The job search navigator An expert's guide to getting hired, surviving layoffs, and building your career

Newspaper columnist, former HR executive, and career coach Matt Durfee crosses all his t's in this very detailed guide to job hunting millennium style. Yet it's hard to live up to the perennial, four-and-a-half-decades-young What Color Is Your Parachute? There are, to be honest, not a lot of new strategies to be used; even digital techniques, from searching online to tweeting about your unemployment, are simply degrees of finding and maintaining relationships or networking. Nonetheless, Durfee gets a shelf nod for his examples of résumés, questions to ask and be asked, personal case histories (showcased in sidebars called The Case of the Reluctant Expert), and Durfee's Laws, a series of one-liner advice that will resonate with any worker, regardless of position or situation. Who could naysay, for instance, don't forget your happiness counts or google yourself? Please Remember This (a summary of main points) and footnotes end every chapter.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2016 Booklist