Buy a book, get a job?
September 30, 1996
Daily Staff Writer
While you can’t read your way into a career or job, books on the subject can help you along.
Some new ones:
*The Under 35 Guide to Starting and Running Your Business (Upstart-Dearborn Publishing, $14.95 paperback), by Lisa Shaw, covers starting, financing, marketing, and making your distinctive mark with your own entrepreneurial enterprise.
*Windows Point & Click Jobfinder (Dearborn Financial Publishing, $14.95 paperback, with program disk), by Seth Godin, includes step-by-step instructions to help you latch onto your next post, via the Internet.
*America’s Top Internships (Princeton Review-Random House, $20 paperback) and The Internship Bible (Princeton Review-Random House, $25 paperback) guide the beginner to internships and resources for the intern.
And for those bumps on the road ahead, still more titles from Princeton Review-Random House, all paperbacks for $12:
*Don’t Be A Chump, by Nicholas R. Schaffzin, to hone your negotiating skills.
*Speak Now, Or Forever Fall to Pieces , by Thomas K. Mira, to master public speaking *Trashproof Resumes , by Timothy D. Haft, to get yours to the top of the stack.
*Word Smart-Executive Edition, by Liz Buffa, to help you learn business-speak.
More books for the ”Idiots” out there from Alpha Books-Macmillan, this time geared to the job market.
*The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Getting The Job You Want , ($24.99 with two computer disks), by Marc Dorio, has advice and worksheets to help you make the job search a little less difficult.
*The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Winning Through Negotiation ($16.95 paperback), by John Ilich, tips you on strategies and techniques of staying ahead once the job is won.