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The job search navigator : an expert's guide to getting hired, surviving layoffs, and building your career / Matt Durfee.

Author:

Durfee, Matt, author.

ISBN:

9781572841857

Personal Author:

Durfee, Matt, author.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages ; 23 cm

Content Type:

text

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unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Contents:

Dealing with job loss -- Chasing your dream -- The best resume wins -- The art and science of networking -- Finding your next job -- Preparing for interviews -- Acing the interview -- Negotiation skills -- Onboarding -- Rude awakening.

Abstract:

"A guide to successful job searching, with expert advice from executives, recruiters, and the author, based on his extensive personal experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Job hunting.

Career changes.

Career development.

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Winner of the 2017 Independent Book Publishers Association Silver Medal in the Business & Career category.

The Job Search Navigator is a comprehensive guide to finding a new job in today's evolving career marketplace. Author Matt Durfee writes from the perspective of someone who has both recruited for some of America's biggest companies and navigated his way through nine of his own job losses.

The book combines practical real-world perspectives with the technical knowledge job seekers need in order to excel at every aspect of their searches. Drawing on the knowledge Durfee accumulated through his own experiences, searches, and big-brand corporate hiring responsibilities, The Job Search Navigator abandons the "clinical approach" of many other career-advice books. Instead, Durfee gives easy-to-follow strategies and, perhaps more importantly, recounts in illuminating detail the kinds of mistakes that led him to develop these strategies.

Despite recent reports of soaring corporate profits and gross domestic product growth, the effects of the Great Recession are still very real to the nearly 20 million Americans who are either jobless or underemployed. In these uncertain times, The Job Search Navigator is a reliable guide to every step of the 21st-century job hunt, whether readers are laid off, wanting to change careers after surviving cutbacks, or seeking a better full-time gig in a stagnant marketplace.

Author Notes

Matt Durfee is the founder and president of Navigator Executive Advisors, Inc. and the Navigator Institute, two career services firms providing outplacement, executive search, and leadership development support to global employers and individual clients. Prior to launching the firms in 2006, Matt held chief human resources officer, senior vice president, vice president, and human resources management positions in a number of the world's most admired companies. He lives in Orlando, Florida.

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Newspaper columnist, former HR executive, and career coach Matt Durfee crosses all his t's in this very detailed guide to job hunting millennium style. Yet it's hard to live up to the perennial, four-and-a-half-decades-young What Color Is Your Parachute? There are, to be honest, not a lot of new strategies to be used; even digital techniques, from searching online to tweeting about your unemployment, are simply degrees of finding and maintaining relationships or networking. Nonetheless, Durfee gets a shelf nod for his examples of résumés, questions to ask and be asked, personal case histories (showcased in sidebars called The Case of the Reluctant Expert), and Durfee's Laws, a series of one-liner advice that will resonate with any worker, regardless of position or situation. Who could naysay, for instance, don't forget your happiness counts or google yourself? Please Remember This (a summary of main points) and footnotes end every chapter.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2016 Booklist

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: The Reluctant Expert	p. 1
Lessons Learned the Hard Way	p. 3
Durfee's Laws	p. 6
Ignorance Is Not Bliss	p. 7
Chapter 1 Dealing with Job Loss	p. 9
Understanding Job Loss	p. 10
The Power of Attitude	p. 11
Navigating Through a Job Loss	p. 12
Career Level Pyramid	p. 14
Setting Goals	p. 16
You're More Than Your Job	p. 16
Don't Blow Your Recess	p. 17
Combating Stress	p. 19
Financial Survival	p. 22
Durfee's Laws for Dealing with Change	p. 25
You're Not Alone	p. 28
Please Remember This	p. 30
Chapter 2 Chasing Your Dream	p. 31
What's Your Dream?	p. 33
Right Job, Wrong Employer	p. 34
Before You Change Careers	p. 37
The Franchising Option	p. 39
Durfee's Laws for Chasing Your Dream	p. 40
Please Remember This	p. 42
Chapter 3 The Best Resume Wins	p. 43
The Billboard	p. 44
Action Words	p. 53
Competencies	p. 54
Key Words	p. 56
Customizing and Modifying Your Resume	p. 56
Entering or Re-entering the Workplace and Changing Careers	p. 58
Professional Biography	p. 59
Cover Letters	p. 61
Resume Examples	p. 65
Durfee's Laws for Writing a Great Resume	p. 73
The Application	p. 76
Please Remember This	p. 78
Chapter 4 The Art and Science of Networking	p. 79
The Story Line	p. 81
Developing a Targeted Approach	p. 83
Durfee's Laws for Networking	p. 84
Professional E-mail Addresses	p. 91
Personal Business Cards	p. 92
Linkedln	p. 93
Other Networking Venues	p. 101
Networking Scripts	p. 103
Please Remember This	p. 108
Chapter 5 Finding Your Next Job	p. 109
The Elevator Pitch	p. 109
A Measure of Focus	p. 110
Internet Job Sources	p. 111
Employer Websites	p. 113
Office Visits	p. 115
Industry and Association Websites	p. 116
Job Fairs	p. 117
Search Firms and Employment Agencies	p. 118
Newspaper Advertisements	p. 120
Government Agencies	p. 120
Campus Services	p. 122
Durfee's Law for Finding Your Next Job	p. 124
Please Remember This	p. 125
Chapter 6 Preparing for Interviews	p. 127
Attention, Graduating College Students	p. 128
The Three Essentials	p. 129
The Recruiter's Mindset	p. 130
What the Interviewer Wants to See and Hear	p. 131
Putting It All Together	p. 136
Durfee's Laws for Preparing for Interviews	p. 138
Basic Interview Questions	p. 145
What Are Your Weaknesses?	p. 146
Behavioral Interview Questions	p. 147
Hypothetical Questions	p. 149
Odd Questions	p. 151
Please Remember This	p. 152
Chapter 7 Acing the Interview	p. 153
Technical Fit + Personal Fit + Cultural Fit = Job Fit	p. 154
Before the Interview	p. 155
During the Interview	p. 160
After the Interview	p. 176
Durfee's Laws for Interviewing	p. 179
Please Remember This	p. 183
Chapter 8 Negotiation Skills	p. 185
Preparation	p. 185
What's Important to You?	p. 186
Negotiable Items	p. 187
Durfee's Laws for Negotiating	p. 189
Responding to an Offer	p. 194
Negotiation Scripts	p. 195
Rejecting an Offer	p. 198
Accepting a Lower Offer	p. 199
Please Remember This	p. 201
Chapter 9 Onboarding	p. 203
The Importance of Onboarding	p. 203
Designing Your Onboarding Plan	p. 208
Durfee's Laws for Onboarding	p. 217
Please Remember This	p. 221
Chapter 10 Rude Awakening	p. 223
Silver and Gold	p. 224
When Job-Hopping Was a Bad Thing	p. 226
Preparing for Change	p. 229
Anticipating Change	p. 231
What Doesn't Kill You Can Make You Stronger	p. 234
What's Ahead	p. 236
What to Do	p. 242
Please Remember This	p. 246
Acknowledgments	p. 249
Notes	p. 251
Index of Durfee's Laws	p. 255
Index	p. 259
About the Author and Contributor	p. 266

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