Find Your First Professional Job: A Guide for Co-ops, Interns and Full-Time Job Seekers - Softcover

Scott Weighart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962126438 ISBN 13: 9780962126437

Publisher: Mosaic Eye Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

This book reviews all of the need-to-know topics for first-time professional job seekers, whether you are looking for a co-op job, internship, or your first full-time job after graduation: * Tips on planning for your first professional job experience, including understanding how employer needs and the job market affect your options * Specific advice about how to write an effective resume -- even if you have absolutely no previous professional experience * Tried and tested guidance on how to interview strategically * Insights regarding the keys to on-the-job success, emphasizing how to prevent problems from arising at work * Thoughts on making sense of your first professional job experience once you return to the classroom

About this title

About the Author

Scott Weighart is a faculty member of the Department of Cooperative Education at Northeastern University and has been working with co-op students and co-op employers since 1995. In that time, he has critiqued over 300 practice interviews and helped well over 1,500 students in their efforts to obtain meaningful co-op jobs. He has appeared as an interviewing expert on network television and delivered workshops on co-op preparation both locally and nationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mosaic Eye Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962126438
• ISBN 13: 9780962126437
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 198