Alison Doyle's Job Search Guidebook [Kindle Edition]

Alison Doyle (Author)

Book Description

Are you in the market for a new job or a career change? Leading job search expert Alison Doyle will help you with every step of the process from getting started, to effectively using social media, as well as how to use all the best resources available for today's job seekers with cutting edge strategies and techniques for job searching.

Alison Doyle's Job Search Guidebook provides you with all the information you need to make the right connections, take the right steps, and make yourself stand out from the job search crowd in this fast paced, every changing job market. With Alison's help, you can start achieving your goals today! With this authoritative guide to job searching, you'll learn how to:

- Choose or change careers.
- Use the best sites, apps, and tools for job hunting.
- Effectively use social networking to boost your job search.
- Apply resume and cover letter techniques that are guaranteed to get you noticed.
- Discover inside tips for networking and interviewing.
- Use the best job search techniques and strategies for this challenging job market.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Alison Doyle is a job search and career expert with many years of experience in human resources, career development, and job searching, with a focus on online job searching, job search technology, social media, and professional networking. She has covered job searching for About.com (a New York Times Company) (jobsearch.about.com) since 1998. Alison is the author of Alison Doyle’s Job Search Guidebook, Internet Your Way to a New Job: How to Really Find a Job Online and the About.com Guide to Job Searching.

Product Details

• File Size: 906 KB
• Print Length: 270 pages
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005AWNQH2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #409,120 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Alison Doyle's Job Search Guidebook June 8, 2011

By Mike

Format:Paperback

Alison Doyle has crafted a superb resource for readers who are considering a job or career change. She uses easy to understand language to guide job seekers/career changers through a successful process from self-assessment and career research through job acquisition. Having worked as a Career Services Director for almost 25 years, I found Alison's approach to be fundamentally sound and grounded in the best practices within the discipline. She integrates traditional strategies and resources with sound advice about tapping digital resources and fills the book with links to helpful websites. Alison's many years as a Career Service professional at the college level and as the Job Search Guide for About.com have clearly enabled her to communicate about this topic in a concrete way with lots of real world examples. I highly recommend this resource for those searching for the right job and career.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Resource January 9, 2012

By Jessica Greco

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Alison Doyle gives concrete, step-by-step advice for even the most neurotically thorough job hunter. It's comprehensive--most appealing to me was how it walks you through interviewing minutiae, and even explains how to research pay rates. This book is an absolute gem.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great basic job search book for those who haven't searched for a job in 5 to 10 years July 11, 2011

By Joyce Lain Kennedy

Format:Paperback

Alison Doyle writes a great basic job search guide. I especially like this book for people who haven't looked for a position for a long time. By reading this book, a job seeker can get a total picture of required steps to survive in today's search for employment -- very different from a mere 5 or 10 years ago. The generic "everything" resume won't work in today's job search.

The basics Doyle covers start at the beginning: What are your best skills for today's job market? She continues in understandable language to explain the steps required to design your search plan, and recommends some of the best websites for your campaign. She crystallizes the basics of a cover letter and the formats of resumes -- your all-important application documents!

The stories Doyle recounts are helpful as examples of job seekers who learn lessons the hard way and then turn around their search strategies as they heed her up-to-date job search knowledge.

In brief, Doyle presents the best, short tips gathered from her years of serving as About.com's job search guide. I highly recommend this guidebook. --

More About the Author

Alison Doyle is a job search and career expert with many years of experience in human resources, career development, and job searching. Alison focuses on writing, in print and online, about online job searching, job search technology, social media, and professional networking providing expertise, commentary, and advice to both job seekers and those interested in news about the field, especially online job searching.

Alison, the About.com Job Search Guide, has covered job searching for About.com since 1998. Alison is the author of Alison Doyle's Job Search Guidebook, The About.com Guide to Job Searching, and Internet Your Way to a New Job: How to Really Find a Job Online.