Your Best Foot Forward: Winning Strategies for the Job Interview (Lifeskills Library) [Hardcover]

Maryann Miller (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 7-12-Hearing the Pitch explains advertising and its formats, examining the various devices used to influence people; Search and Succeed is a step-by-step guide to understanding and making the best use of help-wanted ads; and Your Best Foot Forward gives easy-to-follow directions for successfully landing a job. Most of the information is straightforward and helpful. Good examples are given, the writing is clear, and the glossaries enhance readability for less able readers. Black-and-white and full-color photos illustrate many points effectively and add interest. Although the books seem to be for children, with their slightly tall, slim size and large, well-spaced print, the content is for YAs. However, there are a few inaccuracies. In Search, minimum wage is listed as $4.50 per hour. Also, the abbreviation is usually "OBO" for "or best offer," not "BO." Classified listers are given some cautions that don't make complete sense, and they are told that a bill for placing an ad must be paid up front, when in reality many newspapers will send an invoice to the customer. In Best Foot, the photos of a girl being interviewed that appear on the cover and inside the book show her wearing dirty sneakers, while even the text remarks that "carelessness in dress and personal appearance" is a pitfall.
Diane P. Tuccillo, Mesa Public Library, AZ
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group; 1st edition (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823916979
• ISBN-13: 978-0823916979
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,402,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maryann has been in love with story-telling since she was a child and used to scare her sister with stories of the monsters in the cellar. Those tales were never written down. They were always whispered in the dark, and when Maryann started writing stories, they were different types entirely.

As a young child, she didn't consider that she would grow up to be a writer. She fancied herself quite the singer and thought she would someday sing in front of crowds of thousands. Alas, that proved to be more dream than reality.

At another point in her childhood, she dreamed of being an actress, but it took many years before she was brave enough to give it a try. She is the Theatre Directer at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts where she has directed shows for a number of years, and finally decided to try playing a role. It appears she was more suited to acting than singing, and she has since starred in several productions at various theatres in East Texas.

A diverse writer of columns, feature stores, short fiction, novels, screenplays and stage plays, Maryann Miller has won numerous awards including being a semi-finalist at the Sundance Institute for her screenplay, A Question Of Honor. She has also received the Page Edwards Short Story Award, among others.

Miller lives on some acreage in the beautiful Piney Woods of East Texas with her husband, one horse, two goats, two dogs, and four cats. She has been writing all her life and plans to die at her computer.