The Evolving Science of Job Hunting: Atypical Ways to Write Résumés, Ace Interviews and Build Professional Networks
By Karma Peters
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THE DAYS OF LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT ARE LONG GONE, BUT A NEW PARADIGM CAN SOW HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS OF JOB SEEKERS.
This book sheds light on that new paradigm.
In 2013, management theorist Andrew McAfee gave a brilliant TED talk about what future jobs will look like, expounding the skills, mindset and verve that workers need to be productive in the long term. This book goes further and proposes a job-search blueprint that the unemployed, and active workers thinking about career moves, can use to get back to work or blaze new professional trails. It also deploys a lexicon of smart networking and effective interviewing, sketching out a clear professional vision that rewards boldness, preparation and intellectual brilliance.
>>> The book contains a helpful Discussion Guide. Through burning questions, the book gives extensive advice on how to use the discussion guide, how to inform decisions related to the topics at hand, and how to best read it – alone, in reading groups, with your partner, or as part of learning activities, among others.
>>> After reading this book, you will understand:
* How to suitably use your time when you don’t work;
* How to engineer a successful professional-networking strategy;
* Why an atypical résumé yields more interviews;
* How to take charge of an interview using authenticity, relevance, scarcity and audacity; and
* Why you need T.A.L.E.N.T. to find work, keep it and be promoted.
>>> Who will benefit from this book?
* People looking for work;
* Students and recent graduates;
* Professionals contemplating a career shift;
* U.S. Department of Labor experts;
* Policymakers at state and local employment offices;
* HR managers and headhunters;
* Personnel in career services at colleges and universities; and
* Labor economists and thought leaders in employment dynamics.
Karma Peters
I wish to remain anonymous because the ideas I convey in my books are far more momentous than my humble person. Consider me nonexistent – a myth, a modicum of human folklore, a thinking iota in our collective wisdom.Just delve into my books, learn a thing or two...and, if you like the content, try to improve your life (and others’ lives). I don't aim to be a personal-growth guru, a healer, a celebrated self-help pundit, an attention-hungry author. In our publicity-obsessed culture, we don't need another such figure.I see life through the lens of passion and compassion; promise and compromise; happiness; and unwearied altruism, the kind you project when you stare at a newborn and know right away that only you can help him or her fulfill the untapped, God-given potential each of us has.We have that inner passion – so why not use it, enhance it, modify it, channel it while we are here on Earth? As an author, philosopher and life coach, I write books that inspire, motivate and teach you how to reconnect with your inner energy and ignite your outer potential.In an earlier life, I learned the ropes of financial management, organizational effectiveness, strategy, marketing and investment banking, first earning an MBA in Finance at Rutgers University and then working in various roles in the financial-services industry in New York and New Jersey. These positions ultimately enabled me to see how infinite goodness manifests itself in humans, producing pure bliss in unexpected moments and places – and how, unfortunately, sometimes our worst angels lead us to blaze unfortunate and troublesome paths for ourselves and others.These days, I wake up each morning to the sweet, hopeful music of life, and sleep to the adorable, buoyant melody of tomorrow – living one day at the time, enjoying simple moments, appreciating the chance to exist, and feeling grateful for the serendipity of human love.
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The Evolving Science of Job Hunting - Karma Peters
THE DAYS OF LIFETIME EMPLOYMENT ARE LONG GONE, BUT A NEW PARADIGM CAN SOW HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS OF JOB SEEKERS.
This book sheds light on that new paradigm.
In 2013, management theorist Andrew McAfee gave a brilliant TED talk about what future jobs will look like, expounding the skills, mindset and verve that workers need to be productive in the long term.
This book goes further and proposes a job-search blueprint that the unemployed, and active workers thinking about career moves, can use to get back to work or blaze new professional trails.
It also deploys a lexicon of smart networking and effective interviewing, sketching out a clear professional vision that rewards boldness, preparation and intellectual brilliance.
>>> The book contains a helpful Discussion Guide. Through burning questions, the book gives extensive advice on how to use the discussion guide, how to inform decisions related to the topics at hand, and how to best read it – alone, in reading groups, with your partner, or as part of learning activities, among others.
>>> After reading this book, you will understand:
* How to suitably use your time when you don’t work;
* How to engineer a successful professional-networking strategy;
* Why an atypical résumé yields more interviews;
* How to take charge of an interview using authenticity, relevance, scarcity and audacity; and
* Why you need T.A.L.E.N.T. to find work, keep it and be promoted.
>>> Who will benefit from this book?
* People looking for work;
* Students and recent graduates;
* Professionals contemplating a career shift;
* U.S. Department of Labor experts;
* Policymakers at state and local employment offices;
* HR managers and headhunters;
* Personnel in career services at colleges and universities; and
* Labor economists and thought leaders in employment dynamics
Résumé
This book offers a cutting assessment of the weaknesses of many unemployed people, excavating new ground in the debate about lifetime employment and the rituals and mechanisms necessary to find work and keep it.
In the first chapter, I make the case that being out of work does not mean being out of luck.
In an economic era in which we observe tidal shifts – think globalization and digitalization – in business and society, workers and the unemployment must be one step ahead of societal and corporate dynamics.
In Chapter 2 of this book, I help the unemployed, and active workers for that matter, understand the dynamics of professional networking.
In short, I tell them why their networking is not working.
I deconstruct the current blueprint of networking tactics, showing why that well-worn playbook of after-work happy hours, professional encounters and periodic informal meetings is no longer appropriate for current market conditions.
The third section of this tome centers on one thing: The résumé advice you (probably) never got.
Here I’m not talking about education because other people, including academics and your family members, have already made sure you choose a field that is in sync with what you want and like, but also a field that can keep you employable.
Rather, I provide guidance on how to pen an atypical résumé and close the gnawing blanks therein, making sure your out-of-work time does not seem so long that it ends up frightening the interviewer.
In the next chapter, I talk about different and bold ways to impress the interviewer, showing you how to ask questions that thrill and impress thanks to their authenticity, relevance, scarcity and audacity.
Finally, I’ll let you in on the T.A.L.E.N.T. it takes to get a job you like, keep it, grow within it or embrace an entirely different career at some point in your life.
This book is part of a series, "The Wheel of Wisdom," in which I explore topics as varied as love and romance, self-esteem, occupational success, personal bliss, effective communication, fear management, human relationships and spirituality.
The Wheel of Wisdom reflects knowledge I accumulated through personal research, wisdom literature, everyday observation and the testimonies of hundreds of people encountered on my life journey – young and old, novice and experienced, religious and agnostic, optimistic and