Jumpstart Your Job
Jumpstart Your Job: 12 Simple Ways to Shift Your Career into High Geardescribes the qualities people at any stage of their career must display to succeed in the workplace. There is no question that employees must demonstrate occupational or technical skills on the job. However, the most effective workers possess something more. These employees demonstrate personal attributes that are universal and characteristics that all employers look for. In Jumpstart Your Job, Marcia explains how a person’s everyday behavior creates a positive or negative impression in the eyes of other people. This becomes what a person is known for, or his/her reputation. In short, easy-to-read chapters with action steps, 12 Simple Ways are described to help readers learn behaviors their bosses really want. Employers and young professionals from large and small companies offer insights about what is important in the workplace, how workers can fit into the job culture, and what common mistakes should be avoided.
The book explores the following topics:
- The one thing that matters more than anything else in the workplace
- What qualities employers value most
- 12 simple ways to get a competitive edge in your first job and entire career
Product Details
| Paperback: | 116 pages |
| Publisher: | Parker Stanton Publishing (November 15, 2007) |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-9788066-4-4 |
This is the book for new and experienced employees. Hear wisdom and advice from supervisors and young professionals, such as:
Wearing clothes that are too trendy may send the wrong message or cost you your job.
Yasmin Anderson-Smith, Image and Brand Management Consultant, KYMS Image International LLC
When you're 20, you don't think that your behavior will matter later. It 100 percent matters. At some point, it’s going to bite you.
Shelly DonBullian, Owner, Curves of Dunkirk
"Do what you say you will do" is the ultimate obligation. Your word is number one.
Carl Nanney, Former President & CEO, Auto Collision, Inc.
What other people are saying about Jumpstart Your Job:
This is THE handbook everyone wishes they had as they were leaving school. Marcia provides the tips, tricks and success secrets to attaining and keeping the job of your dreams by putting your best foot forward.
Brenda Bertrand, "The Millennial Coach"
In Jumpstart Your Job, Marcia Hall shares some simple ways people can exhibit the behaviors employers value most. As a corporate trainer, I am often struck by the impact personal reputation makes in the business world. This is a great book for anyone wishing to take charge of how they are perceived in the workplace.
David Riveness, author of The Secret Life of the Corporate Jester
This book offers easy-to-follow tips and techniques for developing the behaviors that employers look for and value. I highly recommend this book and wish I had these tips and guidelines when I was looking for my first job and beginning my career!
Kim Hiatt, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA and ThinFromWithinKids.com
Know what responsible behavior looks like in the workplace? Marcia Hall does. Jumpstart Your Job lays it out in simple terms and provides a list of the little things that can boost or derail your career.
Paul X. English III, Vice President, New Plant Engineering & Construction, Constellation Generation Group
Parker Stanton Publishing is the publisher of Reputation COUNTS products.
Please visit www.reputationcounts.com
Navigating Newbie-ism
Navigating Newbie-ism: 12 Simple Ways to Thrive in Your First Job and Career, The College Student’s Guide describes the skills students need beyond academics and college degrees to succeed in the workplace. The book identifies qualities that all employers look for. It explains how students can practice 12 simple ways to develop these personal attributes giving them a competitive edge in their first jobs and careers. Knowing these skills helps take the stress out of being the "newbie." They learn to navigate "newbie-ism" - the state of being new on the job and wondering how to impress employers, fit in and get ahead.
The book explores the following topics:
- How behavior creates a positive or negative impression about you in the eyes of other people
- The importance of having an outstanding personal reputation
- How reputation impacts what opportunities come your way
- What qualities make a difference to employers
- The 12 Simple Ways that create a positive impression
Product Details
| Paperback: | 168 pages |
| Publisher: | Parker Stanton Publishing (January, 2007) |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-9788066-3-7 |
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Employers and young professionals give advice throughout the book. Here are some examples:
Not only did my first internship supervisor give me a recommendation, he hired me full-time after I graduated from college. When I was a summer intern, I went above and beyond my responsibilities, and I took the time to learn about the company and introduce myself in all departments.
Meghan Kwasniak, Enrollment Manager, Laureate Education
Employees need to understand the unwritten rules regarding appropriate dress. You dress up to start with, look around and see what others are wearing, and conform if you are dressing differently. It’s not written down. You just get it. Your reputation is at stake.
Jim Fulks, Corporate Director of HR and Facilities, Under Armour
Smart hiring managers in companies—small or large—will try to find out about job candidates by calling previous employers. You want to hear them say, "We should clone that guy." Your reputation needs to be sterling to go anywhere. If not, it will catch up with you.
Mary McMurtry, Former Regional Manager Field Employment, Southwest Airlines
Here is what other people are saying about Navigating Newbie-ism:
This is an excellent resource and working document for quick tips on how students can navigate through the job search and their first professional career. The incorporation of story makes it practical, useful and easy to read.
Anne Scholl-Fiedler, Director, UMBC Career Services Center
Marcia Hall has hit on all the subjects that are essential to your success. If you master all these, you’ll be successful in your career.
Carl Nanney, President, Auto Collision, Inc.
This book gives practical, sound advice that is important for college students' success in their internships or in their first "after graduation" job. Much of this advice isn’t taught in college classrooms. It’s learned through experience or when someone takes the time to give you friendly advice. It’s great to have a book that gives friendly advice and can be referred to many times throughout one’s career.
Kim Leisey, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs, UMBC
Navigating Newbie-ism is exactly what I was looking for when I was about to graduate from college. The brevity used to talk about each of the 12 Simple Ways is refreshing.
Adam Freeze, 2005 Graduate, College of Charleston
For the past ten years, I have helped managers and employees work more effectively with their bosses, peers, direct reports, and customers. Marcia Hall's book, Navigating Newbie-ism, contains tips that are invaluable to workers at any level. College students who read this book and apply the 12 Simple Ways will certainly succeed in the workforce.
Wendy Mack, President, T3 Consulting, LLC
This is a great resource for students entering the working world for the first time. Navigating Newbie-ism contains the most important lessons that I have learned over the course of my professional internships and my first years on the job after college.
Jaime Mendez, 2004 Graduate, Harvard College
The section on "Reputation" in Navigating Newbie-ism provides very good information, as this is something that is very rarely spoken about to college students. Most students feel that their reputations in college will not follow them into the professional world and that being on good terms with professors is unnecessary—when exactly the opposite is true. Professors are indispensable resources for students, and, more often than not, they are not utilized. Christine Renner, 2006 Graduate, College of Charleston
The personal attributes Marcia Hall talks about in Navigating Newbie-ism are rarely discussed in college. But they are essential to your ability to succeed. Think of this book as a GPS receiver for navigating you to success in your professional life.
Pappu Khera, CPA, M.S. Taxation, Khera & Associates, Ltd.
Parker Stanton Publishing is the publisher of Reputation COUNTS products.
Please visit www.reputationcounts.com
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