The Ultimate Job Hunter's Guidebook - Softcover

Greene, Susan; Martel, Melanie C.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1111531765 ISBN 13: 9781111531768

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Offering concise coverage of essential job-hunting and career strategies, this flexible, how-to book can supplement any business course or serve as the foundation for a career development class. The sixth edition continues to focus on real-world applications through experiential exercises and hands-on activities designed for individual or group use. New material in this edition describes the latest online job and career development online sites and how to use them best. New chapter-ending Success Stories focus on individuals who've used their initiative to transition from one career to another. The authors employ a casual, student-friendly tone.

About This Edition

New Features

• A completely reorganized table of contents more accurately reflects the steps from thinking about what sort of job you want and are suited to, through searching for positions, to applying for a job, to evaluating job offers, to negotiating terms, to what to do once the job begins.


• A completely new chapter, "Social Networking and Your Online Reputation," covers business and social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and how these can be used to gather information, get expert advice, and find available openings. This chapter also has important advice for managing your image online.


• Chapter Six, "Building a Portfolio or Personal Website," describes in detail and provides exercises for how to create a personal website containing background information and examples of your work.

Additional Features

• Each chapter opens with "What Do You Know," questions to activate users' prior knowledge about the material covered in the chapter and to make them aware of what they do not that will be answered in the following chapter. A Chapter Focus section clearly spells out the six to ten major concepts that will be covered in the chapter.


• Success Stories at the close of each chapter feature real-world examples of individuals who've made the transition from one career to another. Subjects are varied in their fields and experiences, and include examples from a stay-at-home mother turned artist, to a volunteer turned employee, to an unsatisfied employee reinvented.


• Experiential exercises and hands-on activities contribute to the user-friendly character of the text. Topics for discussion and review include identifying personality strengths, testing résumé skills, and completing job applications.


• Numerous strong, integrated technology resources include Online Teaching and Online Study Centers with career links, job search strategies, sample documents, and templates.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Greene is the owner and president of Greene Marketing and Advertising. She has been a professional copywriter and marketing consultant for over 20 years. She currently lives in Orlando, Florida where she specializes in writing corporate web sites and brochures. Throughout her career she has served as an adjunct professor teaching job hunting skills at various colleges and technical schools. Susan has a BS in journalism from Syracuse University and an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University.

Melanie Martel has been teaching college students about job-hunting since 1985. She has worked as career counselor, Liberal Studies Department Chair, and Associate Professor of English at New Hampshire Technical Institute. She has also worked with the New Hampshire Job Training Council, assisting job hunters of all ages, including recent graduates, women in transition, and retirees embarking on new career paths. In addition to co-authoring the Contemporary Business Communication Study Guide (Houghton Mifflin, 1994), Ms. Martel has written for several local newspapers and worked as a corporate trainer. Ms. Martel received her BA in English from Tufts University and M.Ed. from Notre Dame.

Review:

Part I: ON YOUR MARK! PREPARE FOR SUCCESS. 1. Planning Your Job Search. 2. Conducting a Self-Assessment. 3. Researching and Targeting the Job Hunt. Part II: GET SET! CREATE YOUR BEST JOB SEARCH TOOLS. 4. Organizing the Job Hunt. 5. Preparing Your Resume. 6. Writing Cover Letters. Part III: GO! DRUM UP JOB LEADS. 7. Obtaining References. 8. Building a Portfolio or Personal Website. 9. Finding Potential Employers. 10. Social Networking & Building Your Personal Brand. Part IV: CROSS THE FINISH LINE! NAIL THE JOB YOU WANT. 11. Have You Considered? 12. Job Hunting in Tough Times. 13. Filling out Job Applications. 14. Interviewing. 15. Evaluating Job Offers. 16. Learning Your New Job. Answers to "What Do You Know" Quizzes.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1111531765
• ISBN 13: 9781111531768
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 304