Cool Careers For Dummies® - Softcover

Nemko PhD, Marty; Edwards, Paul; Edwards, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764550950 ISBN 13: 9780764550959

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

"From finding the well–suited job to customizing it, this book is full of smart advice." USA Today "A career guide that really works thorough, reliable, and amazingly helpful." James C. Gonyea, Gonyea Online Career Center, AOL Praise for Cool Careers For Dummies "Something for everyone .Not only do the authors provide a comprehensive listing of jobs you never thought of, but they also devote space to figuring out your dream job, and making your current job better." Men's Fitness "Anyone who dreads the 9–to–5 rut will embrace Cool Careers For Dummies." Dave Murphy, Career Search Editor, San Francisco Examiner

512 cool careers profiled in the special yellow page section

Savvy tips for locating and landing unusual, intriguing jobs

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Discover how to: Find the right career for you Get the training you need Locate jobs, even if you hate networking Become an employer's #1 job candidate Make a humdrum job better

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About this title

From the Author:

The Cool Careers For Dummies approach really works!
As a career counselor, I got frustrated with the standardcareer counseling methods. So, 12 years ago I set out to develop a better method for finding a good career and landing a job that fits each individual's goals and aptitudes. Now, over 1,000 clients and many refinements later, the approach is working wonderfully. This book adapts what I do with my clients every day into a self-help version that anyone can use to find the right career for them and then land the job. My co-authors add great ideas on how to become successfully self-employed.

My favorite part is the "Cool Careers Catalog," which consists of quick reviews of 512 fine careers, including many that most people haven't even heard of. I also especially like the chapter "29 Extra-Strength Cures for Procrastination" and the advice on how to use the Web in a job search. The Internet can be overwhelming and this book makes it an accessible career resource.

Other guides tend to make the process unnecessarily complicated: you have to fill out dozens of pages of worksheets just to figure out your skills, interests and values; and after all that, you're left on your own to figure out which careers fit. Cool Careers For Dummies makes career-finding much easier. It also simplifies the process of LANDING the job. I've found that many people aren't good at the very things that job search guides recommend: networking and cold calling. This book shows you how to land the job even if you're shy and don't have a 500-person rolodex.

Developing the approach in this book has been my obsession for the last dozen years and I'm excited to see it in print. I really believe it will help people and it's fun to read!

Synopsis:

This text provides profiles of over 200 rewarding careers and self-employment opportunities. These careers offer meaningful work, without requiring a Ph.D. in Physics, or a vow of poetry. Nonetheless, few job seekers, career guides or career counsellors consider these careers bacause they are brand new products of the techno-age, or are older jobs that people no longer believe to exist. This book offers readers the opportunity to explore these career options. In addition, the book offers different approaches to landing and tackling the new job once you get it. They will have specific leads on how to find out more about the career and strategies for gaining the required skills for getting hired. The book aims to act as a confidence builder to becoming successful and/or self-employed, as well as being a counsel on how to mould the job to fit the reader's strengths.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0764550950
• ISBN 13: 9780764550959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432