Success Spoken Here
Part I: First-Job Success
How to Land a Great First Job—Then Impress Everyone Starting on Day One
- Identify a desirable employer
- Land a great job
- Succeed at work
Part I explains how to search for a job suited to one's interests. It provides tools and instructions for identifying appealing employers, contacting them, and landing a desirable position.
Further, to set the stage for young job seekers, it explains why companies succeed and where they fit into that success. And it describes important communications skills that young employees should master to be most effective at work, as well as recommendations for improving those skills.
Part I then covers several important tasks to address before starting work, such as getting one's wardrobe and transportation in order.
Finally, Part I explains several behaviors to pursue on the job that will sew up success; as well as a number of them to avoid that might stifle it.
- Table of Contents -
- Plotting Your Own Course
- Why Do Companies Succeed?
- Where Do You Fit in the Picture?
- Verbal Communications
- The Job Search
- What Type of Job is for You?
- Where Would You Like to Work?
- How Much Can You Work?
- About Those Want Ads
- Contacting Companies
- Contacting Key Hiring People
- Using Company Hiring Portals
- Contacting Companies Without Hiring Portals
- Interviewing
- After the Interview
- Accepting and Declining Offers
- Countdown to Day One
- Wardrobe
- Grooming
- Transportation
- On-Stage Conduct
- Prioritizing Tasks
- Juggling Customers
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