The third edition of Find Your First Professional Job: A Guide For Co-ops, Interns, and Full-Time Job Seekers features 32 pages of new material geared to helping young professionals transition from student to employee. Although there are updates throughout the exception, there are several improvements that are especially noteworthy. The book now features a whopping 11 pages on e-mail and instant message etiquette, including a comprehensive discussion of considerations before, during, and after writing a message. The appendix on behavioral-based interviewing has jumped from six to 11 pages, and it includes many more tips and terrific student examples of BBI stories. The quality and quantity of sample resumes has been improved, and there is a new page that shows how an interviewee can use a sample notes page as a safety net for those who fear “blanking out” during an interview. There is also a sample thank-you note for those looking to follow up effectively after an interview.

We believe that Find Your First Professional Job is the definitive textbook for those looking to prepare students for the workplace, whether you are teaching a large group in a course or working one-on-one with students, and regardless of whether they are sophomores looking for a co-op job or internship or if they are seniors hoping to land their first job after graduation.

Published by Mosaic Eye Publishing in 2007, the third edition of this book is also ideal for co-ops and interns who want to learn how to write resumes, interview strategically, and perform effectively in a professional workplace:

• Featuring chapters on resume writing, interviewing, job search preparation and reflection, and on-the-job success plus appendices addressing behavioral-based interviewing and cover letters, and include useful exercises.
• Numerous sidebar boxes with expert advice from highly experienced co-op faculty at Northeastern University and Laguardia Community College.
• Valuable to the co-op professional: When students have the book as a resource, it keeps the co-op professional from having to give the same information repeatedly or from having to cobble together various sources for a course packet or for student handouts.
• Valuable to students and young professionals: a useful resource for their whole college career and beyond—not just for one semester. Written in a very student-friendly tone, so students enjoy reading it!

This book retails for $21.95; the ISBN number is 978-0-9621264-5-1.

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