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How to Get Any Job

Life Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30
(or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents' Basement)
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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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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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UPDATED THIRD EDITION

Graduate Admissions Essays

Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice
Third Edition
$21.95 • 1-58008-872-4 • 9781580088725
This is the essential resource for anyone thinking about graduate or professional school. The newly revised and thoroughly updated third edition has the latest tactics for online admissions, links to hot websites, and recommendations for further support. Graduate Admissions Essays offers a wealth of information found nowhere else. (More...)

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.

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How to Get Any Job

Life Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30
(or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents' Basement)

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

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.

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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:

MIDWEST/SOUTH
  • Tulane
  • Indiana University
  • Marquette
  • DePauw
  • Wabash
  • Truman State
  • Kansas State
  • Principia
  • Marian (Indianapolis)
  • Rockford
  • Hillsdale
  • University of Alabama
EAST
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Middlebury
  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • Villanova
  • St. Francis
  • Dickinson
  • Gettysburg
  • Washington & Jefferson
  • Ursinus
  • Baldwin-Wallace
  • University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  • Davidson
WEST
  • Reed
  • U.C. San Diego
  • U.C. Santa Cruz
  • Lewis & Clark
  • University of Santa Clara
  • Claremont Graduate School
  • Portland State
  • Occidental
  • Central Washington University
  • Biola
  • University of Oregon
  • Oregon State University
What People Say

Find out what these professionals and students already know: nothing succeeds like success.

If you're clueless, no one will help you. Be specific and people will help you. Specificity sells, my friends.

—Donald Asher

About the Books
  • This guide is a fabulous marriage of sales smarts and e-search smarts.

    —Mary-Ellen Mort, E-Search Goddess, Jobsmart.org

  • Asher's premise—focusing the resume to the audience—is exactly the advice we give our students. The concept has never been so clearly articulated in such an easy, step-by-step manner. This book is great. I'm very impressed with it.

    —Victoria I. Ball, Director, Career Planning Services, Brown University

About the Lectures
  • During my thirteen years as a career counselor, I have never had a more well-attended program. Comments have been extremely favorable.

    —Gar Cropser, Career Planning & Placement Center, U.C. Irvine

  • It was the best presentation we had on campus last year.

    —Robert C. Pebworth, Director, Career Services, Wabash College

Students Speak
  • I found your book incredibly well-researched, well-written, interesting and helpful. I've recommended it to all my friends. Thanks for publishing it. It filled a real need.

    —Amy W. Hawthorne

  • The highest compliment that I can pay your book is the simple statement "It worked."

    —Jennifer D. Sohn, Mills College

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