Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide (Paperback)

Helene Lamarre

ISBN 10: 1292039477 / ISBN 13: 9781292039473

Published by Pearson Education Limited, Harlow, 2013

About this Item

Paperback. Appropriate as a guide book for college or professional career development courses, including Career Development. In this Third Edition of Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide, students will be introduced to the world of personal assessment, personal marketing, and job search know-how. A new focus for the third edition is self-marketing. By using this comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide, students will gain a clearer focus on their own abilities, their career desires, and goals for the future. Readers of this book will learn how to launch their own personal marketing campaign, and how to develop the all-important tools necessary for a successful job search in this competitive and often complex world. In addition, students will understand what it takes to be successful after they get the job. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide (Paperback)
• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited, Harlow
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1292039477
• ISBN 13: 9781292039473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

This straightforward book challenges the reader to complete a successful job search. It focuses on self-assessment techniques, sound career development theory, and individual applications.Covering a wide range of topics while presenting specific skills, this comprehensive guide prompts the reader to take an active role in the job search. It presents the latest job search technologies, including computer-generated resumes, electronically scannable resumes, Internet resume sites, electronic company research, and Internet job searches. It also discusses the uses of professional portfolios. The second edition of Career A Personal Job Search Guide has been revised to include new chapters on the Internet Job Search; Evaluating a Job Offer; and Designing Job Success. It includes expanded coverage of computer-generated resumes, Internet resume sites, and electronic sources of company research; networking; as well as interviewing techniques and professional portfolios.

From the Back Cover

Designed for the busy reader of today, this book has one objective - to help students find a satisfying career.  Career Focus begins with chapters on personal assessment and self-marketing, followed by three full chapters on the interview process.  It concludes with a section on how to achieve success in the workplace.  This edition considers the ever-changing marketplace and examines the increased use of technology in the job search process.

Features in this revision include:

• New, comprehensive chapter on portfolios(Chapter 7)
• Discussion of employee-desired traits
• Inviting design and layout