Eight Great Magazine Articles on Job Search

The magazine databases at your local public library are a great source for articles on many topics. Magazine articles often contain more concentrated and more recent information than you can find in books. The following are my favorites. To view and print them you can go to your local public library, or you can access them from the web once you have a library card. At the Multnomah County Library all of these articles can be found in the Business Source Premier database.  

Attend the Job Finders Support Group at the Capital Hill Library, and then sit down and do some reading!  

Peter F. Drucker, “Managing Oneself”, Harvard Business Review, January 2005, p 100-109.
Nine pages of advice on what to do with the second half of your life from a true management guru.  Read this before you open a book like “What color is your parachute?“  This article originally appeared in 1999 and was reprinted less than a year before Drucker died at 95. 

Susan Roane, “How to Work a Room”, Electric Perspectives, May/Jun 2003, p 82-92.
A description of networking from the woman who wrote the book with the same title (and more books as well). 

Jay Roy, “The gift of the gab”(becoming a better networker)”, CMA Management, Feb 2003, p 10-11
This contains a wonderful example of an “elevator speech” – a concise description of who you are and what help you are seeking.  

J. Craig Honaman, “Hitting the Job Search Wall”, Healthcare Executive, Mar/Apr 2005, p 54-5.
Some advice on keeping up your morale when your search stalls. 

Herminia Ibarra and Kent Lineback, “What’s Your Story,” Harvard Business Review, January 2005, 
p 64-71. A wonderful article on how to present yourself during the job search process.  

J. Larry Tyler, “Getting the Most Out of Your References,” Healthcare Executive, May/Jun 2005, p 58-9.
Preparation and communication are keys to managing this asset of the search process.

Ellen Lanser May, “Looking for Work?: How to Use Your Age as an Asset” Health Care Executive, Nov/Dec 2004, p 8-15. Discusses age bias, and how to anticipate and answer sticky interview questions.

Max Messmer, “Top 10 Questions to Ask During Job Interviews,” Strategic Finance, Aug 2004, p 11-12.
Hard questions you can expect to be asked, and what answers are expected.  

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Last updated on January 10, 2007