The Right Job, Right Now: The Complete Toolkit for Finding Your Perfect Career (Paperback)

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Product Description

The Right Job, Right Now is the first complete career toolkit from finding your best-fit career to job searching to successful on-the-job performance and problem solving. It's the perfect way to act on your New Year's resolution or a perfect gift for any business professional or new graduate!

First, it 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.

Second, it provides an upfront, modern and straightforward approach to career issues from someone who truly understands recruiting and the ins and outs of the corporate world. You can read it cover to cover or simply flip directly to the sections that will help solve your most pressing career issue.

Based on the author's Kaleidoscope Career Model, this book starts by showing readers how to take charge of their career. Using the author's unique approach, readers will learn how to align their skills and abilities with their needs and desires for compensation to find their career sweet spot the qualities of a job that will allow them to perform to the best of their abilities and be rewarded accordingly.

Once the career sweet spot has been identified, it forms the basis of targeting a job search, writing resumes, taking advantage of technology, interviewing effectively, and landing the perfect job--all using today's modern tools, techniques and technology.

From the Back Cover

"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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312349262
• ISBN-13: 978-0312349264
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,088 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE essential guide for your job search!, December 30, 2006

By	Michael W. Schaffner "(www.mwschaffner.com) S... (Spring, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous Job seeking Tool, June 13, 2007

By	Ronald Cocco - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worked Great for Me, and will for you too!, October 31, 2007

By	P. LaMotte (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.