Career Focus Canada: A Personal Job Reearch Guide is an essential guide that features a winning combination of career development theory and individual application. Using a no-nonsense approach, it introduces readers to personal assessment, self-marketing, and job-search know-how. Plus its workbook style and manageable length make this text a quick and easy to use resource for students to focus more clearly on their abilities and career aspirations. This Sixth Edition has been updated to feature the role of technology in the job search process including the effective use of social media, ePortfolios, and submitting effective online applications.
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ISBN:9780132825931 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print x, 166 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Edition:6th ed.
Publisher:Toronto : Pearson Canada, c2013.
Content descriptions
General Note:
New July 2014.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction and personal assessment: Making your dreams come true: Marketing yourself; Four Ps; Job-search process; Keys to success -- Self-assessment and promotion: Knowing yourself: Marketing readiness quiz; Self-awareness checklist; Ability assessment; Transferable skills checklist; Work environment and life preferences; Self-assessment summary sheet; Self-promotion; Internet sources -- Marketing tools: Marketing strategies: Take advantage of personal marketing; Arrange informational interviews; Use electronic marketing; Online applications; Determine the best approach; Develop a positive attitude; Use a systematic strategy to pursue companies -- Marketing techniques: Networking; Telemarketing; Career fairs; Social networking; Global job search -- Resumés and references: Resumé guidelines; Types of resumés: Chronological vs. functional; Sections of a resumé; Work experience exercise; Converting your resumé from chronological to functional; Electronic resumé; Some final resumé tips; Resumé checklist; Resumé samples; References; Internet resumé sites -- Career correspondence and applications: Career correspondence; Jop applications -- Professional portfolios: Planning the portfolio; Portfolio skills assessment; Selection of and types of samples; Formatting the portfolio; Assembling the portfolio; Tips for increasing your portfolio's impact; Electronic portfolio; Using your portfolio; Linkedin -- Interviewing: Before the interview: Company research; What should you investigate; Gathering information; Preparation: The key to interview success; Types of interviews; Forms of interviews; Dressing for interview success -- During and after the interview: Stages of the interview; Questions asked during the interview; Illegal questions; Interview questions for you to ask; Using your portfolio; Etiquette; Testing; Thank yous -- After the offer: Work realities; Criteria for evaluating a job offer; Negotiating; Declining an offer; Accepting an offer -- Career success: What to know and do: Fitting in; What's important; Assessment; The value of a mentor; Good things to do in a new job; Things to avoid doing in a new job; Electronic issues; Generational differences; Job safety; Three Rs to safety; Harassment in the workplace; Closing advice -- Career success skills: Basic skills; Specific skill sets -- Index.
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