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Exploring
Options and Opportunities
What makes this
book especially valuable is that it is based on experience and covers
a variety of topics related to career and job searching.
This 3rd edition
contains a "Questions and Answers" section at the end of each chapter.
We provide comprehensive answers to questions like:
- What are
some great opening sentences for cold calls?
- Is there
a different strategy if a panel is interviewing you?
- What do you
do when you exhaust your contact list?
- Where are
the job opportunities for people in their 50s, 60s and 70s?
- How should
you structure an Internet search?
- How do you
deal with "What are your salary expectations" early in the interviewing
process?
- How do you
deal with gaps in employment history?
- How do you
promote yourself when you have 30 seconds, on an elevator, for
example?
- Should I
list references on my resume?
- What are
the most important traits of success for an entrepreneur?
- How do people
just graduating from college chart a career course?
- How will
a younger interviewer approach an older applicant?
The author,
Garth Toombs, has spent more than two decades assisting people in
finding new employment. Through the years, thousands have accepted
advice from the consultants at Toombs Inc. Inc., before
moving onto new careers.
In the pages
of this book, you will find out what has and has not worked for
people in the throes of career transition.
Click here to
read reviews of the Purple Book:
John
Izzo, Ph.D.
Co-Author Values Shift & Awakening Corporate Soul
Barbara
Moses, Ph.D.
Best-selling author of The Good News About Careers -
How You'll be Working in the Next Decade
Bonnie
Maitlen, Ed.D.
Senior Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
Past President, IACMP
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