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by Shirley Jenner (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall (9 May 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0273644289
  • ISBN-13: 978-0273644286
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Shirley Jenner's The Graduate Career Handbook is a must for those undergrads whose drink-addled brains have cleared long enough for them to tot up how much they owe in student loans and to face the sobering thought that, post finals and Glastonbury, they need to secure gainful employment, if only to stave off the debt-collector.

Jenner splits her book into three sections. The first section looks at choosing work which best suits your character, with useful advice on how to carry out a personal skills and knowledge audit and a very interesting chapter on different personality types. In the second, Jenner presents an informative overview of the 21st-century job market, before going on to discuss how you find a firm whose ethos and work practice match your own ideals. The third section is practical, chock-full of tips on writing "a brilliant CV", "how to succeed at interviews" and "how to succeed at selection tests", complete with worked, then test-yourself, examples.

One of Jenner's strengths is that, as a visiting lecturer in Human Resources at UMIST, she knows her audience well. She makes frequent reference to the fact that she realises her readers are probably third years, struggling to complete assessed course work, with scant time to compose CVs, but stresses that as little as an hour a week spent job hunting can make all the difference between a hurriedly-accepted job on the milkround, which soon goes sour, and an altogether sweeter experience with the right employer. --Amanda Cameron



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"The graduate employment market is increasingly crowded... job hunters need to be well informed and highly skilled to get to the front of the queue."

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, practical and very readable- excellent!, 8 Aug 2000
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Have you been wondering how to find the job you've been dreaming of? Or are you stuck at "square one" because you've just got no clue what to do with your life? If you've finished university and have begun the job hunt, or if the impending end of your degree course means you need to begin that hunt soon, then I would recommend this as THE book for you! In it, Shirley Jenner goes carefully through every stage of finding a job: from working out what job or career you would be suited to; through how to succeed in applications and interviews; right up to how to cope with the transition into your first job when you've secured it. I found that each chapter was very accessible, as they were broken up into bite-sized chunks, interspersed with helpful case studies and exercises for assessing one's own situation. For example, the skills checklist (Chapter 2) was a very handy tool for working out your skills- far easier than starting with a blank sheet of paper and trying to remember what you've done! The book is packed full of practical tips and wise advice- I particularly appreciated the insights Shirley gave into the job hunt from an employer's perspective. In addition, the section on organizational culture was very informative, providing useful questions to ask about any potential employer. Whatever stage of the job hunt you've reached, I'm sure you would find this book invaluable-it's well worth spending the last few pounds of your student loan on!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Huge help to graduates., 10 Aug 2000
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Choosing a career after graduation is a minefield; this book not only acts as a minesweeper, but clears a path through the minefield. The book has proved a massive help to those who have read it, and I shall continue to recommend it wholeheartedly. Rev. Tony Porter: Rector, Holy Trinity Platt, Manchester
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be drawn in.., 22 Jul 2007
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I like many other graduates sought a guiding light in applying for jobs and settling on a career. This book looked as good as any, and had a broad-sweeping set of areas it tackled.

However - if you don't react well to generic diagrams, management speak, labelling and to be quite honest patronising language pandering to the simple minded DON'T BUY THIS.

It's shocking, really is. A complete waste of money and will provide no help to an individual looking for some practical, pragmatic advice on forming their career path.

An awful and opportunistic piece of drivel produced not to help, but to cash-in on the wave of confused 'higher' education graduates who are coming to realise that they have been lied to from day one about the prospects for those with a degree. If you can operate within pathetic likert scale scoring systems for judging elements of your personality, go for it, get it bought. But at the end of the day this is a poor attempt at blagging a path through someone's confusion, steering them nowhere in particular and encouraging them to scale skills and traits from 1-5. Once this is done......well it's done....you have to draw your own conclusions....what is the point!?

I strongly recommend the official UK graduate website easily found on any search engine, which i won't name as it may be struck from this review. There is a simple, active career planner with one-on-one FREE advice from professionals.

Don't buy in to this tripe, it only encourages them.
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