The Career Guarantee

Do what you love . . . the money will follow! You are in the most competitive job market in history! More than 20 million Americans will attempt to change careers this year; thousands more will attempt to start or buy their own business. Management-level reductions and increases in post graduate and college-educated professionals have created intense work place competition. Today, more than ever, you need a strategy. The Career Guarantee is your essential competitive edge!

One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. In this book, leading expert Pavlina R. Tcherneva challenges us to imagine a world where the phantom of unemployment is banished and anyone who seeks decent, living-wage work can find it - guaranteed. This is the aim of the Job Guarantee proposal: to provide a voluntary employment opportunity in public service to anyone who needs it. Tcherneva enumerates the many advantages of the Job Guarantee over the status quo and proposes a blueprint for its implementation within the wider context of the need for a Green New Deal. This compact primer is the ultimate guide to the benefits of one of the most transformative public policies being discussed today. It is essential reading for all citizens and activists who are passionate about social justice and building a fairer economy.

A powerful way to master every performance in your career and life, from presentations and sales pitches to interviews and tough conversations, drawing on the methods the author applied as a working actor and has honed over a decade of coaching salespeople, marketers, managers, and business owners.

This timely collection will be the first of its kind to focus on the practical application of the government job guarantee (JG) for both developed and developing economies. Global case studies include: United States, China, Ghana, Argentina, Ireland, Iceland, and India.

This job search book is unlike any other. It gives you a money back guarantee to land your dream job. It guides you through your own job search step by step using worksheets, scripts, and resources. Best of all, it doesn't give the same old advice you've heard before. This modern approach uses proven business to business (B2B) marketing concepts. That way you'll be selling yourself to businesses the way they already make important purchasing decisions, like buying software or in your case, hiring new talent. You won't hear outdated advice about the proper cover letter (because business don't read them any more). You'll get practical tools that work everyday in the world of business. Because hiring is a risky purchase decision, you'll get insider information into the ways Human Resources departments and hiring managers choose talent. This book guides you step by step to remove the "blinders" worn by most hiring managers. The problem isn't your work experience--it's helping companies see your talents through the narrow, outdated model they use to hire. I'm so confident in this new job search that I give a money back guarantee. If you use each step outlined in this book and still don't get hired, I'll gladly refund the cost of the book. Anyone can be an industry expert and establish themselves as an authority in today's social/digital world. I mean anyone, including:- Recent college graduates tired of hearing, "You don't have enough experience."- Older workers facing age discrimination in their job search.- Professionals stuck in a job they hate, trying to change industries...without taking a pay cut. - Unappreciated workers who are overdue for a promotion.First, I'll give an overview of the new job search. Then we'll walk each step together as we land YOUR dream job. To get hired today, you must understand the new hiring model and tools available to rank at the top of the talent search. This book teaches how to:- Position yourself with the right "experience" by creating volunteer organizations or unpaid externships. These give you the "right" job title and "experience" to get past HR department gatekeepers that prevent you from even getting an interview. - Meet decision makers at the companies you want to work for through educational interviews. Use the provided scripts to easily meet the right people.- Get recommended by the trusted contacts of hiring managers through giving "value" and "proof-projects."- Ace the interview by knowing what to expect ahead of time.This job search book will give you all the tools needed to land your dream job in a "do it yourself" format -- worksheets, templates, and tools are provided. Together we will design a plan that gives you the title, experience, and visibility to land your dream job. Now, let's get you in front of hiring managers, to show your talent the right way -- beyond resumes and online applications!

America knew George Zimmer for one of the most famous slogans in television advertising history: “I guarantee it.” Zimmer rode his promise to lead the Men’s Wearhouse to unimagined success as a retail giant. Now, years removed from his stunning dismissal as leader of the company he founded, I Guarantee It recounts the journey of Zimmer’s rise, the fall of the Men’s Wearhouse, and his personal renewal. For forty-one years, George Zimmer forged a relationship with American men who wanted to like the way they looked without getting too fussy about it. He made them a promise that came straight from the shoulder: “I guarantee it,” he said, and it was ironclad. By the millions, customers walked into The Men’s Wearhouse stores in all fifty states and Canada, where they received “quality, service, and a good price,” where they bought suits, ties, sports coats, and slacks by the tens of billions of dollars. Then a backstabbing — the handpicked board of directors fired Zimmer from the company he had created and developed into the most successful men’s specialty store in world history. Eight years later, Zimmer is back to tell his story: a man raised by a prosperous and loving family, a fun-loving son of the sixties, a merchant, an entrepreneur, a pitchman for the ages. Zimmer’s ouster devastated but did not destroy him. His is a story of hard work and resilience, about a life in business that succeeded beyond belief and followed the Golden Rule. It’s a story that will teach and inspire. He guarantees it.

The widespread belief that tech-savvy, educated millennials are well positioned to handle the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution is unfounded. It does not fully grasp the reality of a flux society, where relevant technological skills and knowledge are continuously changing: no one is permanently tech-savvy. Millennials, like other generations, face the challenge of needing to continually reskill. This has compounded their struggle to begin their careers at a point when there is no longer any guarantee of lifetime employment or retirement at a set age. Shaping the Futures of Work is a timely sociological exploration of the impact of technological innovations on employment. Nilanjan Raghunath proposes that stakeholders such as states, enterprises, and citizens hold equally important roles in ensuring that people can adapt, innovate, and thrive within conditions of flux. A promising model focuses on collaboration and proactive governance. While good governance includes citizen engagement, proactive governance goes one step further, creating inclusive policies, roadmaps, and infrastructure for social and economic progress. This book reveals that lifelong learning and adaptability are imperative, even for well-educated professionals. Using Singapore and Singaporean millennials as a case study, Raghunath examines proactive governance and delivers research and analysis to elucidate career trajectories, pointing to a work ethic that aims to engage with technological futures. Looking at local and global sociological literature to confirm the need for proactive governance, Shaping the Futures of Work suggests that Singaporean millennials – and professionals around the world – need to better prepare themselves for flux, risk, failure, and reinvention for career mobility.

In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct job creation was put into practice, employing more than eight million Americans and making the federal government the largest single employer in the country. Yet in 2008, when the most dramatic economic crisis since the Depression occurred, the idea of direct job creation was nowhere to be found on the list of policies deemed feasible or advisable for government at any level. People Must Live by Work traces the rise and fall of direct job creation policy—how it was put into practice, how it came within a hairbreadth of becoming a permanent feature of American economic and social administration, and why it has been largely forgotten or discounted today. Contrary to more conventional arguments, Attewell reveals that the New Deal ended the Great Depression before the United States entered World War II and its jobs programs continued to influence policy debates over the Employment Act of 1946. He examines the deliberations surrounding the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act that was signed into law in 1978 and demonstrates the ways in which direct job creation played a significant and polarizing role in dividing the economic establishment and the Democratic party in the 1970s. People Must Live by Work not only chronicles the ambition, constraints, and achievements of direct job creation policy in the past but also proposes a framework for understanding its enduring significance and promise for today.