From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

This guide book offers a new approach and well-marked path to the construction an effective cover letter and résumé and lists steps to take to ensure that your profile is reviewed by both hiring managers and decision makers. Reading this compact volume is like getting inside the mind of a hiring manager. About Cover Letter, in addition to guiding how to construct a winning cover letter provides a number of sample cover letters for freshers to experienced persons for different jobs. On resume, it covers preparing to write your resume, types of resumes, how to construct & format a winning PDF resume, how to write skills in resume and, don’ts in resume. It should be required reading for every job applicant. The author presents the information in such a clear, concise, well-organized way. You will feel like an experienced friend is helping you through tricky territory in a very candid, yet patient and kind way. Writing an effective cover letter followed with a powerful resume is perhaps the most challenging part of a securing a job. 83% of hiring managers surveyed said they would hire a candidate who sent a strong cover letter. A bad cover letter, might mean that your application is going directly to the paper shredder. Your resume is your handshake, your agent, and your marketing department rolled into one, and this vital document is an indispensable asset that will expedite your job search and make a prospective employer pick up the phone. Whether you are applying for the first job, or you’ve been in the workforce for 20 years, a powerful resume will set you apart from the competition and introduce your name with the air of professionalism employers crave. Author is an ex Corporate HR Head, presently, a career consultant. He holds the qualifications of MBA, PGDBM, MA, PGD-HRD, PG-Training & Development. His 15 books are live on google book.

Whether you need a job immediately, want to transform your career, or double your salary, your success depends on your ability to position what you can offer. It also depends on your ability to get in the right doors, sway hiring managers and negotiate a deal setting you up for an excellent career for years to come. This book is a practical step-by-step job search playbook that provides the tools necessary to meet your career aspirations and goals: ● Find your natural talents and strengths. ● Build your personal resource platform, candidacy, and confidence. ● Position yourself for the hard-to-reach opportunities. ● Work your network and have your network working for you. ● Work multiple strategies to get in front of hiring managers. ● Nail your interviews and prepare your references. ● Negotiate like a pro and be valued as you deserve to be. Read it all at once or keep it as a handy reference tool. Here is your Keycard that opens doors and enables you to get the jobs you want.

This helpful resource shows job seekers of all types how to present themselves in the best possible light--and land the best possible position. Unlike most resume “experts,” Tony Beshara doesn’t merely write resumes. As a veteran placement specialist who’s been featured regularly on the Dr. Phil show, Tony uses resumes to get people jobs. Now, in this dynamic book, he’s drawing on expertise gained from placing more than 8,500 professions to help you create a powerful resume that stands out from other applications. Unbeatable Resumes takes you step-by-step through the resume creation process, including tips on how to utilize keywords effectively, use gaps in employment and job changes to your advantage, and enhance your resume with a concise, dynamic cover letter. You’ll also discover how to: ensure your resume gets read by the right people; what employers look for on applications and what turns them off; how to customize a resume for a particular job; and the true value and detriment of digital tools including video resumes, job-search websites, and social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. With detailed examples and discussions on the assets and pitfalls of real-life resumes submitted for jobs in a wide range of industries, Unbeatable Resumes will take your job hunt skills to the next level.

If you are interviewing with a company, you are likely qualified for the job. Through the mere action of conducting the interview, the employer essentially implies this. So why is it difficult to secure the job you love? Because there are three reasons you actually get the jobnone of which are your qualifications and, unfortunately, you can only control one of them. iNTERVIEW INTERVENTION creates awareness of these undetected reasons that pose difficulty for the job-seeker and permeate to the interviewer, handicapping the employers ability to secure the best talent. It teaches interview participants to use effective interpersonal communication techniques aimed at overcoming these obstacles. It guides job-seekers through the entire interview process to ensure they get hired. It teaches interviewers to extract the most relevant information to make sound hiring decisions. iNTERVIEW INTERVENTION will become your indispensable guide to: ? Create self-awareness to ensure you understand the job you want beforenot afterthe fact. ? Conduct research to surface critical employer information. ? Share compelling stories that include the six key qualities that make them believable and memorable. ? Respond successfully to the fourteen most effective interview questions. ? Sell yourself and gather intelligence through effective question asking. ? Close the interview to ensure the interviewer wants to hire you.

Briefly describes how to create effective resumes and cover letters and how to pick up and fill out job application forms. Includes a section about creating digital resumes.