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    Go Get Your Job: The Quick Essential Guide to Finding A Job Now
    Go Get Your Job: The Quick Essential Guide to Finding A Job Now
    Go Get Your Job: The Quick Essential Guide to Finding A Job Now
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    Go Get Your Job: The Quick Essential Guide to Finding A Job Now

    By R. Yvette Poole

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    Go Get Your Job is a quick, easy read for the busy job-seeker. Not a lot of fluff; get right to the essentials of finding your job, now.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Yvette Poole
    Release dateDec 17, 2012
    ISBN9781301303267
    Go Get Your Job: The Quick Essential Guide to Finding A Job Now
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    R. Yvette Poole

    Our book, "Go Get Your Job - The Quick Essential Guide To Finding A Job Now", is a collaboration of veterans of the workforce, Cynthia Banks, R. Yvette Poole and J. B. Walker. Collectively, we have dozens of years of work experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors, including hiring and firing, getting hired and getting fired, quitting jobs and finding new ones. Two of us started out as lawyers, but please don’t hold that against us. Our third collaborator anchors our team by bringing many, many years of experience in human resources.

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      Go Get Your Job - R. Yvette Poole

      GO GET YOUR JOB

      The Quick Essential Guide To Finding A Job Now

      (Including Tried and Proven Techniques for Winning in the Social Network Playing Field)

      By Cynthia Banks, R. Yvette Poole and J. B. Walker

      Published by First World Services, LLC

      Copyright 2012 First World Services, LLC

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of these authors.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Prologue

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Charting Your Course: Planning A Successful Job Search

      Chapter 2 – The Opportunity

      Chapter 3 – Company Research

      Chapter 4 – People Research

      Chapter 5 – Your Resume

      Chapter 6 – Prepare for the Interview

      Chapter 7 – Follow-Up

      Chapter 8 – Now That You Have the Job

      Chapter 9 – Beyond Getting Your Job

      Appendix – Sample Cover Letter and Resumes

      Prologue

      if

      you

      want a

      job,

      Go

      Get

      Yours

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      We acknowledge and give thanks first to the Divine Creator, who created us all with the ability to create.

      We also acknowledge everyone who has ever looked for a job. You are a big part of the reason we wanted to write this little book.

      Finally, we thank family and friends for their kinship and friendship. You are our inspiration for all the positive things we have done and will do.

      Thank you.

      INTRODUCTION

      You’ve decided you want to get a job, you need to get a job, you had better get yourself a job, or else. Whatever the case, you’re going after a job. But which one? What do you want to do? Who do you want to work for? Would you prefer a large corporation, a boutique firm, a government agency, or a non-profit organization? What job would you find exciting, career-enhancing, or lucrative? Your answers to these questions will depend on your interests, aspirations, experience, education, and a whole host of considerations too numerous to list. Whatever your reasons, once you’ve selected a particular job or set of jobs to pursue, you need a plan for actually landing a position, especially in these challenging times.

      We’re all aware the job market has not been the brightest picture over the past couple of years. The unemployment rate in the United States officially hit double digits in early 2010, with 10% of the working population looking for a job, and the rate hovered around 9% for most of 2011. There are recent signs of a recovery with the August 2012 unemployment rate dropping to 8.1 percent. Still, the competition for positions remains tough. But here’s the good news: The employment rate is over 90%. We like the sound of those odds. And we’re going help you get yourself into that latter percentage and join the ranks of the employed workforce.

      One of the best ways to maintain the edge over other job applicants is to be determined and very organized. This book is designed to guide to you towards being as organized, decisive, creative, and smart as you can be to give yourself every advantage in your search for employment. It’s a quick read that will prepare you to confidently go get your job.

      Chapter 1

      CHARTING YOUR COURSE – PLANNING A SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH

      One thing’s for sure, a job search is a journey of sorts – so you’ll have to make a plan and stick to it. We’ll help you with all aspects of your search, from resume to interview to negotiating your terms. And here is where we map it out.

      From your perspective, there are three types of jobs:

      (1) The Open Job – This is a job you know (or can find out) about, an actual position that is publicly

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