Targeting the Job You Want (Five O'Clock Club Series) [Paperback]

Kate Wendleton (Author)

Book Description

Series: Five O'Clock Club Series | Publication Date: February 1, 2000

Going beyond prior editions, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, includes complete information and advice on using the internet to find out about industries, research companies, and identify key decision makers. This edition delves into strategies and tips for online research that can help the user develop job targets, become an "industry insider", discover new opportunities never thought of , and network more quickly and more efficiently than ever before. Written by Kate Wendleton, syndicated career columnist, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, will help the user identify their dream, make it specific and learn the steps needed to achieve it.

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About the Author

Kate Wendleton is a nationally recognized authority on career development. She has been a career coach since 1978, when she founded the Five O'Clock Club and developed its methodology to help job hunters and career changers of all levels in job-search-strategy groups. This methodology is now used by branches of the Five O'Clock Club which meet weekly in the United States and Canada, and has over 8,000 members. Kate is also a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and a respected authority and speaker on career development. She has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, CNBC, Larry King, National Public Radio and CBS, and in The New York Times, The Economist, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Business Week and other national media.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Career Press; 3rd edition (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564144496
• ISBN-13: 978-1564144492
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #751,905 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kate Wendleton is a nationally syndicated career columnist and recognized authority on career development, having appeared on the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN, CNBC, Larry King, National Public Radio and CBS, and in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, Business Week and other national media. She also advises major corporations about employee career-development programs.


She has been a career coach since 1978, when she founded The Five O'Clock Club' and developed its methodology to help job hunters and career changers of all levels in job-search-strategy groups. This methodology is now used by branches of The Five O'Clock Club, which meet weekly in the U. S. and Canada.

Kate founded and directed The Career Center for seven years, at The New School for Social Research in New York. A former CFO of two small companies, she has 20 years of business-management experience in both manufacturing and service businesses.

She attended Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and received her MBA from Drexel University. She is a popular speaker with groups that include the Wharton Business School Club, the Yale Club and the Columbia Business School Club.

While living in Philadelphia, Kate did long-term volunteer work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walnut Street Theatre Art Gallery, United Way, and the YMCA. Kate currently lives in Manhattan.

Wendleton is the author of many Five O'Clock Club books on career-development and job-hunting.

The original Five O'Clock Club was formed in Philadelphia in 1883.
It was made up of the leaders of the day, who shared their experiences
"in a spirit of fellowship and good humor."

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can take you from a frozen standstill to a heavy jog in 1 wk, February 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Targeting the Job You Want (Five O'Clock Club) (Paperback)

So many great exercises and techniques to help people focus and find what they want to do. Once focused, there are helpful guides to getting interviews, writing resumes, turning interviews into offers, and then negotiating the offers. Above all, however, it really helped to lay out long term goals. My next step doesn't have to be the "dream job", it just needs to get me closer to my long term goals. Frankly, I am not prepared for my long term goals yet - but at least now I have them!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Resource, December 27, 2001

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G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Targeting the Job You Want (Five O'Clock Club Series) (Paperback)

A very good resource for these crazy times of frequent job changes. Kate Wendleton is right on the money when she states that most people will have up to fifteen jobs and five careers in their working lives.

Many of the exercises are quite helpful. The seven stories analysis can tune one in on some hidden talents. The Special Interests List can certainly clue one in and where a person can direct his or her job search. Satisfiers/Disasitifers, 40 Year Vision, and Ideal Scene Worksheets if nothing else can put a frustrated job seeker in a good mood and re-invigorate some badly needed focus.

The sections on job targeting are indeed helpful. This sections works with geographic issues as well as industry and job function matters as well. Company attributes and personal attributes are a detailed level are discussed quite well here.

The research sections and internet listings cap off a wonderful resource for anyone in the midst of a career change. Kate Wendleton even sells her services in an appropriate way without an excessive amount of hype. I will most certainly read through Wendleton's other books, Interviewing And Salary Negotiation as well as Getting Interviews. Kate is most certainly in tune with todays ever changing employment market.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful!, March 26, 2001

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Targeting the Job You Want (Five O'Clock Club Series) (Paperback)

The mantra has been repeated so often that it's become a cliché: Worker loyalty has disappeared, making every job temporary. Author Kate Wendleton repeats the obvious facts about the increasingly transient work force, but goes beyond the apparent as she supplies inventive ways to approach your career decisions. Her most intriguing suggestion is that you should use a "Seven Stories Approach" to develop your "Forty-Year Vision." The stories help you discover what you're really passionate about so you can build a long-term vision to guide you meaningfully through your career. While the book is repetitious at times, it offers useful examples of job hunters who used Wendleton's tactics to improve their careers. We [...] recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a fresh approach to career change, and to human resource professionals who want to know how applicants are (or should be) thinking.