Career Confidence

Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You’ll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path. Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you’re really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she’s helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want. You’ll also find: Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life A must-read guide to a complex employment arena, Career Confidence will earn a place on the bookshelves of job seekers, interviewers, career changers, and professionals everywhere.

Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Life’s a Gamble 1 Chapter 2 What’s in a Name? 5 Chapter 3 How Did We Get Here? 9 Chapter 4 A Guy Walks into a Bar 15 Chapter 5 There Is Nothing Wrong with You 19 Chapter 6 Fake It ’Til You Make It 25 Chapter 7 Want Loyalty? Get a Dog. 31 Chapter 8 Learned Behavior 37 Chapter 9 I Cannot Control the Weather 43 Chapter 10 I’m a Fraud; You’re a Fraud 47 Chapter 11 The Power of a Really, Really, Really Great Resume 53 Chapter 12 Famous Clients and Other People I Cannot Name 59 Chapter 13 There Are All Kinds of Jobs 67 Chapter 14 New Grad? So Rad! 75 Chapter 15 Criminally Insane 81 Chapter 16 Looking for a Job Is Like Having a Job 85 Chapter 17 Confidence Is a Negotiation Skill 89 Chapter 18 It’s Hard to Be a Woman, So Start a Business 95 Chapter 19 Recruiters Hate Me; I Am Okay with That 103 Chapter 20 Casper the Unfriendly Ghost 111 Chapter 21 To Cover Letter or Not to Cover Letter, That Is the Question 117 Chapter 22 Tell Me about Yourself 123 Chapter 23 Be a STAR 133 Chapter 24 Job Hunting in a Terrible Job Market 137 Chapter 25 My Dad Never Made More Than $30, 000 a Year 141 Chapter 26 From Cop to Millionaire 145 Chapter 27 Is That Actually a Job? 149 Chapter 28 Are You Underpaid? 153 Chapter 29 Fired? Welcome to the Club. 165 Chapter 30 Hiring Is a Hot Mess 173 Chapter 31 Toxic Bosses 179 Chapter 32 Are You HOT? 185 Chapter 33 Mister Rogers 189 About the Author 193 Index 195