Employment Strategies For Career Success
Chapter 1 Planning Your Career Path
Get Acquainted with Your College Career Service
Strategically Plan Your Career Center Use
Freshman Year
Sophomore Year
Junior Year
Senior Year
Self-Assessments and Inventories
Personality Inventories
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
Skill Assessment
Value Assessment
Interest Inventories
Campbell Interest and Skills Survey
Holland’s Self-Directed Search
Strong Interest Inventory
Occupational Investigation
Pulling Your Career Plan Together
Chapter 2Preparing Your Resume
Contents of a Resume
Important Resume Sections
Identification
Objective
Summary Statement
Education
Experience
Volunteer/Community/Extra-Curricular
Honors
Military Service
Personal Background
References
Three Kinds of Standard Resumes
Chronological Resumes
Functional Resumes
Combination Chronological-Functional Resumes
Skills Emphasis Resumes
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Constructing Your Resume
Organizing the Resume Content
Length of Resume
Appearance of Resume
Truthfulness of Resume
Global Characteristics of Resume
Updating Your Resume
Chapter 3Electronic Resumes
Online Job Searching
Do Companies Hire on the Internet
Advantages of Online Job Searching
Location of Online Job Searches
Disadvantages of Online Job Searches
Electronic Resumes
Scannable Resume
Use Key Words
Common Key Words
Steps in Creating a Key-Word Resume
Basic Guide for Preparing a Scannable Resume
E-mail resume
How to Create an ASCII Resume
E-mail Cover Letter
Sending Your E-mail resume and Letter
Resume Posting
Online Web Resume
Chapter 4Employment Correspondence
Letter Format
Cover Letter
Cold-Call Letter
Thank-You Letter
Additional Employment Letters
Oversubscribed Placement Center Interviews
Acknowledging an Offer
Accepting an Offer
Declining an Offer
Chapter 5The Job Interview
Preparing For The Interview
Prepare Yourself
Understand the Company
Do Your Homework About The Company
Types of Interviews
Screening Interview
Follow-up Interview
Social Interview
Behavioral Interview
Assignment Interview
Case Interview
Typical Case Categories
The Videoconferencing Interview
Types of Questioning Approaches
Open Questions
Yes-No Questions
Direct Questions
Probing Questions
Stress-Related Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Illegal or Unfair Questions
Potential-Employment Tests
Lie-Detector Tests
Drug Tests
Personality and Psychological Tests
Practicing For The Interview
Making The Interview Count
The Interview Location
The First Five Minutes: Forming a Positive
Impression
Handling Anxiety
Appropriate Dress
Body Language
Communication Pattern
Don’t Bad-Mouth Your Previous Employer