Climbing the leadership ranks and want to accelerate your career? Executive career coach Trish McGrath has reverse engineered today's complex employment marketplace to create an easy-to-follow blueprint for job search success. With rising confidence in the job market, many executives are looking for their next professional opportunity. It's time to toss outdated techniques and level up your job search. Whether you're pursuing the C-Suite or pivoting into a second career, modern hiring practices require new and better ways to differentiate yourself from your peers. You don't need to go it alone or suffer through trial and error. New Rules for the 6-Figure Job Search teaches you how to navigate the hidden job market and network your way to a great new job. A job search specialist on the front line, McGrath shows you how to land the right executive role - one you will enjoy, that aligns with your professional goals and pays you what you're worth. Sharing the step-by-step process that has delivered incredible results for hundreds of her coaching clients, she walks you through establishing your professional brand so you get noticed, interviewed and hired into a well-paying job where you feel good about the work you do. Quickly learn how to: - grab people's attention with compelling conversation openers - create interview-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles - connect with decision-makers at your target companies - outshine other candidates to win lucrative job offers If your goal is to fast track your way to a new 6-figure job, these actionable tips and insider secrets will help you gain the competitive edge you need to succeed. Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.

Climbing the leadership ranks and want to accelerate your career? Executive career coach Trish McGrath has reverse engineered today's complex employment marketplace to create an easy-to-follow blueprint for job search success. With rising confidence in the job market, many executives are looking for their next professional opportunity. It's time to toss outdated techniques and level up your job search. Whether you're pursuing the C-Suite or pivoting into a second career, modern hiring practices require new and better ways to differentiate yourself from your peers. You don't need to go it alone or suffer through trial and error. New Rules for the 6-Figure Job Search teaches you how to navigate the hidden job market and network your way to a great new job. A job search specialist on the front line, McGrath shows you how to land the right executive role - one you will enjoy, that aligns with your professional goals and pays you what you're worth. Sharing the step-by-step process that has delivered incredible results for hundreds of her coaching clients, she walks you through establishing your professional brand so you get noticed, interviewed and hired into a well-paying job where you feel good about the work you do. Quickly learn how to: - grab people's attention with compelling conversation openers - create interview-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles - connect with decision-makers at your target companies - outshine other candidates to win lucrative job offers If your goal is to fast track your way to a new 6-figure job, these actionable tips and insider secrets will help you gain the competitive edge you need to succeed. Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.

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.

Harness social media to land your dream job For anyone looking for a first job, exploring a career change, or just setting up for future success, social media sites are proven platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing the job. Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies enables you to harness the power of the Internet to research and identify job opportunities, and then create a strategy for securing a position. Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies features in-depth coverage of topics such as: creating effective online profiles and resumes to sell your strengths; maintaining your online reputation (and ensuring that employers who Google you like what they find) and understanding electronic etiquette; using the power of personal branding and building your brand online; avoiding common pitfalls, such as jumping into filling out a social media profile without a strategy; getting to know Twitter, the only real-time job board with literally thousands of jobs posted daily; using social media sites to uncover opportunities in the "hidden job market" ahead of the competition; and much more. Shows you how to easily harness social media sites Advice on how to brand yourself online Covers all of the latest and most popular social media sites: Google, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more If you're a recent graduate, changing careers, or have been away from the job-search scene for a while, turn to the trusted guidance and expert insight of Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies.

In the last decade, developed welfare states have witnessed a pendulum swing away from unconditional entitlement to social assistance, towards greater emphasis on obligations and conditions tied to the receipt of financial aid. Through administrative reforms, conditions of entitlement have been narrowed. With the introduction of compulsory work for recipients the contract between the state and uninsured unemployed people is changing. The product of research funded by the European Union, this book compares 'work-for-welfare' - or workfare - programmes objectively for the first time. It considers well publicised schemes from the United States alongside more overlooked examples of workfare programmes from six European countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and Britain. It is the first time that details of workfare programmes have been collated in such an easily accessible format. 'An offer you can't refuse' provides an analysis of the ideological debates that surround compulsory work programmes and gives a detailed overview of the programmes implemented in each country, including their political and policy contexts and the forces that have combined to facilitate their implementation. Similarities and differences between programmes are explored. Explanations for differences and lessons for policy makers are discussed.

"In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, the co-founders of popular career website TheMuse.com, show how to play the game by the New Rules. The Muse is known for sharp, relevant, and get-to-the-point advice on how to figure out exactly what your values and your skills are and how they best play out in the marketplace. Now Kathryn and Alex have gathered all of that advice and more in The New Rules of Work. Through quick exercises and structured tips, the authors will guide you as you sort through your countless options; communicate who you are and why you are valuable; and stand out from the crowd. The New Rules of Work shows how to choose a perfect career path, land the best job, and wake up feeling excited to go to work every day-- whether you are starting out in your career, looking to move ahead, navigating a mid-career shift, or anywhere in between"--

Market. Succeed. Repeat. Can you measure the progress of your online campaigns in finite numbers? What percentage of your website traffic is converted into sales? What is your cost-per-conversion rate? If you don’t already know the answers to these questions, don’t worry—you will. Internet strategist John D. Leavy challenges you to take a new approach to your online marketing—shifting from doing more, to doing more of what works. Using Leavy’s outcome-based strategies, learn how to create dynamic marketing campaigns integrating metrics and milestones for continuous success. Leavy invites you to uncover the absolutes behind building massive online awareness, attracting your target audience, and capturing online sales. “John Leavy’s masterful Outcome-Based Marketing is the most complete and accurate guide I’ve ever read about succeeding on the Internet without making silly and common errors. I simply cannot imagine finding the pot of gold offered online without John’s superb information serving as your compass and guide.” —Jay Conrad Levinson, The Father of Guerrilla Marketing, Author, Guerrilla Marketing series “By the time you get down to chapters 20-ish through 25 or so, you’ll have to cancel your cable subscription. Leavy has you doing a ton of stuff that is going to blow your business up, whether you’re still working for The Man, or whether you’re going to do this for yourself.” —Chris Brogan, President of Human Business Works and co-author of New York Times bestseller Trust Agents “Outcome-Based Marketing is the breakthrough book on how to sell more, faster and easier, on the internet, against any competition.” —Brian Tracy, Author, The Psychology Of Selling “It’s not often you read a book that is focused on results. Too often, marketing, communication, and everything in between is seen as an expense. But John Leavy’s tools help you take your efforts from the expense line on your P&L to the investment line on your balance sheet. It’s a must-read for anyone using the web to grow their business.” —Gini Dietrich, Chief Executive Officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc., and author, Spin Sucks