Get Job Ready: How to Land Your Dream Job Out of College

Get Job Ready: How to Land Your Dream Job out of College is the first book of its type, providing college students with a career pathway framework as a foundational element to land their dream job.

The book lays out the steps college students need to take, while in college, to transition from college to career. It includes topics such as how to gain job readiness skills and experience through volunteering, internships, class projects, extracurricular activities; creating a cover letter and résumé; handling an interview; creating a LinkedIn profile; and finding a mentor. It also includes pre-built career pathways, step-by-step guides and worksheets based on global best practices.
 
Students who follow the steps laid out in the book will be job ready, and will be prepared to successfully land their dream job.

The Table of Contents
Part I: Why Job-Readiness Matters
Part II: How to Develop Employability Skills
Part III: How to Get Job-Search Ready
Part IV: The Importance of a Mentor
Part V: Career Planning and Checklist
Part VI: Career Pathway
Part VII: Self-Assessments
Part VIII: Strategies to Get Job Ready During a Pandemic or an Economic Downturn

Vasu Eda is the co-founder and CEO of RiseSharp, a social impact venture whose mission is to change the college-to-job trajectory for college students. He has written a very timely book, Get Job Ready: How to Land Your Dream Job out of College, targeted at millions of college students.
 
His professional career includes founding Boniva Software, (acquired by SSA Global), an on-demand talent management and e-learning company. In addition, he has worked in the areas of corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions at multinational companies, Alcatel-Lucent and Intel.
 
Vasu holds an MBA from Columbia University, an MS in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Shivaji University.

He frequently visits colleges as a guest speaker to discuss how to gain valuable experience while in college and, more specifically, how to transition from college to career successfully.