Title:
Beginning your career search : a hands-on approach to building your career portfolio
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Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007
ISBN:
9780131727984
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Summary
Summary
A comprehensive guide to finding the right job and what a student needs to be hired, including examples of real documents created by students, Orsquo;Rourke provides students with a complete guide to assembling a career portfolio.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| What this book is about | p. i |
| Assembling a Career Portfolio | p. ii |
| Chapter 1 Assessing Yourself Daydreaming as a way of identifying your goals | |
| 1 Developing a Personal Profile | |
| 2 The role of your Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide | |
| 3 Developing your Career Planning Guide | |
| 3 Using your Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide | |
| 4 Classroom projects | |
| 5 Personal Profile and Career Planning Guide | p. 7 |
| Chapter 2 Your Personal Statement What it looks like | p. 9 |
| Your writing style | p. 10 |
| How to begin | p. 10 |
| Writing the first draft | p. 10 |
| Revise, revise, revise | p. 11 |
| Sample personal statement | p. 13 |
| Chapter 3 Your Resume What is a resume? | p. 15 |
| The keys to effective resume writing | p. 16 |
| What are employers looking for? | p. 16 |
| Writing a resume that works | p. 18 What shou |
