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Welcome to donaldasher.com, the official site of America's Job Search Guru, where you will find: 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.
Who is Don Asher?
Asher is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker specializing in professional development and higher education. He is the author of ten books and a contributing writer 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. Read more about Don here.
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Graduate Admissions Essays
Cool Colleges
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.
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How to Get Any Job
Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major; YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley was an art major. If you think your college major will determine your life path, think again. This streamlined edition refocuses the emphasis from job search to life launch for readers under 30 who are more attracted to achieving balanced life goals than career advancement. For those who want more than just a job, this book provides practical strategies for building a great and rewarding life.
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Who Gets Promoted Who Doesn't and Why
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.
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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:
EAST
- Washington & Jefferson
- Haverford
- University of Puerto Rico-San Juan
- Brown
- SUNY Fredonia
- Franklin & Marshall
- New England College
- Rutgers
- Albright
- Wells
- Ithaca
- Carnegie Mellon
WEST
- U.C. Irvine
- U.C. Santa Cruz
- Linfield
- Claremont Graduate School
- University of Portland
- Occidental
- George Fox
- Eastern Washington University
- University of Alaska-Anchorage
- Biola
- Mills
- University of Oregon
MIDWEST/SOUTH
- Hanover
- Principia
- DePauw
- Transylvania
- Berea
- S.M.U.
- Abilene Christian University
- Jacksonville University
- University of Chicago
- University of the South (Sewanee)
- Beloit
- Albion



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