Survive And Thrive In Your Job Search

“At your fingertips are the counsel, wisdom, and advice of three of the most humble, credentialed, and experienced professionals in the field of career navigation. These three men have encouraged, coached, mentored, and networked with countless, well-qualified professionals who suddenly found themselves out of a job. Through Survive and Thrive, these men share their advice for those whose world has just been rocked – hard. This level of counsel in one book is an absolute treasure.” —Ron Brumbarger, Founder and President of Apprentice University “Hinshaw, Faulconer, and Johnson have scored a big success with this book! It’s a real and ready resource of what is important and useful in navigating the turbulent waters of the job search. They’ve managed to provide plenty of resources for personal assessment and practical progress while driving home the need to conduct your job search in a context of community. Their book will prove to be a great asset and effective tool in gaining your next employment adventure!” —Lou Stoops, Professional Consultant, Speaker, Trainer, and Life and Business Coach “The way you conduct a career search has changed radically. It is easy to find a job. It is much more competitive to find a career. With STAR stories and skills training, TNG offers an approach that helps you to stand out from the others. TNG has helped hundreds find their next career.” —Bruce Flanagan, Career Coach and author of It’s Not About You, It’s About Them

Navigating Career Crossroads shows you how to confidently take a new direction. This book delivers practical, actionable advice to help you land your dream position. You'll learn how to craft an attention-grabbing resume, how to expand your career network, the best way to really work with recruiters, and how to dazzle your new employer through the interview process.Follow these 7 essential steps for career success:?Confidently manage change?Assess what makes you tick?Resumes and your marketing communication?Express Your Personal Brand?Explore job search strategies?Relate your value and impress at interviews?Strategies for career successConfidently conduct an effective job search and successfully transition into your new role. With these 7 steps it will be sooner than you think

Drawing on her experience at more than one hundered companies, Deborahann Smith guides the reader throughout the world of temporary employment with humor, common sense, a Zen-like appreciation for the ever-changing present moment—and a healthy dose of enlightened self-interest. Among the topics are: • Marketing yourself • Dealing with agencies • Negotiating pay and benefits • Getting through the first day • Community in the workplace • Difficult relationships • Job recognition • Surviving job lulls • Going permanent

Whether you're a recent high school or college grad or anestablished workforce veteran, changing jobs can be a scaryexperience. Let Job Hunting For Dummies, 2nd Edition, be your guideto pushing your career forward. Author Max Messmer, Chairman andCEO of Robert Half International (the world's largest specializedstaffing firm), has used his job search expertise to create thiscutting-edge guide to job hunting. Messmer offers the kind offriendly advice and insider's tips that can enhance your job searchfrom start to finish. Get yourself off on the right foot. First, organize your supplies;then, organize your search. Target your search in the job market ofyour choice; then, give yourself the tools that you need in orderto break in to that market. Find out what separates bad resumesfrom resumes that get results. Discover the secrets of drumming upjob leads, from researching online to using your own networks orworking with a recruiter. After you're in, you'll be ready to shinewith Messmer's complete list of the do's and don'ts of giving greatinterviews; and you'll be confident when the interview ends,knowing that you possess the keys to successfully closing aninterview. Don't wait another day. Find the job you want with Job Hunting ForDummies, 2nd Edition.

Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring You CAN find a good job in a bad economy – but NOT with conventional search strategies. New Rules for a New Reality Today’s job market is the toughest in recent history, and the challenges are here to stay. Even so, you CAN get the job you want – IF you discard conventional approaches to the search. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring is the ONLY career book that: Explains the special strategies necessary to land a job during an economic crisis Integrates comprehensive, practical guidance on both job search and career management Provides an extensive online “Job Search Survival Toolkit” to augment the book Addresses the realities of this job market with real-world, actionable steps Positions this downturn in the economy as a positive opportunity to develop a much better career In Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring, career expert Ford R. Myers maps the new world of job search and reveals essential strategies for your success. You’ll learn how to seize opportunities that aren’t posted yet ... how to make yourself an instant asset to potential employers ... how to clearly stand-out as the best candidate ... and how to leverage social media, blogs, and other Web tools. Best of all, you’ll learn how to “recession-proof” your career for the long term. Can YOU Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring? With this powerful new book – YES, you can!

This book is a guide to securing an academic post in the humanities in a US University. It includes best-practice examples of application documents and shows how to work up answers to the questions posed in phone, conference, and campus interviews. Readers will also learn about bargaining for subsidies and start-up packages. The book can be used by Careers Officers to train students, or by job hunters training themselves. This short, lively read gives practical, solid advice which will help candidates to transform their mindset from student to faculty.

Surviving Unemployment will help you at every turn of your unemployment experience. The book begins by helping you recover from your initial job loss trauma, then it moves onto inspiring your day to day activities, including finding and getting a job. Finally it provides relaxations and affirmations that are specifically written for the job hunter. When you are unemployed it is not only your task to get a new job, but it is also your task to be content and confident during the time you are unemployed. This book is about not feeling alone and dreading the extra time that you are suddenly given, it is about feeling your best when you go on job interviews despite the fact that you really want the job and your inner negative voice is saying you're not qualified. In other words it is about living life mindfully, while you wait for your work life to start again.

In today’s challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure you won’t lose your job because of a merger, a layoff, outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to reduce the odds of becoming unemployed. In When Corporate Sh*t Happens, Andrew L. Oliver provides you with career advice to guide you through each phase of your career, whether you are just starting out, trying to climb the ladder to success, or fighting age discrimination as an older person in the workplace. This guide offers self-assessment tools for identifying your ideal job and gives strategies for • succeeding in your job, • monitoring the company’s health, • surviving when the company plans to downsize, • finding a new job in less time with less financial and personal stress, • surviving a merger, • surviving a layoff, • surviving unemployment, and • bulletproofing your career. Using Oliver’s personal and professional experience as a backdrop, When Corporate Sh*t Happen takes you step-by-step through your career, providing the advice and tips you need to be successful in good times and bad.