Seven Simple Steps To Landing Your First Job

Joseph Logan gives you a process for managing your job search, getting the support you need, and closing the deal for your first job.

7 simple steps to help you find your perfect job

This little book is packed with tips and worksheets to help you do your best at work. Step-by-step, you'll find simple, commonsense ways to -Solve your minor work issues before they become major problems -Improve your attitude toward work and increase your motivation to do a good job - Find opportunities to learn new skills - Connect better with coworkers, customers, and your boss - Handle time and technology appropriately while at work -- Build your professional network - Manage your career so that you are prepared for any job challenge or opportunity.

The intent in writing this book is to help anyone starting their first job, a new job, and for high school and recent college graduates. I provide lessons I learned, over my 35-year career, taking me from a college graduate to a successful COO of a major company with a seven-figure compensation. Along the way, I had some falls, everyone does. But, hopefully, through reading this book and the guidance I provide, you can minimize your stumbles. In college, you learn book knowledge, principals, and best-case scenarios. There are things you don't learn in college, but you should know before you start your job. Or, if you are fortunate to learn them in college, they are not provided with enough emphasis for you to understand how vital they can be in shaping your career. I have identified several activities/actions you have to know before you send out your resume, apply for a job, interview for a job and your first day on the job. Following them puts your career on the fast track. If you don't follow them, you have a greater chance of stumbling and having to regroup, like I had to do at times. I review and give suggestions on your resume, the face-to-face interview, selecting the right company culture for you prior to getting hired.Once hired, I then provide you with activities that are key to succeeding at work and life including your attitude, first impressions and their significance on your career. I also provide career advice based upon my 35 years of experience. During your career you need to embrace change, have a 5-year plan and know when to not compromise.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Mindfulness is more than a buzzword. It is a vital skill to help you survive and get ahead in your career. Executive coach and business trainer Dr Seeger has been practising and teaching mindfulness since before it was fashionable, and in this short, accessible book she shares a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom and practical advice. This book introduces you to the main themes and ideas, giving you a basic knowledge and understanding of the key concepts, together with practical and thought-provoking exercises. Whether you choose to read it in a week or in a single sitting, Mindfulness at Work In A Week is your fastest route to success: - Sunday: Learn to focus your attention and overcome the multi-tasking myth - Monday: Use mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) to prevent and overcome stress - Tuesday: Discover how mindfulness can optimise your productivity - Wednesday: Use mindfulness to overcome the brain's negativity bias and make the workplace happier for yourself and your colleagues - Thursday: Regulate your emotions and improve your self-control - Friday: Use mindfulness to create new mental maps which will promote insight and creativity - Saturday: Understand how using mindfulness can strengthen relationships with your team ABOUT THE SERIES In A Week books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From negotiating and content marketing to finance and social media, the In A Week series covers the business topics that really matter and that will help you make a difference today. Written in straightforward English, each book is structured as a seven-day course so that with just a little work each day, you will quickly master the subject. In a fast-changing world, this series enables readers not just to get up to speed, but to get ahead.

The ability to find the right job at the right time is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Pat Scudamore and Hilton Catt, leading experts on job hunting as both coaches and HR practitioners, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to know to in order find the right job for you. The highly motivational 'in a week' structure of the book provides seven straightforward chapters explaining the key points, and at the end there are optional questions to ensure you have taken it all in. There are also cartoons and diagrams throughout, to help make this book a more enjoyable and effective learning experience. So what are you waiting for? Let this book put you on the fast track to success!

This friendly and accessible book coaches you through the process of writing your first ever CV. You may be in school and about to apply for a part time job; you may be wanting to approach a company for work experience; or you may have been lucky enough to get a job after school without compiling a CV and you want to progress and move on so you need to start from scratch. Creating a first CV, with no employment history, can be a daunting task. But just because you haven't had a work/employment history, doesn't mean you have no skills. However, if you're starting out and you want to stand out, you have to be clear about those skills and make them count. This book breaks down the process of writing your CV into seven steps, short activities that will subsequently be used to build upon each other. It will help you identify those skills - which we all have and bring them to life. Gather it - collect the material for your principal CV and profile. Develop it - start to play with the information you have collected and apply it to two real or dream jobs you would like to apply for. Evidence it - learn how to demonstrate where and how you have ability and proficiency. Shape it - look at the structure, format, style and layout of your CV. Build it - bring together all the information you have collected, expanded, and evidenced so far. Polish it - you will have gathered more information than you ever thought you would, so here you will add and subtract and reshape. Complete it - this final step encourages you to review, refine and rejig your CV so that it reads well and flows There is also a section on writing cover letters, completing an application form and preparing for interview