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What this Guide Is

No guide or manual, no matter how good, can write your resume, draft your cover letter, or call up a recruiter to sing your praises. Unfortunately, you’ve got to do that yourself.

However, this guide can help you accomplish one thing, and that’s to help you help yourself. Throughout this manual, you’ll find many powerful tools, tips, and strategies to support you in your efforts to land the very best job you possibly can after graduation. If you use this guide in the way it was intended, you’ll have plenty of exercises, activities, and other action items you’ll need to take on a regular basis in order to have a successful job search. You’ll have good ideas that you can implement to help you network, build relationships, and differentiate yourself in a competitive job market. The key here is to take action– don’t let this guide become another dust-collector in your room. Use it!

What this Guide is Not

This guide prides itself on delivering fresh, intelligent insight in a fun, humorous way – because, let’s face it, the job search can get pretty grim sometimes. It isn’t intended to cover information on topics that are written about with such frequency– like resume writing or interviewing—that you could read a book a day on one of these traditional job search tools and still not be done by the time you graduate from business school. That isn’t to suggest that we ignore the resume or cover letter in this manual (this is a job search guide, after all!) – but simply that we take it one step further for you. While we focus on the traditional job search tools, this guide also focuses on the subtleties, the unspoken rules, and the nuances of the job search. It offers ideas about the little things that get overlooked (like how to leave a good voice mail), the big things that we all need to master during the job search (like how to network when you don’t have any contacts!), and the other things that matter to MBA students.

This Guide Is Your Friend

Like a cold can of Diet Coke, this guide can provide some comfort to you when the going gets tough…and, my friend, the going always gets tough at one point or another during the job search. If you’re having a bad job search day, you didn’t get the offer, or nobody is returning your phone calls, take heart, and remember that we’ve all been there. So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep taking the steps suggested in this manual. Use the exercises throughout this guide to motivate you, to inspire you, and to remind you that we all started this job search journey with a single step. You can too.