Using Job Search Resources

Offers advice for finding a job in a short amount of time, discussing job search preparation, the importance of maintaining a positive mindset, and specific actions to move the search process forward.

The Internet is loaded with information to help you find a job, choose a school, or learn about careers. That's great...if you know how to find what you're looking for. But if you don't, it's easy to get bogged down in information overload. In this updated and reevaluated sixth edition, we've researched and reviewed the many thousands of career, job search, and education sites on the Web-and included only the very best places for solid information and advice. No more wading through site after site-this book has already done all of the hard work for you! Use the Power of the Internet to Help You Explore career alternatives. Find and apply for job openings. Make connections with people who can hire you. Put your online resume into the hands of hiring managers. Prepare for interviews by researching potential employers. Explore a career in the military, or transition from the military to a civilian career. Choose the right college, technical school, or other instructional program to meet your needs-and apply online. Find out about financial aid options. Link directly to thousands of schools for specific information on programs and courses. Take online courses at home, through distance learning. Consider self-employment, contracting, freelancing, and telework. Get a foot in the door with temporary employment and volunteer opportunities. Book jacket.

An executive-level job search is unique. As a professional, you are used to delivering results, and seeing results delivered to you in return. You have little patience with methods that are lengthy or ambiguous or that rarely hit their mark. Therefore, in today's competitive marketplace and challenging economic climate, your job search is particularly challenging, and finding the right professional position for you can become complex and frustrating. 'The Fast Track Guide to a Professional Job Search' was written to take the guesswork out of finding the right executive-level position for you. Serving as your handy guide and indispensable companion, it contains everything you need to drive your job search and career forward. It takes you all the way from setting your career path, through the planning and strategizing, the execution, the emotional rollercoaster, and all the way to offer evaluation and acceptance. Written by Joanie Natalizio, a professional executive coach who steers a successful business coaching practice, 'The Fast Track Guide to a Professional Job Search' teaches you to distinguish yourself, present your unique strengths and capabilities, and make sure an offer is a good fit for you before you accept it. All through the book, the easy to use checklists make sure you stay on track. How to create a professional biography and tips on evaluating compensation packages are just a few of the many executive job search topics discussed. Joanie reveals little known tips traditionally restricted to executive career coaching sessions, so that you have an extra edge in your job search. With 'The Fast Track Guide to a Professional Job Search' at hand, you can proceed in your executive job search with clarity, competence and complete confidence.

New-style job messages that get you in the door and on yourway up From sparkling cover letters to six-word bios, a fresh bevy of jobsearch letters has grown powerfully useful for successful careercommunications. Job Search Letters For Dummies delivers the qualityof New Era know-how you need right now to land good jobs andthrive. Whether you?re a long-time professional or a recentcollege graduate ? or somewhere in between ? Job SearchLetters For Dummies has you covered. Job Search Letters For Dummies covers the gamut of leading-edgetopics, including effective strategies for internal careercommunications on topics such as raises, promotions, and positionchanges; rules for communicating professionally with texts andnetworking on social media platforms such as twitter and LinkedIn;fresh and updated communication phrases to voice accomplishmentsand make job-fit statements; post-interview etiquette and letterssuch as thank-yous, "hire me" reinforcement notes, interest revivalqueries; and much more. Get hired with 40 types of job letters Create short messages for a smartphone world Network on social media sites Model best letters more than 200 pro samples Whether you?re a long-time professional or a recentcollege graduate ? or somewhere in between ? JobSearch Letters For Dummies has you covered. A note to job seekers from nationally syndicated careerscolumnist and author or Job Search Letters For Dummies,Joyce Lain Kennedy: Welcome aboard, job seekers! Thanks for checking out this firstguide to communications-supported job search and careergrowth in relentlessly changing technological times.  The right messaging ? what you say, why you say it,and when you say it ? is as important today to youremployment goals as it has been at any time since Leonardo da Vinciwrote the first professional resume in 1482.  Consider recent job?finding history: In 1986 fax machines and postal mail were the most popular waysto send resumes and cover letters. In the 1990s the Internet boom kicked in with new tools toconnect jobs and people: e-mail, websites, cell phones, mailinglists, and online bulletin boards. In the 21st century the double-time march of recruitingtechnology skyrocketed, building a techno-swamp populated withendless ideas of how to connect work and people throughsmartphones, wonder tablets, apps, and social media for virtualnetworking.  You?re competing in a new world of work out there.If your job search is treading water ? or evendrowning? there?s a better way. Make a splash! Engagehiring authorities through a communications-centered campaign withsmart content.

In these turbulent times, the job-interview game is more different than ever for executives. They face a longer interview process, must demonstrate a vision to meet the prospective employer's challenges, and will undergo intense vetting before receiving a job offer. Top Notch Executive Interviews reveals what employers really want and expect to see in executive candidate interview behavior and content. The book's coverage of the executive interview difference, its case studies of senior-level managers in sticky interview situations, and its broad collection of hiring decision-maker interview peeves and preferences make it the must-have companion volume to Top Notch Executive Resumes. This vital book includes an insightful examination of critical differences that distinguish executive-level interviews from all others, along with extensive information on leveraging relationships with recruiters, plentiful sample interview questions and suggested responses, and a comprehensive list of sample questions to ask the interviewer. Special additional features include: -- Detailed tips on how to land an interview and conduct pre-interview research. -- The importance of nonverbal behavior and attire. -- A thorough guide to interview formats. -- An interviewing checklist. -- A chapter on tricky interview situations. -- A directory of executive-interview coaches. -- And post-interview chapters covering thank-yous, follow-ups, references, vetting, background checks, plus negotiating and weighing job offers.