Getting Hired: Everything You Need to Know about Resumes, Interviews, and Job-Hunting Strategies
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Call from a headhunter? Layoffs getting a little too close for comfort? Hear about a great new internal opportunity? Getting out of the military? Or just frustrated and wonder if you could do better someplace else?
This is the definitive guide to getting you on the market fast.
The third edition of The Overnight Resume has been completely revised and updated for everyone—from entry level* to the executive suite—who is serious about getting an interview and landing a job.
*Tip #1: Never use the term “entry level” in any resume. For hundreds more tips that suit your particular case, just look inside.
Information you’ll find nowhere else includes:
• How to beat other jobseekers at 1,000-to-1 odds.
• How to launch a full-scale job search within 24 hours.
• How to access the hidden job market where the best jobs are.
• What returning parents and returning prisoners have in common.
• How to beat resume-sorting software!
• Online resumes, HTML, scannable, and portfolio versions.
• Differences between East Coast and West Coast resume styles.
• How to look like a local, from anywhere in the country!
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Career-Making in Postmodern Academia: Process, Structure, and Consequence
This volume examines academic careers and career-making endeavors in contemporary society. It serves as a critical forum for theoretical reflection and generalization, a thought-provoking reference for institutional innovation and reform, and a down-to-earth guide for individual learning and practice.
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Online Resume and Job Search: 10-Hour Series
The 10-Hour Series covers a variety of important technology-based business skills with short texts that can be completed in ten hours. The Internet and technology are used extensively in this series for research, instruction, and application. These books, many supported by data disks or CDs, are brief, uncomplicated, and activity-based, requiring minimal instructor intervention. On-Line Resumes and Job Search teaches time-proven strategies for successful job finding using the Internet. These include everything from assessing one’s abilities in a personal inventory to evaluating job descriptions to creating professional resumes to preparing for a job interview.
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Job Hunting Guide: Transitioning From College to Career
Today’s college students face a challenging job market requiring greater attention to job search basics. A new book, written in collaboration with students, employers, and university administrators, provides sound advice on how to best find and keep jobs.
What happens when two of America’s leading career writers join the top online employment site for college students? They produce a unique job search book designed to assist college students and recent grads in finding jobs and launching new careers. Recognizing the realities of student job hunting - often lacking time, focus, and structure - the authors outline a step-by-step process for finding the perfect job within 90 days.
Authors of more than 35 career books, Ron and Caryl Krannich, Ph.Ds., have teamed up with CampusCareerCenter.com to produce the definitive guide to today’s turbulent employment market. Former university professors and career advisors to millions of readers, the Krannichs draw on their many years of career planning experience as well as an active community of students, employers, and university administrators who participate in the popular CampusCareerCenter.com website.
The book begins with a pre-test of readers’ knowledge, skills, and behaviors for job search success - “What’s Your Hiring I.Q.?” - that sets the stage for the remainder of the book. Outlining a seven-step sequential job search model, the authors detail the most important aspects of the job search, including a rich collection of relevant examples and exercises: skills assessment, goal setting, research, resume and letter writing, networking, interviewing, and salary negotiations. Recognizing both the interpersonal and electronic nature of the job search, the authors carefully integrate the use of the Internet into a traditional face-to-face job search by revealing numerous helpful websites for enhancing each job search step. A special chapter on getting started on the new job includes observations of recent graduates who share lessons learned about their new work world. A resource-rich chapter focuses on three employment arenas of keen interest to college students: government, nonprofit, and international. A final chapter profiles 53 employers who regularly recruit college students and graduates for internships and part-time and full-time positions. Throughout the book several college career counselors give advice on what works best in the job-finding trenches for college students and recent graduates.
Filled with cutting-edge strategies, tips, self-assessment exercises, and advice from students, employers, and counselors, here’s the ultimate college transition book. It speaks directly to students about what they need to do to quickly find a good job that leads to a career compatible with their unique mix of interests, skills, and abilities. The book no student should leave college without!
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