Great resources for career councilling and networking
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Great resources for career councilling and networking. Some of the information is fairly basic, but it is intermingled with more advanced content, preventing you from feeling bored or like you're wasting your time. Quick read, good content, and can be skimmed or read in full based on your experience level.
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Impressive book with great sales-inspired suggestions for when you are NOT searching for a job, to be positioned to entertain and close the deal on your next career opportunity.  Creative ideas for harnessing social media, LinkedIn and job search websites to make connections that lead to opportunities.  Good examples, stories and important interviewing tips.
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This is a great book about job search with principles that can be used at any time, but most useful in a tough job market.  The authors really understand what it's like to be looking for a job and they have true sense of how people feel about the networking process.  This empathy provides them with the knowledge needed to provide really practical insights on how to go about networking and most importantly setting the groundwork for you to be noticed, remembered, and ultimately hired by people who don't have posted job openings but might still be interested in meeting a really talented person. This book is full of tangible tools, strategies, techniques, and words to use, it is not just a theoretical guide.  It's worth every penny!
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There are many people who tackle networking in online articles, books, and courses but few take as comprehensive a look as Dorie does. While most networking guides and books break down one person's specific strategies, Dorie's book collects from some of the best minds in the field and offers the reader options. Whether you are an introvert who freaks at the idea of entering a room or someone who loves being in the center of everything, this book has great tips for you. Also if you are a great connector, you can learn about a number of other accomplished connectors out there. I am very involved in the connecting space having founded a conference around the idea and I was made aware of a number of experts that I had not heard of before! Dorie also takes the time to break the ideas of the book down into simple, actionable steps that you can take to achieve your networking goals now. While many people will give you high level concepts and leave the execution up to you, Dorie takes the time to outline the execution strategies of others as well as her own, making this a fantastic read for anyone who has ever been curious about the world of networking. After reading this, it will be clear why Dorie Clark seems to know everyone. She's learned from the best, and is generously sharing what she's learned with you. If networking is part of your business strategy, this book is essential reading. The content is easily worth ten times the price of this book, make sure to grab it now.
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I love this book and buy it for anyone starting a job search.  I mentor women graduate students and post-doctoral students in Biochemistry and give it to them as gifts.  I like the concept they teach of building SOAR stories of your accomplishments.  This gives you talking points in interviews and helps build your resume and ego, which helps during the challenge of job seeking.  It also has a section to help you understand your aptitude and strengths.  It has helped me realize what type of job I thrive in.
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This book does contain lots of practical and unique, at least from my perspective, information to help you go about looking for employment, update your resume, and network until you find the new job you want.
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This is an excellent book for new grads entering the work world starting their first career. It provides excellent practical pointers, strategies, tips and advice. Some examples:

Don't self-select out of job descriptions because they may appear intimidating.

Keeping your online image clean (Keep in mind this book is copyright 2007! so it was WAY ahead of the online reputation management conversation that's just starting to occur in our society now)

The whole chapter on getting people to listen to you is outstanding and something many younger workers find difficult because of stereotypes about age and experience.

A whole chapter on self-awareness and another chapter on networking are both incredibly valuable to people starting their careers.

Understanding generational differences of your co-workers. You're coming in with different assumptions and understanding of the world than the people you work with. This book explains how you succeed in that environment, not many books even acknowledge this workplace dynamic and give solutions.
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Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2009 has been extremely helpful to me as I begin to search for jobs in the entertainment industry.  The book not only covers industry trends and statistics but also contains a list of several hundred of the top companies in media and entertainment.  This is a great resource for recent college graduates who are looking to enter the work force.

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I have been trying to move into a different career lately and happened to pick this book up. I was really glad I did. Guerrilla Marketing has a lot of great job seeking ideas, while being entertaining. It has all the stuff you would expect from a job hunting guidebook, resume, cover letter, interviewing, networking tips and much more. What I found the most useful was the sections on using social media for job hunting. Before I read the book I already had a linkedin account, and used social media but did not utilize these tools to their full potential in my job hunting. The authors gave tons of ideas on how to use linkedin, twitter, zoominfo, e-resume, and personal websites as digital breadcrumbs to be found on the internet by recruiters. It also gives a lot of insight into the hidden job market, and how employers find and hire people for these hidden jobs. The old ways for finding jobs are dying, if you want a job today, you need to go beyond the job boards. This book teaches you a whole new strategy for job hunting, that most people still don't fully utilize today. I recommend this book for anyone looking for a job or who want better job security. I am still trying to implement many of the ideas I read in this book.

P.S Definitely connect with the author, David Perry on Linkedin
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Action-provoking and thoughtful, with instructive client stories that can be inspiring and useful. The author also includes some cautionary tales  stories of new grads who weren't career-ready (lacking relevant internships, in-demand coursework, etc.) and how that impacted them. The author presents multiple strategies to succeed in todays tough job market such as networking into the hidden job market of unadvertised jobs and how to get past the resume robots, the computers that do the initial screening of resumes at so many companies. Good chapters on how to ace the interview, answer and ask questions, and connect with the interviewer. She also includes creative approaches like the PowerPoint resume or the infographic resume that some job seekers are using successfully to stand out in more creative fields at digital media, PR and innovation companies. Youll learn a lot about how to use social media to brand yourself, network and job hunt. The authors background is in marketing and branding, so personal branding tactics and strategies are throughout the book. Buy it. Its a great resource for students and recent grads.
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I've been looking to spruce up my linkedin profile for a while now but wasn't sure about the best way to go about it. Picked up this book and it has given me some good confidence on how to move forward. Since updating about a week ago, I've already added 5 new quality connections with prospects that I've been dying to connect with for a while now. Good stuff!
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For my job it's really important to learn how to network. Meeting new people has always been easy for me because i'm an engaging person. I'm a great conversationalist, but other than that my skills lack. I don't know how to maintain the connections I make. Using this book, I found that maintaining connections can be a lot simpler than it's made out to be. There were almost 10 keys and tons of information that I can now use to keep up my network. Furthermore, it includes a comprehensive guide to learn and improve all while being authentic!
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Croissants vs Bagels is a great book with lots of straight forward nuggets of information regarding networking.  I love his perspective of being inclusive!  I will review this book again prior to going to any future conferences because it is packed with great stuff.  I will be more open and inclusive as I apply the techniques in this book.  I recommend this for anyone who attends conferences, even if it isn't for the purpose of networking.  Building relationships is what it's all about. It's an easy read with a great analogy!  Brilliant!!!
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Review of Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work

In todays bewildering and ever-changing job market, the importance of finding a career that brings genuine fulfillment has never been more vital.  The new self-coaching book Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work by Halimah Bellows appropriately stresses the need for individuals to become their own best guides in making career choices that align with their personal interests, values, strengths and skills. To support this effort, the book offers a wealth of timely self-assessment tools as well as effective strategies for decision-making, goal setting, networking, researching employers, resume-writing and interviewing.  I would recommend this valuable career-building resource to anyonemy young friends who are still college students as well as midlife and retired friends seeking to expand their horizons.

J. W. Fretzin, Creative Director, LifeJourney Media
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A few weeks ago, I met Mike Jones for lunch. During lunch, Mike shared with me some of the career seeking advice he documented in his book, Hello, Old Friend. Being a writer myself, I quickly found myself taking notes of what Mike offered as sound career searching advice that I had never before thought to apply in the job market. With a copy of his book in hand, I spent time at home reading the wisdom Mike provided within the book, while at the same time, enlisting his career advice. Then I focused on some of Mike's suggestions in the book, I documented my personal values, established filters, restructured my resume into multiple job focused documents, developed a personal marketing strategy, and expanded the network from which I looked for employment. And, from tips provided in the book, I found that I could now focus on me and be better at presenting my skills to interviewers thus enabling me time to really determine if the firm is the right fit for me from the interview process. This book is a must read for anyone new to the job market, and for individuals that are unemployed or underemployed. Thanks Mike, for writing a resource guide for career development that is easy to read and filled with personal insights for anyone to gain a better position in the job market, just like I have done since reading your book.
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Prior to embarking on my own post-college job search, I had consulted several trustworthy individuals on career tips, including on how to write cover letters and resumes and how to interact with a recruiter or potential connection. However, no one told me as much and in as much detail as this book did.

Lindsey Pollak writes about how to educate yourself, what to read, where to go find information most relevant to you, the proper way to interact with professional contacts, what to do to get the most and best information for your career and how to create a professional image. I couldn't stop reading until it was over.

From the beginning Pollak lets the reader know that one cannot get anywhere or do anything without being active, and it does keep you active, but active doing actually useful things for your career, getting business cards, doing job shadowing, requesting informational interviews, subscribing to relevant publications, on how to network and many more great tips.

Good luck!
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The book really helped me develop strategies to understand how my interactions with others in my day to day life and work can be as important as my work product.  The book and corresponsing online assesment are great tools which give the reader the skills and awareness needed to be a leader in their career and workplace. The book is filled with information,observation and advice anyone could benefit from reading. If you want to get ahead read this book.