Recommended Resources for Executive Career Management
Category:Job Search Strategies
Are There Any Good Jobs Left? Praeger Publishers<< Order Now >>
Understanding how globalization shapes the way in which companies behave in the global marketplace and the impact this has on career opportunities is critical to people who want to take charge of their future by making career choices fully aware that transitioning from one job to another is becoming the accepted norm.
ARE THERE ANY GOOD JOBS LEFT? Career Management in the Age of the Disposable Worker by R. William Holland tackles the issue of the evolution of jobs and how companies leverage the newly emerging global workforce. “Our experiences demonstrate how easily one can be misled when using old paradigms to understand the new phenomena,” states Holland.
Addressing specifically the displacement of white collar workers, Are There Any Good Jobs Left? offers direction and guidance for tapping into jobs and managing the ebb and flow of their availability. Holland focuses on applications, providing straightforward suggestions on how individuals can survive and prosper. From resumes to networking to personal financial issues, Are There Any Good Jobs Left? is a valuable resource for any individual who wants to shape and give direction to their career and to those just looking for work.
From the Foreward by Dave Opton, CEO and Founder of ExecuNet
During my many years as CEO of ExecuNet, hardly a week has gone
by that a new book designed to help job-hunters hasn’t crossed my
desk. While they may all be written with the best intentions, many of
these books lack the practical ideas, strategies, and techniques
proven to help job-seekers uncover the best possible opportunities.
One of the reasons I’m so impressed by what Jay Levinson and David Perry have
done with Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters is that their focus never
veers off course. Every page is written with a single purpose: to help
you land your dream job. Not only do they cover the waterfront in
terms of the critical issues one needs to address during a job search,
they are presented with clear, logical steps that you can apply immediately!
This is not a book written by individuals who have been observing
the action on the frontlines from the safety of the sidelines. In
addition to the extensive experience the authors have in both marketing
and recruiting, the book incorporates Guerrilla Wisdom and
War Stories contributed by other industry leaders and successful jobseekers.
Each of these excerpts provides a unique and valuable perspective
on what does and doesn’t work for job-hunters.
The operative word, of course, is work. There is powerful knowledge
contained within the book’s front and back covers, but it will
not help if you expect to read it then sit back and wait for the phone
to ring. Fortunately, most of us are not afraid of hard work if we feel
there is a chance for success. My guess is that when you are finished
reading this book, you’ll not only feel like you can successfully use
its tools and tactics, you’ll actually be looking forward to the many
challenges presented by a job search.
The practical ideas, strategies, and techniques for job-hunting:
Are delivered in words of one syllable by authors who operate
in the real world
Have already helped job-seekers stand out from the herd in
the real world
Most importantly, have all been proven to help job-hunters
land their dream job in the real world
Search: Winning Strategies to Get Your Next Job in the Nonprofit World Larry Slesinger<< Order Now >>
Search: Winning Strategies to Get Your Next Job in the Nonprofit World defines the nonprofit sector, advises newcomers on how to break into a mission-driven organization, provides helpful links to web sources specializing in nonprofit positions, and presents basic guidelines to help plan and execute a job search.
In Transition Mary Lindley Burton and Richard A. Wedemeyer<< Order Now >>
Based on the famous Harvard Business School Club of New York's job search and career management seminars. Insightful and pragmatic approaches to self assessment, career planning and effetive self-marketing strategies. Don't transition without it! ISBN: 0-88730-571-7 Paperback
BE HUNTED! 12 Secrets to Getting on the Headhunter's Radar Screen Smooch S. Reynolds<< Order Now >>
Smooch S. Reynolds in her new book BE HUNTED! 12 Secrets to Getting on the Headhunter's Radar Screen addresses the challenge of putting job candidates on equal footing with the executive search community and the hiring community for success in an executive transition.
Reynolds takes up this challenge in BE HUNTED! a guide for job seekers that seek to become a sophisticated 21st century candidate. With more than eight thousand executive recruitment professionals and over eighteen hundred search firms worldwide, it's imperative for any candidate to not only select the right recruiter, but to know how to work with executive search professionals and hiring authorities in a manner that maximizes their career options. BE HUNTED! reveals the timeless code of conduct and nuances of good business etiquette that they must master to progress from one job to the next or from one career to another.
ISBN: 0471410748
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type -- Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger<< Order Now >>
For over 10 years, Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find the job that suits their personality type best. Using workbook exercises, the book provides specific job search strategies, including information on how to harness the power of the Internet to conduct the most efficient and effective job search. It lists the wide array of occupations that are popular with your personality type, including career tracks in areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media and telecommunications. The authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples. ISBN: 0316880655 Paperback
Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career Harvard Business School Press<< Order Now >>
Most of us will navigate at least one major career change in our lives — not a simple "job hop" but a life-altering transition that will require us to abandon years of investment in a career path. It's an exhilarating, terrifying experience that will change not just what we do, but who we are.
While most career experts say we must begin with a careful assessment of our skills and interests in order to discover the perfect career match, Herminia Ibarra says that advice is backward. Instead, Knowing what we really want to do is the result of doing and experimenting. She argues that we harbor a whole cast of "possible selves" we might become. And it is by continually testing these possible futures — not by examining our past — that we learn what and who we want to be.
Drawing from in-depth research on managers and professionals in transition, Ibarra describes reinvention as an iterative process of trial and error. She presents as model for change based on three "acts of reinvention": experimenting with new activities, interacting in new networks of people, and constantly reworking the story of our changing identity.
The Age Advantage: Making the Most of Your Midlife Career Transition Jean Erickson Walker, Ed.D.<< Order Now >>
If you are facing a midlife job transition, The Age Advantage, Making The Most of Your Midlife Career Transition is the guide you've been searching for. In this very informative and motivational book, Jean Walker will show you how to celebrate the advantages of a midlife career switch while she guides you through each stage of the transition - from the emotional shock that accompanies joblessness to the fulfillment of securing your new dream career.
Perhaps it has been years since you've conducted a job search or written a resume. Or perhaps you are not certain how to sell your skills and experience in today's job market - even though this hard won wisdom is what makes you so valuable to employers. In The Age Advantage, Jean Erickson Walker thoroughly addresses issues unique to the midlife career change, so that you can market yourself with confidence.
ISBN: 0425176452
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey<< Order Now >>
With penetrating insight and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for focusing on and accomplishing those things that are most important to you. Though written to apply to all aspects of life, the book can provide needed inspiration and guidance for your job search, or when deciding on the next step in your career. Get it, read it, do it! ISBN: 0-671-70863-5 paperback
The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job Robert S. Gardella<< Order Now >>
The job search campaign - from developing quality resumes and cover letters to researching companies and interviewing - often proves to be a time-consuming and intimidating process. The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job puts these tasks into perspective and offers a straightforward and practical approach for planning and executing a successful job search. The author, Bob Gardella, Assistant Director of Alumni Career Services at Harvard Business School offers guidance from dealing with emotional issues such as job loss to practical issues such as crafting effective resumes, interviewing and negotiating job offers. The advice serves anyone looking for a job from the veteran executive looking to make a career change to the recent graduate. ISBN: 1-57851-223-9 Paperback
The Potato Chip Difference: How to Apply Leading Edge Marketing Strategies to Landing the Job You Want Michael A. Goodman<< Order Now >>
The Potato Chip Difference applies the same strategic approach to job search and career management that top management consulting firms use with major clients. In an informative and easily readable format, the author, a marketing guru from the packaged-goods industry, offers guidance and support tools to help job seekers create a personal marketing plan that will enable them to differentiate themselves from the competition. Job search is all about using marketing skills to better position, present and sell yourself to potential employers - and this book will make you better prepared to find - and land - your ideal job with your ideal employer. ISBN: 0970208804
The Six-Figure Job-Hunting Handbook By Glen Ellis and Jeff Jernigan<< Order Now >>
Executives and upper-level managers have unique needs that the average job seeker does not. And many top-salary employees could use a refresher course in finding job leads and going on interviews. In The Six-Figure Job-Hunting Handbook, executives will discover expert advice on obtaining their dream job.
Glen Ellis and Jeff Jernigan explain that the road to a new job isn't a fast track. In fact, applying the skills and patience that highly productive executives use daily is just as important when finding and landing a new position. With charts, graphs and hands-on exercises, the book leads readers through the hazards that can stall a job search.
As the authors note, to land a top executive position, job hunters must know their own strengths and successfully market them. The book helps you work out what your Unique Selling Proposition is and how to parley their uniqueness into effective job hunting tools such as resumes and websites. ISBN: 0-7615-6372-5
Rites of Passage from $100,000 to $1 Million+ : John Lucht<< Order Now >>
In 1995, John Lucht wrote a seminal executive career text
that opened wide the eyes of executive job seekers to the
veiled world of executive search. Lucht revealed the
secrets of success for dealing with executive recruiters and
landing in the executive suite. In this newly revised and
updated edition of Rites of Passage, Lucht looks at the new
dynamics of search created by the Internet, the demand for
top talent and the impact of cultural changes in business
today. Rites of Passage has been and continues to be the
Bible of executive search!
