Your career
Packed with innovative resources readers can use now and throughout their careers, best-selling YOUR CAREER: HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, 8e delivers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to finding and keeping a job. Both empowering and encouraging, the book effectively breaks the daunting prospect of marketing oneself to prospective employers into a manageable process. Each chapter provides practical advice and actions that readers can apply to their own situation and goals. Guided activities for each part of the process help students build a strong foundation for current and future job searches, teaching them how to stand out from the crowd and be a strong candidate for jobs in a career field for which they are well suited and will enjoy. Ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing, YOUR CAREER,8e offers thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, jobsearch/interviewing, self-marketing, and career building strategies. The textalso contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic, traditional, and Web resumes and cover letters. INDICE: Part I: STARTING YOUR CAREER.1. The Job Search Process.2. Know What Employers Expect.3. Know Yourself to Market Yourself.Part II: SOURCES OF JOBINFORMATION.4. Your Winning Network.5. Research Careers and Find Job Leads.Part III: ESSENTIAL JOB SEARCH DOCUMENTS.6. Resumes.7. Job Applications and Cover Letters.Part IV: THE JOB INTERVIEW.8. Interview Essentials.9. Ask for--and Get--the Interview.10. Interview Styles and Questions.11. Interview Like a Pro.Part V: GOING FORWARD.12. Following Up and Negotiating Offers.13. Handling Rejection.14. Take Charge of Your Career.
- ISBN: 978-1-111-57231-0
- Editorial: South Western
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 10/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés