- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (1 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071398473
- ISBN-13: 978-0071398473
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.1 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,717,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Everyday we hear of more and more companies in every industry announcing layoffs. In these recessionary economic times, savvy employees know it pays to be prepared. Despite all the talk of layoffs, cutbacks, and more thousands of opportunities still exist. This book offers 100 strategies for how you can proactively manage your career and professional life so you don't have to run scared. This book will give readers the competitive edge in planning, managing, and controlling their careers. The expert advice in this book has been distilled from the advice of the top career counselors in the country. Their advice will help readers be ready for opportunities to advance their careers, earn more money, and feel satisfied with their career choices - whatever the economic climate may be!
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"It's Not a Recession...It's an Opportunity!" Wendy S. Enelow
Every day we hear of more and more companies announcing layoffs huge multinationals, big US corporations, midsize companies, and even the small companies just around the corner. In turn, many of us work under the shadow of the recession's axe, waiting for it to fall. In tough economic times, savvy employees know it pays to stay on your toes. But that doesn't mean you have to run scared. Even in a recession, countless opportunities still exist for the prepared, success-oriented employee not just for a job, but for career advancement, higher pay, and heightened job satisfaction.
In this motivating book, career master Wendy S. Enelow provides 101 insider tips that will give you the competitive edge it takes to plan, manage, and control your career. Weaving together advice from dozens of top-notch career professionals coaches and counselors, resume writers, outplacement consultants, and recruiters Enelow has created a one-of-a-kind, practical guide that will give you the knowledge you need to steer your career proactively through the ever-changing employment landscape of recession ... and through every economic climate.
Learn how to:
-Take control and don't panic! The jobs are there; you simply have to be more creative in finding them!
-Plan and manage a successful job search campaign. It's all about marketing whatmakes you valuable and a must-buy!
-Write winning resumes, cover letters, follow-up letters, career portfolios, and more. Your words and presentation are what will get you in the door!
-Improve your networking skills and results. Networking is and will always remain your #1 job search activity!
-Strengthen your interviewing performance. It's not always the most qualified person who gets the job; it's the one who interviews best!
-Negotiate your best salary and compensation plan. Show how much you're really worth and you will get it!
-Proactively manage your career throughout your entire work-life cycle. If you aren't managing your career, no one else will!
From designing your career roadmap to recognizing new opportunities on the horizon, this inspiring guide will arm you with proven strategies for finding (and keeping) the satisfying, well-paying career you want and deserve without the paralyzing fear of recession.
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This book is just your standard job search advice, with a series of tips grouped by topic (resumes, interviewing, networks), from career assessment (she only says that you should) to salary negotiation.
The majority of these tips tell you *what* to do but offer nothing on *how* to do it. For example, she says to "Use keywords," discussing their importance and where to use them, but doesn't offer any print or online resources or hints on how to do determine what those are. Some of the tips being unhelpful, unrealistic, or dated. (For example, most people are hip to what informational interviews really are, and for those in tech industries, print ads are probably the least effective way to find a job.)
It's like a skeleton of job search tips with no meat on the bones. I would have assumed by the title that there would be advice specific to a slumping job market. (Her advice? "Move.") Or that there would be advice on how to keep one's job through an acquisition or downsizing. With so many better books out there (Job Search Magic, Knock 'Em Dead, What Color Is Your Parachute, etc) on the generic topic of finding a job, I can't see why anyone would waste their time on this one.
The majority of these tips tell you *what* to do but offer nothing on *how* to do it. For example, she says to "Use keywords," discussing their importance and where to use them, but doesn't offer any print or online resources or hints on how to do determine what those are. Some of the tips being unhelpful, unrealistic, or dated. (For example, most people are hip to what informational interviews really are, and for those in tech industries, print ads are probably the least effective way to find a job.)
It's like a skeleton of job search tips with no meat on the bones. I would have assumed by the title that there would be advice specific to a slumping job market. (Her advice? "Move.") Or that there would be advice on how to keep one's job through an acquisition or downsizing. With so many better books out there (Job Search Magic, Knock 'Em Dead, What Color Is Your Parachute, etc) on the generic topic of finding a job, I can't see why anyone would waste their time on this one.
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