Great Jobs for Business Majors Review

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(More customer reviews)This book lays out 5 career paths that a business major can choose. While it has a beginning section on resumes, networking, and other things necessary to get the job, that information can be found elsewhere. Therefore I recommend this book only for business majors, not really for anyone further along exploring a broad range of options.

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Answers the question, "What can I do with a major in . . . ?"

This series helps students explore career options within their field of study. From assessing individual talents and skills to taking the necessary steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in a career choice is covered. Readers learn to explore their options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results.

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You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career Review

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(More customer reviews)I have been a career counselor for almost fifteen years now, and my shelves are filled with everything from "What Color is Your Parachute?" to "Do What You Are" to "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was". Until recently, I felt that most every career exploration book was retreading the same ground, connecting your skills, values, and interests in a linear way to matching job titles. Or, at the other extreme, telling you to just think happy metaphysical thoughts to change the universe and manifest prosperity.
Then I read "You Majored in What?" - and I was blown away by a radically new approach to career exploration, based on Chaos Theory and what the author calls "Wise Wandering". It takes into account the fact that nobody follows a linear path to a lifelong career that fits perfectly. Instead, it leverages the seemingly random events in your life to provide clues to your attractors.
Thank you, Dr. Brooks, for giving me a new set of tools to use with my clients. It's opened me up to new approaches, and reminded me that, as Tolkien said, "Not all those who wander are lost."


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Now What Do I Do?: The Woman's Guide to a New Career (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development) Review

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(More customer reviews)Instead of spouting platitudes for mid-life job seekers, this book offers concise, directed resources and advice especially for women. Dr. Cannon has constructed self-investigative exercises that yield results that can be tangibly implemented. I felt that by using her roadmap, a structured course toward a new goal could be successfully plotted.

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For women at a turning point in their lives––learn how to get out of a dead end job, find a new career, start that dreamed-about business, move in new directions. "An entire career can be started, developed, and completed in the active years before Social Security or retirement benefits begin," says veteran Boston career counselor Jan Cannon. In "Now What Do I Do?" she shows you a new way of looking at yourself and the many opportunities that await you. Inside youÂ'll discover how to : - Develop a clear sense of your strengths, talents, interests and mid-life goals - Conduct research into all the career choices available to you - Write a resume geared to each job you want - Be a persuasive, informed interviewee, and much, much more. Pick up your pen and dig into JanÂ's workbook-like format, complete with self-assessment exercises and illustrated throughout by inspiring examples drawn from her clients. When you finish this book, youÂ'll know how you can make the most of the rest of your life!

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175 Best Jobs Not Behind a Desk Review

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(More customer reviews)The collaborative work of career information specialists Michael Farr and Laurence Shatkin, "175 Best Jobs Not Behind A Desk" is part of JIST's 'Best Jobs' series. More than just a simple catalog of jobs and careers outside the usual business office, "175 Best Jobs Not Behind A Desk" is a thoroughly 'user friendly', do-it-yourself instruction manual on how to determine not only what jobs are available, but how to go about identifying and selecting the one best for you. The two step process involves first browsing the 70 best jobs lists to find possible jobs that fit your educational background and your employment requirements. Then after picking out some possibilities, go on to the second part of the book for details on earnings, growth, jobs tasks, physical activity levels, training needed, etc. "175 Best Jobs Not Behind A Desk" should be considered a mandatory addition to school counselor and job counselor professional reference shelves, as well as a necessary acquisition for trade school library and community library Jobs & Careers collections.

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As part of JIST's successful Best Jobs series, 175 Best Jobs Not Behind a Desk provides a wealth of information that helps people discover high-activity jobs both indoors and outdoors.More than 70 "best jobs" lists include useful information organized by activity level, amount of time outdoors, earnings, education, growth through 2014, openings, interests, self-employment, part-time work, gender, age and personality type.

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100 Best Careers 21st Century, 2/e (100 Best Careers for the 21st Century) Review

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(More customer reviews)I think Field's list of "growth fields" is accurate, so the book is a valuable resource for this reason. On the other hand, if you're young and unsure what career to choose, the absolutely WORST thing you can do is sit down with this book and say "Well, I'm good at x, y, and z, and p and q are growth fields, so therefore I should be a ... " You may (as I did) end up in a job you do moderately well, but hate! You'll do far better to start by asking yourself, "What do I value the most?" and "What do I most enjoy doing?" -- and then ask yourself "How can I make this into a job?"
Books like this always remind me of the scene in "The Graduate" where a helpful elder takes Dustin Hoffman aside and tells him he has one word of advice for him: "Plastics!!" Barbara Sher's books are a great antidote.

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The popular job-seeker's reference returns in a new edition, analyzing labor and economic trend, reviewing essential job skills, and providing one hundred detailed job evaluations. Original.

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150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs (Jist's Best Jobs) Review

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(More customer reviews)I got this book out of the library to help my daughter decide on the best course of action. This book is laughable it is so wrong. The yearly job openings he lists for some fields are often not broken down but lumped together with a disclaimer, that if you don't read, may make you think that there are over 200,000 openings for foreign language teachers (guess it is all secondary education teachers, but then he got his information from some "source"). He lists job openings for librarians and social workers as being almost the same, but job growth is around 18% for social workers and around 4% for librarians. His projection on pay is also off for many jobs. Obviously he sits in an office gathering data from his sources instead of going out into the real world. Don't base any career decision on this book, please!!!

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This unveils the most secure and high-paying jobs in good times and bad times. In just two steps, this book helps readers focus their career options and learn more about secure jobs that interest them. First, reader explore 75 lists that rank the best recession-proof jobs according to pay, growth, openings, education level, personality type and more. Next, readers review descriptions of the jobs that appeal to them. These detailed descriptions include information about a job's pay, growth, openings, tasks, skills needed and much more.

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Great Jobs for Foreign Language Majors (Great Jobs For... Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a fairly decent book which covers a lot of possiblities for people with a degree in foreign languages. However, the sad truth is that there are not all that many career opportunities for linguists who have not developed a strong (preferrably scientific or technical) second skill. American companies tend to take their linguists for granted, but hopefully this situation will change as more linguists make their way into possitions of authority. For what careers ARE out there this book is fabulous.

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A foreign language degree translates into success!

You've worked hard for that foreign language degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options.

Great Jobs for Foreign Language Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You'll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs.

Great Jobs for Foreign Language Majors will help you:

Determine the occupation that's best suited for you
Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest
Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job
Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession

Go from foreign language major to:hotel manager * tour director * foreign student advisor * hospital staff interpreter * ESL teacher * undercover agent * librarian * travel agent * customer service manager

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Great Jobs for Sociology Majors (Great Jobs for ... Majors) Review

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(More customer reviews)Great Jobs for Sociology Majors offers help in deciding if sociology is a major for you and has comments on expanding your knowledge while in school, job searching, networking, and the possibilities of graduate school. The other half of the book describes job opportunities in a variety of areas and help with career paths for advancement. A comprehensive book you'll come away more knowledgable and with great ideas for your future.

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It isn't always obvious what a college major can offer to the workplace. Great Jobs books helpstudents and recent college graduates explore the possibilities in their majors and provide:

Guidance on how to present a major as a workplace asset during an interview
A primer for new college grads on how to conduct a job search
Ways to use a college major in the real world

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Happy About My Resume: 50 Tips for Building a Better Document to Secure a Brighter Future Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very informative guide to developing a better resume. A few years ago I had a resume professionally prepared at no small expense. It was very well prepared but was dated and I wanted to update it. Rather than pay someone to do the work, I elected to do it myself. I bought this book and followed many of the suggestions the author recommended. The completed resume was shorter in length but offered more pertinent information on my abilities than my old professionally prepared resume. When I sent it to my executive search firm for review and use, they responded with the comment that it was one of the best executive resume's they have ever recieved.

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Many great job candidates have poor resumes that are merely a laundry list of job tasks that do little to distinguish them from their competition. The average recruiter or hiring manager spends less than 15 seconds reviewing a resume. Most people's resumes fail to "wow" the reader and quickly end up in the "no" pile.
Writing a resume can feel like an overwhelming task. It can seem like a Herculean effort to consolidate so much important information about a career into a one or two page document. But it doesn't have to be that way! In 'Happy About My Resume', Barbara Safani offers 50 tips for creating compelling copy and presenting it in a powerful way to grab the hiring authority's attention and get them to pick up the phone to call you in for an interview. Safani provides practical and easy-to-follow advice as well as numerous samples that show each of her tips in action.
The book will help readers learn how to quickly create a resume that is professional, gets them noticed, minimizes the amount of time they spend in a job search, and maximizes their earning power. The book is for anyone who wants to proactively manage their career and improve the quality of their current resume or create a resume from scratch.

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Great Jobs for History Majors (Great Jobs for ... Majors) Review

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(More customer reviews)Personally, this book was a great help to me. Although the strategies suggested for resume and cover letter writing (getting an interview and job) are nothing new, the second half of the book in which the authors describe five different career tracks are excellent in that they are directed specifically towards History Majors. While I originally pictured history majors going into either professional historian-type jobs (e.g. professors, authors) or classroom teaching, the authors very correctly pointed out that historical museums and other pubic education institutions are in need of people with history backgrounds as are businesses, etc. The advice is practical and the information proved to be very specific for me--a history major. Recommended for those of us with history backgrounds still trying to "find themselves" career wise.

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Let the past pay your bills!

You've worked hard for that history degree. Now what? Sometimes the choice of careers can seem endless; the most difficult part of a job search is narrowing down your options.

Great Jobs for History Majors will help you choose the right career out of the myriad possibilities at your disposal. It provides detailed profiles of careers in your field along with the basic skills necessary to begin a focused job search. You'll soon be on the fast track to landing a job that satisfies your personal, professional, and practical needs.

Great Jobs for History Majors will help you:

Determine the occupation that's best suited for you
Craft a résumé and cover letter that stand out from the rest
Learn from practicing professionals about everyday life on the job
Become familiar with current statistics on salaries and trends within the profession

Go from history major to:Teacher * Curator * Health Management Associate * Museum Tour Guide * Sales Coordinator * Program Director * Librarian * Writer * Television Producer

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Best Careers for Teachers: Making the Most of your Teaching Degree Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this book to help me find a career other than teaching. I currently teach, and a I am looking for a change. This book offered suggestions and tips of how to get a teaching job. Thanks, I already have that. It should be titled "How to Prepare to Get the Best Teaching Career." The title is misleading.

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This book is designed to guide current, former and aspiring teachers towards ways to leverage their teaching education and experiences and find and establish a more rewarding career. It is written both for those who are planning to change careers, and for those who want to explore opportunities in addition to teaching full-time. The material is relevant for primary, secondary and post-secondary educators.

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The Secret to Getting a Job after College: Marketing Tactics to Turn Degrees into Dollars Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this book as a graduation gift because the title really caught my attention and the fact that the author is a marketing professional that has worked on major accounts AND is a professor in a university made me feel that I have stumbled across the perfect gift. I know that recent college grads have the unfortunate task of overcoming the struggle to find their first job after college in a difficult job market. I think this book will help focus the graduate on what is essential to landing a job--and not repeating the typical advice that is often found in other job search books. I especially liked the chapter with the sample interview questions and answers. Chapter 3 is packed with useful info! That chapter alone was worth purchasing this book.

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The Secret to Getting a Job after College: Marketing Tactics to Turn Degrees into Dollars is an easy to follow guide for all majors to help you launch your career in any job market. In just four chapters, you will learn tips and tactics to attract the attention of an employer and win the competition with other candidates to get the job you want. Bonus Feature: Exclusive Online Content: *Gain access to exclusive content to a companion website *Includes references to many job search resources *Resume examples for a variety of majors *Links to useful websites Here are some of the topics that will be covered: Chapter 1: Finding Your Job: Identifying Your Best Opportunities *Summary of easy to find sources of information to focus your job search *Destroy the myth of what kind of job a college graduate should seek *Where to uncover the jobs most students fail to ever find *Create your personal brand Chapter 2: Getting the Interview: Creating Your Marketing Plan *Learn to create a cover letter that generates a call from an employer *See what makes a great resume that cannot be ignored *Find out how to get on top of an employer's lists of candidates *How to leverage the Internet faster and more effectively Chapter 3: Acing the Interview: Building a Relationship and Selling Yourself *Learn to prepare for any interview situation *Find out what market research you need to do before the interview *Learn the tricky questions that interviewers toss at you *Know which answers work and which answers fail Chapter 4: Getting the Offer: Closing the Sale *How to be sure your references will support you when the employer calls *Gain the knowledge to get an offer from an employer you will want to accept *Obtain tips on how to be well positioned for your next job after you start your first job

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What to Do with Your English or Communications Degree (Career Guides) Review

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(More customer reviews)I seriously would like to give this book a review. As you can more than likely gather from the title, I am studying a degree in Communications so my field is partly that of reviewing. IF this book ever arrives, it is now 13th January and it was ordered on 11th December, I will write a further review. Come ONNNNN !!!! Nothing takes a month to arrive in Australia. We can swim to the US faster than that.

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Many students major in the Humanities or Social Sciences because they love their chosen academic fields, however few schools provide solid advice about how students can apply their studies to a career.This unique and informative guide directs English and Communications majors to career paths that will make the most of their educational backgrounds. It includes chapters on further academic study, fellowship opportunities, and understanding career options, as well as practical and detailed job search tips and strategies. What to Do with Your English or Communications Degree includes:·Practical advice on identifying career goals·Profiles of popular career paths·Interview and networking tips·Special Q&A section with former majors who are now successfully pursuing careers they love·Appendices that provide listings of relevant internship and fellowship opportunities

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Gallery of Best Resumes (Gallery of Best Resumes for People Without a Four-Year Degree) Review

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(More customer reviews)Gallery of Best Resumes offers outstanding examples of resumes for career fields ranging from accountants and secretaries, to cake decorators and actors. The resumes represent the best work of professional resume writers from all across the United States. Included are cover letters that are attention getting, 101 best resume tips, and a listing by region of professional resume writers. If you only buy one resume writing guide, this is the one to have

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A showcase collection of more than 150 outstanding sample resumes and 30 cover letters representing the very best creations of professional resume writers. These one-of-a-kind, eye-catching resumes cover jobs from all occupational groups and at all levels. Using the samples and Dr. Noble's writing tips, readers can create their own interview-landing resumes and cover letters. All resume samples are updated and revised, with more coverage of electronic resumes.

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