The Five O'Clock Club Job Search Workbook presents a highly, successful national job-search program with an approach to career development. The keystone to the Five O'Clock Club philosophy is educating members about the entire hiring process. This workbook presents information on how to plan a job search campaign and measure the effectiveness of that campaign, write cover letters and resumes, and prepare for interviews. In addition, the text covers the final stages of the job search process: readers learn how to turn job interviews into offers, and how to negotiate the best possible employment package. Special features of the workbook include assessment exercises, target selection and measurement, resume case studies, campaign planning worksheets, and two-minute pitch development.

Explains how to select job targets, get interviews, and negotiate salary, and provides information on joining the Five O'Clock Club.

GETTING INTERVIEWS tells you how to find out whom you should be talking to, and how to get those people to agree to meet with you. You'll learn about informational meetings and networking interviews. You'll learn how to market yourself--to plan a whole campaign that runs the gamut from personal contacts to phone, e-mail, and targeted direct mail efforts.

Going beyond prior editions, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, includes complete information and advice on using the internet to find out about industries, research companies, and identify key decision makers. This edition delves into strategies and tips for online research that can help the user develop job targets, become an "industry insider", discover new opportunities never thought of , and network more quickly and more efficiently than ever before. Written by Kate Wendleton, syndicated career columnist, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, will help the user identify their dream, make it specific and learn the steps needed to achieve it.

With downsizing, layoffs, and other retrenchment measures afflicting both public and private sectors, outplacement consulting has grown from a minor specialty among human resources (HR) firms and practitioners into an important industry. Meyer and Shadle explore changes that have occurred in the outplacement process--as well as its practice--to provide a clearer understanding of what it is and what it offers organizations and their employees. Clearly written and designed to assist management and their HR professionals, the book provides not only an insight into the meaning of job loss and its devastating impact on workers and the organization, but also a way to help lessen the blow to both. Among the topics explored here are the seven dimensions of the new careerism, an inclusive definition of outplacement, a complete and objective review and analysis of the elements of the outplacement and career transition process, and a description of the different kinds of assessment typically offered as part of outplacement. It also provides an inside look into this multimillion-dollar industry, its organization and markets, trends, and the industry's burgeoning technology. The authors answer such questions as: Why does one need outplacement counseling? Why do corporations pay for it and how much? How do outplacement firms contact and contract with corporations? How can the outplacement firm provide consultation to downsizing corporations? This book is a well-researched practical resource for all organizations and their employees in this economically difficult decade.