Find a Better Job

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Michael Dolan. Find a Better Job

Introduction

1. Matching Yourself to the World of Work

Sources of Additional Information

Matching Personal and Job Characteristics

Classifying the Occupations

Personal Skills and Abilities

Work Characteristics

Occupational Characteristics

Education and Training

Reading your skills on the table

PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

WORK CHARACTERISTICS

OCCUPATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

EDUCATION AND TRAINING CATEGORY

2. Changing Your Job

Be Prepared

Sizing Up Your Job

What Now?

New Department? New Company?

Help Is Available

Persistence Pays

Let Others Know You’re Looking

If You Leave… Get What You Have Coming

Arrange Insurance Coverage

You Can Take It With You

Embracing Change

REFERENCE MATERIALS

ORGANIZATIONS

3. Using Help Wanted Services

Types of Employment Service Firms

Protecting Yourself

Where to Complain

4. Making Your Best Resumes, Applications and Cover Letters

Résumés: Marketing your skills

Gathering and organizing the facts

Applications: Fitting yourself to the form

Action Words

Choosing a format

Adding style

Proofreading

Going digital

Cover letters: Introducing yourself

Parts of the cover letter

For more information

5. Networking through Job Fairs

Networking

6. Interviewing for the Job

Preparation

Job Interview Checklist

Showtime

References: Making the last word a good one

"Fuzzy slipper" interviews

Following up

7. Futurework: Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century

Diversity

Technology

SKILLED, NOT STUCK

New economy, new challenge

Skills are the ticket

Prepared not "jobsolete"

FLEXIBILITY AND FAMILY

Technology: the virtual office never closes

"Just in time" workers

Empowering workers with choice

DESTINY AND DIVERSITY

Closing the gap

Not there yet

Tapping America’s potential

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

8. Opportunities in Information Technology

Earnings

Preparing for an IT Career

The Bottom Line

For More Information

9. Tomorrow’s Jobs

Population

Labor Force

Education and Training

Employment

Occupation

Total Job Openings

Matching Your Skills from Chapter One

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We think you will find this book useful for a long time. It’s for people looking for their first career job or looking to improve on the one they’ve got. Find a Better Job is filled with helpful and solid information – not just trendy slogans. Each chapter takes you one step forward on your career path.

This book comes from the work Dolan Management does with career training. We specialize in communication. But over the years, we have answered many larger questions about using communication to get ahead. We identified some of the most reliable and up to date sources we could find to compile this book. Each chapter comes from a different expert source. The information, of course, is used with the expressed written permission of the authors. We put them together in a way we think you will find most useful to you.

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For occupations requiring a college degree, the table indicates the level of degree workers need. For occupations requiring on-the-job training without attending postsecondary school, it notes the length of time workers must undergo training to become proficient. Remember, these education and training categories reflect the most common requirements for entering an occupation. For example, the educational requirement for teacher is level 5, a bachelor's degree. This is because teachers in all States are required to have a bachelor's degree for certification to teach in public schools. But in some States, teachers in public schools must have a master's degree while teachers in private schools may not have the same licensing requirements as do those in public schools.

A highly informative table matching these 22 characteristics to almost 250 jobs is available at the end of this book.

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