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How to Find Your Dream Job and Make it a Reality: Solutions for a meaningful and rewarding career

by Jason McClure

197 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0907; ISBN 1-4120-0538-8; US$19.50, C$23.00, EUR16.00, £11.50

Success is merely the natural consequence of consistenly applying proven fundamentals to your life. In How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality, Jason McClure has masterfully taken the seemingly complex and made it simple and doable for the reader.

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About the Book Life is too fragile to get less than what you deserve in your career. Since your career is what you do to make a living, you may have suspected that a job should be more than what you do for a paycheck; it should be what you do to make a difference. If you have ever thought that, this extraordinary book is about to prove you right! A life without direction is a life without passion. This dynamic resource guides you, not to another unsatisfying job, but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart's desire. By investing in this life-changing resource you will learn how to recapture the youthful passion and goals you once had. It gives you the tools to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way and that inhibit your success. By investing in this resource you are deciding what you want to be, and you are deciding to live you dreams forever! In this resource you will learn: How to Develop Job Ideas and Leads. How to Determine If Your Job Idea is the Ideal Job. How to Target Your Job Search. How to be Creative in Your Job Search by Using the 5 Step Creative Process. How to Win the Interview. How to Create Resumes and Cover Letters That Give You The Edge. The 5 Rules of Researching any Organization. How to Turn Internships and Volunteer Positions into a Career. 19 Effective Ways to Market Yourself. The 7 Elements of Goal Achievements. The 11-Steps of Networking for career Success. How to Brand Yourself as the Best Job Candidate. How to Avoid the 27 Self-Sabotaging Behaviors. In Addition: Success Strategies on the Job and Beyond. How to Get Your 1st Raise or Promotion. Employment Solutions for 40, 50, and Beyond. Right now there are musicians, teachers, business owners, artists, actors, doctor, entrepreneurs, writers and countless others who are living their dreams. You owe it to yourself to read this book and to join the ranks of Americans who live their dreams on a daily basis.

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About the Author Jason McClure is living his dream as a Training Consultant, Speaker, and Career coach by helping individuals and organizations turn their acorn sized ideas into oak tree size realities. Visit him on the web at www.jasonmcclure.com

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Excerpts

Authors Note

The Guiding Principle

Myth: "The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television." - Unknown>

Fact: "The law of compensation seems utterly unfair. But fair it is. The higher the joy, play, and satisfaction a worker gets from his job the more the worker is compensated for the job. The lower the jor, play and satisfaction a worker gets from his job the less the worker is compensated for the job." - Mark Twain

    Far too many people buy into the myth that work equals misery. I do not believe that work should be something people dread. I believe that work should be something you enjoy. I believe what Mark Twain said about the law of compensation. This book is designed to destroy the myth that work is a cruel choice. After reading this book you will see that Mark Twain was right.

    The guiding principle behind this book is to equip you to find not just a job, but a meaningful career that is high in joy, play, and satisfaction. This book is built on the fact that the more an individual enjoys their job the more they will be compensated for the job. Notice I did not say paid, but I said compensated. The reason is work should be more that what you do for a paycheck. Work should be what you do to make a difference in the world. Work should be an activity that you enjoy. This is why I believe that life is too valuable to spend in a job that you hate.

    This book has two purposes. The first purpose is to teach you the secrets of job hunting success. The second purpose is to provide you the motivation and information necessary to live your dreams. I believe that by using the information found in this book you will be able to find your dream job and make it a reality.

Foreword

    It is not often that I have had the opportunity to write the forward to a book. The invitation to be part of How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality, however, was one I could not turn down because of the two parties involved:  Jason McClure and his wife Sarah.

     I first met Jason at a Toastmaster's meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas.  After being introduced to Jason, we immediately engaged in a discussion about the possibilities of teaching people how to get what they really want out of life.

     That was several years ago, and the excitement of that conversation and my respect for Jason has only increased.  I have great anticipation for the readers of How to Find Your Dream Job and Make it A Reality because this book can only be a positive change in your life.

     Jason and I have since shared the speaker's platform for a host of organizations and public seminars. He continues to be a powerful, dynamic, and wise presence.  I admire him principally because his life's work has been to help individuals grasp the significance of their lives and to use their courage and creativity to face challenges, handle adversity, and grow as individuals.

     How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality is a guide to finding your dream job, making it a meaningful career, living with passion and purpose and doing it in a way that resembles children at play - intensely, while learning, having fun, and relating to other people.

     The "playground," if you will, that most of us have chosen is the world of work. Helping you enter into and thrive in that playground are the important elements in How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality.  So if you've been outside peering through the fence struggling with ideas on how you will get your successful career started - read this book! Otherwise you might quickly get left behind.

     How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality will give you the insights and tools to be better able to deal successfully with the permanent whitewater of job searching. The ideas are simply presented and easy to use with exercises that will make a profound difference in the way you see yourself as a job candidate.

     In this insightful book, Jason skillfully presents the fundamentals for finding, landing, and succeeding in the career you have dreamed of living.  If you have ever wondered how you would make it happen for you, this book will give you the keys to success. The great thing about success is that it isn't complicated, nor is it magical or mysterious. It is a simple process: Success is merely the natural consequence of consistently applying proven fundamentals to your life. In How to Find Your Dream Job And Make it A Reality, Jason has masterfully taken the seemingly complex and made it simple and doable for the reader.

    I'm excited by this book and by the potential it creates for thousands of readers. It represents the distillation of five years of work, thinking, and creation in the pursuit of helping people get what they want.  Read, learn, apply, and enjoy the results.

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