Around 400 pages dedicated to preparing for addressing a job offer, preparing your credentials, going to the interview, being ready for the various tests. Plus a CD with various useful applications.
I was impressed by the quality of the detail. I discovered lots of things I never been able to order in a systematic way, as for example being ready to answer various types of questions regarding your professional perspectives and your working record.
Finding a job these days, the job to make you happy from the financial and professional point of view, while keeping a certain balance with your family life is more difficult than ever. The market is full, the level of professional standards is getting higher and higher. For example, you have now by far more qualified candidates, from the point of view of the education background, than two decades ago, as having an MA, MBA or even a PhD is a more widespreaded feature. In these cases, you genesis of the choices is made up to very careful examination of professional background, sources from the market, successful tasks.
Applying for a job is part of a very careful plan of analysis and evaluation of your own offer, your communication capacity, your medium and long-term objectives. The choices are followed by considerations regarding the dress-code, the choice of the language, the elaboration of the CV - according to various standards -, a psychological self-analysis.
The list of questions you might be prepared to answer is long and you will never be able to predict 80% of them. What it is important to have in your mind as long as possible is to know your objectives and to answer and behave accordingly. It is true that the current economic crisis is narrowing the options and limiting the freedom to say "no". But, on the other side, it is important to be ready to say "no". Everything is a matter of self-awareness and even there are books with this subject too, the most important thing are your attitude and your inner resources.
