Job Search References
Cover Letters
- Cover Letters for Dummies 2nd Edition (arrived 3/3/2006)
Now updated with new guidelines for online cover letters. Samples included.
- Resumes for Dummies 4th edition (arrived
3/3/2006)
Get the jump on the competition with the first book that tells you how to create a resume that takes advantage of today's technology. Say goodbye to ugly, plain text formats and welcome the return of the handsome resume – fully formatted and reader friendly. This newly revised guide shows you how to craft a "StandOut" resume that'll get your foot in the door. - Damn Good Resume Guide Praised for its user-friendly style, savvy advice, and wealth of hands-on exercises and examples, it has become very popular. Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, this favorite resource for job-hunters is even better. An all-new text leads you through foolproof series of ten steps to a damn good resume... and solves your toughest resume problems, with creative answers to your most perplexing questions and dilemmas. You will also find 24 sample resumes that got interviews for all kinds of job-seekers, including students, people leaving the military, educators, blue-color workers, technicians, salespeople, managers, and more.
- The Resume Catalog: This book is a companion and sequel to the first book, The Damn Good Resume Guide, and contains 200 resumes written in the "damn good" tradition. The catalog is especially useful to job-hunters who learn best by seeing lots of examples of what a well-written resume looks like. ( New Updated Edition).
- Job Hunting for Dummies 2nd Edition (arrived 3/3/2006)
Finding and landing a good job is not always easy. You may find yourself in a knock-down, drag-out battle with other qualified candidates. How do you give yourself and edge? Job Hunting for Dummies shows you step-by-step how to set yourself apart from the competition – and get the job you really want. - Job Interviews for Dummies 2nd Edition (arrived 3/3/2006)
Do interviews make your mouth go dry and your stomach do flipflops? Relax! Now revised with new tips, new examples and expanded coverage of Internet research tools, this friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to prepare for a "ShowStopper" interview – and put an Oscar-worthy performance that'll land you an offer. - Overseas Summer Jobs (Located in Library 05/15/01) Each year the library adds a new edition of Overseas Summer Jobs (Ref. HD 5549.5.E45 D5). This book may be very useful for students who are looking for employment abroad. Most of the book focuses on summer jobs but there is also a section on winter jobs. The book is organized by country and includes an introductory essay about employment in that country, "red tape," such as visa requirements and work permits, and lists jobs that are available by category. Typical entries include a description of the job, addresses, telephone numbers including fax, email addresses, and web pages.
- What Color is Your Parachute? (arrived 6/23/00) The current edition of the outstanding manual for job hunters and career changers that has sold more than 6 million copies. The impact of this book on the lives of its readers has been extraordinary...which is why it has remained the most popular job-hunting book in the world over the last quarter-century.
- Job-Hunting on the Internet (arrived 6/23/00) This handy little guide - by the author of What Color is Your Parachute? - focuses on making the best possible use of new technology in the job hunt. With 25+ years of job-hunting expertise, Bolles brings an unparalleled depth of knowledge to this field. His personal picks of the best web sites (in categories such as job-posting sites, resume sites, career counseling sites, research sites, and contacts sites) feature a parachute a symbol next to the description.
- No One is Unemployable Top Career Book of the Year, Creative Solutions for Overcoming Barriers to Employment. This book does an admirable and much needed job of tackling head-on the most difficult barriers to employment. It covers the full range of unemployment problems (many of which are widely overlooked) and provides numerous specific and constructive scenarios and solutions. The book offers great optimism to all job candidates, based on sound job-search strategies.
- Job Interviews for Dummies, A Reference for the Rest of Us! By Joyce Lain Kennedy
"Score at that new-style interview with answers that help you get hired - the best of the job interview books!"
- Robert Calvert Jr., Editor, Career Opportunities News.
* The Fun and Easy Way to Have "ShowStopper" Interviews - All New!
* Your First Aid Kit for Selling Yourself and Your Skills
* Interview Dos and Don'ts - Explained in Plain English
Contents at a Glance
Part 1: ShowStopper Interviews Win You the Part
Part 2: SuperStars Research and Rehearse
Part 3: Powerful Performance Prompters
Part 4: Rave Answers to Interview Questions - Interview for Success A Practical Guide to Increasing Job Interviews, Offers, and Salaries. By Caryl Rae Krannich and Ronald L.
Krannich. PhDs
"One of the best career books... presents literally hundreds of tips for more successful job interviews."
- Career Opportunities News - 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions (Fourth Edition) By Ron Fry
"Ron Fry's guide to interviewing can go a long way toward helping you analyze your interviewing skills, walking the line between over-preparation and under-preparation in a time when interviews are tougher than ever"
- Joyce Lain Kennedy - Your First Interview (Third Edition) For students and anyone preparing to enter today's tough job market. By Ron Fry
* Great Answers to Tough Questions
* Secrets to Successful Salary Negotiations
* Your Legal Rights During the Interview - The 250 Job Interview Questions you'll most likely be asked.....and the answers that will get you hired! By Peter Veruki, Director of Career
Planning and Placement at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
"Right on the mark...a must read."
- Tom Broitman, Price Waterhouse Coopers - The Interview Rehearsal Book: 7 Steps to Job-Winning Interviews Using Acting Skills You Never Knew You Had. By Deb Gottesman and Buzz Mauro.
- Sweaty Palms: The Neglected Art of Being Interviewed (Revised). By Anthony Medley.
"The best book I know of on interviewing.
- Richard Nelson Bolles
Contents
* The Interview
* Preparation
* Types of Interviews
* Enthusiasm
* Question and Answer
* Assumptions
* Honesty
* Confidence, Nervousness, and Relaxation
* Dress
* Silence and Power
* Sex
* Salary