Job Launch - The ultimate student guide to launch into your career by designing a winning application, impressing at interview and landing your dream job

By Romney Nelson

Job Launch is an essential guide for students and college graduates to help secure casual, part-time and full-time employment. With 5 easy to follow steps, you will discover how to design a professional resume, craft a stand-out cover letter, learn valuable job interview tips and master communication and body language essentials for interviews.

If you keep missing out on jobs or you're unable to secure interviews, then you must keep reading...

Until this point, it may have been a challenge for you to secure employment, but this is all about to change! Perhaps you have recently graduated from college and wish to apply for your dream job, but you don't know where to start? Maybe you need a casual job to get you through school and need to create your first resume but you're not sure what to include? Perhaps you keep missing out on jobs but don't know where you are going wrong? Job Launch will give you everything you need including bonus professional templates to make your application stand out above the competition.

This unique student guide covers the following stages:

Career Guidance – What does your dream job look like?

Stage 1 – How to create a professional and presentable resume

Stage 2 – How to craft a winning cover letter that will blow the competition away

Stage 3 – Tips and Tactics when submitting your application

Stage 4 – How to prepare prior to the interview

Stage 5 – Excellent communication and presentation tips for interview day

Plus, you will have access to many more juicy tips and outstanding resume templates that are rarely shared in any other student career handbooks.

Your future job and financial success all begin with Job Launch!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Romney Nelson
• Release date: Feb 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393696728

Romney Nelson

Romney Nelson is a #1 Amazon Best Selling Author and Founder of The Life Graduate Publishing Group. He commenced his career as a school teacher working in some of the most well-known schools in Australia, including Head of Faculty positions in Oxford and Wimbledon, United Kingdom. Romney authored his first resource in 2009 and has now gone on to author and create over 250 books and resources including three titles that have become Amazon #1 Best Sellers. The Adventures of Sam and Teddy is Romney's newest creation! The Life Graduate Publishing Group was built on the foundation of developing high quality and valuable resources for the Education Sector, gift books, journals and self-help resources. The organization continues to expand and broaden it's footprint across the worlds largest online bookstores.

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Job Launch

The ultimate student guide to launch into your career by designing a winning application, impressing at interview and landing your dream job

ROMNEY NELSON

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Please note the information contained within this document is for educational and entertainment purposes only. All effort has been executed to present accurate, up to date, reliable, complete information. No warranties of any kind are declared or implied. Readers acknowledge that the author is not engaging in the rendering of legal, financial, medical or professional advice. The content within this book has been derived from various sources. Please consult a licensed professional before attempting any techniques outlined in this book.

By reading this document, the reader agrees that under no circumstances is the author responsible for any losses, direct or indirect, that are incurred as a result of the use of information contained within this document, including, but not limited to, errors, omissions, or inaccuracies.

This book is dedicated to the amazing role models I have been fortunate enough to have throughout my career.  I will be forever grateful for the guidance, support and most importantly, the encouragement they have provided so I could take on new roles and responsibilities and ultimately, do what I love to do.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Our Career Challenge

What will we cover?

Things to consider

Introduction to the 4 P’s

Your IKIGAI – Career Guidance

Test and Trial

The Starting Line

STAGE 01

A Professional and Presentable Resume

Your Resume Checklist

STAGE 02

How to develop a Cover Letter

Your Cover Letter Checklist

STAGE 03

Submission of your Application

STAGE 04

You have been shortlisted for Interview

STAGE 05

Interview Day

FINAL REMINDERS

Congratulations

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About the Author

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Introduction

The moment that you see your first pay cheque land in your bank account is a feeling of pure joy and amazement! I recall punching the air with excitement as my first pay as a local paper delivery boy of $22.00 was now sitting there in front of me! I couldn’t believe it. As an 11-year-old, $22.00 for the delivery of 600 newspapers was awesome. Mind you, that was in the 1980s.

I recall many of my friends getting their first jobs in labour and hospitality positions ranging from furniture delivery, washing cars, collecting and selling 2nd hand golf balls and cleaning windows. These jobs built up our confidence, provided us with a sense of responsibility but importantly, a feeling of financial independence. 

Landing your first paid job can sometimes come from childhood ingenuity such as setting up a neighborhood car washing business, selling your garden produce, babysitting or even dog walking for friends and family. Other times, it could be applying