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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
Virtual Book Review Network interview with Lindsey Pollak, author of Getting From College to Career
How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It's the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. In Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World, Lindsey Pollak offers the first definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence grads need before they start their first major job search.
 Getting from College to Career
LAUREN SMITH: What inspired you to write Getting From College to Career – your own experiences, the experiences of others, or a little of both?
Lindsey Pollak:
Getting From College to Career is the book I wish I’d had when I was in college. It’s the book I wish my younger brother and sister had. It’s a collection of all of the tips, ideas, advice, secrets, strategies and warnings that I didn’t even know I didn’t know.
It has also launched a dream career for me—working as an author and speaker helping college students and young professionals. My senior year of college I was a freshman counselor (resident advisor), living with and advising a group of freshman students. To this day it was my favorite job I’ve ever had—and this book provided the opportunity to continue this work. As a counselor I learned that helping students build confidence and a sense of themselves is just as important as teaching them specific skills. That’s the attitude I brought to writing Getting From College to Career—compassion for this very challenging and scary time of life, and a desire to help each student/reader find his or her own path and not fixate on what a recent graduate “should” do. I think of the book’s readers as extensions of the freshmen I counseled in college. My goal was to be a big sister to the reader—young enough to relate to their time of life and old enough to have some wisdom and perspective to share.
LAUREN SMITH: Do you think today’s college graduates face bigger challenges than ever before; if so why and what are those challenges?
Lindsey Pollak:
In many ways, yes. Demographically, there are simply more young people today, who are more educated and who more aware of available opportunities and global competition because of the Internet. Millennials are building careers in a time of tremendous competition, but also unprecedented global opportunity. I think it’s incredibly exciting!
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
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Lauren Smith: Denise tell us, what is your book about?  Give Me Back My Credit
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
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No Ordinary Love with Jackie and Doug Christie brought to us by FacinatingAuthors dot com  No Ordinary Love
Jackie: We’ve been talking about it for a few years now, and with Doug playing basketball and us going all around, we wanted to wait until we had a chance to sit down and put our thoughts to paper and really figure out what message we wanted to send and also what tips we could offer to make it an inspirational book. A lot of people thought our first book would be a tell-all, and we decided we would definitely tell them all, but tell them how to share what we have.
Penny: What do you hope that people learn from your book?
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
Talking with the author, Susan Heim
 It's Twins! Susan Heim: Raising any child is a challenge, but when they come as a pair, the issues are magnified. As any parent of multiples will tell you, sometimes talking with another parent who's been there can get them through the difficult times and help them to cherish the moments that make twins truly "double the love." It's Twins! Parent-to-Parent Advice from Infancy Through Adolescence is a complete guide to raising multiples from birth through the high-school years. It arms parents with the information they need, from breast-feeding to classroom placement, from dispelling myths about twins to ensuring equal treatment while fostering individuality and combating competitiveness. Best of all, It's Twins outdoes all those "dry" parenting manuals by offering real-world wisdom and experiences from other moms and dads at various stages of twin-rearing, making this guide not just informative but entertaining as well.
Lauren Smith: Why did you write it? Susan Heim: When I found out I was expecting twins, I naturally wanted to read all I could about raising multiples. Regular parenting books were beneficial, but they didn't address the special issues that parents of multiples face, such as: How do you breastfeed two babies at a time? How do you nurture each child's individuality when they look so much alike? Is it better to put them in the same or different classrooms? How do you handle the competition between children who are the same age? How do you get two babies on a sleeping schedule? In addition, parents of twins don't have a lot of time or energy to pore through encyclopedic parenting manuals. I wanted to write a book for parents of multiples that is easy to read, entertaining, and yet has valuable information written in language that any sleep-deprived parent can read without wanting to take a nap. |
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
Want More Success? Be a Renegade!
 Rules for Renegades Read Rules for Renegades, by Christin Comaford-Lynch |
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