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Jobless: True stories and advice from survivors who were once unemployed
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 6 2022
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some fired their bosses while some were fired. But they survive and thrive to tell their stories. Losing a job was a painful and frightening experience but something beautiful came out of it. With the hindsight of experience, they share their advice with readers who are out of a job. This book is a survival guide for the unemployed.
Among the stories are these gems:
He found a job and a wife in a foreign country
A book that taught him about career planning
He quit his job, failed, and went back to his first job. Today he is a millionaire boss.
They found their true calling
A survival guide by this frequent job hopper
How this 'lucky' manager survived many restructuring exercises
How being jobless is a blessing in disguise
Is there any hope for this ex-prisoner?
A business failure left his family homeless. He rose from the ashes
They are disabled. How are they coping with their job?
An ex-hiring manager reveals the insider secrets to ace an interview
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