Launching The Right Career

Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "...this guide provides readers with much more than just early careers advice; it can help everyone from interns to CEOs." — a Financial Times top title You've landed a job. Now what? No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted. The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules—the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize. The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error. Until now. In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as: How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities? How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely? How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy? The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.

This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they're interested in by using the author's proven Career Launch Method. Did you know only 20 percent of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80 percent of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. This book will teach you how to tap into that 80 percent! O'Keefe, in partnership with the Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven eight-step Career Launch Method that will help any student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship building by teaching all the practical microsteps needed to succeed. And O'Keefe teaches readers how to "play the student card," turning inexperience and eagerness to learn into a powerful advantage. Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, nonprofits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world. The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed tool for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's return on investment.

Real Life Guide to Starting Your Career gives recent graduates a step-by-step approach to finding, pursuing, and securing the right job after college. It is the second work from Michael Hoffman. It guides new members of the educated and employed through the job hunting process and helps them identify a solid strategy for getting the most out of their career.

Because of the willingness of Richard Bolles to constantly revise and update this phenomenally popular guide to job-hunting and career-changing, once more a book is produced that keeps pace with unique changes in society, and once more earns the name "trusted". Features a new cover design.

‘120 Ways To Attract The Right Career Or Business – Tried And True Tips And Techniques’ is for: defining your highest values and purposeclarifying your vision and overcoming your challengesbuilding your attraction power, lifetime value and dynamic valuesecuring the right career or business opportunitiesdeveloping your presence, brand and networkslearning, leading and laughing your way to success It includes information for: students, job seekers and career changersfreelancers, entrepreneurs and business ownersadvisers, consultants and thought leaderscoaches, trainers and mentorsanyone who wants to leverage their skills, knowledge and networks This thorough, practical and detailed guide provides you with the key strategies and techniques, based on your purpose, that you can implement today for your success in the future. Get started and take action now! **Special free bonus offers at http://120ways.com/members Buy the book ‘120 Ways To Attract The Right Career Or Business – Tried and True Tips and Techniques’ here Chapter Outline Preface Introduction 1. It’s All About You 1.1 Personal Responsibility 1.2 Action Steps 1.3 Skills 1.4 Techniques 2. Past and Present Context 2.1 Future Context 2.2 Understanding Yourself 2.3 Letting Go 2.4 Understanding Value 2.5 Understanding Needs 2.6 Sense Of Self 2.7 Sense Of Others 3. Selecting The Right Career Or Business 4. Choosing What To Do Right Now 4.1 Choosing What To Do In The Future 5. Capital Raising 5.1 Social Capital 5.2 Intellectual Capital 5.3 Cultural Capital 5.4 Financial Capital 5.5 Gratitude Or Operating Capital 5.6 Relationship Capital 5.7 Credibility Capital 5.8 Influence Capital 6. Action Steps 6.1 Research And Select Your Locations 6.2 Establish Quality Real Estate 6.3 Review And Verify Your Real Estate 6.4 Select Your Strategic Activity 6.5 Review, Analyze and Improve 6.6 Give Feedback, Follow Up, Say Thank You And Smile 6.7 Celebrate, Acknowledge And Learn 6.8 Decide What To Do Next 7. Career Attraction Tips and Techniques 7.1 Immediate Jobs 7.2 Survival Jobs And Means To An End Jobs 7.3 Aligned Jobs 7.4 Next Step Up Jobs 7.5 Job Identification Techniques 7.6 Job Application Techniques 7.7 Job Application Persistence Techniques 7.8 Job Interview Techniques 7.9 Job Interview Follow Up Techniques 7.10 Accepting A Job Offer 8. Business Attraction Tips And Techniques 8.1 Real Value In Business 8.2 Perceived Value In Business 8.3 Referral Value In Business 8.4 Clarity Value In Business 8.5 Reciprocity Value In Business 8.6 Uncertainty Value In Business 8.7 Pricing Value In Business 8.8 Human Value in Business 8.9 Asset Value In Business 8.10 Investment Value In Business 9. Audience Attraction Techniques 9.1 Identifying Audience Locations 9.2 Arousing Your Target Audience 9.3 Discouraging Your Non Target Audience 9.4 Re-Attracting Your Target Audience 10. Content Attraction Techniques 10.1 Content Guidelines 10.2 Content Conversions 10.3 Content Reach 10.4 Content Sharing 10.5 Content Critics 11. People Attraction Techniques 11.1 People Background Research 11.2 Finding The Right People 11.3 Building The Relationship 11.4 Refining Your People Attraction Techniques 12. Platform Attraction Techniques 12.1 Completing Your Platform Profile 12.2 Maximizing Each Platform 12.3 Measuring Your Platform Performance 12.4 Platform Power Tools 12.5 Game Changers 13. Process Attraction Techniques 13.1 Finding Advertised Opportunities 13.2 Applying For Advertised Opportunities 13.3 Passing the Application Process 13.4 Starting A Career Or Business Opportunity 13.5 Daily Career And Business Strategies 13.6 Education And Learning Based Strategies 13.7 Proactive Action Strategies 13.8 System Based Strategies 14. Possibility Attraction Techniques 14.1 Traditional Possibility Sources 14.2 Contemporary Possibility Sources 14.3 Speculative Possibility Sources 14.4 Ongoing Possibility Sources 15. Brand Development 15.1 Building Your Personal Brand 15.2 Building Your Business Brand 15.3 Personal Brand Builders 15.4 Business Brand Builders 15.5 Publicity Tactics 16. Network Development 16.1 Assessing Networks 16.2 Creating A Network 16.3 How To Network 16.4 Developing Your Network 16.5 Valuing Your Network 17. Website Development 17.1 Personal Career Attraction Website 17.2 Personal Business Attraction Website 17.3 General Website Attraction Techniques 17.4 Website Performance Measures 17.5 User Experience And Website Feedback 18. Overcoming Challenges 18.1 Action Planning Sequence 18.2 Measuring Results 18.3 Personal Blockages 18.4 External Blockages 18.5 Top 20 Tips And Techniques 19. Full List Of 120 Actions 20. Bonuses Index Author

Even though you've graduated college, it doesn't mean you know what you want to do with the rest of your life, and the job position you take after graduation may not contribute to your long-term success. Instead of simply taking a job, you want to launch a career-one that's satisfying, invigorating, and financially rewarding.In Launchers, Codie Wright and Dr. Kerry Litzenberg offer a comprehensive plan that's designed to boost the confidence of career-seekers and ultimately place them in their ideal professions. From determining your personal criteria for success, to inventorying your skills and experience, to networking, interviewing, and more, the practical advice in this invaluable volume will guide you every step of the way.Whether you're launching or re-launching, still in college or a few years out, Launchers will help you get to the career you were meant to pursue.

In this comprehensive manual, veteran art career professionals Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller show aspiring artists how to evaluate their goals and create a plan of action to advance their professional careers, and use their talents to build productive lives in the art world. In addition, the book includes insightful interviews with professional artists and well-known players in the art scene. The second edition features a new chapter on social media and includes interviews with artists, museum professionals, and educators. All chapters cover topics essential to the emerging artist, such as: •Using social media to advance your practice •Health and safety for artists •Artist’s resumes and CVs •Finding alternative exhibition venues •Building community through networking •Collaborating and finding mentors •Refining career aspirations This invaluable resource is sure to encourage and inspire artists to create their own opportunities as they learn how the creativity that occurs inside the studio can be applied to developing a successful career in the art world. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.