Designed for individuals making $50,000+ a year, this book draws upon the rich career counselling methods and cases of success associated with leading career professionals. It reveals strategies and tips on how to effectively negotiate a compensation package that truly reflects one's value in today's job market.
It's no secret -- finding a job is often tough and frustrating work. Indeed, after a few weeks of responding to classified ads, surfing the Internet, and applying for jobs, many job seekers experience numerous rejections and thus conclude "No one will hire me!" Worst of all, they begin to lose their most important assets -- their self-esteem, motivation, and enthusiasm -- while continuing a seemingly fruitless job search. More often than not the problem of finding a job lies close at hand. Not surprisingly, the frustrated job seeker is often his or her own worst enemy. Outlining 15 key mistakes most job seekers frequently make, two of America's leading career experts provide a wealth of information and advice on how to quickly transform an ineffective job search into one that results in job interviews and offers. Each chapter identifies a major mistake and then offers analyses, self-tests, exercises, and resources for avoiding the error. In today's highly competitive job market where employers are demanding greater evidence of performance based on past patterns of accomplishments, No One Will Hire Me! offers a refreshing new look at a variety of issues affecting millions of job seekers each year. Insightful, practical, and jam-packed with user-friendly resources, the book shows how to organize an effective job search that out-shines the competition. Best of all, the book dares to address one of today's most important issues -- why and how individuals must change career-limiting habits that work against their best interests. This book is a unique roadmap for anyone wanting to plan and implement an effective job search in what might otherwise turn out to be a sea of rejections. Book jacket.
A definitive guide to international resumes and CVs. Includes over 100 examples of professionally produced international resumes and CVs for a variety of occupations and experience levels.
Provides salary negotiation advice for individuals who applying for a job or are seeking a raise or promotion, discussing how to figure out one's value and negotiating power, evaluate an offer, and more, and includes a directory of national salary averages.
Why are some people so good at finding desirable jobs while others fail? The key factor is avoiding the mistakes that can doom one's job search. This book identifies those fatal mistakes and tells what one needs to do to avoid them. Fein starts with mistaken strategies and then goes step-by-step through the job search process, from writing CVs and interviewing and accepting a job offer. Includes the insights of experts on specific job search groups, such as minorities, college students, people with disabilities, and the military in transition.
Foget about those trendy theories and anecdotes expounded by others on jobs, careers, and employment. Here's the book that tells it like it really is from the job search trenches.
This step-by-step guide to career change and personal renewal focuses on the major challenges facing millions of individuals experiencing a mid-life crisis.