A Successful Senior Year Job Search Begins in the Freshman Year
The What, The How and The Why
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Get Ready To Compete
As students near the end of their college experiences, they will begin to realize that some students are ready to compete for good jobs, while others are not. Will you be ready? Whether students are ready or not will depend upon what they have done during the first three and a half years of college.
The list that follows is a brief summary of the contents of this book. Students will do much better in the job market when they:
- Know exactly where they want to go
- Are highly motivated to succeed
- Do their best in the classroom
- Are completely familiar with the job search preparation process
- Have an employment coach
- Create a detailed, semester-by-semester employment plan
- Do their best to follow the plan
- Identify jobs that hold great interest for them
- Identify and research employers with the jobs that are of interest
- Know exactly what their target employers want, need and expect
- Identify job-related search firms, job banks and tools
- Participate in a variety of work, campus and community activities
- Have excelled at something
- Build a list of impressive accomplishments and successes
- Regularly record and save information for their resumés
- Practice the skills required by their target jobs
- Recognize their strengths and capabilities
- Create an impressive resumé
- Are completely prepared for interviews
- Have built strong relationships with references
- Are friendly, confident and well spoken
Nobody can do all of this in the senior year. Students must begin this process in the freshman year and continue to build and strengthen their job search capabilities throughout their entire college experience.
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About the Book
All college students would like to graduate with good jobs in their fields of interest, jobs that pay well and effectively launch their careers with desirable employers. This book shows students how to achieve their employment goals.
The What - What exactly can be done to ensure employment success?
The How - How are the steps, actions and results achieved?
The Why - Why are these steps, actions and results necessary?
For most good jobs, grades alone are no longer enough. The best employers want students to demonstrate their capabilities in an array of environments and situations. Therefore, knowing what to do is important. However, students also need a system that lays out the steps that can be followed during each semester of college.
When students perform the activities and produce the results that employers need, want, and expect of the best candidates, their employment possibilities will improve dramatically. That is what this book is all about. It will enable more students to compete effectively in the job market.
About the Author
As a recruiter for a major international corporation, Bob Roth visited many college campuses throughout the northeast to interview both technical and nontechnical students for a variety of positions. With that experience in mind, he has endeavored to provide college students with a clear path to follow as they seek employment success.
In recent years, Bob has
—written five books for college students;
—prepared more than 175 articles for career services offices, campus newspapers, and parent associations;
—created the Job Identification Machine™ (for college leaders);
—been interviewed by many publications, including the Wall Street Journal and US News and World Report;
—participated in numerous radio interviews with stations around the country;
—served as an adjunct at Marist College; and
—coached students to employment success.
Known as the “college and career success” coach, Bob has devoted recent years to helping larger and larger numbers of students achieve their employment goals through these methods.
Visit Bob’s website at www.the4realities.com or contact Bob about your coaching needs at the4realities@aol.com.