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(More customer reviews)A couple of months ago I began my search for a new job.
As I was beginning this important job I was also feeling anger with my previous employer, bafflement that my old boss didn't give me this one job I really wanted, and frustrated that I would have worked harder than any of my colleagues at it. I also haven't let go of how I never actually landed my dream job, either, and I counted and re-counted my degrees and recited my (high) GPA, memorized to three decimal points.
My job hunt began with my sending out a standard resume in response to a smattering of loosely-related jobs posted on Internet sites.
No interviews, of course.
Then I noticed a volume at the local bookstore on searching for a new career on Wall Street. Flipping through its pages I got a sense it was a practical, down-to-brass-tacks guide to getting back to work, and so I picked it up.
At the very outset, "The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide" by Roy Cohen explains that you are not alone. Not alone in all your emotions, not alone in how your last job - or career - ended, not alone surrounded by what is a very competitive job market - or, finally, in how you must respond to what happened to you in a focused and methodical way.
Cohen explains that you must take stock of your past experiences, genuine capabilities and honest desires and then march toward the career you really ought to pursue. He then walks you through how you must craft not only your resume but your message, your 10-second story, which you must use to explain why you're looking, and why you'll be valuable in your next job.
The author explains how networking is absolutely crucial for almost everyone to getting that next job. And, for those of us who never liked sales, Cohen shows us not only exactly how to do it but, curiously, how the process can be less painful and even rewarding. And it is.
And so it was, with the "Survival Guide" in one hand, and the pen, the keyboard and the phone in the other, I (re)embarked on my job search. I am very close to the right job now. It is rewarding to meet with people - strangers, indeed - who are in the job I will soon have. I have simply done exactly what Roy Cohen has told me to do.
"The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide" is outstanding, and it is re-positioning me on Wall Street, an industry that has over three years capsized in front of my eyes. I have recommended this book to several others - including some who are not even in the financial industry. A good 85 percent of "Survival Guide" is relevant and valuable to job seekers in all industries, and even to recent graduates.
As we close in on that next job, "Survival Guide" shows us how to ace those minefield-ridden interviews, manage the tricky reference-checking process and, finally, negotiate the terms of a new position. Jobs are lost even in the final hours of the journey, and so you do well to read very carefully to the last page of this great volume.
The career search is a difficult odyssey but one that ends in success. And so Roy Cohen is deadly honest about this job market, and how we must, without any reservation, make our value proposition known, both in specific terms, and to many. Cohen is frank and utterly practical with us in every regard. And in my industry, and likely yours, we wouldn't want it any other way.
- R
New York
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