The Job You've Always Wanted
Your CV and interview toolkit
Paperback Engels 2025 1e druk 9781292485119Samenvatting
Tired of sending applications and hearing nothing back? The silence can be discouraging, yet it does not have to define your job search. Imagine walking into interviews with unshakable confidence, knowing that your CV, cover letter, and responses are already working in your favor. This guide is designed to help you present yourself as the clear choice every step of the way. Step-by-step CV formula: Turns scattered experience into a magnetic, recruiter-friendly story. Cover-letter mini-scripts: Spark interest fast, even inside crowded applicant tracking systems. Interview playbook: Neutralises tough questions so you answer with calm clarity. AI and remote-hire guidance: Beats bots, video screens, and hybrid panels with tested tactics. Burnout-proof plan: Keeps motivation high through rejections, pivots, and multiple offers. Templates and online extras: Downloadable resources shorten prep time and extend learning.
The Job You've Always Wanted: Your CV and Interview Toolkit by careers expert James Innes distils fifteen years of global coaching into one practical guide. Available in paperback and e-book, it combines his bestselling CV, cover-letter, and interview advice in a single streamlined volume.
Structured across four parts, the book walks you through CV foundations, persuasive cover letters, confident interviews, and smooth first-day transitions. Real examples, checklists, and AI-era insights make every chapter immediately usable.
Finish the last page knowing exactly what to send, what to say, and how to secure the offer that matches your goals and values.
Ideal for graduates, career changers, and seasoned professionals who want a clear, current roadmap to employment success.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
- Laying the foundations for your CV
- Building your CV, section by section
- Ten solutions for ten potential CV problems
- The top 10 most common CV writing mistakes
Part 2: Cover letters
- Getting the cover letter basics right
- A winning strategy for cover letters
- The top 10 most common cover letter mistakes
- Cover letters: A checklist
Part 3: Interviews
- Interview planning, preparation and organisation
- Interview scenarios: expect the unexpected
- Interview questions – and how to answer them
- Illegal questions – and how to dodge them
- Ending the interview: your own questions
- The top 10 most common interview mistakes
Part 4: Your new job
- Handling a job offer
- Leaving your last job
- Your first day in your new job
Part 5: My top 10 tips for job-hunting success
- How to achieve job-hunting success
Appendix: CV and cover letter examples to help you write yours
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
