Getting Back to Work: Everything You Need to Bounce Back and Get a Job After a Layoff
2.Moving Through the Stages
3.The Effect on Your Self and Relationships
4.Career vs. Job Change
5.Finances: Resources and Budgets
6.Identifying Your Transferrable Skills
7.How to Describe Yourself
8.Awareness of Your Work Values and Preferences
9.Assesment Instruments
10.Repackaging Yourself
11.How to Find Work
12.Networking
13.The 10,000 pound Telephone
14.Resumes
15.Cover Letters
16.References & Recommendations
17.Job Application Forms
18.Job Interviews
19.Analyzing Job Offers
20.Negotiating Salary and Job Offers
21.Your Self and Your Job
22.The Mature Worker
23.Disability and Employment
24.Epilogue
25.Appendix
26.Index
A truly masterful book on career transition and job seeking, especiallyin light of the current state of our economy. It addresses a wide arrayof topics that are important for almost every job seeker. "
-Carmen Croonquist, Director of Career Services, University of Wisconsin
HOW DO YOU MOVE ON AFTER BEING LAID OFF?
You can't always control losing your job, but you can control your reaction and the decisions you make afterward
In Getting Back to Work, Linda Rolie, an expert in strategic career development with a background as a psychiatric therapist, gives you time-tested tools for finding a new job in today's tough economy, while also working through the psychological challenges you might face after being laid off.
In Getting Back to Work, you'll find:
Guidance managing emotions and stress while searching for a new jobExercises to identify transferable skills, knowledge, abilities, and qualificationsTemplates for writing impressive resumes, cover letters, and thank-you notes,Tips on networking, resume building, interviewing, and how to answer the “why did you get laid off?” and “aren't you overqualified?” questionsResearch methods for finding a job, helpful Internet sites and other resources