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Page Count: 492
Printing Date: May 25, 2005
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People are more successful in life when they get off to a great start. You will have an early advantage over the competition when you follow the principles within this practical book and apply them with enthusiasm, self-confidence and a positive attitude. Many highly intelligent young adults fall short of their potential because they don't address 'The 4 Realities': 1. You Can Be More Successful In College2. It Takes An Effective Job Search To Land The Job You Want3. You Can Be More Effective In Your Fist Job4. Life On Your Own Shouldn't Be A Rude Awakening Most students would like to do their best in college but receive little guidance and are left to their own devices. We'll show you how to develop and carry out a plan of action that will boost your grades, greatly expand your resume and make you more attractive to potential employers and Graduate Schools. Finding a job is an experience for which most students are unprepared. They don't know what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to differentiate themselves from other students and don't know how to prepare. This book has the answers to the questions that every student must ask and answer if he/she plans to conduct an effective job search. The way you perform in your very first job can positively or negatively affect your career. Making a good very first impression and knowing exactly what your employer wants from you can make all of the difference. If you want to get ahead of the learning curve and stay there, you will find some great advice and suggestions in this section. As young adults leave home to go out to live on their own for the very first time, there is a great deal of information they must absorb in order to avoid the missteps that can ruin the experience. People who live independently must be ready for everything that comes their way. We'll shine a light on the things you are likely to encounter and show you how to deal with them. Lastly, this is not a boring text. It is a useful guide that is ch
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The 4 Realities of Sucess During and After College is a huge resource book for those setting off to college, those in post secondary education, and those starting off into the work world. As the title suggests, the author sets out four statements of reality: You Can Be More Successful In College, It Takes An Effective Job Search To Land The Job You Want, You Can Be More Effective In Your First Job, and Going Out On Your Own Shouldn't Be A Rude Awakening. The author uses these realities to discuss subjects ranging from how to choose a major and activities you can do in college to improve your resume through how to write a sales letter rather than the typical cover letter and preparing for the interview to the importance of learning new skills in the job place and the realities of budgeting.
The 4 Realities of Sucess During and After College is really quite extensive covering virtually every topic that a young person would need to start their lives in the real world. While some of the ideas might seem a bit overwhelming when piled together in such a large volume, it is important that the young reader realize that any amount of forethought, planning, and organization will ultimately help with job search after college.
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I have known Bob a number of years as a friend and colleague.
Bob has gathered his wisdom in this book based on his professional and life experiences. I find his book to be unique in its topic, approach and straight-forward clarity.
If you care about someone who falls into one of the categories of student, recent grad or young adult, it is a good gift. Or buy one for yourself if you can handle some reality-based advice.
Michael Rectenwald, SPHR
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"Wow, I can't believe college is almost over! What have I been doing these past four years?" Many students (even those who have already been in college for a few years) find themselves facing a rude awakening when forced to face "the real world." The key to sucess in college, the workplace, relationships, and life in general is to discover motivation and guidance from the right source. Bob Roth's new book, "The Four Realities of Sucess During and After College" intends to do just that.
Roth's guide to sucess is divided into four sections: You Can Be More Successful in College, It Takes an Effective Job Search to Land the Job You Want, You Can Be More Effective in Your First Job, and Life on You Own Shouldn't Be a Rude Awakening. The book serves as a guide to students who try their best to do well, but are left at a disadvantage by receiving little guidance and real advice from successful people.
Some of the important tips are based on common sense, such as taking care of your personal health, planning and preparing for academic sucess and joining activities or groups in order to develop your personal self. Roth also includes especially helpful information in categories (such as excellent, fair and poor GPA ranges) corresponding with employers' or grad schools' typical opinions of such achievements or involvements.
With respect to an effective job search, the author presents information, especially on interviewing skills, negotiating and the importance of networking or directly contacting employers in order to land your very first job. This section overlaps some of the college sucess section where good grades and practical experience help to get a desired very first job.
Sucess in the very first job is also very important, as it is the starting point of one's career and experience in the adult world. Roth includes the importance of communication and one's personal behavior in achieving overall sucess (and possibly a promotion down the road).
The fourth reality dealt with includes your personal life in the real world. Roth includes information on relocation, transportation, insurance, roommates and friends. The book also includes many appendices with useful websites including those concerning job searches, resumes, credit services, summer jobs, internships and a wide listing of web pages for many well-known companies.
Roth's book is filled with an incredible amount of helpful information. While not necessary to be read cover to cover, the table of contents is specifically labeled so that you can find a sufficient amount of information and practical advice about a certain topic easily and quickly. The book is definitely worth a purchase as a reference guide to life.
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Writing for college students, recent graduates and young adults the author, Bob Roth has crafted a detailed map for the individual reader (and their parents), as they go down the road toward success. While most young adults, and their parents, are concerned about how they are going to succeed they generally do not have a specific plan or they do not start planning early enough. One of the author's stated purposes is to enable the readers to develop their plan, their road map, before starting and while in college.
You can be more successful in college is the very first reality of the four detailed by the author. While in college, according to the author, it is important if not critical, that the individual have a have a plan. In addition to being able to follow this plan to achieve sucess in college, there is one specific benefit that will accrue and that is the individual will be able to answer queries as to why he/she should be selected over other qualified candidates. The answer would for the readers (and users) of this book is that they have had experience in goal setting and planning to achieve that goal, and that these techniques and experience are directly analogous to what would be and is needed in a corporate position. In other words, they have will specific related experiences directly applicable to the position for which they are being interviewed no matter what the position.
There are several factors, parts, which have to be included in this plan. After determining the goals, actions needed have to be developed together with the steps to achieve the goal. Next to be considered after figuring out what and how this plan, its objective and the steps to carry it out, are the steps needed to impress future employers. It is all about how does one stand out from the crowd when being interviewed for a position in an organization, and having a plan and successfully implementing it will help the interviewee do this. In describing the thought patterns, tasks and methods the author gives a complete rundown of what would be needed to succeed in this reality, as he does in each of the remaining three realities.
It takes an effective job search to land the job you want is the second reality and in this chapter the author gives various procedures and techniques to assist the reader in the process of searching for and landing a position. Emphasizing that the reader will have to find a job on his/her own, the author defines the reality as being that if nobody is chasing you to offer you and good job, you will have to chase them and that the biggest mistake anyone can make is to think that we work for anybody but ourselves.
The most important point in this part is that one has to understand that life and job searching is a continual sales process and that every action has to seen from that point of view.
Settling into your very first job is the third reality and it is the pivotal one in that one can acquire and develop the habits that will lead to a successful career. To enhance ones reputation the beginning employee needs to perform all of their work in an outstanding manner without complaining by doing what ever is needed, doing it fast, doing it cheerfully and correctly. As in the entire book the author details various details of work patterns and habits that are necessary for the reader to be aware of and to successfully implement and utilize in order to succeed in the work place.
Going out on your own shouldn't be a rude awakening is the fourth reality. It is in the segment that the author details what seems to be all the things that a person needs to know and become proficient in to succeed in handling ones own life. This includes everything from banking, moving to a new neighborhood, purchasing a car to starting a relationship with a bank.
This book can and will also become a primer for any parent, or grandparent for that matter, when assisting a son or daughter to start down the path to being independent. The 4 Realities of Sucess is a book, when read, studied and used, will become a guide to sucess for the reader.
Bill Foster. President of Foster Coaching/Consulting Group, coaches individuals, executives and businesses to identify and create their niche-their specialness-and then to identify, set and achieve their goals. He coaches each client's step along the way-by creating an alliance with the client for success. -30-
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Here is a self-help/how to book that tells college students about all the things they must take care of in order to be mate with success. Published by Authothouse, (Indiana, 2005) Bob Roth's The 4 Realities of Sucess During and After College is a guide for college students, recent graduates, and young adults, showing how to achieve sucess by a stepwise pursuit of the four realities of success. These are:
1. You can be more successful in college
2. It takes an effective job search to land the job you want
3. You can be more effective in your job search
4. Going out on your own shouldn't be a rude awakening
Roth takes the pains to present his readers with 62 chapters, 7 appendices, a bibliography, and an index all that would leave no point practically counting in a successful career. The book offers advice on organizational skills as a student, intelligent job-hunting, fixing a stance in one's very first job, and living as an individual. There is enough information and advice on each point the author lists.
With all the advice and lists of innumerable things to care for, The 4 Realities of Sucess During and After College underwhelms as a book. A lot of repetition and redundancy is obtrusively thwarting the reader's endeavor to get along with it. Points are given patchy descriptions instead of full-fledged elaboration, resulting in a jumpy feeling. The reader is constantly stuffed with points and steps to follow and no passage is devoted to let him participate in the field being explored. A preachy tone is seen in which a voice constantly haunts you to do or avoid certain things. More importantly, three fourth of the book tells you `what to do or avoid' but not `how to bring this about'. Part four (Going out on your own shouldn't be a rude awakening) is more practicable and wisely construed than the other three realities where countless things are to be done without having any idea how to be motivated in their direction. In any case, the individual has to lose most (if not all) of his self if he follows half of what he is being led to. It's like `be yourself or gain success.'
One thing, perhaps the only one that captures the interest and conveys wisdom is inclusion of quotes from really successful figures like R.W. Emerson, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin, Frank Tyger, and so on. One such from Albert Schweitzer reads `I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already.'
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