Perfect Holiday Gift for College Seniors -- Career Development Books

La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) December 7, 2008

A new guide, "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days," is now available at Launch-Your-Career.com to help college seniors and recent graduates successfully begin their careers. It offers job-finding secrets that too few students know about - because no other career development books reveal them. LAUNCH! includes:

A career assessment quiz that shows how the student's job skills and attitudes compare to college seniors nationwide, and what career paths their unique traits suggest.
How to find job openings before they're advertised.
How to triple resume responses.
Proven networking tactics.
How to interview better.
Why Monster.com and Craigslist are time traps for recent graduates.
How a weekend project can make the student a top candidate for their chosen position.
Finally, LAUNCH! outlines a 90 day schedule for getting that first job.

If downloaded from the website in PDF format, this 339 page career guide costs $ 8.63 -- less than the price of a pizza. It's also available as a paperback book (for $ 16.23 - free shipping), an audio CD set (for $ 21.33 - free shipping), or a downloadable MP3 audio book ($ 11.74). An unusual money back guarantee is included -- if any college senior doesn't discover a new job search tactic, boost their resume responses, or learn something about themselves that they didn't know before; they get their money back plus one dollar.

"Unlike those fuzzy lectures and expensive textbooks or seductive student loans, this helps graduates actually find that first job," says LAUNCH! author Gary Sutton, a retired CEO who's been involved in advising, hiring, and firing countless employees during his illustrious career.

"This may be the most important book a college senior ever reads," added Dr. Linda Charles, clinical psychologist and former UCLA staffer.

Anxious students and their nervous parents can even sample the guide before buying by reading a few pages or listening to a brief audio clip at Launch-Your-Career.com. With the U.S. economy officially in a recession, it's predicted that many parents may tend toward practical holiday gifts this season in an effort to help their offspring launch their careers.

The career assessment quiz in LAUNCH! can also be taken online at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. It tells college seniors if they'll do better in large or small organizations, among other things. The quiz ranks students' energy, ambition, ethics, status needs, social abilities and fifteen other vocational traits. Results are translated into the best career path.

"Wow! That job quiz nailed me. Without those insights, I'd be waiting tables again," said one Drake grad.

About Career Development Book "LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days":

LAUNCH is a career guide aimed at college seniors and recent graduates, with more practical, hands-on advice than offered in other career development books. It's available in paperback book, downloadable PDF, audio CD set, or downloadable MP3 audio book format at Launch-Your-Career.com. The guide includes an assessment quiz that may also be taken as an online career assessment at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. The author of the book and creator of the quiz, Gary Sutton, is a retired CEO. He's mentored seniors at several colleges and found a disturbing level of confusion and unreal attitudes about the world of work.

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Tobias Outerwear for Books Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Davisburg, MI (PRWEB) April 5, 2006

Tobias Outerwear for Books (Tobias Design, Inc.), a specialty design firm catering to the book publishing industry, announced today its tenth anniversary in business.

The company is owned by Christopher Tobias, a graphic designer who in a decade has designed his way onto best-selling book covers. With a degree in graphic design and some after-college experience in advertising, Tobias ventured out on his own in 1996. His business began in the basement of his suburban Grand Rapids, MI home, and in 2004 moved to Davisburg, (just north of Detroit), where he now rents a comfortable studio space. All things have improved for Tobias who remembers those early years in the basement. Man, it was cold. I used to wear gloves with the fingers cut out and sit with my feet ON a space heater. The walls were cinder block and painted a light teal, circa 1960. That was the worst. I would see one of my covers on Fox News or in a magazine or something and think if they only knew where that was created.

Several books with Tobias covers have made it onto the New York Times best-sellers list. Among these are David Limbaughs Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging Political War Against Christians and National Review Editor Rich Lowrys Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.

Business has grown from 30-40 designs in his first year; to what Tobias estimates will be about 125 covers in 2006. Things may be bigger and better than ten years ago, but Tobias intends to keep running his business on a small scale. There are a lot of advantages of being a small outfit, Tobias says. Faster turnaround for clients (usually), accessibility, flexibility, and most importantly, being able to spend my time designing instead of managing a staff.

So while Tobias Outerwear for Books will remain a one-man show, Tobiass goal for the next ten years is to continue expanding his growing clientele list. He has built an impressive roster of publishers who regularly solicit his work including Thomas Nelson, Baker Books, Integrity Publishers, Broadman & Holman, Zondervan, P&R Publishing, Waterbrook Press, and Regnery.

My philosophy is to make my contacts look good. If I can help them impress the people they answer to, then they are going to come back to me. Creativity and design play a major part, of course. But so do meeting (or beating) deadlines, returning phone calls and e-mail. If I can provide outstanding design while still meeting the objectives for the project then the cover will be a winnerfor the publisher, the author, and for me.

For more information and to judge the book covers of Tobias Outerwear for Books, please visit http://www.tobiasdesign.com.

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