Recommended Reading
Guide To Executive Search
After working with thousands of job seekers and building a practice focused on helping senior executives navigate their job search, Barbara Safani has curated her top tips for helping candidates create a narrative that communicates their value and elevates their executive presence. This book explores strategies for approaching the job search with purpose and efficiency, crafting personal marketing collateral that positions you as a leader in your field, cultivating a network of advocates to help accelerate your search, fine-tuning interview answers to achieve clarity and fit, and embracing salary negotiation techniques to optimize your earning potential and overall job satisfaction.
Happy About My Job Search
In Happy About My Job Search, Barbara offers a candid perspective of what a job search is, and isn’t. She offers plenty of practical hints for building better resumes and writing compelling cover letters. From her own experience, she freely shares an understanding of how to network during a job search, prepare strategies for interviews and negotiate a competitive compensation package. With expert insight, Barbara reveals the way to be well informed and better prepared for the journey ahead. And surprisingly, she shows that it’s possible to even find some fun, joy, and happiness during your job search. With articulate grace, Barbara shows you how to enjoy and see success even in the most trying job search situation.
#JOBSEARCHtweet
Do you want to know in a nutshell what it takes to market yourself in a competitive job market and get more of what you want? ‘#JOBSEARCHtweet’ gives you 140 digestible sound bites for doing just that. In just 100 pages you will gain compelling insights on how to build a strong resume and cover letter, engage employers with a value-added thank you letter, work with recruiters, leverage your network both online and offline to source key decision makers, interview authentically, confidently, and with ease, and negotiate a robust compensation package. In this timely and essential book, Barbara Safani shares her expertise culled from over fifteen years experience in career management, recruiting, executive coaching, and organizational development for both Fortune 100 companies as well as with individuals.
Happy About My Resume
Many great job candidates have poor resumes that are merely a laundry list of job tasks that do little to distinguish them from their competition. The average recruiter or hiring manager spends less than 15 seconds reviewing a resume. Most people’s resumes fail to “wow” the reader and quickly end up in the “no” pile. Happy About My Resume helps readers learn how to quickly create a resume that is professional, gets them noticed, minimizes the amount of time they spend in a job search, and maximizes their earning power.
You Should Smile More
You Should Smile More is a book that shows witnesses, allies, supervisors, and women at every level in their careers how to dismantle everyday unconscious gender bias, based upon the latest research, personal accounts, and interviews with next-gen professional women.
Famous as a meme, the title itself is now a call-to-action against the very advice women so frequently hear from male colleagues or bosses. As a book, You Should Smile More spotlights these all-too-familiar moments of unconscious bias and creates a path for every witness to confront, condemn, and grow from them. The strategies within its pages finally advance women in the corporate workplace as equals.
The Band of Sisters have collectively seen it all, from the bottom rung to the boardroom. They know firsthand how hard it is to navigate these gendered situations in the moment. Now they share their experience with a forward-looking eye—often with humor, and in a way that recognizes the realities of the workplace.
Credibility Nation
For many years, a silent and important war has been fought between two nations.
On the one side, there’s Credibility Nation which is composed of humans who go about life and their business with credibility and servant leadership. On the other side, there’s Dubious Nation which is composed of humans who live and conduct their business with self-interest as their highest priority.
Dubious Nation is on a winning streak and is vanquishing Credibility Nation a thousand times over. It’s shocking to see how many people are forgetting how important it is to live and transact business in a credible way.
I believe that there’s still hope. There’s still a way for Credibility Nation to win. It definitely won’t be easy, and it won’t happen in a day, but we can do it.
The Successful Introvert
‘The Successful Introvert’ is intended to both enlighten and empower readers with specific strategies to use in everyday personal and professional activities so that they can achieve greater success in their lives. At the same time, it is intended to enable introverts to understand, appreciate, and celebrate their unique strengths.