Career Guide

[PHYSICAL BOOK IN LIBRARY] This new Third Edition features the latest job-hunting strategies for the Information Age. You'll discover key techniques to reach hiring managers at the employers you want to work for most. New chapters integrate using social media and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo in your job search, along with case studies from successful guerrilla job hunters that detail what works in today's hyper competitive job market with commentary from America's top recruiters.

It's been a long time since you had to search for a new job. You may be wondering, How did I get this last one so many years ago? What has changed since I last hit the job market? Have I since gathered more knowledge and experience that qualifies me for something better this time around? Where does one get started? The Job Search Checklist is your saving grace! This indispensable guide covers everything from dealing with the emotional impact of being laid off to rebuilding your professional identity. Within these pages, you'll find solid advice on: • Developing a career plan by taking stock of your experience, abilities, and goals • Crafting an effective résumé and building Internet-friendly documents • Creating a “personal marketing plan” to promote yourself to potential employers • Finding the hidden job market through in-person and online networking• And much more!Complete with downloadable templates, sample cover letters, a range of effective résumé formats, and helpful checklists throughout the book, this invaluable resource gets you on the right path toward your next career and keeps you there.

Learn how to integrate social networking into every aspect of your job search and then leverage your social media presence for ongoing professional success. Build professionally relevant networks and a desirable, flexible brand that evolves with your growing experience, while you build and nurture networks that help you navigate a long worklife, and gain greater control over your destiny.

Unique in the world of job search books, Knock'em Dead Job Search Letter Templates teaches you the latest tips and tactics for writing cover letters and job search letters for every job hunting challenge. In addition, you get 125 samples of different job search letters, and also 125 cover letter and job search letter templates, each ready to use in Microsoft Word format. The 125 cover letter and job search letter templates include: cover letters for recruiters, headhunters, hiring managers, and blind job postings; professional networking and LinkedIn connection request letters; telephone and face-to-face interview follow-up letters; negotiation, rejection, and reconnection letters; and finally, those glorious acceptance, resignation, and thank you letters. Written communication skills are a key requirement of every professional job today and represent an essential skill set that defines every successful professional career. Demonstrating effective written communication skills can add a whole new dimension to your candidacy: they help your resume get read with serious intent, and help your candidacy stand out throughout the selection cycle with demonstration of thoughtful written communication skills. The advice in Knock'em Dead Job Search Letter Templates will give your job hunt powerful ammunition and help you improve the written communication skills you need to succeed in this job search and throughout your career. This book includes the text and letter samples from the latest edition of Knock'em Dead Cover Letters, but also delivers something unique in the world of resume writing: 125 Microsoft Word letter templates, ready to use and move your job search forward. Is there a better resource for your needs than Martin Yate CPC and Knock'em Dead?

This is the guide to living life on your terms. It's tough landing that first job out of school and starting your climb up the professional ladder in such an uncertain world. In Knock'em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers, you will learn how to climb the ladder of success and get what you want out of life. You'll learn how to: -Develop social networks that deliver results for the new professional you -Build a resume that gets you interviews -Complete your job search in record time with a killer plan of attack -Turn job interviews into job offers and paychecks -Build a professional brand that delivers credibility -Bring your entrepreneurial dreams to life Working your way through the proven job search and interview strategies form the inimitable Martin Yate, you'll gradually discover a blueprint for professional success. You'll immediately begin to make sense of the world of work, start your career on the right foot, and gain access to the corporate inner circle and win promotions way ahead of your college peers. You can get what you want out of life, and live a meaningful life on your terms-you just have to learn how to do it. In Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers, you'll develop a practical career plan that puts you in control, with commonsense strategies that really can bring your dreams to life. You need never be unemployed, never be without income streams. In short, you can score the job you want and learn to survive and prosper over the long haul with a brand new approach to professional success that always put you first. How will you guide your professional destiny?

This book will help nurses to strategically get through the job search process, so they can come out on top. This book addresses nurses: whether brand-new, mid-career, or approaching retirement. This is a reference guide to develop the employment prospects of any nurse who is struggling to find his or her professional direction. Landing Your Perfect Nursing Job is full of tips, tricks, worksheets, checklists, sample cover letters and resumes, scripts for communication by email, messaging solutions, over the phone, or in person, supplemented with real success stories from the field as well as direct quotes from nurse recruiters in order to best prepare nurses to find the job of their dreams.