Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment [Paperback]

Karen Okulicz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1995

Size Height: 7.3 in Width: 5.3 in Thickness: 0.5 in Weight: 3.2 oz

Product Details

• Paperback: 73 pages
• Publisher: K-Slaw, Inc, Belmar, NJ (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964426005
• ISBN-13: 978-0964426009
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,202,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karen Okulicz is the author of Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment, Decide! How to make any Decision and Attitude! For your best lived life. She was in medical sales for fifteen years prior to her finding her life's work as an author and lecturer. Ms. Okulicz knows first-hand about the rigors of looking for work, having become unemployed twice in three years. Her first stretch of unemployment lasted eleven months. At the start of her second unemployment she began to try a different way of looking for work than "just send the resume." The Try! Techniques for a complete job search were created. Her second book, Decide!, sprang from the years of marketing her first book. She would listen to people say, "I can't decide about my future or about my work." She thought maybe it's not that they can't decide, maybe they don't know how. Her second book was born: Decide! How to make any Decision. While observing who were the people who just seemed to have the best balanced lives, it was those with the better attitude. Attitude! For your best lived life became the third book.
Ms. Okulicz has hosted and produced the radio show "Workline." She provides workshops from her books throughout the country and is a continued guest in the media. Her books have been translated in a dozen languages. Her company, K-Slaw, Inc., has been in business for seventeen years. Ms. Okulicz has a Bachelor of Science degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University. She resides in New Jersey at the beach, where she is finishing book four

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars do yourself a favor & buy this book!, August 1, 2001

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Rebecca Brown "rebeccasreads" (Clallam Bay, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment (Paperback)

Whether you're trying to cope with unemployment or attempting to find your way into a new career Try! has a pleasing & upbeat direction for you to take.

Now that you have all that "free" time what are you going to do with it? Do you want to learn how to budget that time, how to mine your talents & what about money? Would you like to learn how to put a work search day together? How to handle the emotions? How to begin to find the treasure in yourself? What the definitions of work that most fit your uniqueness?

Try! is a good little book - do yourself a favor - spend the [money] - it's worth every dime! Keep it, read it & be prepared for when that pink slip flutters your way. If you already have been handed yours & are now wallowing around in the doldrums - take heart, buy a copy & set to work on the exercises & processes described therein. Your workless time will not be in vain.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for the unemployed and unhappy at work!!!, September 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment (Paperback)

Book is very uplifting, and positive... thought provoking... a virtual guide to finding what works for you, and organizing the search for finding your true lifes work... not just your next job.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HELPED ME COPE..., January 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment (Paperback)

This book was a wonderful guide for me in putting my life back on track when I felt hopelessly lost when my company downsized. It is motivational, easy enjoyable reading, and will expose opportunity in a different light. Worth it's weight in GOLD.