Courting Your Career

Download or read book Courting Your Career written by Shawn Graham and published by Jist Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courting Your Career uses dating as a metaphor to demystify the process of finding a great job. ItOCOs a humorous, informative, and helpful book for job seekers, inspired by the authorOCOs work with more than a thousand undergraduate and graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Westminster College. He learned that many college students lack critical job search skills and generally do not know how to effectively use traditional career-search resources, from databases to networking. He also found they didnOCOt relate to the majority of career titles already on the market. But when he used dating as a metaphor for the job search, students better understood the process and eventually met with much more success in their searches."