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    Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career...Even When You Don't Fit In!
    Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career...Even When You Don't Fit In!
    Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career...Even When You Don't Fit In!
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    Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career...Even When You Don't Fit In!

    By David Couper

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    Does your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, accent, mannerisms, quirky clothing, piercing, or outlook on life make you feel like a fish out of water in your workplace, from the moment your workday begins until you leave at the end of the day?

    Find out how to capitalize on your differences and become a successful outsider on the inside.

    Outsiders on the Inside provides specific guidance and simple but effective strategies to help outsiders recharge their careers. You will learn:
    • Crucial marketing strategies to help match your unique professional qualities with employers and customers.
    • A painless, step-by-step process for meeting new people.
    • Unique strategies for resumes, cover letters, and other job-hunting tools.
    • Coping strategies to confront and educate critics.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCareer Press
    Release dateAug 5, 2010
    ISBN9781601637222
    Outsiders on the Inside: How to Create a Winning Career...Even When You Don't Fit In!
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    David Couper

    David Couper is the author of seven books and an award-winning career trainer and coach in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has helped outsiders become happy and successful insiders at Fortune 100 companies, fast-food joints, and faith-based organizations. Couper has a B.A. in communication, completed a postgraduate diploma in education and graduated with a master in spiritual psychology. Couper is an official guide for Career Change on selfgrowth.com, which gets more than 1 million hits per month. He is also a member of the American Society of Training and Development and Society of Human Resources Professionals. He lives in Los Angeles and can be visited online at www.davidcoupercoach.com.

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