| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
What You Know -- Career Management Means You -- Finish Your Education -- Learn New Specialized Skills -- Find and Take the Contract Work -- Cross-Training and Volunteering -- Background Screens and Assessments -- Interviewing, Part 1 -- Who You Know -- Building an Online Profile -- Researching Employers -- Leverage Your Network, and Their Networks -- Mentors and Professional Associations -- Zero In on the Company -- Where to Go and What to Do -- Cool Tools for Getting a Job -- From Best Practice to Business Case -- Interviewing, Part 2 -- The Onboarding Battle and Beyond -- Internal Mobility -- Careers in Cloud Computing and Mobile Technology -- Careers in Big Data and Social Analytics -- Traditional IT Careers Today. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Tech Job Hunt Handbook is a career management book - just for technology professionals - that reflects today's new economic realities. The world of work is constantly changing, and staying professionally relevant while competing for more specialized tech jobs in areas like cloud computing, mobile and social applications, and big data in a highly competitive global economy is critical. The world is churning out hungry programmers and developers in record numbers, making the global labor market highly competitive. It is now essential to plan a campaign to get a better job as well as your overall career. Retooling your skills and re-branding yourself is mandatory whether you're seeking a new job or intent on retaining current employment. Readers of the Tech Job Hunt Handbook will find tools, practical guidance, and recommendations on how to find the best new tech jobs, how to get noticed, how to ace interviews and get hired, and how to keep those new jobs - until it's time for a better one. As you will learn, learning how to assess and then invest in career management skills leads to long-term competitive advantage and a happier working life. Tech Job Hunt Handbook - for recent graduates, risk-taking innovators, and tech veterans alike - shows how to build a comprehensive online professional profile, identify the companies you're interested in and who you know at those companies, approach interviews with confidence, uncover opportunities in your current company, and understand the new emerging technology markets that could lead to a career rebirth. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Job hunting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Computer science -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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High technology industries -- Vocational guidance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Business.
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Management science.
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Commerce |
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Affaires. |
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Sciences de la gestion. |
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Recherche d'emploi -- Guides, manuels, etc. |
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Informatique -- Guides, manuels, etc. |
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Industries de pointe -- Orientation professionnelle -- Guides, manuels, etc. |
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business (commercial function) |
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Management science |
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Business |
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Computer science |
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High technology industries -- Vocational guidance |
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Job hunting |
| Indexed Term |
economie |
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economics |
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bedrijfswetenschap |
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management science |
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Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General) |
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Economics (General) |
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Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen) |
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Economie (algemeen) |
| Genre |
Handbook |
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handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Added Author |
Ross, Douglas, 1969-
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| Added Title |
Career management for technical professionals |
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Technology job hunt handbook |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Grossman, Kevin W. Tech job hunt handbook. [S.l.] : Apress, 2012 9781430245483 (OCoLC)809411658 |
| ISBN |
9781430245490 (electronic bk.) |
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1430245492 (electronic bk.) |
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1430245484 |
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9781430245483 |
| Standard No. |
10.1007/978-1-4302-4549-0 doi |
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