Are you a recent college graduate or soon-to-be young professional? * Are you looking for the right job you know the one: great pay, great people, and work which is challenging and meaningful but you don t know how to find it? * Have you spent endless time and energy posting your resume on various job boards but still haven t gotten any responses? * Have you managed to secure an interview, but didn t get the job offer? * Are you scared or confused about what to expect in the working world? The Job Coach for Young Professionals can help. This interactive workbook will walk you through the job search process and help you master skills you can use throughout your professional career. The process begins with a complete assessment of your skills, interests and work values, matching your traits with the right job and helping you discover your own value as a future employee. But it doesn t stop there. The Job Coach for Young Professionals also helps prepare you for every aspect of the interview process from attire to attitude, and offers advice on developing a professional manner that will serve you from your first job to your last. Finding that great job is a long and complicated process. The Job Coach for Young Professionals Workbook provides the structure and support you need to attack your job search with a winning strategy. Networking tips, organizational advice, time-management strategies The Job Coach for Young Professionals is packed with over 130 pages of information you need to secure your future. Even after you ve landed that job, there s still a lot to learn. With The Job Coach for Young Professionals, you can make that transition from school to work with ease, knowing you ve got the skills to outshine the competition and realize your dreams.
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When I have interviewed young professionals throughout the years, I've often been disappointed in their lack of preparation for the interview process. It seems they often do little or no research on the job or the organization, and as a result they substantially lessen their chance to receive an offer. The Job Coach for Young Professionals is an excellent tool that provides the reader with the steps necessary to thoroughly prepare for the job search and interview process. This workbook significantly enhances their chance for success. --Morton Handel, Chairman, Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
If, after working hard to graduate from college, you want to land that great job, The Job Coach for Young Professionals really is your personal job coach - taking you from start to finish throughout the entire process. It is by far the most comprehensive job search workbook I've read to date. It will help you learn how to use your strengths and interests to find the industry, job, and company that's right for you. --Heather Huhman, Entry-level Careers Columnist, Examiner.com
The recruiting process (from both sides) would be substantially easier and more successful if every candidate worked through this workbook prior to their career search. I especially appreciate the focus on individuals to first assess themselves - skills, values, and goals. --Jessica McMillen, Campus Recruiter, NetJets Services
If, after working hard to graduate from college, you want to land that great job, The Job Coach for Young Professionals really is your personal job coach - taking you from start to finish throughout the entire process. It is by far the most comprehensive job search workbook I've read to date. It will help you learn how to use your strengths and interests to find the industry, job, and company that's right for you. --Heather Huhman, Entry-level Careers Columnist, Examiner.com
The recruiting process (from both sides) would be substantially easier and more successful if every candidate worked through this workbook prior to their career search. I especially appreciate the focus on individuals to first assess themselves - skills, values, and goals. --Jessica McMillen, Campus Recruiter, NetJets Services
About the Author
Susan Kennedy and Karen Baker have a combined 40+ years of experience in business and recruiting-related fields and have coached thousands of young professionals through the hiring process. This guide was written for any college graduate or young professional to identify and find the job that s right for them in any job market. Susan and Karen have partnered with Intern Bridge, the nation s leading college recruiting research and consulting firm, to create an empowering publication geared for students.
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Great nuggets of information and advice through out.,
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This review is from: The Job Coach for Young Professionals: The Workbook for Landing the Right Job (Paperback)
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I have two overall views of this book: The more positive is that it has great nuggets of information and advice through out. There are templates and forms that will help organize the activities that are needed to land the most appropriate job for a young professional. The negative view is that I can't bring myself to buy into the idea that a 21, 22, 23 year old is going to sit down with this book and go through it. Perhaps my skepticism is bordering on cynicism, but it feels like this book was made for a forty year old to give to a twenty-one year old as a graduation present or something. It would take a very mature and motivated recent graduate to have the proper perspective for this book to be used as intended. Specific call outs: --Early on I felt like this book is targeted mainly at recent grads that want to work in corporate America. It just feels that way. But what surveys and observation is telling us is that Gen Y isn't as interested in corporate America. So in reading this book I felt like there is somewhat of a personality that this is perfectly suited for and other types that it isn't. -- There is a good form for doing a skills inventory. The only change I would make though is to include personal characteristics as well. Skills are pretty raw at this point. -- I like the values inventory too. --There is a section called All About Me and it encapsulates my negative opinion of this book. For many 22 year olds, they have no idea what"me" is. Creating an identity is something that comes with experience and since a recent grad has no real corporate identity then its hard to do. Its a transition period in the person's life, being definitive is difficult. -- Because the book does a terrific job organizing the type of things a person should do, it can become too formal. For example, it outlines how a conversation should go with a contact. I know it is simply supportive and a guideline, but it comes off as cold. Establishing a rapport is probably more important than quizzing them on the likes and dislikes of their job and industry. -- Even though the contact part is cold, it does frame the questions very well. Here are a few that I like: what are your daily tasks? What are normal gaps between the knowledge base and skill set that is required for this job? What is the hiring outlook for the industry? What type of talent is need in this industry? and How does that translate to schooling? --I never considered it, but doing a mind map for a resume is an outstanding idea. Often times people get wrapped up in resume format and the message gets lost in the process. But doing a mind map provides the opportunity to flush out unique skills and determine how you can separate yourself. -- I laughed, but also appreciated the list of "Action Verbs" on page 51. It is quite a list and one I can leverage. --Its one thing to write out the process for how this should work, but this book illustrates it and across the board the visuals are on point. Each time they reinforce the subject. -- The interview chapter is marvelous. Here are some details: --- A preparation activity where you need to think about how you communicate, your technical job skills, and how you work with a manager/management. --- Having a story is vital. For the points of emphasis, a narrative describing why your are different and better is a must. --- I like the idea of having at the ready a story about how you dealt with a difficult situation and resolved it. That question is practically guaranteed. A few more of those are: * Describe a situation where you failed and what you did about it? * When you're working on a team, what role do you typically play? * Why did you leave your last job? --- There will be several different interviews and one will probably be with a recruiter. Here is where you want to differentiate yourself as not only qualified, but the best fit for the job. --- Page 79 has good advice about how to position your resume depending on the medium. For instance with newspaper responses, its good to highlight your key words with a yellow highlighter. --- The attention this book gives to cover letters is above average. Cover letters are under served when you think about their value. This book does a good job of outlining how it should flow. --- Another area that made me cringe is the advice about how to follow up with someone even when you don't get the job. Because the book is cold with contacts I felt that it didn't do a good job with saying a certain amount of grace is need to do this well. Otherwise,its awkward. -- The book finishes with probably the best part - Its Keys to Success on page 112 and 113. For instance, it pulls out advice like Your colleagues know you are smart. Now show them you can learn. Most first jobs are not as glamorous or as challenging as we dream them to be.Quietly get the job done to the best of your ability. Learn to work in teams. Find out how people communicate; is it by email, IM, phone, or what? And there is a tidbit I love. Its "Treat secretaries and other assistants with respect! They can make or break you." That is absolutely true. So to summarize. I got a lot out of the book (its filled with great advice, nuggets, and templates), but I doubt someone in their early 20s is going to have the perspective to get the most out of this resource.
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The Job Coach for Young Professionals: the Workbook for Landing the Right Job,
This review is from: The Job Coach for Young Professionals: The Workbook for Landing the Right Job (Paperback)
Here experienced cofounders of Kennedy Baker Associates (now known as Career Treking, LLC)-- a career coaching organization designed to assist entry level job candidates though the job hiring process--Kennedy (B.A./B.S. Psychology/Elementary Education) and Baker (Bachelor's degree) partner with Intern Bridge, a leading college recruiting research and consulting firm, to provide recent college graduates and young professionals who have been working for a few years with an empowering, interactive handbook filled with useful resources that will assist them in finding the right jobs in any job market. While college graduates usually are able to find employment after they graduate, the high turnover rate of 64% within the first three years of employment indicates that many young professionals graduate without the life skills that they need to begin and develop their professional careers. Here Kennedy and Baker walk young job hunters through the job search process and help them master skills they will need throughout their professional lives. Organized into 4 parts presenting the proven strategies that the authors have used to coach entry level job candidates as part of their job coaching business, this guide sets forth four steps to being successful: Assess Oneself, Prepare Oneself, Sell Oneself, and Succeed. While this workbook is not divided into chapters, its arrangement follows the aforementioned steps. The authors cover most relevant topics, not limited to envisioning one's future, completing skills and values inventories, researching jobs, industries, and companies, setting goals, developing one's story, writing resumes, cover letters, and thank you notes, interviewing, networking, creating a job search action plan, securing the right job, and managing one's career. Filled with examples, diagrams, worksheets, reproducible forms, and more, this publication unfortunately lacks an index and a select bibliography of helpful, proven, printed and online resources for job seekers. Concise, clear, well- organized, and easy-to-read, it will benefit many college graduates, young professionals, and even experienced workers. Highly recommended for general readers and many public library collections (even though it primarily is intended for personal use and consumption).
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