Synopses & Reviews
Practical assignments throughout connect you directly with the business community, employers and the Internet. This best-selling book provides everything needed to gain competitive advantage in the workplace. It is ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing. Your Career: How to Make it Happen provides thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, job search/interviewing and career building strategies. The text also contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic, traditional, and web resumes, as well as cover letters.
Synopsis
This action-oriented, highly motivational book empowers individuals to take charge of their career goals and make them happen. Your Career: How to Make it Happen provides over 101 successful career-development strategies and resources in a user-friendly format that makes them easy to implement. The numerous applications deliver hands-on experience in career planning, job search, and career success techniques utilizing various resources including the internet.
-- Success Tips dispersed throughout chapters to give nuts and bolts planning and implementing a successful career/job search.
-- Assignments are specifically designed to focus on individual career goals -- not generalized theories -- so individuals actively take charge of their futures.
Synopsis
This text shows users how to develop both a personal career portfolio and an effective action plan that can be used to achieve lifelong career success. Success techniques include how to: - Identify and focus job strengths and match them to the best possible career and job targets - Organize job searches and identify the best potential employers - Prepare winning resumes and cover letters - Get interviews and handle them like a pro - Negotiate salary and salary increases - Deal effectively with being laid off or terminated - Change careers successfully
Synopsis
This best-selling full color book is ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing. Your Career: How to Make it Happen provides thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, job search and career-building strategies. The text also contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic and traditional resumes as well as cover letters. Skill-building Inernet links and actvities are featured in every chapter.
About the Author
Julie Griffin Levitt is a business educator, corporate trainer and consultant, lecturer, and author of numerous educational publications. She teaches and consults in the areas of career planning and job search skills, office occupations, communications, supervision, and motivation. While teaching job-seeking and career planning skills at the secondary and post-secondary levels, Ms. Levitt's students have had a 97% job placement ratio.
Table of Contents
1. Reach Your Full Career Potential, 2. Take a Look at Yourself, 3. What Do Employers Want?, 4. Explore Contemporary Workplace Issues, 5. Organize Your Winning Network, 6. Engineer an Efficient Job Search, 7. Investigate Job, Application, and Hiring Procedures, 8. Research Prospective Employers, 9. Prepare a Winning Resume, 10. Perfect the Application and Cover Letter, 11. Interview Like a Pro, 12. Master the Art of Getting Interviews, 13. Be Prepared for Any Interview Style, 14. Navigate Interview Questions and Answers, 15. Ace Employment Tests and Negotiations, 16. Practice for Your Successful Interview, 17. Interview and Follow Up, 18. So What If You Dont Get the Job?, 19. Youre Hired! Succeed in Your New Position, 20. Make Successful Job and Career Changes, Appendices