The Ultimate Job Hunter's Guidebook
By Susan D. Greene, Melanie C.L. Martel
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Offering concise coverage of essential job-hunting and career strategies, this flexible guidebook can supplement any business course or serve as the foundation for a career development class.
The Seventh Edition focuses on real-world applications through experiential exercises and hands-on activities that provide a comprehensive "how-to" for anyone beginning a job search. It delivers practical advice in a straightforward style along with action-oriented examples that can easily be followed.
Students are taught to look beyond traditional resources like classified ads to find potential employers. For example, this edition includes a new, information-packed chapter on using social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in the job search.
As in previous editions, the text offers many samples of job hunting tools, such as resumes and cover letters from a wide variety of career fields. Students can use these samples as virtual templates, substituting their own information into the established format. Throughout each chapter is heavy emphasis on employing the latest technologies and online tools at every phase of the job hunt.
The techniques covered in The Ultimate Job Hunter's Guidebook will prove useful to students as they embark on their new career and in years to come as they progress in their chosen profession.
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About this product
Offering concise coverage of essential job-hunting and career strategies, this flexible guidebook can supplement any business course or serve as the foundation for a career development class.
The Seventh Edition focuses on real-world applications through experiential exercises and hands-on activities that provide a comprehensive "how-to" for anyone beginning a job search. It delivers practical advice in a straightforward style along with action-oriented examples that can easily be followed.
Students are taught to look beyond traditional resources like classified ads to find potential employers. For example, this edition includes a new, information-packed chapter on using social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in the job search.
As in previous editions, the text offers many samples of job hunting tools, such as resumes and cover letters from a wide variety of career fields. Students can use these samples as virtual templates, substituting their own information into the established format. Throughout each chapter is heavy emphasis on employing the latest technologies and online tools at every phase of the job hunt.
The techniques covered in The Ultimate Job Hunter's Guidebook will prove useful to students as they embark on their new career and in years to come as they progress in their chosen profession.
Completely re-organized tables of contents to more accurately reflect 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 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 (8), "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.
Each chapter opens with "What Do You Know," questions to activate students' 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 6-10 major concepts that will be covered in the chapter.
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Chapters
Part One. Develop Your Strategy
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