Thinking about your current job search after graduation? These books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful online and offline job search. These are my long term favorite job search, career planning, and career management books for grads. Gift a favorite graduate with the opportunity to explore their desired future. If you're the graduate, give yourself a job search present.
My colleague Alison Doyle's new book definitively covers online job search. She covers everything a job searcher needs to know to utilize the online world in his or her job search. From building a professional brand - what you want potential employers to find out about you, when they search for your name online - to making contact through social and professional networking sites, Alison lays out the best steps, tips, tactics, and tools. The book is everything needed for a job search in one small package.
Alison Doyle, About's Job Searching Guide, has written a clear, straightforward, comprehensive book that tells you how to get a job. Everything you need for job searching in one handy guide, the book also emphasizes using the Internet for job searching. Doyle's strengths as both a career professional and as an online job search specialist are evident and valuable for the job searcher.
Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton follow up on their excellent book about what makes great managers great by talking about 34 positive personality factors. Using their StrengthsFinder profile, you can learn a lot about what makes your talents and skills unique. Use the information to select the best field or career for you or the best job in your current field.
Lindsey Pollak tells you how to develop the experience, skills, and confidence you need to bridge between college and the real world of work. Her 90 tips include how to avoid the biggest mistake in career prep and job hunting, why you need to subscribe to a daily newspaper, how to write and manage email like a professional, how to successfully network at events you attend, how to practice the essentials of a successful internship, how to prepare for interviews, and how to conduct a professional job search.
Jason Alba and Jesse Stay tell you all about how to use FaceBook as a source for your professional job search. They tell you what works for both job search and furthering your career appropriately and professionally on Facebook.
Why spend the time figuring out how to use LinkedIn.com for career networking and job search? Jason Alba has already done the research for you. Take a look also at my recent article to see how employers are recruiting on LinkedIn.
Richard Nelson Bolles first offered this book over twenty-five years ago and it remains one of the best career search guides on the market. Rewritten every year, it stays current and fresh. It helps the newer job searcher discover careers congruent with the direction of his interests, values, and needs. It's a good overall job search manual to which he recently added some online job search information.
I am a John Lucht fan. This marvelous little book provides insight into moving up through the ranks of management in your company. What's really important for your career development? Find out here from talks with thousands of leaders in a management and executive search career that spans over thirty years. Even at the start of your career take a look at these career management ideas to get off to a great start after your job search.
Have you considered becoming an independent contractor? Daniel H. Pink tells us that the fastest growing employment trend is free agency. Be your own boss. Learn what it takes. Explore your options. I've never regretted my choice for a minute.
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
){kind=link}
| 