Are you thinking about a career in the Skilled Trades or maybe you have an Apprentice to mentor? David Pocock knows first-hand with over 40 years’ experience working with apprentices, employers and advising people looking to work in the Skilled Trades. The 7 Steps explained provide a fast and logical plan to take you from employment to certification and beyond. Dozens of helpful tips and reminders along with action exercises and fillable templates will keep you focused during your journey to become Trade Certified and earning a higher wage. The potential for advancement in the trades to more senior positions is excellent. There is also a skill shortage in many trades that will ensure job sustainability for years to come. This is your Apprenticeship 101 guide to success. An indispensable book for anyone starting out or affiliated with the skilled trades. Congratulations on a great career choice, good luck and enjoy the journey! Praise for You’re Hired and Certified: “You’re Hired and Certified is a perfect resource for those who are looking for a career in skilled trades. With follow up exercises included with every chapter, this book will guide you on how to stay organized and think critically when navigating your search for trade employment.” – Craig Swanberg, Journeyman Carpenter & Workforce Manager, PCL Construction. “For someone starting or retraining in the work force, this book is an excellent road map for apprenticeship from start to finish! I wish I had this book when I started my apprenticeship!” – Chris Copeland, RSE, Certified Journeyman Bricklayer, a Business Agent, Local 1 Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. “This is a nugget of information for our society to clearly understand how to navigate into and through the trades. David has given us the blueprint to catapult youth, parents, teachers and professionals to a greater understanding of the importance of trades and how to achieve success where society needs it most.” – Tom Loszchuk, Certified Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Apprenticeship Committee Representative, Employer and Life Coach. “A great book, a must read for success! With Dave’s handbook as your guide, you’re in the driver seat. The road to success starts here.” – David Lee, Certified Automotive Service Technician and Service.

You're Hired and Certified is a seven step guide with action exercises to help you choose a career in the trades, gain employment, manage your apprenticeship and advance your career. If you are tired of sending out resumes, waiting weeks or months just to get an interview then buy this book to get that job now! This proven strategy is only available here is "Your Hired! And Certified"! Dave calls it the "Apprenticeship Success Achievement Plan", the ASAP plan. It also refers to "as soon as possible" taking the reader right into action exercises at the end of each of the seven chapters. A well explained proven plan to help you achieve your career goals ASAP. The trades always offer good paying opportunities. Discover why and how completing an apprenticeship and gaining a journeyperson certificate is similar to obtaining a university degree, putting you in the drivers seat to advance upward in your trade, to self-employment or into the possible opportunities in a matrix of other careers. High school students, teachers, career and employment counsellors, parents, employers and tradespeople should all own a copy to learn, benefit from and reference the helpful steps, lists and action exercises for preparing and gaining employment through to certification and career advancing.

Are you thinking about a career in the Skilled Trades or maybe you have an Apprentice to mentor? David Pocock knows first-hand with over 40 years' experience working with apprentices, employers and advising people looking to work in the Skilled Trades. The 7 Steps explained provide a fast and logical plan to take you from employment to certification and beyond. Dozens of helpful tips and reminders along with action exercises and fillable templates will keep you focused during your journey to become Trade Certified and earning a higher wage. The potential for advancement in the trades to more senior positions is excellent. There is also a skill shortage in many trades that will ensure job sustainability for years to come. This is your Apprenticeship 101 guide to success. An indispensable book for anyone starting out or affiliated with the skilled trades. Congratulations on a great career choice, good luck and enjoy the journey! Praise for You're Hired and Certified: "You're Hired and Certified is a perfect resource for those who are looking for a career in skilled trades. With follow up exercises included with every chapter, this book will guide you on how to stay organized and think critically when navigating your search for trade employment." - Craig Swanberg, Journeyman Carpenter & Workforce Manager, PCL Construction. "For someone starting or retraining in the work force, this book is an excellent road map for apprenticeship from start to finish! I wish I had this book when I started my apprenticeship!" - Chris Copeland, RSE, Certified Journeyman Bricklayer, a Business Agent, Local 1 Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. "This is a nugget of information for our society to clearly understand how to navigate into and through the trades. David has given us the blueprint to catapult youth, parents, teachers and professionals to a greater understanding of the importance of trades and how to achieve success where society needs it most." - Tom Loszchuk, Certified Journeyman Cabinetmaker, Apprenticeship Committee Representative, Employer and Life Coach. "A great book, a must read for success! With Dave's handbook as your guide, you're in the driver seat. The road to success starts here." - David Lee, Certified Automotive Service Technician and Service.

Looking for work? Having difficulty in landing your dream job... or any job? Don't know how to do it? You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work provides powerful strategies and tactics to land your next job. Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially, if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' of finding a job often don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work ... is work! You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to land your 'dream' job. This easy-to-read book is a systematic program providing strategic tactics to maximize your job searching effectiveness. Did you know there is a psychology behind the process of job searching? You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work helps you understand the psychology of job-searching and sets you up for envisioning your success. Resumes... It is often said that “resumes are your ticket to job searching success.” Resumes are still the not so secret weapon to landing a job. You won’t win a lottery if you don’t have a ticket and you are unlikely to be invited for a job interview if you don’t have a dynamic, effective resume that features you as the solution to a problem. Your resume is your ticket that leads to being invited for an interview where you can expand upon your value. An effective, eye-catching resume will get you an interview. We show you how to craft and fine-tune a magnetic resume that will attract an employer’s attention. Are you networking? Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. You may think you don’t know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first. “It’s not who you know... it’s who knows you know...” You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work helps you build upon your existing network of contacts and take it to the next level, an opportunity-creating machine. References... Do you have your professional and personal references in place? Are they primed to be your personal cheerleaders? No? Well they should be. You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work provides you with proven tactics to leverage your references to help nail the job for you. Job Interviewing... While looking for a new job and going though hiring interviews can be exciting for some people, for many of us it can be a stressful experience. Is the thought of a job interview keeping you awake at night? You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work systematically builds your skills to excel at interview questions and help you sleep at night. From our experience, one of the biggest problems job seekers often face is they feel they are coming from an inferior position and they don't have a lot of personal power. The belief being that the Employer has the superior position and has all the power. Sound familiar? Yes, they have the job and they have the power to give you the job ... or not. What you may not realize is many Hiring Managers are under similar pressures as you, the job seeker. They are accountable to their superiors should the person they hire not work out. They have the pressure of finding the right candidate for the vacancy they need to fill. You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work levels the playing field between you and the employer. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

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Master the new world of work. You want—no, you need—a new job. But not just any job. The job. So you polish your resume till it shines. You apply for countless openings, tailoring your message to each. You search for the hidden job market, although it remains very well hidden. And the response? Well, it’s underwhelming. To top things off, maze-like online application systems appear designed to keep you and the perfect job apart. What’s going on? How people successfully land jobs has changed. You need help from a pro, someone who navigates career data, the labor market, and hot jobs with ease. You want a coach who will tell you what to pursue and what to avoid, and an expert who has mastered job-hunting and career change to offer wisdom gained from experience. What you need is a career coach. Better yet, several. Expert career coaches contributing to this volume include Lakeisha Mathews, Dan Schwartz, Sheila Margolis, Alisa Cohn, Michelle Riklan, Marie Zimenoff, Laura Labovich, Lynne Williams, Thea Kelley, Jean Juchnowicz, Alan DeBack, Marilyn Feldstein, Vivian Blade, David Hosmer, Barbara Seifert, and Nicole Miller. Find Your Fit guides you through answering foundational questions like: What do I want to do with my career? Where should I do it? And how do I get there? As you develop a strong sense of self-awareness, you’ll be able to identify the work environment best for you, shape your online identity, and network more effectively by focusing on people instead of openings. You’ll learn about coveted employee referrals, and how to get one at your target company. With the help of experienced career coaches, you’ll be able to handle any kind of interview. And, you’ll become familiar with the pre-employment testing and assessments increasingly common today. What are you waiting for? Your personal coaching session awaits.

Based on today's real-world job search trends, MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The 2nd edition has been updated with new resume samples, new designs, and new ATS and e-resume guidelines, along with new chapters for jobseekers with special circumstances - career change, military transition, and return to work. The entire job search process is evolving at a remarkably rapid pace, and your resume is at the foundation of it all. In this book, you'll learn to: Write tight, lean, clean, and laser-focused content that allows you to tell your whole career story in half the words to keep your reader engaged. Focus on information that is relevant to your target market and integrate keywords that are vital to being found online. Present important information quickly in a resume format that prominently displays your skills, experience, education, and other credentials as they support your current career objectives. Create a distinctive design to make your resume stand out and capture attention. Getting noticed is step #1, so make that happen and you're on your way. Adopt a new mindset and deeper understanding of how to use today's modern resume for both person-to-person job search as well as electronic, digital, and mobile search technologies. The 100+ resume samples demonstrate these strategies in action for real-life job seekers who've excelled in their search campaigns. The samples showcase the resume writing work of Enelow, Kursmark, and many of their colleagues who are also well respected for their expertise in resume strategy, writing, format, and design. Clear guidelines and easy-to-follow examples give you practical know-how for building your own powerful resume that will serve all of your job search needs. You'll learn what works, why it works, and how you can make it work for you. Authors and Master Resume Writers Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark have each spent more than 30 years writing resumes, training professional resume writers, speaking to job search audiences, and writing about evolving trends in job search. The latest in their library of more than 30 books is MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME, an up-to-the minute resource for every job seeker to guide you to career success. Follow the recommendations of this book and you'll find yourself a more competent and competitive job seeker!