This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they’re interested in by using the author’s proven Career Launch Method. Did you know only 20 percent of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80 percent of positions are filled in what Sean O’Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. This book will teach you how to tap into that 80 percent!
O'Keefe, in partnership with the Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven eight-step Career Launch Method that will help any student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship building by teaching all the practical microsteps needed to succeed. And O’Keefe teaches readers how to "play the student card," turning inexperience and eagerness to learn into a powerful advantage.
Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, nonprofits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world.
The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed tool for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's return on investment.
Expert career coach Sean O'Keefe shows how students can get their dream job right out of college by building their own professional network from scratch.
Students typically spend over 90 percent of their job search efforts applying to positions posted on online job boards, but the success rate of landing a job that way is only 3 to 5 percent. This means there is an enormous hidden job market. Based on research by Professor Sean O'Keefe and Professor Barry Posner, bestselling coauthor of The Leadership Challenge, Launch Your Career levels the playing field by teaching students how to build a network of professional contacts they can leverage for internships and jobs, just as O'Keefe did as an undergraduate with an average resume.
The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their status in five key areas: discernment. personal brand, personal/professional growth, networking, and job searching. Featuring first-person stories of students who have used O'Keefe's method to find jobs or internships at companies like LinkedIn, Tesla, Google, Wells Fargo, and General Motors, this book will become the go-to resource for students looking to find their dream jobs, as well as colleges looking to increase the ROI of their career counseling efforts.
“Our community college students have used the Career Launch Method for years, and now students from all over the world can benefit from Sean’s step-by-step framework.”
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Raine Hambly,
Director of Career and Technical Education, North Orange County Community College District “Sean has put together a proven formula that will help any students anywhere advance their career prospects, regardless of their background or connections.”
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Stephen Torres, Industry Fellow and Faculty, University of California, Berkeley “Sean O’Keefe understands the needs of today’s diverse student body—their feelings, doubts, and eagerness.
Launch Your Career delivers a kind of straight talk that will minimize your fears, prepare you to step out of your comfort zone, and propel you to start taking action.“
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La’Tonya Rease Miles, PhD, Dean of Student Affairs, Menlo College 
