books about: job-hunting     books:       301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions39 reviews Vicky Oliver Sourcebooks, Inc., 2005 Excellent Interviewing Advice This book is packed with smart and savvy career advice about how to position yourself in the best light, whether you're interviewing for a new job, or answering questions about yourself for new bosses or team members at your current company. Vicky Oliver covers all the bases with common sense and encouragement, providing sample responses that are clear and easy to apply to your own situation. ...             Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1 Million+: Your Insider's Lifetime Guide to Executive Job-Changing and ...71 reviews John Lucht Viceroy Press, 2000 very very thorough with info not found anywhere else! Great book. Very helpful insight into Recruiting industry that, in hindsight seems like common sense, but really is not. I have dealt with many from the hiring perspective, and hadn't thought much about it. It's a must read before you apply for anything online or with anyone you do not know. A bit lengthy, but I think well worth it and you can combine your common sense and experience with this ...             What Color Is Your Parachute for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future5 reviews Richard Nelson Bolles, Carol Christen, ... Ten Speed Press, 2006 Definitely a crucial book for any teenager who cares about his/her future! Wow! I wish I had this wonderful book when I was a teenager. I remember very vividly when I came across Richard Bolles' 'What Colour is Your Parachute', it was way back in the late 80's/early 90's. At that time, I was embarking on a journey to find out about what I wanted to do with the second half of my life. Naturally, I was attracted to this new book when I saw it in my local bookstore. ...             Knock ?em Dead 2009: The Ultimate Job Search Guide (Knock 'em Dead)2 reviews Martin Yate Adams Media, 2008 It sure helped me! This series has really helped me project myself in a more professional manner in the business world past (job interviews, networking events, etc.) - I believe the advice in this book directly helped me land my current job, which I love. Knock 'em Dead is great because it's so well-organized and easy to read. I only wish it could be a human instead of just a book! I still wanted a professional, ...             Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do26 reviews Shoya Zichy, Ann Bidou AMACOM, 2007 The best assessment I've found, and the easiest! As a Career Consultant for the past 14 years, I deal with assessment instruments all the time. Shoya Zichy's "Career Match" is simply the best one I've found: it's the easiest to administer and score (the questions take 10 minutes to answer), the results are unerringly correct, and all the information provided based upon the results is comprehensive and totally useful. Plus, it doesn't resort ...             The Fashion Designer Survival Guide, Revised and Expanded Edition: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business4 reviews Mary Gehlhar, Diane Von Furstenberg Kaplan Publishing, 2008 Bible of fashion design business! I've read a few books on how to start and run your own fashion design business, and this is one of the best ones I've read so far. Not only is it shorter then a lot of the huge books, but it's too the point and Mary writes in a style that is very easy to understand. She gives great advise and there are good examples and pictures in the book to help you further understand how to do things the best ...             The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success108 reviews Nicholas Lore Fireside, 1998 Tools I wouldn't trade If you're not experiencing turbulence and dynamic change, you must not be paying attention. The tectonic plates of human endeavor are shifting. As Nick Lore notes in his seminal work, The Pathfinder, we're witnessing an unprecedented explosion of career options and the old ways - serendipity, tradition, dumb luck - of choosing or re-choosing which career might fit are no longer sufficient. ...             What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook: How to Create a Picture of Your Ideal Job or Next Career127 reviews Richard Nelson Bolles Ten Speed Press, 2005 Create a compelling vision of the career you want This book is short, but it will support you in generating a lot of valuable information about your values and a career tailored to fit you. Expect to invest about 20 hours in the self exploration exercises in this book. You get two products from doing this work: (1) A baseline self-assessment that you can keep for life and update as it suits your needs. (2) A compelling, pull-to vision ...             Bitter is the New Black : Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass,Or, Why You ...321 reviews Jen Lancaster NAL Trade, 2006 one funny b---h this was one of the funniest books i ever read. i gave it to all my friends. jen lancaster made me long to be her friend. i thank her for sharing her talent and herself. also, her other books are just as awesome. if you want to laugh so hard that your stomach hurts, so loud that your husband wants you to share and the possibility that it may make you pee, you will love this too.             What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is ...14 reviews Richard Nelson Bolles Ten Speed Press, 2008 Parachute from One Job to the Next! Richard Nelson Bolles coined the phrase "Parachuting" as a way to describe bailing out of your current job in order to find the career you really want. He was so keen on sharing his insights that he self-published `What Color Is Your Parachute' for the first time in 1970. The now bestseller is updated with current practical job search information each year and is a constant source of ...             No Job? No Prob!: How to Pay Your Bills, Feed Your Mind, and Have a Blast When You're Out of Work Nicholas Nigro Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 The upbeat guide to living?not just surviving?when you're unemployed. In No Job? No Prob! , business writer Nicholas Nigro shows readers how to convert unemployment lemons into refreshing lemonade. Offering advice that is at once motivational ("when unemployment comes calling, start walking and don't look back"), practical ("20 ways to make yourself leave the house at least once a day"), and fun ("20 things you can do with your retired ...             Competency-Based Interviews: Master the Tough New Interview Style And Give Them the Answers That Will Win You ...11 reviews Robin Kessler Career Press, 2006 A must for anyone trying to figure out what they're doing wrong at interviews As a Columbia MBA student, I found Kessler's book really helpful. I've found interviewing at business school very difficult because I'm surrounded by amazingly well-qualified competition! Interviews are one of my weakest points and I've read a bunch of interview guides in the hopes of finding out what I'm doing wrong. Until this book, I found these guides kind of useless and a waste of money ...             Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job7 reviews Tony Beshara AMACOM, 2008 Excellent Book and Interviewing Advice Interviewing is one of the most stressful things a person can do. I have been out of the workforce for 3 years. My children are grown and I decided to go back into the field of Administrative Secretary or Executive Assistant. Something I have always enjoyed and never got bored. Just being off the market for only 3 years, there were so many things that had changed about interviewing and I ...             Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand33 reviews William Arruda, Kirsten Dixson Wiley, 2007 Excellent Personal Brand Strategies I loved this book! The examples are great and really show that you can express and exude the personal brand you desire if you know how you are perceived by others (gathered in the extract phase). I really enjoyed the chapter on on-line identity and felt that the information provided on how to improve your on-line visibility was right on target. The ideas are easy to implement. With so many ...             Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love Jonathan Fields Broadway, 2009 There?s a revolution brewing across the nation--a movement that?s changing lives and revealing little known paths to passion and prosperity. It?s about building a great living around what you love to do most. Once you?ve been touched by it, you?ll never be the same. This book is your way in, your admission ticket to the world of the career renegade. Jonathan Fields, mega-firm lawyer turned successful lifestyle entrepreneur, blogger and ...             Federal Resume Guidebook: Strategies for Writing a Winning Federal Electronic Resume, KSAs, and Essays, 4th ...29 reviews Kathryn K. Troutman Jist Works, 2007 A must buy If you want to work for Uncle then you must have this book. After toiling for over a year trying to work for Uncle and getting nowhere, I bought this book. I spent a day revamping my resume as it describes and have been knee deep in responses ever since. If you want your resume to be in the right format to get you in the door then buy this book. If you want to continue hawking on the street or ...             What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers37 reviews Richard Nelson Bolles Ten Speed Press, 2007 What a lifesaver! This book is truly a lifesaver, and it's updated every year. I have not had to look for a job in 20 years, and didn't truly know how to write a professional resume. Not only did I learn alot about writing resumes but I also learned alot about myself! This is a book I will keep close at hand always. I love it!             Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job76 reviews Jay Conrad Levinson, David Perry Wiley, 2005 great ideas to jumpstart your job search i'm not usually one to review books, but this book definitely helped me in my job search... i had been searching for a job in ny for 2.5 months with minimal responses from companies... once i started revamping my cover letters and refocusing my search, i got 8 calls from companies, interviewed well thru 3 final rounds, and so far i'm at 2 offers, working on the 3rd. just try it! fyi - there are a ...             150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs Laurence Shatkin Jist Publishing, 2008 This unveils the most secure and high-paying jobs in good times and bad times. In just two steps, this book helps readers focus their career options and learn more about secure jobs that interest them. First, reader explore 75 lists that rank the best recession-proof jobs according to pay, growth, openings, education level, personality type and more. Next, readers review descriptions of the jobs that appeal to them. These detailed descriptions ...             48 Days to the Work You Love: An Interactive Study5 reviews Dan Miller B&H Publishing Group, 2005 good book This book makes you think. I found it made me reassess everything I did and why. 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