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Your Career: How to Make It Happen helps students plan their career path and find their first job. Guiding students through the career planning process, the text covers self-analysis, information sources, and the job search. The preparation of resumes, cover letters, and other marketing tools, the application process, and the interviewing are also discussed. Contemporary topics addressed include: assertion and positive attitude, what employers look for in potential employees, positive and negative nonverbal behavior, employment tests, salary negotiation, drug testing, and how to leave a job gracefully.
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Did you know the best jobs go to applicants who are qualified and prepared? In fact, people who develop effective job-search and career-planning skills are 80 percent more successful in attaining their goals. If you're looking for a job, a promotion, or a career change, this book gives you that competitive edge.Your Career: How to Make It Happen continues to lead the industry in providing the information and skills you need to get the job and salary you deserve. Thousands of users of this text report that it provides the most comprehensive information and practical applications available in career-planning and job-search techniques. Use these clear guidelines to make your career happen!Here are just a few of the success techniques included in this completely updated third edition: how to identify and focus your job strengths and match them to the best possible career and job targets; how to organize your job search and identify the best potential employers; how to prepare resumes and cover letters that get winning results; how to get interviews and how to interview like a pro; how to negotiate salary and salary increases; how to deal effectively with being laid off or terminated; and how to change careers successfully.
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