About Donald Asher

Donald Asher is an internationally acclaimed author and speaker specializing in careers 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. He has been a contributing writer to Dow Jones publications such as The National Business Employment Weekly and Managing Your Career magazines, NACE Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, monster.com's college edition, monstertrak.com, award-winning career portals jobstar.org and wetfeet.com, the Los Angeles Times's professional development web site, and similar. His books are available worldwide in English and in Chinese, Korean and Portuguese translations.

He is known in the United States as America's Job Search Guru and is a consultant to top MBA programs and undergraduate institutions nationwide on hidden-job-market and self-directed-search issues. For over a decade he has served as the keynote speaker for the Career Development Series of national teleconferences sponsored by the University of Tennessee. He presents at over 100 colleges and universities annually.

His books of interest include Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why; Graduate Admissions Essays: Write Your Way into the Graduate Program of Your Choice (the best-selling guide to the graduate admissions process); Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different; How to Get Any Job with Any Major; Asher's Bible of Executive Resumes; The Overnight Resume; and From College to Career. Who Gets Promoted has just been named a Top Ten Business Book of the Year by national career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy.

When not on the road, Asher divides his time between San Francisco and Northern Nevada.