This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Anside Look at What Employers Really Want: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want - Softcover

Kay, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814432212 ISBN 13: 9780814432211

Publisher: AMACOM, 2013

Synopsis

Even in a bad economy, companies have job openings they can't fill. Considering the millions of people who are out of work or unhappily employed, how can that be? What are job seekers doing to turn off employers? And what is it that employers want but aren't finding? Leading career expert and syndicated columnist Andrea Kay asked employers one simple question: Why didn't you hire the last ten people you interviewed? What it came down to, every time, wasn't a matter of skills or experience, but how applicants seemed based on what they said or did. From lack of preparation, to pushiness, to a subtly defensive attitude, it's the simple behaviors prospective employees exhibit before, during, and after interviews that stand between them and job offers. Based on candid insights from real-life employers, and featuring a foreword by Richard Nelson Bolles, bestselling author of "What Color Is Your Parachute?", this book helps job hunters take control of how they come across to the people in charge of hiring. From "20 Things You Should Never Do" to a "Would You Hire You?" test, "This Is How to Get Your Next Job" helps readers show hiring managers who they are and why they're the perfect fit for the job they seek.

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Review:

"[An] insightful job-hunting book....This book should help give job seekers an edge over the competition." -- Publishers Weekly

"Job hunters will want to refer to Kay for solid guidance, particularly concering interviewing. VERDICT: A concise, handy advice guide that can help job seekers everywhere." -- Library Journal

From the Back Cover:

Lifelong learning has grown into a multibillion-dollar business, with more than 60 million adults currently engaged in webinars, webcasts, in-house training, continuing education classes, and more. But it is also an industry in flux, as newcomers topple old-guard organizations that can’t keep pace with the need for instant access to materials and flexible delivery methods as well as demands for community and connection.

Leading the Learning Revolution is the first book to explain how to tap into this lucrative market, which rewards the most forward-thinking training firms, professional associations, continuing education programs, entrepreneurial speakers, consultants, and others. Filled with insights from the author’s vast experience, field-tested strategies, interviews, and anecdotes, the book explains how to:

· Use technology to create high-impact learning opportunities

· Develop content that is faster and better than the competition’s

· Convert prospects to customers by building connection

· Focus on the bottom-line results of lifelong learning

Successful people and organizations never stop learning, and the people and organizations that lead that learning will never stop growing!

About this edition

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0814432212
• ISBN 13: 9780814432211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256