Job Finder's Guide, 2000: The Only Book You Need to Get the Job You Want

by Les Krantz

This complete source features information on goal setting; addresses, phone numbers, and key personnel for more than 1,000 of the nation's largest employers; and tips on writing effective resumes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312255039
• ISBN13: 9780312255039
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

With information on more than 3,000 U.S. employers

Now in a fully updated and expanded fourth edition, Les Krantz's The Job Finder's Guide: The Only Book You Need To Get The Job You Want ranks and surveys the top thirty corporations for aspiring job seekers. Also listed are the best (education, health services, industrial/analytical instruments, information services, retailing) and worst (agriculture/food products, financial services investments, freight/transportation, travel lodging, wholesaling) industries for employment opportunities in today's labor market. With information on more than 3,000 U.S. employers enhanced with sample resumes, tips for networking, interviewing, negotiating salaries, job-hunting on the Internet, and more, The Job Finder's Guide is the ideal resource for anyone seeking to enter (or re-enter) the American job market.

Everything

Got everything. I really don't need another book, though I have Krantz's "Jobs Rated Almanac" which also has some good attributes. I also use the Job Finder as a reference since it has so much about so many companies.

Best of the Best

The BEST guide around for pointing the job finder in the right direction. I found it most helpful and recommended it to a number of friends.

a zillion books in one

I found the book to have about everything anyone needs pretaining to jobs, especially those who are looking around. It also simplifies lots of things that are difficult to determine, such as how to find certain types of companies, who to contact, how to write them and so on. I especially like the strategies, I bought the new edition too (for year 2000) which is even better.

Has Everthing Anyone Needs

I also have the previous edition (1999) which is basically the same, but this new one has better information about using the Internet for job searching. I like this portion ("Job Hunting in Cyberspace") of the book the best, which has 4 chapters. One of most valuable chapters is about negotiating the highest possible salary. The Book has one particularly valuable chapter about how to locate smaller company's, though there's about 3000 co's listed in the "U.S. Employer's" portion. One thing that's useful is all the cross referencing, which helps you navigate. For example, in the Employer's portion, it also steers you to industry profiles, so you can make sure you are job prospecting in healthy industries. Also the x-ref's steer you to professional orginizations for all the professions, which--as Krantz says-- are great ways to contact prospective employers. You'd almost have to buy 20 books to get so much information. On thing that was a little weak was about how to find jobs overseas. Krantz gives you strategies and lots of tips, but there are no foreign companies listed. Hopefully they'll have some in the next edition, but with over 650 pages of valuable info, I can't complain overall. It's the best book around if you're seriously looking for the best job in the U.S, though not abroad.