Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates: What Works to Launch a Gen-Z Career

Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates is a clear and concrete guide to What Works to Launch a Gen-Z Career. A new volume in the best-selling Modernize Your Career series, it lays out in crisp, clear language exactly what college students need to do to land their first professional job: from developing a super resume and LinkedIn profile to conducting a networking-based job search and acing their interviews. Starting with a guide to writing a powerful and effective resume, the book goes on to explain and illustrate the many different career communications todays jobseekers need: LinkedIn profiles, enote cover letters, networking communications, and thank-you notes. A full chapter discusses the best job-search methods, guiding readers to go beyond the easy (but often ineffective) method of zapping resumes in response to job postings. Rather, the authors guide emerging professionals in the art and science of networkinga skill that will be invaluable throughout their careers. They remove the mystery and provide clear guidelines, timelines, lead follow-up strategies, and other techniques to transform networking into an enjoyable and highly effective process. Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates is sharply focused and to the point. It tells college students and new grads everything they need to know and do to conduct a job search that is focused, efficient, and highly effective.

About the Author :
Jan Melnik is an original board member serving with Career Thought Leaders since 2009 and has written or contributed to more than 25 books in the career management field. She earned her master's degree from Wesleyan University and holds two undergraduate degrees in business. She teaches communications at the University of South Florida and business at Bay Path University. She works with executive clients through her private practice, Absolute Advantage, in Siesta Key, Sarasota, Fla., and Portland, Conn. Louise Kursmark is the author of more than 30 books on resume writing and career management, including two additional titles in the Modernize Your Career series. She co-founded Resume Writing Academy, the industrys premier training organization, and Career Thought Leaders, a think tank for the now, the new, and the next in careers. Currently she serves executive clients through her private practice, Best Impression Career Services in Plymouth, Mass.