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Shows job seekers how to best handle red flags during the job interview -- speaking truth to power, turning weaknesses into strengths, scrubbing a sketchy background, preparing for sensitive interviews, and knowing what to say and do when confronted with red flag issues. Includes interview strategies, examples, stories, quizzes, questions, sample Q&A dialogues, and advice. - adapted from back cover.
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Advice to ex-offenders facing numerous barriers to employment. With examples, exercises, self-tests, and resources, this book shows how to contact employers who will want to hire them because of their unique talents, positive attitudes, and strong employer-centered motivations. Best of all, readers learn how to find a job they both do well and enjoy doing as they go on to living a new and productive life centered around work, family, and community....
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The first book to examine jobs suitable for ex-offenders. Profiling 101 opportunities that are relatively open to people with not-so-hot backgrounds, this upbeat book gives renewed hope and direction to ex-offenders who are uncertain what they want to do, can do, and will do in life on the outside. It profiles 13 categories of jobs and occupations:
- Construction trades and related jobs
- Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations
- Science,...
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Designed for anyone seeking employment - from those experiencing job loss, hopeful new graduates, and individuals re-entering the workforce to anyone looking for a second job or starting a business. This user-friendly guide is filled with essential employment information, from assessing skills and formulating an objective to writing resumes, interviewing, and negotiating salary. Special sections focus on documentation, red flag issues, references,...
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The perfect street-level re-entry guide for making smart transition decisions. Helps ex-offenders remain positive, focused, and entrepreneurial as they both map and navigate the often confusing and overlapping maze of re-entry programs and services available through a jungle of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based groups. Jam-packed with self-tests, checklists, and exercises, this pocket guide is designed to help ex-offenders...
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Each year nearly 250,000 servicemembers transition to the civilian world. Faced with numerous forks in the road, most servicemembers and their families want useful advice on making smart re-careering, relocation, and retirement decisions. Representing the most comprehensive treatment of the subject, this book is jam-packed with essential information on the details of finding employment, relocating to great communities, and starting a business. Includes...
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Successful re-entry to the free world for ex-offenders requires strong communication and job interview skills. Includes 101 frequently asked job interview questions, ranging from "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" to "Why should I hire you?" and addresses the best way to answer them.
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