The Right Job, Right Now effectively bridges the gap between "What do I want to do?" and "How do I do it?" by presenting a complete step-by-step plan for long-term career satisfaction using self-assessment, self-marketing, and a comprehensive job search and career development strategy.
Based on the author's Kaleidoscope Career Model, this book shows you how to take charge of your career and takes you, step-by-step, through the complete job search process including:
Career assessment - what do you have to offer and what do you want in return? Taking action - searching for a new job, interviewing, and accepting offers. On-the-job issues - answers to common questions from dealing with a bad boss to performance management Using her unique and straightforward approach you will learn how to align your skills and abilities with your compensation and benefit needs and company culture preferences to find your career sweet spot - the qualities of a job that will allow you to perform to the best of your abilities and be rewarded accordingly. Your career sweet spot becomes the basis of targeting a job search, writing resumes, taking advantage of technology, interviewing effectively, and landing the perfect job.
Susan D. Strayer, SPHR, is a human resources professional, career development expert and freelance writer. As the founder of University and Career Decisions Susan works with individuals, companies and universities in career management and development; human resources and recruiting strategy and employment brand. Visit her website at www.susanstrayer.com.
"Susan Strayer's smart strategies on finding the best-fit job can put any busy professional on the right path." -Tory Johnson, CEO, Women For Hire
"The Right Job, Right Now is the first of its kind: a straight-forward, no nonsense guide and reference tool for those who understand that work should be fulfilling and not just the source of a paycheck. Read it from cover-to-cover or flip right to the sections that are most important to you. If your career is important to you then so will be this great new resource." - Steven Rothberg, President and Founder, CollegeRecruiter.com
"This book should be dubbed, "The Jobseeker's Guide to the Universe." It is rich with practical advice, thought provoking exercises, and a common sense approach to find the right job, right now. I encourage you to break out the highlighter, write in the columns, and tab important pages so that you can use this as a touchstone throughout your professional career to find your true destiny." -Bill Gaul, President/CEO Landmark Destiny Group
"The Right Job Right Now is the most comprehensive career book on the market. No other book covers all of you bases in a one-stop-shop. Susan is the consummate career professional and provides clear, honest advice for today's busy professional who has already wasted too much time trying to find the right job or career." -Peter Veruki, Business Week Top-Ten Author
About the Author
Susan D. Strayer, SPHR, is a human resources professional, career development expert and freelance writer. As the founder of University and Career Decisions Susan works with individuals, companies and universities in career management and development; human resources and recruiting strategy and employment brand. Visit her website at www.susanstrayer.com.
Meet Susan | Career Coach | Recruiter | Brand Guru www.susanstrayer.com | @dailycareertips (Twitter)
An expert in talent, brand and careers, Susan works at the intersection of where business meets brand for professionals and organizations. She regularly consults for organizations on developing and executing a talent brand, and coaches professionals on how to develop personal brands and job search effectively. In her current day job, she oversees Employer Brand and Marketing for a Fortune 500 company.
She's well versed in using social media for HR, recruiting and job searching, and was the first to have a comprehensive list online of employers recruiting on Twitter.
For organizations, Susan's provides expertise in: social media strategy, employer branding and recruiting strategy, human resources communication, and presentation and facilitation. She is the creator of the Kaleidoscope Career Model which serves as the basis for her second book, The Right Job, Right Now.
For individuals, Susan has expertise in coaching students, business professionals and executives on personal brands, job search startegy and career management and development.
With over 12 years of business and coaching experience, Susan has worked in-house and as a consultant to start-up, high-growth and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to her current role in Employer Brand, Susan serves as the Director of Talent Acquisition for The Ritz- Carlton Hotel Company.
Susan's broad based business experience also includes working in Staffing for The Home Depot, specifically on National Hiring Partnerships. She also served as a Project Manager for a human resources consulting firm (GW Solutions) where she managed customized learning projects for both public and private sector clients and also helped develop and launch an automated career management tool for use by the Federal workforce.
She served as the Assistant Director of Career Services for Johns Hopkins University working with the university's MBA, business and education graduate students and through her past partnership with Next Step Partners , Susan led group career programs and customized career management workshops working with MBA graduates from universities across the country including Harvard, Stanford and Duke.
Susan has also served as a Director for the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) serving hundreds of Fortune 1000 executive clients including Texas Instruments, Sprint, Aetna, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, General Mills and Entergy in research programs focusing on corporate human resources, benefits, recruiting and training and learning. Prior to working for CEB, Susan worked in corporate human resources for Arthur Andersen LLP, where she served in several recruiting, training and staffing functions.
Susan's speaking experience is also extensive ranging from groups of ten to 2,000. She has spoken to numerous corporate groups and universities including, Fannie Mae, Deloitte, Harvard University, the Department of Labor, Vanderbilt University and many more. Her engaging, hands-on style means people listen and actually learn.
Susan has a MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, a MA in Human Resource Development from The George Washington University, and a BA in Communication from Virginia Tech. She also has student loan debt. Alot.
She is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), the highest designation of the human resources profession, and is a certified administrator of the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In addition to her recent book, The Right Job, Right Now, Susan is also the author of Vault's Guide to Human Resources Careers.
Her expertise has been quoted in both print and online publications ranging from The Washington Post and The New York Times to Fast Company, Business Week and Glamour magazines. She blogs regularly on a kaleidoscope of issues at SusanStrayer.com and shares a Job and Tip of the Day on Twitter among other advice via @DailyCareerTips.
Originally from Philadelphia, Susan currently resides in Washington, DC. When not coaching or writing, she can usually be found buying shoes, watching football, dreaming about a good cheesesteak, or figuring out how to make a career of sleeping late.
This review is from: The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career (Paperback)
If you're thinking of starting out the new year looking for a new job, get Susan Strayer's new book, The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career, before you do anything else. Being in the midst of my own job search I've had the opportunity to survey the market of job search advice books. The Right Job, Right Now offers sound, practical advice I haven't found anywhere else.
If you're like most of us the first thing you do when starting a job search is to write up your resumé, right? -- Wrong! Using her trademarked Career Kaleidoscope Model, Susan starts out walking you through a determination of what you have to offer in terms of skills and competencies and what you want in return in terms of environment, culture, benefits and financial rewards.
As an indication of the importance of determining where you want to go, Susan doesn't even begin to talk about how you should prepare your resumé until about page 100, a third of the way through the book. And when she does talk about your resumé she wisely tailors it around the outcomes of what you determined through the Career Kaleidoscope. In this way your resumé goes beyond being a mere listing of job descriptions to highlight your skills, competencies and what you have to offer and focuses it on the types of companies/industries where you want to work.
The second unique feature of the book is that it takes you through the entire process from determining what you have to offer and what you want, searching for a job, through the interviewing and negotiating process, starting and subsequently growing and succeeding in your job and revisiting the entire process as necessary. It is the Complete Toolkit, just as the title promises.
The Right Job, Right Now is well written, easy to read and loaded with practical advice and tools. The Career Kaleidoscope Model and the span of advice from goal determination to career success is truly unique. It is an essential for anyone thinking of searching for a new job or looking for a more fulfilling career.
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This review is from: The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career (Paperback)
I had the opportunity to purchase several of Susan Strayer's books, "The Right Job,Right Now " for myself and to give away to friends and relatives seeking a fist time job or career change.
The book is an easy to read and follow tool book in self evaluating your strenths and weaknesses and then utilizing this informaiton to help you on the path to finding the right job.
This book is a must for everyone in any stage of their career looking to ehance their career goals and ambitions.
In summary Susan's book is a creative refeshing approach to finding the right job and I thank her in making her knowledge and experience available to the general public.
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This review is from: The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career (Paperback)
While I was in business school a close friend of mine gave me this book. From the beginning, the book gave me the one thing that I needed (and didn't know I needed)... direction! The author's model takes you step by step through the questions you need to be asking yourself, and the result is an easy to use methodology for filtering any job you may be looking at. What this did for me was place me in a job that was a perfect fit, at the right salary, and even prepared me for the interviews because I know what questions I needed to be asking.
I know that as I look at my career going forward, I can not only use the model for new career changes, but also jobs that I may be applying for within my company.
In short, this book should be part of every career decision you make.
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