How to Get Any Job, Second Edition: Life Launch and Re-Launch for Everyone Under 30 (or How to Avoid Living in Your Parents' Basement) [Paperback]

Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion and preparation. First tip: Your college major has very little to do with your job options. In fact, you can get to virtually any life-goal destination from virtually any starting point. Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major. Chad Hurley, billionaire founder of YouTube, was an art major. And while we're at it, Albert Einstein was a high-school drop-out. Still think your college major will determine your life path? Think again.
 
HOW TO GET ANY JOB is the first book that definitively answers the following questions, and many more:
 
• What is life launch and how is it different from getting a job?
 
• Why do employers hire people like you?
 
• Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think!)
 
• How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies?
 
• How do you set yourself up to get promoted?
 
• How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts?
 
• How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the wrong major?
 
• How can you get famous and influential people to help you?
 
• How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college?
 
• What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement?
 
• What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement?
 
 Whether you're twenty and still in college or twenty-nine and still wondering how to start your life, HOW TO GET ANY JOB offers the moslSÉ