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Heather’s
Internet Career Resource Guide for Professionals
By Heather Wieshlow
This one of a kind, comprehensive collection of over 1200 websites is specifically targeted to Professionals seeking Employment and the Career Professionals who assist them. The information is organized for easy access, is recently updated and will save numerous hours of time searching on the internet.
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Job
Search Magic, Insider Secrets from America’s Career and Life
Coach
By Susan Whitcomb
In this book learn how to plan, prepare and execute a successful job search. Topics include targeting the right opportunities, conveying value to employers, writing a great resume, and passing online and telephone prescreens. In addition there is a section that is devoted to salary negotiation and onboarding in your new position.
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No One is Unemployable
By Debra Angel
Over 150 real-life stories,
practical tips, and creative solutions for more than 80 barriers
commonly faced by the difficult-to-place job seeker. Includes
detailed, yet simple 10-step process for helping job seekers
to deal comfortably and effectively with their personal employment
barriers throughout the job search process.
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RESUME RESOURCES AND WEBSITES
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1500+ Key Words for $100,000+ Jobs
By Wendy Enelow
This book offers excellent examples of powerful nouns, verbs, and phrases that should appear in your resume and cover letters. Also included are some winning resumes containing these samples.
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Gallery of Best Resumes
By David F. Noble
These one-of-a-kind, eye-catching resumes cover jobs from all occupational groups and at all levels. Starts with a section of tips including resume-writing strategies, resume design and layout, electronic resumes, and resume-writing style. Thirty letter-perfect sample cover letters are included, and again the author provides expert advice by exposing the myths and then offering great tips for polishing cover letters. New content on electronic resumes with samples, plus tips on creation and formatting.
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Resume Magic
By Susan Whitcomb
With almost 600 pages of
tips and insights you'll find out how to apply advertising techniques
to résumé writing that will elevate you above the competition. See dozens of before and after résumé examples that were transformed from "average" to "outstanding. Also, learn the top 25 pet peeves and common résumé mistakes" that
make America's top employers cringe.
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Resume Winners from the Pros
By Wendy Enelow
This essential resource guide includes some of the best examples for professional careers. It includes 177 of the best resumes from the Professional Association of Resume Writers, action verbs and excellent tips in writing an effective resume.
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Resumes That Knock 'em Dead
By Martin Yates
Filled with brilliant ideas for how to organize and prepare your resume as well as how to get an interview and how to answer the
interviewer's questions this is a valuable resource for the job seeker.
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COVER LETTER RESOURCES
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Best Cover Letters for $100,000 Jobs
By Wendy Enelow
This book examines eight types of cover letters, 5 critical cover letter rules and gives outstanding examples from which to model your cover letter.
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Cover Letter Magic
By Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark
This book has a variety of samples, pros and cons of different types of letters, as well as what to say based on the specific situation you're writing about.
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Cover
Letters that Knock ‘em Dead
By Martin Yate
This is the perennial best seller in the cover letter book category. Learn how to write cover letters that really work and benefit from 175 pages of examples. Beyond cover letters, you'll learn to create broadcast, executive briefing, networking, follow-up after interview, negotiation, acceptance, rejection, resurrection, resignation and thank you letters.
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Gallery of Best Cover Letters
By David Noble
More than 300 eye-catching,
one-of-a-kind letters that will help readers land more job interviews.
Each letter includes instructive comments about the strategies
behind it. The "Gallery" also includes examples of
resumes, electronic cover letters, networking letters, thank-you
letters, and job-acceptance letters, letter-perfect cover letter
samples.
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INTERVIEWING RESOURCES
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Jobinterview.net
Excellent sample interview questions and answers for professional careers, plus job interview tips and techniques, and mock interviews.
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Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Questions
By Matthew Deluca
MORE answers to MORE questions
than any other interviewing guide. Career expert Matthew J.
DeLuca reveals the secret agenda behind every kind of question
interviewers ask, and prepares you to answer them all. Never
again be at loss for words when an interviewer hits you with
an icebreaker...thought provoker...curve ball...stress tester...and
even an illegal question that shouldn’t t be asked but needs
an answer.
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Power Interviews: Job-Winning Tactics from Fortune 500 Recruiters
By Neil Yeager and Lee Hough
In this revised and expanded edition of their bestselling career guide, two experienced counselors share their inside knowledge; and the expert advice of Fortune 500 recruiters to equip you with the interviewing skills you need to land the job. Learn the key characteristics that leading companies look for in prospective employees and how to project them confidently. Also, the fifty most frequently asked questions; as well as detailed scripts of the best answers.
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NETWORKING RESOURCES
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I’m on FaceBook – Now
What???
By Jason Alba
More and more professionals are signing up for the popular social networking site Facebook. In this easy to read guide learn how to manage your profiles and use it to develop a positive online identity and reputation.
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I’m on LinkedIn – Now
What???
By Jason Alba
This book will help you get
the most out of one of the most popular business networking sites.
It explains in an easy to red style the different benefits of
the system and recommends best practices so that you can maximize
your use and develop relationships that will help in your business
and personal life on LinkedIn.
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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
By Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
Learn the secret that distinguishes
highly successful people
from everyone else in this easy to read story that illustrates
the importance ob building relationships—so
that everyone wins. In this book Ferrazzi a master networker
lays out the specific steps—and inner mindset—that
he uses to reach out and
connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates
in his database plus the people who he
has helped and who have helped
him.
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The Little Black Book of Connections
By Jeffery Gitomer
Everybody wants to connect,
but not everybody knows how to connect. In this book, you'll find secrets uncovered, myths dispelled, and hundreds of ways
to interact, connect, and score. You'll learn things like where to network for the best results, how to network once you get
there, and how to follow up so that you capitalize on the connections that you have made. You will learn how to make the initial connection,
how to capture the opportunity, and how to build rich relationships that last a lifetime.
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PORTFOLIO AND WEBFOLIOS BOOKS
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Brandego.com
Career-management solution for executives, senior managers and solopreneurs in a competitive, global marketplace. Brandego will help you differentiate and market yourself through our leading-edge combination of personal branding and sophisticated Web portfolios and career blogs.
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CareerFolios.com
Choose from 9 different templates and create your own career webfolios.
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GoDaddy.com
Create a blog, podcast, get a URL or even create your own website on this popular website.
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Portfolio Power, The New Way To Showcase All Your Job Skills Experiences
By Martin Kimeldorf
Portfolios aren't just for artists: they can serve as an alternative to conventional resumes, showcasing skills and providing job-seekers with advantages. Find out how to build a business-oriented portfolio: each chapter tell how to use different formats to build an impressive presentation.
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The Career Portfolio Workbook
By Frank Satterthwaite, Gary D'Orsi
The career portfolio workbook shows readers how to compile and organize a career portfolio one that is easy to review and quickly adaptable to specific interviews and circumstances. Its step-by-step process explains how to: Create a career portfolio of personal skills why, how, and what to include Target a career portfolio to specific needs a job interview, a performance review, or a career transition Prepare materials, based on more than 50 sample documents and five complete portfolio samples.
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The Employment Portfolio
By Charles P. Bostaph, Roland Vendeland
This book bridges the gap between the resume and the job search by helping to sharpen the focus on career objectives and identify skills and accomplishments. Five Types of Portfolios for Career Success. Planning Your Portfolio: Exercises on Creating the S.T.A.R. Portfolio. How to Use the S.T.A.R. Portfolio to Get the Interview and the Job. 58 Sample Tables of Contents for Your S.T.A.R. Portfolio. S.T.A.R. Employment Portfolios: Samples and Documents. Three S.T.A.R. Portfolios. Career Placement and Career Counseling Professionals, and Human Resource Professionals who may wish to remain aware of current trends in the field. Also Ideal for anyone searching for a job, changing careers, looking for a promotion, being evaluated, or even asking for a raise.
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RECRUITER BOOKS
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Executive Book of Recruiters 2007 - 2008
By Kennedy Publications
Published since 1971, the
famous "Red Book" lists 16,500 recruiters at 5,700+ search firms with all the contact information you need to start networking immediately with executive recruiters: address, phone, fax, e-mail and web addresses. Each listing is painstakingly indexed for fast, easy, and reliable use. You'll target the right recruiter with jobs in your area of expertise. Five full indexes identify recruiting firms specializing in 84 job functions, 120+ Industries, 400+ individual recruiter specialties plus – geographic
indexing to locate the recruiting firms near you.
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Kennedy’s
Pocket Guide to Working with Executive Recruiters
By Lic kennedy information (compiler), Jennifer Shay, Wayne E. Cooper
Find out in this 140-page book -- an invaluable resource for all executives actively managing their career. 30 chapters of advice come from the experts themselves. Kennedy's pocket guide to working with executive recruiters is the perfect companion to the directory of executive recruiters.
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Secrets of Headhunters Revealed
By Darrell Gurrey
Written by an experienced executive recruiter, this book unlocks the secrets of finding and using a professional recruiter. includes numerous tips on dealing with salary questions, interviews, resumes and the internet.
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REFERENCES WEBSITES
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About.com
Article on questions that can be asked in a reference check.
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BadReferences.com
Find our about your employment references with this service performed by certified court reporters. Fee
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Federal Trade Commission
Information on when and how a consumer report can be used.
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PrivacyRights.com
Non-profit organization with fact sheets and article on background checks for employment, credit reports and places to opt out of their contact or mailing list. Very valuable information on a number of subjects related to your privacy.
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SALARY NEGOTIATION RESOURCES
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PayScale Salary Reports
Excellent analysis comparing your job profile to the salary and benefits of people in your location with similar skills and experience.
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Riley Guide
A useful guide in Evaluating Salary Data.
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Salary.com
This site provides 300 salary surveys and advice, and a helpful question and answer section. You'll also find The Salary Wizard. Simply type in a job title and geographic region. This tool will calculate the salary based on that information.
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SalaryExpert.com
Free salary surveys for over 90,000 jobs and cost of living reports for all levels.
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Wage Web
This site provides salary information for 160 benchmark positions. The salary data includes minimum, maximum, and mean salaries and bonuses paid if any. There's more in depth coverage available to members only.
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101 Salary Secrets How to Negotiate Like a Pro
By Daniel Porot and Frances Bolles Haynes
This book offers clear concise information on how to tackle the toughest negotiation situations with sample dialogs and seven negotiation strategies that will have you negotiation like a seasoned pro.
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Negotiating Your Salary, How to Make $1000 a Minute
By Jack Chapman
Proving your worth to a potential employer can begin well before the negotiating interview-which is why you need to be prepared. For 15 years, Negotiating your salary has been the bible for salary negotiations and, updated for the new millennium, this career classic is back to coach a new generation.
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