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Strategic Career Engagement: The Definitive Guide for Getting Hired and Promoted
Becoming the hiring manager's candidate of choice is not a matter of luck--it's how well your accomplishments and the benefits of your expertise can contribute toward an organization's strategic objectives. Author, consultant, and former Fortune 500 hiring manager Donn LeVie Jr. follows up his popular and award-winning book, Confessions of a Hiring Manager Rev. 2.0(Second Edition) with more in-depth expert advice for those seeking either a great job or a stellar career--or both. Strategic Career Engagement shows you how to:
* Enhance yourlikeability factorby including words hiring managers favor in your cover letters, résumés, and interviews
*Create an impressive portfolio that sells your skills, core competencies, and functional expertise
*Position yourself as a valuable asset to the hiring manager
*Promote your expertise, even after the interview has ended.
* Enhance yourlikeability factorby including words hiring managers favor in your cover letters, résumés, and interviews
*Create an impressive portfolio that sells your skills, core competencies, and functional expertise
*Position yourself as a valuable asset to the hiring manager
*Promote your expertise, even after the interview has ended.
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First published September 15, 2015
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Donn LeVie Jr.
6 books1 followerAward-winning author of Confessions of a Hiring Manager, speaker, and former Fortune 500 hiring manager with 25 years' experience hiring hundreds of people.
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October 9, 2015
Donn LeVie's book "Strategic Career Engagement" is a how-to book on how to get hired, get acclimated to a new job, and also get promoted. The book uses personal anecdotes and real-world examples of how people in the workforce get ahead, and it offers advice on what not to do.
LeVie offers strategies that acknowledge the problems of looking for a job but also presents the problems of filling one from the perspective of a hiring manager, and he offers tips for how to present your experience and your qualifications to a hiring manager in an interview. But LeVie stresses that the heavy lifting is yours and yours alone; that said, he offers some rather clever and cunning ways on what to lift and how to lift it. He offers tips on raising your likability factor by honestly conveying confidence and integrity when you present your credentials and creating a professional brand for yourself through personal networking and social media, and he also offers tips on cover letters and résumés with advice you may never have considered. For example, LeVie takes the reader through steps on how to write a cover letter that grabs a hiring manager's attention immediately and ends strongly with promise of a follow-up, and he explains the difference between résumés and curricula vitae (CVs), explaining that a curriculum vitae is more of a list of honors, awards and published articles, while a résumé is mostly concerned with work experience. For résumés, LeVie explains how to sharpen them with specific nouns, descriptive words, and verbs that connote accomplishments. Most of all, LeVie says, you should always stress your accomplishments more than your duties if you want to make a good impression.
"Strategic Career Engagement" is a solid, methodically outlined, strongly written book with sound advice and surprising insight on the job make and how to thrive in it. You'll learn new tactics for job searching and you'll have a new perspective on what you already know. Though there are factors you can't control in your job search, "Strategic Career Engagement" goes a long way in teaching you how to maximize the factors you can control. It's a highly informative and helpful book.
LeVie offers strategies that acknowledge the problems of looking for a job but also presents the problems of filling one from the perspective of a hiring manager, and he offers tips for how to present your experience and your qualifications to a hiring manager in an interview. But LeVie stresses that the heavy lifting is yours and yours alone; that said, he offers some rather clever and cunning ways on what to lift and how to lift it. He offers tips on raising your likability factor by honestly conveying confidence and integrity when you present your credentials and creating a professional brand for yourself through personal networking and social media, and he also offers tips on cover letters and résumés with advice you may never have considered. For example, LeVie takes the reader through steps on how to write a cover letter that grabs a hiring manager's attention immediately and ends strongly with promise of a follow-up, and he explains the difference between résumés and curricula vitae (CVs), explaining that a curriculum vitae is more of a list of honors, awards and published articles, while a résumé is mostly concerned with work experience. For résumés, LeVie explains how to sharpen them with specific nouns, descriptive words, and verbs that connote accomplishments. Most of all, LeVie says, you should always stress your accomplishments more than your duties if you want to make a good impression.
"Strategic Career Engagement" is a solid, methodically outlined, strongly written book with sound advice and surprising insight on the job make and how to thrive in it. You'll learn new tactics for job searching and you'll have a new perspective on what you already know. Though there are factors you can't control in your job search, "Strategic Career Engagement" goes a long way in teaching you how to maximize the factors you can control. It's a highly informative and helpful book.
October 17, 2015
Strategic Career Engagement
By Donn LeVie Jr.
2015
Reviewed by Angie Mangino
Rating: 5 stars
Readers looking to be hired or promoted will find the author an excellent advisor for their careers.
“Strategic Career Engagement is about developing a strategy for eliminating the competition for a job or promotion by making your expertise and the benefits of that expertise so much in demand by a hiring manager that you become the only logical choice of candidate.”
With practical and up-to-date information, the author, a former hiring manager, shares insights from that perspective. He instructs in a comfortable, conversational style how to raise one’s likeability, what strategy to follow, tips on cover letters, resumes, and interviews, post interview strategy and more.
As a freelance journalist, this reviewer found the professional brand sections especially relevant and applicable, not only to traditional job seekers, but additionally for those self-employed.
“Promoting your professional brand requires the same approach whether your interest is in pursuing a permanent position (internal for external), seeking contracting opportunities, or expanding a consulting business.”
Cover letter, resume, and social media tips find application value across careers, making the author a valuable asset on career advancement in today’s work environment.
Angie Mangino currently works as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, additionally offering authors personalized critique service of unpublished manuscripts. http://www.angiemangino.com
By Donn LeVie Jr.
2015
Reviewed by Angie Mangino
Rating: 5 stars
Readers looking to be hired or promoted will find the author an excellent advisor for their careers.
“Strategic Career Engagement is about developing a strategy for eliminating the competition for a job or promotion by making your expertise and the benefits of that expertise so much in demand by a hiring manager that you become the only logical choice of candidate.”
With practical and up-to-date information, the author, a former hiring manager, shares insights from that perspective. He instructs in a comfortable, conversational style how to raise one’s likeability, what strategy to follow, tips on cover letters, resumes, and interviews, post interview strategy and more.
As a freelance journalist, this reviewer found the professional brand sections especially relevant and applicable, not only to traditional job seekers, but additionally for those self-employed.
“Promoting your professional brand requires the same approach whether your interest is in pursuing a permanent position (internal for external), seeking contracting opportunities, or expanding a consulting business.”
Cover letter, resume, and social media tips find application value across careers, making the author a valuable asset on career advancement in today’s work environment.
Angie Mangino currently works as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, additionally offering authors personalized critique service of unpublished manuscripts. http://www.angiemangino.com
October 12, 2015
Title: Strategic Career Engagement: The Definitive Guide for Getting Hired and Promoted
Author: Donn LeVie Jr.
Strategic Career Engagement is relevant for anyone looking for a job at a small business or corporation. This book is more than just a guidebook. There are concrete examples of qualifications that make candidates competitive for open positions, like how to interview so that you appeal to the hiring manager.
Anyone looking for a job or working online will find a plethora of information on his or her personal career platform -- an important factor for finding a job or building an entrepreneurial brand. Also within the pages of “Strategic Career Engagement” are resources that candidates can search to learn more about topics like improving their resume.
If you are a job seeker or business owner, I recommend that you add a copy of Strategic Career Engagement to your business library.
After reading “Strategic Career Engagement”, this reviewer awards five out of five stars to “Strategic Career Engagement” and a must read recommendation for any job seeker or entrepreneur.
Reviewer:
Robert Medak
Freelance Writer, Blogger, Editor, Proofreader, Reviewer, Marketer
Author: Donn LeVie Jr.
Strategic Career Engagement is relevant for anyone looking for a job at a small business or corporation. This book is more than just a guidebook. There are concrete examples of qualifications that make candidates competitive for open positions, like how to interview so that you appeal to the hiring manager.
Anyone looking for a job or working online will find a plethora of information on his or her personal career platform -- an important factor for finding a job or building an entrepreneurial brand. Also within the pages of “Strategic Career Engagement” are resources that candidates can search to learn more about topics like improving their resume.
If you are a job seeker or business owner, I recommend that you add a copy of Strategic Career Engagement to your business library.
After reading “Strategic Career Engagement”, this reviewer awards five out of five stars to “Strategic Career Engagement” and a must read recommendation for any job seeker or entrepreneur.
Reviewer:
Robert Medak
Freelance Writer, Blogger, Editor, Proofreader, Reviewer, Marketer
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