Practical Pamphlets

The National Business Employment Weekly has repackaged some of its most "popular and useful" articles in booklet form.  Each booklet costs $5:  and is available from the Reprint Department, NBEW, PO Box 435, Chicopee, MA  01021-0435.  Booklets that might interest new grads include:

Before The Job Search:  (The New Rules of Job Hunting; Where Job Hunters Can Turn For Help; Advice To Ignore During A Search; Figuring Out 'Fit'; Playing Your Hunches; Applying Gender-Specific Traits; Make the Most of Library Resources; Researching Potential Employers)

Resume and Letter Writing:  (Confessions of a Resume Reader; Resume Traps To Avoid; Will Your Cover Letter Pass Inspection; Leading With An Objective; Mixing Function and Chronology; The Advantage of Market Letters; The Functional-Resume Format; Shark Resumes for Flounders)

Interviewing Strategies:  (Your 60-Second Commercial; The Likability Quotient; Why Candidates Fail The Interview; Proven Interviewing Formulas; Interviewers' New Techniques; Illegal Questions to Watch For; Working With an Inept Interviewer; Now, Do You Have Any Questions?)

On-the-Job Strategies:  (The First 90 Days; How To Set Career Goals; Ten Political Principles; Increase Your Office Power; Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; Six Types of Abrasive Managers; Coping With A Difficult Boss; Overcoming Disappointment)