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Beginning Your Career Search (4TH 07 Edition)

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'A comprehensive guide to finding the right job and what a student needs to be hired, including examples of real documents created by students, O’Rourke provides students with a complete guide to assembling a career portfolio.'

Table of Contents

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Introduction

What this book is about . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i

Assembling a Career Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

Chapter One: Assessing Yourself

Daydreaming as a way of identifying your goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Developing a Personal Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

The role of your Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Developing your Career Planning Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Using your Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Classroom projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Chapter Two: Your Personal Statement

What it looks like . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Your writing style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

How to begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Writing the first draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Revise, revise, revise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Sample personal statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter Three: Your Resume

What is a resume? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The keys to effective resume writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

What are employers looking for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Writing a resume that works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

What should a resume contain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

What to avoid in your resume? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Remaining honest and truthful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Non-traditional formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Classroom projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Chapter Four: Employment Correspondence

What is a cover letter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Writing a cover letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Your list of references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Follow-up, thank-you letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter Five: Researching the Companies You Most Want to Work for

Beginning your research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Preparing for your interview with useful information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Finding business information on the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Selecting an Ethical Employer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Chapter Six: Marketing Yourself Online

Getting hired by getting wired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

What to avoid in online job hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Classroom projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Chapter Seven: Interviewing for a Job

Goals of an interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Planning for an interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

What are interviewers looking for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

What turns interviewers off? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Mock interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Telephone interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Case interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Behavioral-based interviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Getting ready for the real thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter Eight: The Day of the Interview

Interview objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

What to wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

What not to wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

What to bring with you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Greeting skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Nonverbal skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Listening skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Being on the mark when you’re on the spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

What not to say in an interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Questions you should be prepared to answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Questions you do not have to answer . . . unless you want to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Handling illegal or unethical questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Questions you might want to ask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Wrap-up skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Chapter Nine: When You’re Offered a Job

Accepting an offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Declining an offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Asking for an extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Negotiating the terms of an offer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

What if you don’t hear from them? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

A final thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Case Study #1:

Looking for work after graduation: One woman’s story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Case Study #2:

The Recruiting Process at Ford Motor Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Case Study #3:

The Ethics of Resumes and Recommendations:

When Do Filler and Fluff Become Deception and Lies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Appendix A:

Letters of Application/ Cover Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Appendix B:

Thank-You Letters and Letters of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Appendix C:

Undergraduate Resumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Appendix D:

Graduate Resumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127\n

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780131727984
Subtitle:
A Hands-On Approach to Building Your Career Portfolio
Author:
Orourke
Author:
O'Rourke, James S., IV
Author:
O'Rourke, James S.
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Subject:
Careers - Job Hunting
Subject:
Business Communication
Edition Number:
4
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
May 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
93
Dimensions:
10.90x8.62x.34 in. .86 lbs.

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