Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path
In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You’ll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path.
Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you’re really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she’s helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want.
You’ll also find:
- Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking
- Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers
- Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life
A must-read guide to a complex employment arena, Career Confidence will earn a place on the bookshelves of job seekers, interviewers, career changers, and professionals everywhere.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1 Life’s a Gamble 1
Chapter 2 What’s in a Name? 5
Chapter 3 How Did We Get Here? 9
Chapter 4 A Guy Walks into a Bar 15
Chapter 5 There Is Nothing Wrong with You 19
Chapter 6 Fake It ’Til You Make It 25
Chapter 7 Want Loyalty? Get a Dog. 31
Chapter 8 Learned Behavior 37
Chapter 9 I Cannot Control the Weather 43
Chapter 10 I’m a Fraud; You’re a Fraud 47
Chapter 11 The Power of a Really, Really, Really Great Resume 53
Chapter 12 Famous Clients and Other People I Cannot Name 59
Chapter 13 There Are All Kinds of Jobs 67
Chapter 14 New Grad? So Rad! 75
Chapter 15 Criminally Insane 81
Chapter 16 Looking for a Job Is Like Having a Job 85
Chapter 17 Confidence Is a Negotiation Skill 89
Chapter 18 It’s Hard to Be a Woman, So Start a Business 95
Chapter 19 Recruiters Hate Me; I Am Okay with That 103
Chapter 20 Casper the Unfriendly Ghost 111
Chapter 21 To Cover Letter or Not to Cover Letter, That Is the Question 117
Chapter 22 Tell Me about Yourself 123
Chapter 23 Be a STAR 133
Chapter 24 Job Hunting in a Terrible Job Market 137
Chapter 25 My Dad Never Made More Than $30, 000 a Year 141
Chapter 26 From Cop to Millionaire 145
Chapter 27 Is That Actually a Job? 149
Chapter 28 Are You Underpaid? 153
Chapter 29 Fired? Welcome to the Club. 165
Chapter 30 Hiring Is a Hot Mess 173
Chapter 31 Toxic Bosses 179
Chapter 32 Are You HOT? 185
Chapter 33 Mister Rogers 189
About the Author 193
Index 195
