Your Career: How To Make It Happen
- ISBN-10
- 1133707629
- ISBN-13
- 9781133707622
- Series
- Your Career
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-01
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Author
- Lauri Harwood
Description
Packed with innovative resources readers can use now and throughout their careers, best-selling YOUR CAREER: HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, 8e delivers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to finding and keeping a job. Both empowering and encouraging, the book effectively breaks the daunting prospect of marketing oneself to prospective employers into a manageable process. Each chapter provides practical advice and actions that readers can apply to their own situation and goals. Guided activities for each part of the process help students build a strong foundation for current and future job searches, teaching them how to stand out from the crowd and be a strong candidate for jobs in a career field for which they are well suited and will enjoy. Ideal for a course on Professional/Career Development, Job Search, Resume Writing, and Interviewing, YOUR CAREER, 8e offers thorough coverage of career self-assessment, employer research, job search/interviewing, self-marketing, and career building strategies. The text also contains extensive instructions and examples of market-driven electronic, traditional, and Web resumes and cover letters. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
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