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ckoestner's review against another edition
4.0
Not 100% relevant to those of us who didn’t go to business school but still contains a good number of helpful tips/ reframing of the job search process.
swhuber's review against another edition
4.0
Super engaging, easy to read and a different way to looking at the job search process. Very helpful insights on using your network, scheduling informational interviews, etc.
julia_milner's review against another edition
4.0
A quick read with some useful tips. This book would be most useful for someone with a Masters degree looking for a clearly defined, conventional white-collar job (I'm not the target audience) but I'll definitely be testing out some of the suggested tactics.
skitch41's review against another edition
4.0
With the proliferation of online hiring applications, there has been no easier or better time to apply for a job. Yet for many it can seem like you would get a better return if you threw your resume in the garbage bin rather than submitted it online. How can it be so much easier to find and apply for a job online and yet be so difficult to actually land one? In this wonderful, relatively short book, Mr. Dalton a senior career consultant at Duke University, reveals not only why it is more difficult to land that job, but also reveals a method for prioritizing your job search and getting people to help you land that job. This book doesn't tell you how to do a better job interview (What's the point if you're not even able to get that far?), but rather lays out a method of finding companies or organizations that you should be focused on, identifying and contacting people, usually alumni from your most recent school, and securing and conducting an informational interview. For those who don't know, an informational interview is NOT an interview for a job, but rather an interview with someone at a target organization that could be a potential "booster" for you at that organization. This may seem like a long, roundabout way of landing a job, but considering that most companies hire someone who was referred to them at their company, this method offers the best chance of landing that job. This book does a great job of breaking down Mr. Dalton's method step-by-step and doing so in a way that doesn't overtax you. The key, as the author points out, is to apply the 80-20 rule (80% of the results from 20% of the work) to the job search. I'm not fond of the author's Question & Answer format that makes up the chapters of this book, but his method is far better than any previous job advice I have received. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is currently embarking on a career search.
kissmyash0600's review against another edition
4.0
Best for those who have a job and are ready to start moving on to bigger and better things
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