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    Measure Up: Mastering Your Career Search Like a Boss
    Measure Up: Mastering Your Career Search Like a Boss
    Measure Up: Mastering Your Career Search Like a Boss
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    Measure Up: Mastering Your Career Search Like a Boss

    By Josh McAfee and Trisha Garek Harp

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    A USA Today–bestselling job-hunting guide to finding lucrative prospects, building confidence, and knowing your value on the job marketplace.

    Measure Up teaches those in a career transition, or considering it, how to discover lucrative job prospects before anyone else. Readers will learn through a series of tools and exercises how to build their confidence and understand, appreciate, and “sell” their true value in the job marketplace.

    Measure Up shows how to create compelling and consistent messaging, resumes, and profiles that will attract the right leaders, peers, and hiring managers. Within, readers learn how to identify and leverage companies hiring leaders, influencers, and peers in their career search and how to leverage process and technology to connect and communicate. By the end of Measure Up, readers will be able to identify and qualify for potential opportunities and be able to show their value from communication, networking, interviewing to ultimately getting hired at the best career opportunity possible.

    Measure Up teaches those considering career transition how to discover lucrative job prospects before anybody else does and gives them the tools and exercises to build their confidence and help them understand, appreciate, and “sell” their true value in the job marketplace.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 2, 2021
    ISBN9781631953040
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    Josh McAfee

    In addition to being a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Measure Up: Mastering Your Career Search Like a Boss, three-time founder, entrepreneur, tech investor, board member and advisor to high growth companies, Josh McAfee has spent almost thirty years in the recruiting and coaching world consulting with and placing thousands of leaders, sales, and tech-savvy people into high-growth companies. He founded, built, and sold a national tech staffing company and has helped countless leaders of high-growth companies grow their teams with the right people to have a positive impact on their products, culture, and, ultimately, their customers. Josh volunteers his time working with the North Point Community Church, Jars of Clay Mission in south Atlanta, and 410 Bridge, and in communities in Africa and Haiti. He is also a founding member of the Georgia Aquarium, where he's helped bring diverse groups together for incredible events and worthy causes. Josh spent six years in the youth ministry with Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, has sat on boards within TAG (Technology Association of Georgia), and served in leadership with Atlanta's High Tech Ministries and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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