College Seniors' Job Skills Ranked Nationwide; Career Coaching Book Helps Grads-To-Be

La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) January 18, 2009

Tough Economy Makes Job Search Tactics Critical. New Career Coaching Book Brings Faster Offers.

"There's never, ever been a career assessment that ranks your skills against college seniors nationwide," claims 'LAUNCH!...Get That First Paycheck In 90 Days,' "and then turns your unique strengths into a smart career path."

The career coaching book 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 coaching 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 coaching book 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 lengthy 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.

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 Coaching 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 coaching 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 designed to help college students who are trying to choose a career path. The assessment may also be taken as an online quiz at WhoAreYouAnyway.com. The author of both 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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Invest in America Teams with Credit Unions Nationwide to Help Fund Biz Kid$ and its Youth Financial Education Mission

Livonia, MI (Vocus) September 24, 2010

CU Village, through its Invest in America (IIA) program, has pledged $ 700,000 toward the national underwriting of Biz Kid$ , an Emmy Award winning and credit union funded public television series that teaches kids about money management and entrepreneurship. IIA was created to help credit unions grow, support U.S.-based companies like GM and Sprint, and provide members with exclusive discounts.

Created to assist credit unions with doing what they do best putting members first IIAs pledge makes it one of the largest independent sponsors of Biz Kid$ alongside the National Credit Union Foundation. Since the series launch in Jan. 2008, the nationally broadcast program delivers financial education to more than 192 million households each week, and has reached 1.2 million students and teachers via the companion classroom curriculum.

In addition to the $ 700,000 contribution, to help achieve full-funding for the fourth season of Biz Kid$ and jump-start Season 5 funding, IIA is asking each of its credit union and league partners that receive Sprint marketing incentives to join with IIA to raise the remaining $ 1 million needed to complete the 2010 season. This can be achieved by donating 10 percent of their year-end rebate to support the program.

Since its inception Americas credit unions have exclusively funded Biz Kid$ as our industrys gift to financial education, says CU Villages CEO Dave Adams. To date, $ 8,550,000 has been contributed to fund BizKid$ . To continue to thrive as a system program well into the future, Biz Kid$ warrants the collaborative financial support of the credit union community. We anticipate that the nations not-for-profit financial institutions will see this as an opportunity to continue supporting the program without having it affect tightening budgets.

Adams says that, in most cases, the 10 percent donation will have little to no budgetary impact to IIA partners because of the growing success of the Sprint program this past year. He further anticipates that if each of the 2,600 credit union and 46 league IIA partners opts-in to participate, Biz Kid$ will achieve an additional $ 1 million in funding to complete production of the fourth season, as well as establish an unprecedented, sustainable funding source for future seasons.

"This is an incredible gift that CU Village has given the entire credit union system, says John Annaloro, President & CEO of the Washington Credit Union League, whose 501 (c) foundation currently administers Biz Kid$ on behalf of Americas Credit Unions. IIAs underwriting gift and future funding model ensures that the credit union's 'gift' of financial education can remain just thatthe credit union systems exclusive gift. This is a shining example of what our system can do when we work together."

Biz Kid$ is an important credit union initiative that is known to put credit unions in a strong and positive light. As a result, Biz Kid$ has been honored with a Herb Wegner Award, a Daytime Emmy Award, four Emmy nominations, a first place Telly Award, and an Environmental Media Award. By positioning itself as a co-partner of the program, IIA and its participating credit unions and leagues will have the unique opportunity to be associated with this valuable and popular program, as well as gain all of the goodwill and marketing benefits that come with it.

Its expected that this unique initiative will also build further support for IIA, its key partners Sprint and GM, and its success among members, and in turn the collective ability to support Biz Kid$ and other important credit union system initiatives.

In the weeks ahead CU Village will communicate to its IIA partners more about how they can participate in the Biz Kid$ funding initiative. For immediate information, please call 800.262.6285 or email info(at)cu-village(dot)com.

Invest in America is a membership enhancement program that offers credit union members exclusive discounts on products and services provided by U.S. based companies. Utilizing the credit unions ability to leverage their unique relationship, Invest in America is able to successfully market its partnerships and offers incremental sales to partner companies; a stimulus to the economy and; an increased value of credit union membership. Invest in America was created by and is managed by CUcorp and CU Village, subsidiaries of the Michigan Credit Union League.

CU Village is a full-service technology and marketing company with solid expertise across various channels and mediums including print, web, mass media, digital, data, programming and more. We help our clients leverage these tools, using an overall holistic approach and strategic services, to provide them with unparalleled access to all the resources they need to grow their organization from one source CU Village.

Biz Kid$ includes a television component, a website, and a full curriculum that can be used by educators in conjunction with the show. A full curriculum with activities and tests accompanies every episode of the television show, including five core episodes in Spanish. These can be downloaded for free on the shows official website, http://www.bizkids.com, which also hosts a cast blog and newsletter. DVD box sets of the first 26 episodes of Biz Kid$ are also available for purchase for use by credit unions, educators and parents. The show is produced in Seattle, Wash.

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