in the modern day circus. Follow the experience of one man's journey of conquering his biggest fears and the ultimate discovering of himself while hidden behind a mask of clown make-up.
Baby Clown
Author: Kara LaReau
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763697435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
An award-winning author and a Caldecott Medalist introduce an adorable new circus star — who won’t stop wailing! When Frieda and Boffo Clown have a baby, everyone in the circus is over the moon. But there is just one problem: Baby Clown won’t stop crying! Frieda and Boffo try everything: putting on their silliest faces, driving him around in their tiny car. They even try taking off his red nose and big shoes. But that just makes Baby Clown cry more. Can Frieda and Boffo turn his little clown frown upside down in time for the sold-out show? Kara LaReau deftly juggles wit and warmth in this hilarious nod to parental persistence, while Matthew Cordell’s big-top-bright illustrations bring Baby Clown and his circus family to humorously frazzled life. Older siblings, in particular, will step right up to this applause-worthy picture book, joining Baby Clown in many a heartfelt “WAAAAH!”
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763697435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
An award-winning author and a Caldecott Medalist introduce an adorable new circus star — who won’t stop wailing! When Frieda and Boffo Clown have a baby, everyone in the circus is over the moon. But there is just one problem: Baby Clown won’t stop crying! Frieda and Boffo try everything: putting on their silliest faces, driving him around in their tiny car. They even try taking off his red nose and big shoes. But that just makes Baby Clown cry more. Can Frieda and Boffo turn his little clown frown upside down in time for the sold-out show? Kara LaReau deftly juggles wit and warmth in this hilarious nod to parental persistence, while Matthew Cordell’s big-top-bright illustrations bring Baby Clown and his circus family to humorously frazzled life. Older siblings, in particular, will step right up to this applause-worthy picture book, joining Baby Clown in many a heartfelt “WAAAAH!”
A Fool's Guide to Clowning
Author: Leslie Ann Akin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947894006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947894006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.