Executive Job-Changing Workbook [Paperback]

John Lucht (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994

One of America's leading executive recruiters and author of the best-selling Rites of Passage at $100,000+ presents an invaluable guide filled with practical, sophisticated advice. Designed for executives making $30,000 or more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Viceroy Press (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942785223
• ISBN-13: 978-0942785227
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous career aid! Unfortunately few people know it., March 15, 2001

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Tara McKenzie (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Executive Job-Changing Workbook (Paperback)

I'm a career counselor and an outplacement consultant. At the executive level, Lucht's Rites of Passage (use the 2001 edition which covers the Internet) and its companion, The Executive Job-Changing Workbook, are the only two tools I insist my clients use. The Workbook helps them crystalize what to say in their resume and in interviews. It also shows them how to soft-pedal their deficiencies. I find that using both books together helps my counseling tremendously. Incidentally, the Workbook splits into two books, both with a plain white cover, so an employer won't accidentally see the candidate is using a commercial resource, when he/she opens his/her attache to pull out a resume. Clever! People carry the second half to interviews and fill in its "debriefer" forms with everything they find out from each person in round-one of interviews. They do this as soon as they get out of the employer's parking lot . This information, captured while it's fresh in mind, is reviewed to prepare for second-round interviews. Employers always tell you everything they hope for in a perfect candidate. If you parrot that back in your second-round interview, you'll defeat everyone who doesn't. This Workbook is an amazing help to the executive-level job-seeker. It's a "secret weapon" I don't think most people know about. I always insist they use it if they're going to work with me.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If You Were to Buy Just One Job Hunting Guide, this is It, July 14, 2003

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Milko McGillicuddy "Corvus Corbeau" (Calgary, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Executive Job-Changing Workbook (Paperback)

This is a workbook based on John Lucht's book "Rites of Passage at $100,000+". It offers a way to organize your job search, including skills inventory, resume building, cover letter writing, contact management, etc. It can be used without the $100,000+ book, but ideally is used as a companion to the book.
Lucht's system outlined in the book is very narrow, advocating a mail campaign as the most important part of the job search. This workbook expands on that a fair bit, offering more resume and cover letter examples and a series of worksheets. The content is well thought out, especially the worksheets. If your plan is to organize your own work search, you can do everything with this one book - resume, cover letter, networking, interview skills, and negotiation. There are thousands of executive job searching books out there, but if you wanted to buy just one, this would be the one.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rites of Passage, March 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Executive Job-Changing Workbook (Paperback)

For great advice on what to expect when you work with a executive recuiter read chapters 7-10. Its worth the price of the book alone. Out of work high-level executives and those who want to make a solid change in their career need to read this book in order to sound smart and learn what to expect from good and bad headhunters.