Synopses & Reviews
Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion and preparation. First tip: Your college major has very little to do with your job options. In fact, you can get to virtually any life-goal destination from virtually any starting point. Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major. Chad Hurley, billionaire founder of YouTube, was an art major. And while we're at it, Albert Einstein was a high-school drop-out. Still think your college major will determine your life path? Think again.
HOW TO GET ANY JOB is the first book that definitively answers the following questions, and many more:
• What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job?
• Why do employers hire people like you?
• Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!)
• How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies?
• How do you set yourself up to get promoted?
• How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts?
• How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major?
• How can you get famous and influential people to help you?
• How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college?
• What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement?
• What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement?
Whether you're twenty and still in college or twenty-nine and still wondering how to start your life, HOW TO GET ANY JOB offers the most creative and innovative thinking on life launch to date. It is used by college career centers nationwide.
Synopsis
Philosophy majors and GPA-challenged students, rejoice! According to career guru Donald Asher, what you major in or how well you do in college are not indicators of future career success. In HOW TO GET ANY JOB WITH ANY MAJOR, Asher debunks the myth that only brainy students with specialized majors find high-paying, visible careers after college. The truth is that plenty of average folks with general, liberal arts majors have gone on to find lucrative and fulfilling careersand anyone can do it by following Asher'¬?s advice. If you'¬?re just graduating, you'¬?ll learn to promote the skills you already have, recognize how employers hire and what skills they value most, and get influential people to help you. Or, if you'¬?re already in the work world, you'¬?ll learn to use internships, credential programs, post-baccalaureates, and grad school to jump-start a stalled career. Offering innovative ideas to help launch the perfect career, HOW TO GET ANY JOB WITH ANY MAJOR is the new job-hunter'¬?s handbook to success.
About the Author
Career consultant DONALD ASHER is a featured speaker at more than 100 colleges and universities every year, coast to coast. A columnist for MSN Encarta and contributor to the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, he divides his time between Nevada and San Francisco.
Table of Contents
Contents
PART 1
You Need to Reconsider Everything You Know about Your Employment Interests
1 Life Planning versus Getting a Job 3
2 Yes, It's All about You 20
3 What Gets You Excited? Your Top Five Issues in This World 31
4 A Little Future Visioneering 43
5 Advanced Issues in Life Planning: More than Enough Ideas 53
6 A Different Kind of Choice 74
Part 2
Finding Out about Your Interests in the Real World
7 Prepare to Learn More 85
8 Are You Ready for Networking? 93
9 Volunteer and Internship Opportunities 107
10 Summer Jobs, and "The Most Important Summer of Your Life" 119
11 More Education 134
12 How about High-Risk Choices? 143
Part 3
Now It's Time to Actually Get a Job
CASE STUDY: How I Got My First Job 158
13 Start with a Job Target 161
14 Visualize the Job You Want 171
15 Troubleshooting Your Job Search 184
16 The Job Interview 203
In Conclusion 227
Index 229
About the Author 234