"In how did you get that job?, 30-year corporate veteran Orlando Ashford explores the "tools and rules" one can use to help maximize their career journey. Drawing from his depth of experience and illustrating concepts with personal stories, Ashford walks the readers through the key elements of building a successful career, including: creating a career vision, taking calculated risks, delivering results, building a career community, a culture or one's personal brand. Inside, Ashford also explores the power of being different and how to harness our individual and unique "genius" to create a competitive advantage in the workplace and in life."

Increase your chances of getting hired! None of us is as smart as all of us (Eric Schmidt). Who better to learn from than longtime industry pros that each have countless real-life experiences and stories, from both sides of the situation, on exactly this topic? Why limit yourself to one author when you can learn from our huge team of experts? Uncensored stories of their successes, failures, and thoughts on why things happened the way they did and what you should and should not do. This book is helpful for anyone who wants to get a job in the service industry, for any job title. Topics inside the book include the following: What increases the odds? Where to apply? How/when to ask for a raise/promotion/better shifts? Cruise ships? Resumes? How to make it great? On the topic of the interview, the books talks about the following: Best and worst experiences and why. Popular questions managers ask? Good answers?

Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion and preparation. First tip: Your college major has very little to do with your job options. In fact, you can get to virtually any life-goal destination from virtually any starting point. Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major. Chad Hurley, billionaire founder of YouTube, was an art major. And while we're at it, Albert Einstein was a high-school drop-out. Still think your college major will determine your life path? Think again. HOW TO GET ANY JOB is the first book that definitively answers the following questions, and many more: • What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job? • Why do employers hire people like you? • Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!) • How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies? • How do you set yourself up to get promoted? • How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts? • How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major? • How can you get famous and influential people to help you? • How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college? • What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement? • What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement? Whether you're twenty and still in college or twenty-nine and still wondering how to start your life, HOW TO GET ANY JOB offers the most creative and innovative thinking on life launch to date. It is used by college career centers nationwide.

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