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Sinopsis

Welcome to Job Hunting & Career Change All-in-One For Dummies, your launch pad to success in preparing for and gaining the kind of job you want. Making decisions about your career can be tough, and many people struggle to know the way forward. That’s where this book comes in.

Finding a job is a job in itself, and can be a stressful process to work through. While not rocket science, job hunting can be hard work, and there are skills you need to master to transform yourself into the high-calibre candidate employers want and make your search successful. Preparation is key to achieving this success, and whether you’re looking to enter the job market for the first time or you’ve been in employment for donkey’s years and are looking for a change of direction, you need the essential tools in place before starting your search.

Successfully hunting down a job or changing career is as much about knowing what direction you want to be heading in and what you have that employers want as it is about actually selling yourself to them. You need to look at what motivates you and what your priorities are, and to have a positive frame of mind before setting to work on your CV, interview preparation, and presentation skills. With help from this book, you can build your confidence, discover exactly what you want to be doing in your professional life, and equip yourself with the right tools to get there.

Content

1. Book I : Plotting a Course: Your Job and Career Plans
2. Chapter 1: Assessing Career and Work
3. Assessing Your Attitudes to Work
4. Setting Your Work in Context
5. Improving Your Current Job
6. Finding Your Dream Work
7. Getting Recognition for Your Work
8. Looking to the Future
9. Chapter 2: Getting Motivated
10. Driving Forward in Your Life
11. Taking Charge at Work
12. Overcoming Procrastination
13. Chapter 3: Demonstrating Confidence in the Workplace
14. Developing Confidence in Your Professional Life
15. Becoming Assertive
16. Showing Confidence in Specific Work Situations
17. Managing Your Boss
18. Casting Off Your Cloak of Invisibility
19. Dealing Confidently with Corporate Change
20. Chapter 4: Asking Yourself the Right Questions
21. Before You Begin: Question-asking Tips and Strategies
22. Figuring Out What You Want
23. Making Decisions
24. Challenging Limiting Beliefs
25. Finding the Right Lever for Change
26. Checking in with Yourself
27. Book II : Showcasing Yourself with a StandOut CV
28. Chapter 1: CVs and the Changing World of Recruitment
29. Unintended Consequences from a Seismic Shift in CVs
30. Hooray! The Return of the Handsome CV
31. Online Screening Comes of Age
32. More Big Changes on the Workplace Horizon
33. Really, Must You Have a CV?
34. Chapter 2: Getting Your CV Out There
35. Marketing Your CV in Ten Steps
36. Sending Your CV the Right Way to the Right Places
37. Taking Online Issues into Account
38. Branching Out to Make Use of All Your Job-Finding Options
39. Following-Up – an Act of Job Finding
40. Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Format
41. CV Formats
42. Reverse Chronological Format
43. Functional Format
44. Hybrid Format
45. Accomplishment Format
46. Targeted Format
47. Linear Format
48. Professional Format
49. Keyword Format
50. Academic Curriculum Vitae
51. International Curriculum Vitae Format
52. The Rise of the e-CV
53. A Roundup of Other Formats and Styles
54. Choose What Works for You
55. Chapter 4: Contents that Make a Difference
56. Your CV as a Sales Tool
57. Tailor Your CV to the Company and the Position
58. The Parts of Your CV
59. Contact Information
60. Hooks: Objective or Summary?
61. Education and Training
62. Experience
63. Skills
64. Competencies
65. Activities
66. Organisations
67. Honours and Awards
68. Licences and Samples of Your Work
69. What To Do about the Salary Question?
70. Chapter 5: Winning with Words
71. StandOut Words Can Bring Good News
72. Keywords Are Key to Finding You
73. Where to Find Keywords
74. Chapter 6: Overcoming Deadly Dilemmas
75. Too Much Experience
76. Too Long Gone: For Women Only
77. Job Seekers with Disabilities
78. Gaps in Your Record
79. Resources to Solve Many Dilemmas
80. Spin Control Is in the Details
81. Chapter 7: Moving from Worksheets to Your Finished CV
82. Step 1: The Detailed Worksheets
83. New Job Worksheet
84. Education and Training Worksheet
85. Paid Work Worksheet
86. Unpaid Work Worksheet
87. Hobbies/Activities-to-Skills Worksheet
88. Employability Skills Worksheet
89. Step 2: The Summary Worksheets
90. Step 3: Drafting Asset Statements
91. Write Until It’s Right
92. Paper CVs That Resonate
93. Chapter 8: A Sampling of StandOut CVs
94. Book III : Succeeding at Interviews
95. Chapter 1: Understanding What Interviewers Want
96. Recognising What Interviewers Are Looking For
97. Finding Out about Key Skills and Qualities
98. Researching the Company
99. Preparing Answers to Common Questions
100. Getting Ready to Go
101. Chapter 2: Polishing Your Performance
102. Creating the Right Impact
103. Speaking Out with Confidence
104. Dressing for Success
105. Looking Like You Mean Business
106. Getting Off to a Great Start
107. Chapter 3: Preparing Great Questions
108. Preparing the Right Questions for the Right Interview
109. Turning Your Questions into a Discussion
110. Sending Follow-Up Letters
111. Ensuring Your References Are Positive
112. Chapter 4: Talking about Yourself and Others
113. Handling General Questions about Yourself
114. Talking about Basic Job Skills
115. Overcoming Interviewers’ Common Worries
116. Seeing Yourself As Others See You
117. Discussing Your People Skills
118. Chapter 5: Getting to Grips with Questions about Your Work
119. Responding to Questions about Your Work
120. Sidestepping Questions about Your Current Company
121. Chapter 6: Talking about Why You Want a New Job
122. Answering Questions about the Employer
123. Answering Questions about What You’re Looking For
124. Evaluating Your Fit with the Organisation
125. Deflecting Questions about Money
126. Chapter 7: Thriving Under the Pressure Interview
127. Maintaining Your Composure
128. Responding to Leading Questions
129. Responding to Closed Questions
130. Talking about Changes of Direction in Your CV
131. Fending Off Weird and Wonderful Questions
132. Saying Something Is Better Than Saying Nothing
133. Chapter 8: Handling Hypothetical and Analytical Questions
134. Responding to Hypothetical Questions
135. Defining Key Concepts
136. Dealing Effectively with Numerical Challenges
137. Chapter 9: Succeeding at Competency-Based Interviewing
138. Discovering the Rules of the Game
139. Identifying Likely Questions
140. Questions about Your Thinking and Planning Skills
141. Questions about Leading and Managing
142. Questions about Your People and Customer Skills
143. Questions about Your Personal Effectiveness
144. Chapter 10: Taking Control in Unusual Situations
145. Dealing with Panel Interviews
146. Handling Hi-Tech Interviews
147. Getting Ready for Psychometric Tests
148. Succeeding at Assessment Centres
149. Book IV : Delivering Perfect Presentations
150. Chapter 1: Organising Your Presentation
151. Selecting Material to Include
152. Following Patterns of Organisation
153. Creating Your Outline
154. Timing
155. Organising Your Presentation Effectively
156. Relating to Your Audience
157. Chapter 2: Writing the Presentation
158. Creating the Perfect Introduction
159. Getting Started in Fifteen Fabulous Ways
160. Finding Solid Forms of Support
161. Making Transitions
162. Spicing Up Your Speech with Classic Rhetorical Devices
163. Creating the Perfect Conclusion
164. Wrapping Up in Style
165. Chapter 3: Understanding Body Language
166. Understanding Body Language
167. Making Eye Contact Count
168. Mastering Physical Positioning and Movement
169. Paralanguage: What Your Voice Says about You
170. Chapter 4: Overcoming Nerves
171. Changing Your Perceptions
172. Transforming Terror into Terrific
173. Preventing and Handling Nervousness
174. Chapter 5: Handling Questions from the Audience
175. Discovering the Basics
176. Coming Up with a Perfect Answer
177. Using Question-Handling Techniques
178. Handling Hostile Questions

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