Whether you're searching for your first job, changing careers, or looking for advancement in your current line of work, this title shows you how to use your skills and experiences to your advantage and land that job. Covering how to prepare for an interview, it explores realities of the job market with scenarios that you can expect to encounter.
New-style job messages that get you in the door and on your way up From sparkling cover letters to six-word bios, a fresh bevy of job search letters has grown powerfully useful for successful career communications.
Aimed at those who need to discover what works and what doesn't work when representing their work history with a resume, this work covers topics such as: writing a resume that fits your specific needs; choosing the right format for your resume; selecting stand out words that can bring good news; submitting your resume online; and more.
"A revolutionary book by today's foremost syndicated careers columnist. Don't get left behind--read it."--Phyllis Martin, Careers Columnist Cincinnati Post In the fast-evolving electronic job market, employers--large and small--are cutting costs by using computers to read resumes. Computers do not read resumes in the same way people do--in fact, the old way of doing things may actually hurt you. In this fully revised and updated edition of their landmark resume guide, Joyce Lain Kennedy and Thomas J. Morrow bring you the very latest in tools and rules for making the most of your resume in the electronic age. In everyday language they explain how to write a keyword resume that gets a response and help you avoid blunders that can cost you hiring interviews. That's not all. Here are a few drops from the ocean of questions answered by Kennedy and Morrow in this indispensable guide: Electronics is "in." Is paper "out"? SEE CHAPTER 1. What are the keywords at the center of the new resume? SEE CHAPTER 3. Now that computers read and evaluate resumes, is it still useful to personalize mine? SEE CHAPTER 6. What do keyword resumes look like? SEE CHAPTER 7. How do I perform my resume in front of a video camera? SEE CHAPTER 8. How can I send my resume over the Internet? SEE CHAPTER 2.
This is the story of hope and despair, heartache and triumph, told by an insider who was intimately involved in the quarter-century struggle to establish a state university in Ventura, CA Imagine an unknown woman with no special credentials, and from another country, rallying local citizens, future students, local politicians, the news media, chambers of commerce, and various people of vision, to rise to the call of the past and the promise of the future, and to band together to establish a public university for the greater good. When she started, Joyce M. Kennedy had no idea it would take a Sisyphean struggle in a lovely California city to try to establish a public university. This is a story that had to be told - a true story of clear-versus-clouded visions, hidden agendas, egos, politics, power struggles, threats of closure, myopia, and the ups and downs of a quarter century struggle. It is a story of heartbreak, but also of ultimate vindication and triumph, the creation of a new university in Camarillo, California--CSU Channel Islands, the fastest growing university in the United States and now a "center of light, liberty and learning" as Disraeli would have described it. Conflict of Visions tells the unvarnished story of its birthing.