The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career

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Wish I had read this years ago.


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The Successful Introvert

Chapter 1 explains the difference and note the overlapping and differing characteristics. In addition, this chapter will highlight well-known and successful people who have been identified as being shy or introverted and will discuss the choices they made in managing those traits. Finding Job Leads Identifying job opportunities is the first challenge in the job search process, and this chapter identifies many avenues to explore.


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It points out the paths that are most heavily traveled as well as those that are less widely known. Readers will learn how to find the many unadvertised jobs, as well as how to benefit from their introverted or shy traits in the process.

The Successful Introvert How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career

Creating an Effective Resume Most people hate writing resumes, in large part because of the discomfort of having to promote themselves — the purpose of this chapter is to reduce the pain and simplify the process by addressing the stories we tell ourselves that get in our way and suggesting alternatives that reduce the discomfort of appearing boastful. Readers will learn how to uncover the most important information that will increase the effectiveness of their resume.

Cultivating Connections This chapter provides strategies for building and maintaining relationships that are important in managing both a career and a job search. Readers will learn specific strategies to find opportunities to comfortably cultivate relationships as both a job search and career management activity.

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Interviewing This chapter presents interviewing techniques that play to the unique strengths of those who are introverted or shy. Readers will learn how to prepare for all phases of the interview before, during, and after , how to reduce the stress that frequently accompanies it, and how to increase their effectiveness. Readers will learn how to fit into the culture and build professional relationships in the new organization, capitalizing on the strengths associated with introversion and shyness. Embrace Your Introversion Finally, this chapter recaps the strengths that introverts can be proud of and can draw on as they manage their professional lives.

The reader will recognize the unique and positive qualities that introverts offer. For book art, author pictures, or affiliate links, visit the Affiliate Resource page. This book 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.

The Successful Introvert: How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career by Wendy Gelberg

At the same time, it is intended to enable introverts to understand, appreciate, and celebrate their unique strengths. Praise for this book "This is one of the most inspiring books I've read in a long time.

The Successful Introvert speaks to me, helps me understand some of my actions and reactions, and learn why it's okay to be who I am. The techniques, tactics and stories make this a rich, must-read for anyone who feels like they should be more outgoing, but isn't quite sure how to do it, or if they are being dishonest with themselves. Wendy offers sage advice, strategies, action plans and more to help you better manage your job search, interviews, negotiations and more.

Follow her plan to career success!

How to Enhance Your Job Search and Advance Your Career

From the informed perspective of an introvert who runs a very successful career practice, Wendy provides empathetic advice and practical strategies that will help any introverted or shy person not only be more successful, but feel more confident, assured, and 'normal. Given that way of characterizing my personality, you can see that I've been socialized to believe shyness and introversion are bad.

In reading just the first few passages in Wendy Gelberg's Introduction, I immediately saw myself, relaxed and felt better about my 'affliction,' and drank in her words: Wish I'd had this 30 years ago!