Career Confidence
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Career Confidence

No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power

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eBook - ePub

Career Confidence

No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power

About this book

Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path

In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You'll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path.

Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you're really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she's helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want.

You'll also find:

  • Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking
  • Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers
  • Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life


A must-read guide to a complex employment arena, Career Confidence will earn a place on the bookshelves of job seekers, interviewers, career changers, and professionals everywhere.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781394219988
eBook ISBN
9781394220922

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Life's a Gamble
  9. 2 What's in a Name?
  10. 3 How Did We Get Here?
  11. 4 A Guy Walks into a Bar
  12. 5 There Is Nothing Wrong with You
  13. 6 Fake It ’Til You Make It
  14. 7 Want Loyalty? Get a Dog.
  15. 8 Learned Behavior
  16. 9 I Cannot Control the Weather
  17. 10 I'm a Fraud; You're a Fraud
  18. 11 The Power of a Really, Really, Really Great Resume
  19. 12 Famous Clients and Other People I Cannot Name
  20. 13 There Are All Kinds of Jobs
  21. 14 New Grad? So Rad!
  22. 15 Criminally Insane
  23. 16 Looking for a Job Is Like Having a Job
  24. 17 Confidence Is a Negotiation Skill
  25. 18 It's Hard to Be a Woman, So Start a Business
  26. 19 Recruiters Hate Me; I Am Okay with That
  27. 20 Casper the Unfriendly Ghost
  28. 21 To Cover Letter or Not to Cover Letter, That Is the Question
  29. 22 Tell Me about Yourself
  30. 23 Be a STAR
  31. 24 Job Hunting in a Terrible Job Market
  32. 25 My Dad Never Made More Than $30,000 a Year
  33. 26 From Cop to Millionaire
  34. 27 Is That Actually a Job?
  35. 28 Are You Underpaid?
  36. 29 Fired? Welcome to the Club.
  37. 30 Hiring Is a Hot Mess
  38. 31 Toxic Bosses
  39. 32 Are You HOT?
  40. 33 Mister Rogers
  41. About the Author
  42. Index
  43. End User License Agreement

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