How to get any job : life launch & relaunch for everyone under 30 (or how to avoid living in your parents' basement) / Donald Asher.

By:

Asher, Donald

Contributor(s):

Asher, Donald. How to get any job with any major

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley [Calif.] : Ten Speed Press, c2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

158008947X
9781580089470

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

650.1 ASH

Contents:

PART I. You Need to Reconsider Everything You Know about Your Employment Interests. 1. Life Planning versus Getting a Job --- 2. Yes, It's All about You --- 3. What Gets You Excited? Your Top Five Issues in This World --- 4. A Little Future Visioneering --- 5. Advanced Issues in Life Planning: More than Enough Ideas --- 6. A Different Kind of Choice ---- PART II. Finding Out about Your Interests in the Real World. 7. Prepare to Learn More --- 8. Are You Ready for Networking? --- 9. Volunteer and Internship Opportunities --- 10. Summer Jobs, and "The Most Important Summer of Your Life" --- 11. More Education --- 12. How about High-Risk Choices? ---- PART III. Now It's Time to Actually Get a Job --- CASE STUDY: How I Got My First Job --- 13. Start with a Job Target --- 14. Visualize the Job You Want --- 15. Troubleshooting Your Job Search --- 16. The Job Interview ---- In Conclusion.

Summary: 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: A- What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job? --- B- Why do employers hire people like you? --- C- Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!) --- D- How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies? --- E- How do you set yourself up to get promoted? --- F- How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts? --- G- How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major? --- H- How can you get famous and influential people to help you? --- I- How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college? --- J- What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement? --- K- What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement? -- Back cover.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

"Rev. ed. of: How to get any job with any major : career launch & re-launch for everyone under 30, or, how to avoid living in your parent's basement . 2004"--Publisher provided.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: A- What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job? --- B- Why do employers hire people like you? --- C- Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!) --- D- How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies? --- E- How do you set yourself up to get promoted? --- F- How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts? --- G- How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major? --- H- How can you get famous and influential people to help you? --- I- How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college? --- J- What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement? --- K- What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement? -- Back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Part 1 You Need to Reconsider Everything You Know about Your Employment Interests
1 Life Planning Versus Getting a Job (p. 3)
2 Yes, It's All about you (p. 20)
3 What Gets You Excited? Your Top Five Issues in This World (p. 31)
4 A Little Future Visioneering (p. 43)
5 Advanced Issues in Life Planning: More than Enough Ideas (p. 53)
6 A Different Kind of Choice (p. 74)
Part 2 Finding Out about Your Interests in the Real World
7 Prepare to Learn More (p. 8t)
8 Are You Ready for Networking? (p. 93)
9 Volunteer and Internship Opportunities (p. 107)
10 Summer Jobs, and "The Most Important Summer of Your Life" (p. 119)
11 More Education (p. 134)
12 How about High-Risk Choices (p. 143)
Part 3 Now It's Time to Actually Get a Job
Case Study: How I Got My First Job (p. 158)
13 Start with a Job Target (p. 161)
14 Visualize the Job You Want (p. 171)
15 Troubleshooting Your Job Search (p. 184)
16 The Job Interview (p. 203)
In Conclusion (p. 227)
Index (p. 229)
About the Author (p. 234)

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

1: Life Planning versus Getting a Job Most college students want a job when what they should really want is a little life planning. What is life planning? Life planning is conducting a process of self-discovery and then matching what is discovered with the career marketplace. Life planning is different from getting a job. Getting a job is a process of finding paid employment, whether or not there is any match whatsoever between the employee's skills, preparation, interests, or long-term goals, plus whatever is involved in performing on the job. Getting a job is a good end product to life planning, but is not an end in itself. It is, to put it simply, not the point. The point is the self-discovery and the matching. College students have no special claim on this. A thirty-year-old, single working mother has the same opportunity to choose to get another job or choose to go through a bit of life planning. So has a fifty-year-old college professor considering leaving his tenured position. So has a sales executive with a Fortune 500 company. But college students have a unique opportunity to do this right. You have the opportunity to do this right at a juncture that can lead to a lifetime of increased happiness. Some of the mid-career executives I work with in my career coaching practice are miserable. I am struck by what a high price poor early career decisions can have. Employment is a huge part of adult life. Between the end of college and the onset of retirement, a career takes up about 100,000 hours of our lives. That's a lot of time to be miserable. And that's not counting commuting. You will not spend that much time with your kids, should you choose to have them, or with a spouse, should you choose to have one. A job doesn't have to be the most meaningful thing in your life. Perhaps your family or your religion or your volunteer or community work will be more important to you, but nothing is likely to be bigger in terms of sheer volume of time. It is a tragedy, of Shakespearean proportion, to be miserable on the job. On the other hand, if you find jobs you love, you'll never work a day in your life. You'll notice I wrote "jobs" in the plural. You will need to find many jobs after college. Your Future as a Worker According to conventional wisdom, you will need to find more than nine jobs between college and retirement. I think this is inaccurate. In fact, I believe the generation leaving college now is going to need to find some twenty to thirty jobs before retirement. The old projections were exactly that--projections of the future based on the past--assuming the future is like the past. But the future of this generation of students is different than the future of prior generations. The covenant between employers and employees has been broken. Back in the day, a white-collar worker had a job until she retired. In actual fact, that often didn't happen. But it was the operative theory. This is no longer the operative theory. A company's covenant now with its employees goes something like this: "If our needs mutually converge, great! If they don't, see ya!" This fact changes the way all workers should approach their work life. You have to be ready all the time to find a new job. Let me be clear about what I'm telling you: You will be fired through no fault of your own during your work life. You will go to work one day and find that you or your department or your office or even your entire company is no longer in business, and suddenly you need a new job. You may see it coming or you may not, but you can't say you weren't warned. Not only will you need to find many jobs over your working lifetime, you will also pass through periods of self-employment and portfolio employment. Self-employment includes, obviously, those times Excerpted from How to Get Any Job: Career Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone under 30 (Or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents' Basement) by Donald Asher All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Donald Asher is one of America's premiere career consultants and is the author of The Overnight Resume, Cool Colleges, Graduate Admissions Essays, and Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't and Why. He Speaks at over 100 colleges and universities every year.