Drawing on his extensive experience evaluating applicants for his marketing agency, and featuring stories based on real-life situations, sample cover letters, resumes, and straightforward advice, Don Raskin’s The Dirty Little Secrets of Getting Your Dream Job offers all the necessary tools for navigating the tough job market and securing your dream job. Don Raskin owns and operates MME, an advertising and marketing agency in New York City. During his twenty-five years at the agency he has interviewed hundreds of new college graduates for positions within his agency and has placed a strong emphasis on entry-level recruitment for positions in creative, account management, traffic, and production. Raskin has also mentored countless students and their parents on best practices for the job search. Over the years, Raskin has kept exceptionally detailed notes on the interviews he has conducted, observing the good, the bad, the ridiculous, the irreverent. He also has a treasure trove of over-the-top cover letters, resumes, interviews, and post interview follow-ups he has conducted and received. Now, he wants to share all the wisdom and insider secrets he has gathered to help students and first-time job seekers find a job in this economy. Based on his remarkable expertise, Raskin's book provides exclusive insight into the job search process and lets readers in on all of the dirty little secrets to landing their first job—or a new one—and finding career success.
A young, hip, sexy novel that takes readers behind the velvet rope of the glamorous and shady entertainment industry Nothing prepares Tyler Blake for the fast-paced living of New York City. A small-town girl from Georgia, she quickly gets caught up in the glamorous entertainment industry. While pursuing her dream of becoming an actress, Tyler continually gets sidetracked by men who promise to help her and finds herself going from one dysfunctional relationship to another. Just when Tyler finally believes she has found her ideal man, in hip-hop producer Brian McCall, everything begins to go horribly wrong. Trapped in a nightmarish relationship, Tyler is determined not to go down without a fight. "Passion, deception, heartbreak, love and a delicious read...what more do you need!" -- B. Lawson Thornton, Essence bestselling author of Misery Loves Company
What happens when life as you know it gets a little dirty? Schoolteacher Holly James is living the life most women only dream about-until her husband reveals a secret that turns her world upside down. In an effort to cope, Holly decides to get away from it all and winds up creating a few secrets of her own. Trying to be the perfect wife ultimately takes its toll on Holly, and she finds herself engaged in the fight of her life-to save not only her marriage but to find herself. Can she survive life after the pain, or will her dirty little secrets come back to haunt her?
Drawing from his own experience with corporations both large and small and as a business owner, Jack Molisani has seen every mistake the professional (or not-so-professional) can make in today's highly competitive job market. This book provides the tools for navigating these choppy waters. Starting with how to escape a dead-end job or an overbearing boss, to advancing one's career, and finally to achieving a higher standard of living, the book is divided into sections on finding new directions, making things happen, and optimizing the results. While most business guides focus on either job hunting for the unemployed or getting rich for business owners and CEOs, these solutions--including how to get and ace an interview and how to increase job security once hired--cater to real people wanting real advice on how to escape the chains of a recessive economy and create a long-term lifestyle that is both enjoyable and achievable.
This book is an excellent, practical resource for anyone looking to get ahead of their peers and become an executive in any industry or major. The author really helps people discover their passion to succeed, ways to stand out when looking for a job, and make their way to the top of any large company with hard work and the right mindset. Directly from an insider, you will learn step by step: - Leading a college career that will open any door - Crafting the perfect resume that companies will not ignore - Write the ideal cover letter to land your dream job - How to ace your interview and get a huge offer - How to use the internet to get what you want - Becoming the model manager to lead others to success - And much more
As much as we humans like to pat ourselves on the back for our supposed superior intellectual capabilities, our brains tend to fail us miserably when it comes to managing our investments. In fact, we are so poor at financial decision making that we lose billions of dollars each year in the stock market and other business dealings in the name of "financial security." Why is it that our brains are capable of complex problem solving, can comprehend abstract concepts, and are adept at understanding and using language, yet are seemingly hopeless when we try to invest and grow our capital? The answer, as Tim Richards, creator of the popular Psy-Fi Blog, reveals in The Logical Investor, is that our innate psychological biases negatively impact our financial decision-making abilities. The bad news, Richards explains, is that our brains are specifically designed to keep us safe in the environments within which we evolved, not in the weird and wonderful situations within which modern finance places us. The good news, however, is that, once we are armed with an understanding of how and why our behavioral biases lead us to make poor investment choices, we can overcome them, improve our investment decisions, and increase our profits. To that end, The Logical Investor gives readers a whistle-stop tour of how our psychological biases prevent us from reaching our investment potential. Drawing upon more than fifty years of research from the intersection where finance and behavioral psychology meet, this invaluable resource kicks away our expectations, one belief at a time, through a set of basic lessons designed to help readers identify and appropriately respond to their inherent yet flawed investing instincts. These lessons in turn build towards a detailed behavioral investing framework, leaving readers with a logical structure for making better and more profitable investing decisions. By the time readers turn to The Logical Investor's final pages, they will gain an understanding of the fundamental biases driving their investing behavior and a practical toolkit for effectively managing them. Most importantly, however, they will finally be able to overcome the tricks their brains play on them, turn their losses into profits and their irrational, money-losing investing decisions into rational, money-making ones, and put themselves back in control of their financial future. What you’ll learnReaders of The Logical Investor will learn: How to significantly improve their investment returns by addressing their innate psychological failings with regards to financial decision making. The many behavioral biases that are triggered by the brain behaving normally in the abnormal environment that is the world of the financial markets. Why framing investments as risks leads people to invest cautiously but positioning the same investments as opportunities leads them to throw caution to the wind. How Facebook and Twitter can lead to the contagious spread of investing ideas or "memes" and depress most investors' returns as a result. How behavioral biases affect the world of professional investors, from investment bankers to securities analysts to mutual fund managers to corporate managements. How to beat their investment biases by looking at a range of key issues, checklists, and techniques. How the securities industry uses behavioral bias to extract tolls from private investors in excess of $160 billion per year and why those investors conspire with them to achieve this. Who this book is for The Logical Investor is designed for the million of individual investors whose innate behavioral biases are standing in the way of their ability to achieve their financial goals. In addition, professional investors and traders in search of the latest information and research on overcoming the emotional and psychological aspects of operating in the financial markets will find the strategies they need to unlock their true investing potential in The Logical Investor.
This book is an insight into my personal journey of discovering how I want to make the world a better place and leaving a legacy of helping people be recognized for theirs through their dream job. It starts by explaining some of the struggles I overcame in my career and the huge curveball in my business that have led me to learn and master all the tricks, tips, and systems to land my dream job. I do not want people to struggle the way I did, to understand that through persistence and resourcefulness, anyone can succeed. The book shares some ideas on how to make the process of finding employment easier and faster and apply the wisdom to help you get noticed and get hired!
THIS IS YOUR SECRET WEAPON TO LANDING YOUR DREAM JOBFinding and landing your ideal job doesn't happen by chance. You have to know the secrets of how to market yourself just like a brand to land your dream job. You can learn and employ this unique set of skills to ensure you find a good job, get hired, and jump start your career.BRAND YOU! To Land Your Dream Job offers a step-by-step guide to teach you these skills, and share with you an insider's view of what it takes to be the one person out of hundreds of applicants to receive a coveted offer.Here are 7 key essentials of valuable insight that will start you on your job search journey. They were hand-selected by the author to provide valuable content you can use immediately.●Chapter 1: Trying to Get a Job? First, Avoid This Mistakes!●Chapter 2: Changing the Perspective of "Jobs"●Chapter 3: Market Yourself to Sell Yourself●Chapter 4: Beyond Digital Marketing JobsYour dream job is out there somewhere. When you read BRAND YOU! To Land Your Dream Job, you will gain the tools and insight to find where it is hidden, get your persuasive credentials into the right hands throughout the hiring process, help you successfully complete the various interviews, and negotiate a great employment package.Get started on your job search right now!
