Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century
Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century
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Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Author: R. A. Long
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2005-12-08
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Label: iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Pages: 79 Features:
Editorial Review:
In today’s uncertain economy, chances are good that you or someone you know has been drafted into the ranks of the unemployed. Record numbers of companies are scaling back their work forces daily through either attrition or early retirement. In 2003, author Rebecca Long was downsized from her job as a communications professional. Unemployment Boot Camp is based on her personal experience with the emotions that often accompany job loss—self-pity, insecurity, and hopelessness. Long provides valuable facts, tactics, and instructions for coping, as well as recommendations on how to make the most out of your newfound freedom. Based on military-style thinking, each chapter is designed as a “Mission” and includes “Battle Plans” containing action steps and “Survival Think Tank” exercises that will help you define your dreams and goals. You will learn how to:
Develop an indomitable spirit
Build strategies to achieve staying power
Overcome whatever obstacles come your way
Take positive and productive steps throughout your career transition and beyond
Sharpen your skills
Prepare for opportunities
Job loss should never destroy your confidence or your desire to live a full life. Unemployment Boot Camp will help you redefine your objectives and overhaul your attitude for optimal success. Cached date: AWS Called=true You may also be interested in these products:
This author has been there and has practical advise 2008-08-14 This book will give you practical advise on how to get through the kick in the stomach that companies deliver to an unsuspecting employee. Ms. Long's book provides a plan of attack on how to get back on track. Because our job is so much of who we are and when it is taken away, we can become lost. Fight back and go on the offensive. The book is an easy read and thats what you need when your not on the top of your game.Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century
Hope This Book Speaks To You 2006-09-26 I am quite proud of "Unemployment Boot Camp," which I wrote to help those of you who've lost a job and along with it, their sense of identity,to better cope with the stigma of job loss. I've looked at the scant number of books out there which address the topic of unemployment. They typically include information on "how to write your resume" and "how to prepare for a job interview." My book does none of these things. Instead, this book teaches you how to make "taking charge of your life" the full-time job you're looking for, enabling you to maintain and build upon your self-esteem at a time when thinking highly of yourself has become quite the challenge. Keep believing in yourself and use this time wisely---to build a better you. Feel free to email me your questions or any feedback that's been useful to you in your quest to find yourself at: unemployed_bootcamp@yahoo.com. Best of luck!
Boot Camp Believer 2006-05-08 I was feeling sorry for myself when I came across this powerful book and its boot camp concept. It was brief and engaging enough to read it in an afternoon, which I did,and that alone made me feel like I'd accomplished something. The next day I began putting the recommendations into practice and I've been going strong ever since. You may think it's self-explanatory what you need to do to dig yourself out of a rut, but I wouldn't have been able to think up the exercises that R.A. Long suggests. I think it saved me a lot in the way of legwork and time which I put to good use getting myself together. This is a must read if you're unemployed!
Boot Camp with Teeth 2006-05-06 As a graduate student in communications, I recently conducted a lot of research on the topic of unemployment for a report. "Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Suriving and Thriving in the 21st Century" was one of several books I read. I thought the boot camp theme was cleverly utilized in an unemployment handbook and found the contents, with it's references to 9/11, the Great Depression and Hollywood movies about unemployment to be diverse, engaging and historically informative. It's clear that R.A. Long lived every word of the advice she recommends!
Just the Kick in the Pants that I Needed 2006-05-06 Don't let the title intimidate you! "Unemployment Boot Camp: Tactics for Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century" by R.A. Long packs just the right punch to take you out of the "woe is me" frame of mind that job loss hurls you into. The author's writing style is straightforward and real, conveying the sense that she's been where you are and that things can and will get better if you follow the drills set forth in the book. I loved that "Unemployment Boot Camp" was a quick read, with brief exercises and doable steps rather than a more overwhelming size, which I wouldn't have been able to handle anyway given my overwhelomed frame of mind. After reading the "Battle Plans" and Survivial Think Tank" exercises, I actually felt better about myself and my future. This is a must-read for anyone who is about to lose their job or has just been laid-off.
