Unemployed Booklist: Job Search Tips & Networking

It's been a long time since you had to search for a new job. You may be wondering, How did I get this last one so many years ago? What has changed since I last hit the job market? Have I since gathered more knowledge and experience that qualifies me for something better this time around? Where does one get started? The Job Search Checklist is your saving grace! This indispensable guide covers everything from dealing with the emotional impact of being laid off to rebuilding your professional identity. Within these pages, you'll find solid advice on: * Developing a career plan by taking stock of your experience, abilities, and goals * Crafting an effective résumé and building Internet-friendly documents * Creating a "personal marketing plan" to promote yourself to potential employers * Finding the hidden job market through in-person and online networking* And much more!Complete with downloadable templates, sample cover letters, a range of effective résumé formats, and helpful checklists throughout the book, this invaluable resource gets you on the right path toward your next career and keeps you there.

Harness social media to land your dream job For anyone looking for a first job, exploring a career change, or just setting up for future success, social media sites are proven platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing the job. Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies enables you to harness the power of the Internet to research and identify job opportunities, and then create a strategy for securing a position.

Unique in the world of job search books, Knock 'em Dead Job Search Letter Templates teaches you the latest tips and tactics for writing cover letters and job search letters for every job hunting challenge. In addition, you get 125 samples of different job search letters, and also 125 cover letter and job search letter templates, each ready to use in Microsoft Word format.

Learn how to integrate social networking into every aspect of your job search and then leverage your social media presence for ongoing professional success. Build professionally relevant networks and a desirable, flexible brand that evolves with your growing experience, while you build and nurture networks that help you navigate a long worklife, and gain greater control over your destiny.

Live life on your terms It's tough landing your first job out of school and starting that climb up the ladder of success in such an uncertain world. In "Knock 'em Dead: Secrets & Strategies," you will learn how to get what you want out of life: Make sense of the world of work.Develop a life plan that puts you in control.Complete your job search in record time.Start on the right foot and win promotions.Never be unemployed--always have income.Gain access to the corporate inner circle.Weave your dreams into long-term success. You can score the job you want and learn to survive and prosper over the long haul of your career, no matter what's happening with the economy. "Knock 'em Dead: Secrets & Strategies" is a blueprint for acing the rules of success and then living life on your terms

Don't be left out-link up with this fully updated introduction to the Internet's hottest professional networking tool. LinkedIn For Dummies teaches you how to make the most of your LinkedIn.com profile and build connections and relationships within the world's largest professional network.

Would you rather get a root canal than face a group of strangers? Does the phrase "working a room" make you want to retreat to yours? Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and successful consultant who gives presentations to thousands of people at dozens of events annually, feels your pain. She found that other networking books assume that to succeed, you have to act like an extrovert. Not at all. There is another way. Zack politely examines and then smashes to tiny fragments the "dusty old rules" of standard networking advice. She shows how the very traits that make many people hate networking can be harnessed to forge an approach more effective and user-friendly than traditional techniques. This edition adds new material on applying networking principles in personal situations, handling interview questions, following up--what do you do with all those business cards?--and more. Networking enables you to accomplish the goals that are most important to you. But you can't adopt a style that goes against who you are--and you don't have to. As Zack writes, "You do not succeed by denying your natural temperament; you succeed by working with your strengths."