The Ex-Offender's New Job Finding and Survival Guide
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Originally published as The Ex-Offenders Job Hunting Guide (2005), this ground-breaking book offers sound re-entry employment advice for those with red flags in their backgrounds and those who may appear unemployable. Indeed, finding a good job is the number one challenge facing thousands of ex-offenders entering the free world each day. Successful re-entry is especially difficult for those who have lost everything, including hope and optimism. Without a decent job and support network to help meet immediate food, housing, transportation, and health care needs, and often saddled with onerous financial obligations (fines, restitution, child support payments, accumulated debts), many ex-offenders fall back on old dysfunctional habits, relationships, and temptations that lead them back to prisons, jails, and detention centers. While many employers may not want to hire someone with a criminal record, others are willing to give ex-offenders a second chance and help them get back on their feet and move ahead with their lives. In fact, we live in a society that both admires and supports people who can pick themselves up, transform their lives, and go on to achieve their dreams. - What should ex-offenders do in order to land a good job? - Where should they go to find a job they do well and enjoy doing? What strategies work best for them? This book provides important answers to many re-entry questions facing ex-offenders. Beginning with an examination of 20 myths/realities and 22 principles for success, Ronald Krannich, one of America's leading employment and re-entry experts, reveals 10 steps to job and career success: - Examine and change your attitudes - Seek assistance and become proactive - Select appropriate job search approaches - Assess your skills and identify your motivational pattern - State a powerful objective - Conduct research on jobs and communities - Write effective resumes and letters - Network for information, advice, and referrals - Develop winning job interview skills - Negotiate salary and benefits like a pro.
The Ex-Offender's 30/30 Job Solution
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This book introduces the concept of the "30/30 Job Search(tm)"," which has been successfully used by thousands of job placement clients. It outlines a powerful 30-day program for job hunters who seek satisfying employment opportunities within 30 miles of any location in the United States. The authors reveal how anyone with a stable work history and marketable skills can quickly find a job close to home by using an arsenal of unconventional job search strategies and techniques that get the attention of prospective employers. Indeed, they outline the fastest, most effective job hunting system anywhere for finding employment.
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