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Make the Right Career Move: 28 Critical Insights and Strategies to Land Your Dream Job [Hardcover]

Rachelle J. Canter (Author)
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October 27, 2006 0470052368 978-0470052365 1
Praise for Make The Right Career Move



"Make the Right Career Move is a wonderful guide for the new age professional. This book will help you execute one of the most important decisions in your life and includes practical tips that you will use for the rest of your career."
--Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of The Leader of the Future and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"This great new book will help thousands of businesspeople find not only a new job, but a satisfying career. This book is filled with practical tools and exercises that will help the reader identify what they really want from their career, write a winning resume, and, most important of all, position themselves for the job."
--Victoria Husted Medvec, Adeline Barry Davee Professor of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Executive Director of the Center for Executive Women

"This is the book that all busy executives need--an indispensable guide to finding your ideal job and getting it--all in a short, action-oriented package. I highly recommend this book."
--Les Guliasi, Director, Governmental Relations, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

"I have been waiting for a comprehensive and relevant guide to careers that I can recommend to my clients, candidates, and colleagues. Make the Right Career Move provides an up-to-date approach to navigating careers in our ever-changing and challenging workplace."
--Eunice Azzani, Senior Client Partner, Korn/Ferry International

"In my many years working in the career field, here is the first book that guides attorneys and executives on making the right move to their next job, career, or board position. It's action-oriented, quick-to-read, and it's not bogged down with theory. It provides tested, practical tools to help readers get their dream job."
--Martha Fay Africa, Managing Director and cofounder, Major, Lindsey & Africa

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Successful but not satisfied? Displaced? Outplaced? Downsized? Bored? Starting out and not sure where to go? Make the Right Career Move shows you how to identify, find, and land your dream job. This all-in-one career guide shares secrets, tips, and branding and positioning tools taken from a leading career coach's two decades spent helping executives, attorneys, professionals, and other job-seekers find their dream jobs. Long on practical tools and short on theory, this action-oriented guide can be read in less than a single cross-country plane trip.

The ability to use strategic marketing and positioning tactics to leverage your experience and other professional assets is an elusive but essential skill for finding your dream job. Make the Right Career Move provides job seekers with the skills they need to beat the competition, including:

  • A step-by-step method for creating the perfect resume
  • Tools to help you create competitive advantages
  • Case studies of real executives' job searches
  • An action plan for getting the right interview with the right organization

Written for people with little time who need to make a big impact, this book provides techniques for creating a powerful, accomplishment-oriented resume, organizing a successful job search, and getting the most from your network. This book demonstrates new ways to use traditional and new job search tools, including the Internet and online networking, to increase job search effectiveness and efficiency.

Everyone should love what they do for a living—and if they don't they should make a change. This practical, prescriptive guide shows you how to find a job that will be rewarding. Make the Right Career Move covers all the job search essentials in one volume that's perfect for the busy lifestyle and time pressure that job seekers face each day. Follow this fast-track curriculum to find your dream job in record time.

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Praise for Make The Right Career Move

"Make the Right Career Move is a wonderful guide for the new age professional. This book will help you execute one of the most important decisions in your life and includes practical tips that you will use for the rest of your career."
—Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of The Leader of the Future and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"This great new book will help thousands of businesspeople find not only a new job, but a satisfying career. This book is filled with practical tools and exercises that will help the reader identify what they really want from their career, write a winning resume, and, most important of all, position themselves for the job."
—Victoria Husted Medvec, Adeline Barry Davee Professor of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Executive Director of the Center for Executive Women

"This is the book that all busy executives need—an indispensable guide to finding your ideal job and getting it—all in a short, action-oriented package. I highly recommend this book."
—Les Guliasi, Director, Governmental Relations, Pacific Gas & Electric Company

"I have been waiting for a comprehensive and relevant guide to careers that I can recommend to my clients, candidates, and colleagues. Make the Right Career Move provides an up-to-date approach to navigating careers in our ever-changing and challenging workplace."
—Eunice Azzani, Senior Client Partner, Korn/Ferry International

"In my many years working in the career field, here is the first book that guides attorneys and executives on making the right move to their next job, career, or board position. It's action-oriented, quick-to-read, and it's not bogged down with theory. It provides tested, practical tools to help readers get their dream job."
—Martha Fay Africa, Managing Director and cofounder, Major, Lindsey & Africa


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 242 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 27, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470052368
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470052365
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,079,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
After reading Rachelle Canter's concise and insightful chapters on preparing a winning résumé, I spent a couple of hours revising mine. Now, for the first time in my life, I feel totally confident presenting it to prospective clients. My new résumé articulates who I am and what I am capable of doing, as well as what I've accomplished--in only two pages. Knowing that my clients have this information in hand, and armed with other useful tips from the book, I suddenly find myself more optimistic and assertive during interviews. Dr. Canter advises us that "the major obstacle to your dream job is in your head," and she delineates an easy-to-follow path to overcoming our doubts and anxieties. Make the Right Career Move is a confidence builder throughout.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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There are dozens of books in the stores that tell you how to land an executive-level job. They usually discuss the same themes: how to develop your career goals, how to write a resume, how to find out what positions are out there, how to network, how to interview well, and so on. Now, Rachelle Canter, a business consultant with a degree in psychology, has written this neatly packaged book that is geared to job-hunting attorneys, executives, and other professionals.

How is it different from all the other books, and what does it add? After all, it's hard to say much that's new about many of these well-worn topics. But all of us have been in the job market at one time or another, and just a few novel insights might be all a job-seeker needs to get over the hump and land that great position.

Canter does put forward some relatively provocative ideas, although the reader still has to slog through too many jargon-filled "skill inventory worksheets" and similar exercises. Once she gets past the "career possibilities" stage and tackles resume-writing and job interviewing, she hits her stride.

A key case in point: Canter argues forcefully that an interviewee should ask what she calls "bold questions" at an interview. These might include, "Is there any way in which I don't meet your ideal profile for this job?" or "Do you have any reservations about my candidacy?" She says questions like this will benefit from the "startle effect" and will elicit honest and useful answers from the interviewer. This could be a way for an applicant to overcome hidden objections and receive an offer. It's fair to say that Canter's advice would not be given by many other job counselors, many of whom would contend that an interview is exactly the wrong place and time to be bold and take chances. Yet there are some occasions when boldness is the best strategy, indeed the only possible strategy, to land a job.

On the age-old question of one-page resumes versus longer ones, Canter comes out squarely in favor of ... two-page resumes. Most executives and lawyers, she says, can't condense their career achievements into one page, yet employers are not interested in reading too much. "A strong presentation of your track record will require two pages. Make those two pages count," she says. Again, the conventional wisdom advocates a one-page resume, but adherence to that truism might leave out something crucial.

Most notably, Canter strongly advises the job-seeker to carefully differentiate between job descriptions and accomplishments. We have all seen resumes that amount to a series of job descriptions. Canter's examples are as good as any: "Oversaw all administrative departments, including finance and accounting, facilities, MIS, and human resources," or "Developed standard documents for companywide commercial real estate lending program with an estimated $3B portfolio." These are fine as far as they go, but they don't say anything about what this applicant actually did for this company. Did she build a new department from scratch? Did he double the sales of a subsidiary? Did she successfully defend the company against a product-liability case? Those achievements are what an employer really wants to know, and very often, a resume doesn't provide them. If a reader gets only one new bit of advice from this book, it's that a resume should focus on accomplishments, not assignments or tasks.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Highly Recommended! January 11, 2007
Format:Hardcover
Buy this book -- and benefit enormously. Canter shows you how to define the right job for you -- and how to analyze many perceived (and misconceived) obstacles out of existence. She provides the practical help that will let others see what you have to offer, with many new twists on tools to craft and enhance the specific message you define using this book.

You won't want to skimp on the exercises -- they'll surprise and clarify. It's in the details that you solidify the most interesting career move at this point in your life and then make that move. Highly recommended for professionals, executives, attorneys, and others willing to put in a little thought and time now to create personally meaningful rewards in the near future.
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