Back on the Career Track: A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work
by Carol Fishman Cohen, Vivian Steir Rabin
Returning to the workforce can be a daunting job for full-time moms. It requires reigniting old contacts
(including co-workers who were once their junior), marketing themselves strategically, and battling the
diminished self-image that plagues most women who have been off the career track--whether it's been two,
six, or 15 years. Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin understand, because they've been there.
And as women who have successfully relaunched their careers, they know it can be done with careful planning,
strategizing, and creativity. Now, in Back On the Career Track, they offer a prescriptive,
seven-step program that covers such topics as building confidence, assessing career options, updating job skills,
preparing for interviews, getting the family on board, networking, and much more.
Hire Me, Inc.: Package Yourself to Get Your Dream Job
by Roy J. Blitzer
This innovative book helps you think of yourself as owning your own company -- positioning yourself as the sole product. Hire Me, Inc.
puts you in charge of marketing yourself through all phases of the job search. The cover letter presents the "product" and
demonstrates its competitive advantage. Business cards and resumes brand the applicant. The interview is the sales pitch. It's a
whole new concept of how you can present yourself -- as a special commodities the hiring organization must have. This theme is
carried through the entire job search process, from researching job openings and attending job fairs, to applying and interviewing,
to negotiating the final offer. Exercises and activities make this book interactive.
Bait and Switch : The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored
the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the
white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional “in transition,” she attempts to land a middle-class
job -- undergoing career coaching and personality testing, then trawling a series of EST-like boot camps, job fairs,
networking events, and evangelical job-search ministries. She gets an image makeover, works to project a winning attitude, yet is
proselytized, scammed, lectured, and -- again and again -- rejected.
Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right -- gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built
up impressive résumés - -- yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster, and not simply due to the vagaries of the
business cycle. Today's ultra-lean corporations take pride in shedding their “surplus” employees -- plunging them, for months or years
at a stretch, into the twilight zone of white-collar unemployment, where job searching becomes a full-time job in itself. As
Ehrenreich discovers, there are few social supports for these newly disposable workers -- and little security even for those who have
jobs.
Like the now classic Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch is alternately hilarious and tragic, a searing exposé of economic cruelty
where we least expect it.
Outwitting the Job Market: Everything You Need to Locate and Land a Great Position
by Chandra Prasad
What do you need to take the job market by storm? Outwitting the Job Market will tell you all the essentials, from your
earliest research efforts to negotiating your compensation once an offer rolls in. You'll learn the basics on resume and cover
letter construction, how and when to network, tricks to winning over an interviewer, and tactics for enhancing your marketability.
You'll read canny advice from human resources personnel, career counselors, recruiters, and hiring managers from companies large
and small. You'll also learn from other people's mistakes -- what not to do along the path to your dream job.
Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job
by Nick A. Corcodilos
A guide to "the new interview, "a unique and aggressive method for
job hunters to prepare for the interview and effectively showcase their
expertise. Offers detailed advice and insider tips for making it in today's
new business world, the age of downsizing, by explaining how to
interview properly and show off one's best skills in a short period of
time in order to make an impression.
200 Letters for Job Hunters
by William S. Frank.
A comprehensive reference of all types of letters for the job search
includes up-to-date, effective correspondence that ranges from initial
contact, through the job-hunting campaign, to follow-up letters of all
kinds.
