Book Recommendations
The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos
by Murray Mann and Rose Mary Bombela-TobiasIf you're planning to launch or advance your career The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos presents a comprehensive career road map designed to resonate with Latino and Hispanic job seekers at experience levels ranging from college students through mid-level managers. If you're a Latino job seeker, you'll find user-friendly advice and information you can use right away:
- Practical job search and networking strategies with a Latino focus
- Award-winning sample résumés and career marketing letters that generate interviews
- Techniques for making a winning impression at job interviews
- Tips on focusing and maximizing your education to jump-start your career
- A Latino Career Management Tool Kit to improve your chances of getting hired
- Advice on avoiding bias and discrimination pitfalls
- Plus a comprehensive assessment survey to help you review and improve your career management skills
If you're a member of the employer community The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos will serve as a valuable source of information, pointing out the advantages, opportunities, and business-enhancing practices that are a part of successfully working with Latino job candidates
Latino Talent: Effective Strategies to Recruit, Retain and Develop Hispanic Professionals
by Dr. Robert RodriguezLatino Talent is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in learning about Hispanic Americans in the workplace and in leveraging & maximizing their contributions. This unique book -- written by an expert who's deeply respected in this field-- provides a practical and compelling perspective on why organizations should continue to invest in developing this young and increasingly influential population segment. Latino Talent includes wonderful insights gleaned from practitioners in the field. Readers are exposed to corporate best practices when it comes to Latino talent initiatives. The strategies and solutions provided in Latino Talent are proven, applicable, and deliver results.
The book covers the following areas:
- Why Latinos will be the next great source of intellectual capital for Corporate America.
- The business case for Latino diversity is explored and clearly articulated.
- Readers learn the most significant demographic statistics regarding the Latino community.
- Key terms unique to the Latino community are defined such as the difference between the term Hispanic versus Latino.
- Provides insights into the unique cultural aspect of Latino heritage which impact corporate talent management initiatives.
- Over 20 corporate best practices are highlighted which will help organizations improve the ROI of their Latino recruiting programs.
- Numerous retention strategies are covered which allow firms to keep their top Latino talent.
Employers interested in maximizing the contributions of Latinos in the workplace will find Latino Talent to be very useful and practical. In this book, Dr. Rodriguez has done extensive research to help companies and employees build bridges of understanding and inclusion.
Stepping into Greatness
by Daniel GutierrezDaniel Gutierrez is first of all a successful entrepreneur. As President and CEO of Pinnacle Achievement Group, he is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, improving productivity through effective and inspirational management coaching.
Dan is also the world's #1 Latino motivator. As a motivational speaker, Dan reached over 20 million people in 2003. He created the first Latino conference, Imagine 2002, holding events in Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles and San Jose, California, and he founded the Latino Empowerment Foundation, whose mission is the empowerment of Latino leaders and young Latinos in the areas of art and education. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Inner City Arts Institute in Los Angeles.
Gutierrez has appeared on Telemundo and Univision programs and is highly sought for magazine, newspaper and radio interviews as well.
Best Careers for Bilingual Latinos
by Graciela KenigHow to find a job in "hot" industries, leverage Hispanic language and culture skills, deal with stereotypes, handle job interviews, and play the corporate game.
Explore the top seven fields for bilingual Latinos with this indispensable tool for students, recent graduates, guidance counselors, career changers and working professionals interested in advancing their careers through their bilingual and bicultural skills.
In today's competitive job market, your bilingual and bicultural skills are more valuable than ever to the business world--and are crucial to many professions that rely on the accuracy of communication to accomplish their mission.
Learn How to:
- Leverage your language and culture in today's workplace
- Market your personal strengths and talents
- Cope with stereotypes and misconceptions
- Carve a career path without giving up your cultural identity
e-Résumés
by Pat CriscitoOriginally titled Résumés in Cyberspace, this new edition describes the latest trends in job hunting and career development opportunities via the Web. You'll discover how to create the perfect electronic résumé, and then send it virtually anywhere in the world from your home computer. Just as important, you'll find an up-to-date and streamlined list of web sites that accept e-résumés and offer jobs online. But e-Résumés is much more than a "link book." It gives you the "how-to" of résumé design and writing, then teaches you how to take full advantage of the Internet. One brand-new chapter will also teach you how to create and use an e-portfolio in your job search. Another will provide you with everything you need to know about how to use the Internet as a networking tool.
"This is an excellent nuts-and-bolts book. It covers everything a job seeker needs to know about electronic résumés." Linda Matias, President, National Résumé Writers Association
Cómo Conseguir Trabajo en los Estados Unidos
by Mariela DabbahThis new addition to our Spanish series, Guías Prácticalas, will help every immigrant to master the necessary steps in the process of looking for a job in the United States. It offers specific information, taking into consideration that many of the readers may not have proper documents to apply for all job openings. It will identify alternatives that will suit their individual situations. In addition, it will deal with the related cultural issues.
General topics will include:
- fears relating to job search
- identifying job skills
- defining job objectives
- methods for job searching
- networking
- interview process
- writing a better resume
Finally, the book continually emphasizes the need to learn English and to take educational courses in order to be successful.
Latino Advantage in the Workplace: Using Who You Are to Get Where You Want to Be
by Mariela Dabbah and Arturo PoireThe Latino Advantage in the Workplace teaches Latinos to use their innate, culturally based skills more effectively in the workplace. It is a career advancement book that focuses on using your personal skills and styles to your advantage and downplaying them when they actually are hurting you. It is about overcoming negative stereotypes and taking advantage of positive ones.
Specific areas covered include such things as:
- Establishing strong and loyal relationships
- Effective networking
- Respect for authority
- Reliability
- Risk-taking
- Communicating sensitively and diplomatically
- Good customer service
- Ability to cooperate with others
- Being a good team player
- Sacrificing personal interests for group benefits
- Flexibility
- Adapting to different and changing scenarios
Your background, personal heritage and cultural pride can be a great source for success, as well as a roadblock. Learn to take full advantage of who you are and succeed being just that.
Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand
by William ArrudaIn the new world of work, your reputation is the only accepted currency. Whether you are looking to move up the corporate ladder at your current organization, find a position at another company, make a major career change, or start your own enterprise, you will no longer be hunting for your next position. Instead, opportunities will come to you. Colleagues, hiring managers, clients, and recruiters will use Google as well as social and professional networks to find out about you and reach you. To thrive in this new environment, you must identify your personal assets and clearly communicate your unique promise of value. Your credibility and visibility will drive demand for your services. You must use who you are to affect how you earn. That's where Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand comes in.
"Hands down, this book is the bible on branding for your career!"
- Susan Britton Whitcomb, author of Job Search Magic
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., this definitive step-by-step guide enables you to determine how others perceive you, reshape those perceptions to achieve your goals, and communicate your message about your personal brand clearly and consistently. In this book, you'll learn how to become the must-have professional by being yourself. We demonstrate the power that comes with being yourself by providing examples of people just like you who have achieved professional success and fulfillment by living their personal brands.
