Talk:Find Employment

pages
current format of this book is relatively monolithic. Of course, there isn't enough material yet to justify expanding to multiple pages, yet. --Whiteknight (talk) (current) 22:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ✅. Good job, everyone, on expanding this book to multiple pages. --DavidCary (talk) 22:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Move/Merge
"Preparing for an Employment Interview": I think that this book should be merged with the Writing a Résumé book, and simultaneously moved to a better namespace, such as "Getting A Job", or something like that. --Whiteknight (talk) (current) 23:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Books have been merged and moved to Find Employment. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 13:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I think it was right to merge in the resume part. I am not so sure about the title though. The current title "Find Employment" is very descriptive, I like that.

Offer
I am the webmaster of [WorkOne.com] a career and employment portal, we need a book like this for our educational purposes. We would be willing to sponsor someone to extend the scope of this book to a full length more in depth ebook. We would be willing to pay in the houndreds of USD for this job to be done. Please contact me at workone@workone.com for details. Thank you. May 23. 2006.
 * I sent you an email. Feel free to contact me by email, or leave messages here. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 13:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * PS Never mind, the email address you supplied came back as invalid. provide a better email address, and I'll send you some information. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 13:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi there Whiteknight, that was fast! :) Nice. I will send you an email.


 * If you send me an email, make sure it has "Wikibooks" or something similar in the subject, or it is liable to be deleted as spam. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 14:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Please note that I have stated adding information to this book project from: Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2006-07 Edition http://www.bls.gov/oco/ This book is provided by the Department of Labor and everything in it is in the public domain, as seen here (bottom of page): http://www.bls.gov/oco/oohinfo_faq.htm?/oco/home.htm#pub3 "# May I reproduce material from the Occupational Outlook Handbook or Career Guide to Industries sites? Material on these sites is in the public domain and, with appropriate credit, may be reproduced without permission."

Information that might be added
We should look into good tips and advice around the web and other places to find material and best practices that we can write into the book. Here are some sources that deserves investigating.

Get invited to the interview

Books: What colour is you parashute? This is the industry classic, it has a lot of good advice in it. The advice as such is not proprietary and some of it can we rewritten.

Ideas for other topics in the book: - How to use the various online services like Monster, Job.com etc. Tricks and what to expect. - How to use the different career companies. - Tips and tricks and advice from more professionals. - How to dress for sucess. - Specifics for different industries, The Handbook has a lot of material on this. I have not so far started adding this, but it might be a good idea. - Statistics on salaries. - How to negotiate wages. - How to stay motivated during the job search. - Advice on moving.

In the extension a book like this can easily border into self improvement. Where does the line go between "Dress well, dont swear..." and pure self improvement advice. Is self improvement something this book should do, or is it that a topic for a different book?

Rearanging Content
I have taken the initiative (being bold) to rearrange content into chapters that seem more appropriate. Also I would add related resources: tips on how to improve my resume, career coach, etc. For example, in the "your career" chapter, there is/was a lot of info about finding prospects, which seems to make more sense to be in the finding prospects chapter... Feel free to give feedback if I am on the wrong track. But it seems that there is a lot of good content in this wikibook, it just isn't well organized yet. --Jacob Walker 00:00, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Disagreement about Audience
I think the note that this textbook is geared for the highschool level is too limiting. I teach adults, and I find many of them really need this knowledge. Unless someone is independently wealthy from an outside source, or an entrepreneur, then they will need to find employment. --Jacob Walker (talk) 04:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sources for Book
The following might be useful as sources to cite for the wikibook, although probably should not be used directly as to not "advertise" them:


 * Susan Ireland Resumes