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Launch Your Career: How ANY Student Can Create Relationships with Professionals and Land the Jobs and Internships They Want
Expert career coach Sean O'Keefe shows how students can get their dream job right out of college by building their own professional network from scratch.
It's tough to find an internship or job that you really want during the best of times, and these are not the best of times.
Did you know only 20% of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80% of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. And while the success rate of applying to online job postings is less than 2%, if you develop an internal advocate at the organizations you're interested in, you are 12 times more likely to land a position.
O'Keefe, in partnership with The Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven, 8-step, Career Launch Method(TM) that will help ANY student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship-building by teaching all the practical micro-steps needed to succeed. O'Keefe teaches you how to play the student card--turn your student status into a powerful advantage.
Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method(TM) to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, non-profits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world.
Thousands of students have reported that the Career Launch Method(TM) increased their self-
confidence and helped them become more courageous, not only in their job search, but in all areas of life.
The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment(TM) which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas: career exploration, personal brand, networking, job searching, and personal growth. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed resource for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's ROI.
It's tough to find an internship or job that you really want during the best of times, and these are not the best of times.
Did you know only 20% of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80% of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. And while the success rate of applying to online job postings is less than 2%, if you develop an internal advocate at the organizations you're interested in, you are 12 times more likely to land a position.
O'Keefe, in partnership with The Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven, 8-step, Career Launch Method(TM) that will help ANY student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship-building by teaching all the practical micro-steps needed to succeed. O'Keefe teaches you how to play the student card--turn your student status into a powerful advantage.
Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method(TM) to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, non-profits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world.
Thousands of students have reported that the Career Launch Method(TM) increased their self-
confidence and helped them become more courageous, not only in their job search, but in all areas of life.
The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment(TM) which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas: career exploration, personal brand, networking, job searching, and personal growth. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed resource for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's ROI.
240 pages, Paperback
Published May 18, 2021
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June 4, 2021
There’s something uncommonly generous about the new leadership advice book Launch Your Career: How ANY Student Can Create Relationships with Professionals and Land the Jobs and Internships They Want. Perhaps it’s just that, what its title articulates - the fact the book is specifically geared towards the burgeoning young professional-to-be, fresh out of school and still grappling with the aesthetical choices and responsibilities of being a young adult. Or the way it breaks down timelessly sound and efficient information into highly detailed, chaptered blocks from A to Z. Written by Sean O’Keefe in partnership with The Career Leadership Collective, the book is arguably a prime example of the post-modernist thinking principles of ascertaining success for the long ride. It’s written in unsparing yet unpretentious prose, not interested in catering to a particular, exclusionary kind of audience. This seems reflective of overall changes in workplace mentality, from traditionalist views on various corporate, hierarchal relationships to the necessary credentials mandated for climbing certain corporate and social ladders. The book at its base set of components is essentially a complex how-to guide, consisting of two extensive sections christened How to Access the Hidden Job Market and The Career Launch Method respectively. Yet despite the expectations of the hypothetical reader, O’Keefe pulls a proverbial bait-and-switch when it comes to the actual focal point of Launch Your Career. While the necessary, step-by-step processes of doing the right song and dance to clinch the desired position are articulated in vivid detail, O’Keefe is more interested in highlighting the inner workings of what you need to be thinking and doing when it comes to approaching said formulas. “What is the biggest factor separating students who are successful in their job search from those who aren’t?” he writes in the book’s second chapter, Habits and Mindsets for Career Success. “It’s not grades, experience, or personality…Students who land the internships and jobs they want consistently practice one key habit: they are proactive. Being proactive means that you take action to create opportunities for yourself. When it comes to your career, being proactive is about building authentic relationships with professionals at the organizations where you want to work. It is the most effective way to achieve your goals.”
It’s fitting that in the same chapter O’Keefe cites a quote from Carol S. Dweck - ‘…A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacles, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.’ You ever hear the old saying ‘fake it until you make it’? In many ways, O’Keefe referentially borrows a tonal structure from a scrappier, more on-the-ground and hustler-like mentality. He puts a finger in the eye of many young people’s seeming reluctance to stick with something regardless of success on take one. Rather, as O’Keefe brilliantly demonstrates throughout Launch Your Career’s chapters, it’s all about learning exponentially from what works and what doesn’t. A failure today can lay part of the foundations for success tomorrow. It’s about being educated about being educated, O’Keefe writes. Understanding it’s about maintaining productivity, and proactivity, everyday - keeping one’s approach malleable to unforeseen circumstances.
It’s fitting that in the same chapter O’Keefe cites a quote from Carol S. Dweck - ‘…A hallmark of a successful person is that they persist in the face of obstacles, and often, these obstacles are blessings in disguise.’ You ever hear the old saying ‘fake it until you make it’? In many ways, O’Keefe referentially borrows a tonal structure from a scrappier, more on-the-ground and hustler-like mentality. He puts a finger in the eye of many young people’s seeming reluctance to stick with something regardless of success on take one. Rather, as O’Keefe brilliantly demonstrates throughout Launch Your Career’s chapters, it’s all about learning exponentially from what works and what doesn’t. A failure today can lay part of the foundations for success tomorrow. It’s about being educated about being educated, O’Keefe writes. Understanding it’s about maintaining productivity, and proactivity, everyday - keeping one’s approach malleable to unforeseen circumstances.
June 4, 2021
I believe that building genuine relationships with people is more important than ever. And as a recent college graduate/ young professional woman, I hope to further "build my muscle" at being strategic, proactive, and intentional when networking with others.
I found this book to be a great motivator to step out of my comfort zone and overcome emotional/ psychological barriers to networking. I especially liked the Career Launch Method's emphasis of conducting outreach with respect and gratitude.
I found this book to be a great motivator to step out of my comfort zone and overcome emotional/ psychological barriers to networking. I especially liked the Career Launch Method's emphasis of conducting outreach with respect and gratitude.
August 13, 2021
Disappointing book. Restates the obvious things. Where are the detailed insights to obtain internships in specific fields? This book only discusses generalities. Waste of time.
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