Asher Associates — Home of the Success Factorsm
News for March 2008
Welcome to the all-new donaldasher.com, the offical site of America's Job Search Guru. In addition to the new look, we've added tools and a ton of content — a searchable list of all accredited U.S Institutions, easy access to all Asher Associates products, articles and information about the lectures and workshops that have inspired tens of thousands of participants.
And we're just getting started — so, please bear with us as we continue to improve the site.
Introduction
Asher is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker specializing in careers and higher education. He is the author of ten books. He is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal's online editions, CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com. He is the education columnist for MSN Encarta, one of the top worldwide destinations on the Web, and is the career columnist for USAirways Magazine, with 2.7 million readers monthly.
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New titles and updated editions from donald asher
NEWLY UPDATED FOR 2008!
Graduate Admissions Essays
Cool Colleges
For the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different
Think you can't get into a great college? Think again! Fully revised since the first edition, Cool Colleges covers the most exciting schools in the U.S. and Canada, with a new chapter on eco-schools, an update on tuition-free schools and the total low-down on the so-called top-ranked schools. (More...)
How to Get Any Job with Any Major
Career Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30 (or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents' Basement)
Alan Greenspan was a music major, Lisa Kudrow was a biology major and Albert Einstein was a high-school dropout. So where do the great jobs that lead to career success come from? Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion with preparation. (More...)
Who Gets Promoted Who Doesn't and Why
10 Things You'd Better Do if You Want to Get Ahead
Named as a Top Ten Business Book of the Year by national career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy!
Career advancement is less about skillsets and more about strategy; and Don's latest details exactly what puts one employee on the fast track to an exceptional career, while another stays on the treadmill to mediocrity. (More...)
Just Some of the Schools That Have Hosted Donald Asher
Donald Asher is one of the nation's foremost authorities on the graduate admissions process. Tens of thousands of students on hundreds of campuses have seen his lectures, tapes and teleconferences. His book Graduate Admissions Essays is the best-selling graduate admissions guide. And his career-jumpstarting lecture/workshop Cracking the Hidden Job Market has been given at cool colleges coast-to-coast. Find out more about Asher's presentations...
Here are just a few of the colleges and universities that have hosted Asher's career and graduate school presentations:
MIDWEST/SOUTH
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Marquette
- Beloit
- Truman State
- Kansas State
- Hanover
- University of Oklahoma
- S.M.U.
- New College of the University of South Florida
- Grove City College
- Franklin
- Jacksonville University
EAST
- Penn State
- Swarthmore
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Albright
- Millersville
- Muhlenberg
- Gettysburg
- Franklin & Marshall
- Westminster
- CUNY-Hunter College
- Baldwin-Wallace
- Lyndon State
WEST
- Caltech
- U.C. Berkeley
- U.C. San Diego
- Linfield
- University of Santa Clara
- Academy of Art (San Francisco)
- Occidental
- Central Washington University
- Eastern Washington University
- University of Alaska-Anchorage
- University of San Francisco
- Oregon State University
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