Find Your First Professional Job

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

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.