This book will help you get back on your feet, develop a plan of action, and find your next great job!

The College Grad Job Hunter, 6th Edition offers hundreds of proven techniques that ensure you'll stand out from the crowd of recent graduates looking for their first job. Inside you'll find everything you need to know about how to land the position you're after: how to prepare, what to do and say, and what to not do and not say-all the way through the hiring process. Based on interviews with more than 10,000 job candidates and reviews of more than 60,000 resumes, The College Grad Job Hunter features the latest tactics on how to: Develop the best resume and cover letter, Use the Internet to broaden your job search, Get interviews with the best companies, on and off campus, Make a great impression at the interview and generate job offers.

A dynamic job handbook features practical information and descriptions of dozens of cool job opportunities--based on an online survey of twenty- and thirty-somethings--along with a quiz designed to help determine which of seven profiles best fits each individual and what jobs are most appropriate to each profile. Original. 25,000 first printing.

A former Human Resources executive turns employee advocate in a practical handbook that offers an inside look at corporate hiring practices and reveals important secrets about the hiring process, including forty-four essential ways to work the system--ranging from "Professional references are useless" to "Always negotiate." Original. 30,000 first printing.

The handbook for surviving and thriving in the digital age. Highlights include: -An effective 4-step process for discovering, creating, communicating, and maintaining a personal brand. -Expert insight into how blogs, podcasting, and social networks can position individuals to find careers based on their passion and experience. - A complementary website (www.personalbrandingbook.com) with helpful templates for each tool in the personal branding kit (i.e. resume, portfolio, etc.). -Proven advice on branding from leading industry experts. -Tips on using social media tools for personal empowerment, confidence building, and professional networking in order to attract jobs directly, without having to perform tedious job searches. -Strategies for creating an online and offline presence for career protection and self- promotion.

More than 60% of American adults say they want to own their own business, and more than 5,000,000 new businesses are started every year. Unfortunately, 50-70% of new businesses fail. In this book, two of the world's leading experts on entrepreneurship identify the 8 'killer mistakes' that cause most of these business failures and give entrepreneurs all the knowledge, tools, templates, strategies, and hands-on how-to advice they need to avoid these errors. Unlike other books that focus on topics like writing business plans and finding investors, this book focuses on the crucial operational issues that make the difference between consistent profitability and costly failure. You'll learn how to identify the right opportunities and customers; effectively design your products and services; set the right price; overcome customer inertia; avoid common day-to-day management mistakes; find and keep good employees; and finally, smoothly manage growth. Throughout, the authors draw on real life entrepreneurial experiences, case studies, and leading-edge research. But there's nothing theoretical here: from start to finish, this book delivers fast-paced, 100% practical advice you can begin using right this minute!

Provides information on ways to connect with customers through social networks in order to create demand and sell more products.

Explains the function of a business plan, demonstrates how to create one for new companies such as non-profit organizations, and shows how to prepare a marketing plan, financial documents, and tax information.

"This book is a one-stop resource for individuals seeking to finance their education or career. In addition to providing classic, indispensable advice for prospective college students and their parents, the guide also provides advice for actors, musicians and other artists in the process of applying for loans, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and other forms of financial aid"--Provided by publisher.

"Examines the cost of college within the context of a family financial plan; financial aid; academic, athletic and need-based scholarships; tax sheltered savings plans such as 529s; potential help from grandparents; and the use of business assets, loans,home equity, and retirement savings"--Provided by publisher.

Guides prospective college students through financial aid opportunities, such as scholarships, loans, and grants, and how to properly manage finances while in college.

Provides advice and guidance for how to fund a college education, covering savings plans; loans; financial aid forms and packages; scholarships and grants; and special aid for minority, female, handicapped, and nontraditional students.

Presents over one thousand ways to help students pay for college, providing tips on such topics as contests for students, scholarships, student tax breaks, strategies to maximize financial aid, and military options.