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With over 3.5 million Knock 'em Dead books sold, this newest edition features the most up-to-date information available on recent developments in the job market. Knock 'em Dead 2001 contains valuable advice on getting organized, getting interviews, and getting great job offers, as well as what to do when layoffs or downsizing are on the horizon.

• Dealing with executive search firms
• Tapping the hidden job market
• Safety networking to protect your job and career
• Recharging a stalled job hunt
• Negotiating the very best salary
• Exiting gracefully

During the mid-1990s, 1 in 16 workers were displaced by downsizing, reorganization, or corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ruth Luban, a counselor who specializes in recovery from job loss, recognizes that leaving the workforce causes not only a loss of income, but also of identity, structure, and community. Her step-by-step program addresses these problems and explains how to work through them. Using case studies, exercises, and informative sidebars, she identifies the five emotional stages of job loss:

* On the Brink
* Letting Go
* In the Wilderness
* Seeing the Beacon
* In the New Land

Luban shows how to move through the emotional upheaval of job loss and return to the workforce with a sense of control and direction.

Author Bio: Ruth Luban is a psychotherapist and consultant in private practice who has spent the last 25 years developing workshops and treatment programs for people facing life transitions.

Discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of Personality Type. Unlock the secrets of Personality Type--how you process information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you--and discover the career that is right for you. Do What You Are</I> introduces Personality Type and shows you how to discover your own. Then, using workbook exercises and explaining specific job-search strategies, it lists occupations that are popular with your type, including today&apos;s hottest career tracks in growth areas such as biotechnology, health care, and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples. If you are a recent graduate, job seeker, or career switcher, this lively guide will help you discover the right career for you. Join more than 100,000 satisfied readers and Do What You Are.

What Color is Your Parachute? has been Ten Speed's best-selling book for nearly three decades, and it continues to be the job-hunter's bible—even in times of a strong, robust economy, when conventional wisdom says "Job-hunting books don't sell." Parachute is a fixture on best-seller lists, from amazon.com to Business Week; has well over six million copies in print; and exists in ten languages around the world.

It works in conjunction with a Web site, www.JobHuntersBible.com, and a companion book by the same author, Job-Hunting on the Internet. It discusses what has changed about the job market, and the new attitudes that are required in order to survive therein. It aids career-changers, as well as job-hunters, and has a detailed step-by-step plan for identifying a new career, as well as more detailed strategies for locating just the job you want in the geographical area of your choice. It has a detailed description of interview questions, and what kinds of answers the employer is looking for, plus salary negotiation strategies

In Losing Your Job-Reclaiming Your Soul, Mary Lynn Pulley presents a positive, practical, and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing, or is thinking of leaving their job. Here are the results of dozens of interviews with career-oriented, high-performing professionals who bounced back from the trauma of job loss. Their stories provide powerful, real-world lessons in flexibility, determination, and fulfillment. Interweaving her subjects' stories with themes from myths and other well-known tales, Pulley creates a multidimensional work that illustrates the new career model our information age demands; examines the demise of our core cultural beliefs - including The American Dream and The Promise of Job Security - and provides guidance for investing those beliefs with new meaning; presents the various ways people respond to job loss and describes why some experience positive, transformative change as a result; and challenges our basic views about our jobs - and our lives - and provides lessons for reclaiming meaning in both.

With over a million copies in print, the #1 New York Times bestseller Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life (G.P. Putnam's Sons) has grown from a guide and training tool for America's top corporations and organizations to a cultural phenomenon that is changing people's lives. While a few analytical or skeptical people find the story too simple on the surface, the vast majority of readers' responses reveal it is the clear simplicity that makes it so easy to understand and apply to changing situations at work or in life.

This amazing bestseller, written by Spencer Johnson, M.D., the co-author of The One Minute ManagerŪ, the world's most popular management method, is reaching beyond the business community, where it has been the #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller for more than 30 consecutive weeks. It is now being embraced by hundreds of thousands of readers-from community leaders and college coaches to parents and children-helping them to adapt to change. Whether it's the challenge of a changing relationship, or moving to a new neighborhood, or the downsizing and merging of corporations, people are finding that the simple story of Who Moved My Cheese? is an unthreatening and invaluable source of comfort and advice. It is no wonder that this diminutive tome has become a runaway bestseller!

Over 400 pages of great resume writing tips with examples from the popular "Insider's Guide" series.  This is a great reference tool that you'll refer to again and again.  Published in January 2001, this is an up-to-date guide to what employers are looking for now in a resume, including popular formats, tips for making sure your resume gets read and guidelines for electronic resumes.

This updated and revised edition of Career Opportunities in Advertising and Public Relations describes more than 85 jobs, including the requirements of, and employment prospects for, each position. Explored in great detail are entry and middle-level positions in all areas, as well as more senior positions and the usual routes leading to these higher-paying jobs. In addition, there are appendices listing universities granting degrees in advertising and public relations, and associations and corporations offering internships, workshops, courses and seminars. For each job discussed, you'll find a Career Profile presenting an overview of the salient features of the job (duties, alternate titles, salary range, employment and advancement prospects and prerequisites) and a Career Ladder illustrating typical routes to and from the position described. The text further explores special skills, education and training and various associations relevant to each job. A thorough index helps guide the reader through the expert advice on dozens of promising careers. High school and college students, guidance counselors, professionals and others interested in the excitement and challenge of careers in public relations and advertising will find everything they need to know in Career Opportunities in Advertising and Public Relations.