An approachable, down-to-earth guide that should prove especially useful to less-experienced job seekers.
A recruiting professional shares key tips for securing the right job.
This second edition of Mulberger’s 2013 debut has been updated to include chapters on internships and effective communications. Much of the advice here is available elsewhere, but this book still does an admirable job of highlighting the most important aspects of a job hunt. The author covers all the bases: job-search strategies, online resources, working with recruiters, writing a resume, interviewing, and more. In addition, there are helpful chapters that go beyond the basics, such as transitioning from a government position to one in the private sector, how to resign from a job, the pros and cons of internships, and long-term career planning. Mulberger handles each of these topics with candor and a dose of good humor, which keeps the content lively. Numbered and bulleted lists of tips and techniques allow for easy reading, as well. The author provides beneficial examples of effective resumes, cover letters, and answers to interview questions. However, one of the most valuable chapters in the book may well be “Basic and Advanced Internet Search Techniques,” which offers a very detailed battle plan for exactly how to use Google and LinkedIn to hone in on job-search parameters; in addition, it shares smart ways to locate business email addresses and decide to whom a resume and cover letter should be addressed. The chapter on communication skills, a welcome addendum, covers the impact of timing and facial expressions, among other things. In the final chapter, “The Experts Speak; Tips for Job Seekers from Seasoned Recruiters!,” other recruiters share some of their own most valuable tips—a nice touch that effectively bolsters the author’s advice. Mulberger’s writing style throughout is authoritative and consultative. It’s obvious that he’s counseled a great many clients, and he translates that wisdom into a guide that makes no assumptions about a reader’s level of job-search knowledge.
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Review Posted Online: Sept. 28, 2017
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Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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