From B.A. to payday
Subtitle: launching your career after college
By: by D. A. Hayden and Michael Wilder.
Contributors: Wilder, Michael.
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584797111
Subjects: Job hunting; College graduates -- Employment; Job interviews; School-to-work transition
First sentence: Sound familiar?  Baby boomer parents have watched over, guided, coddled, coached, engineered, and examined every aspect of their children's lives, and not a cocktail party or a business lunch goes by without discussion of the latest challenge facing or recently overcome by them.
Table of contents: title: Enough about you, let's talk about me : thoughts on the entitlement generation; title: Parental air cover : the case against helicopter parenting and how to use your parents to your advantage; title: Daaad, it doesn't work that way anymore : helping your parents help you; title: So what do I get for my $200,000? Don't count on career services to get you a job; title: I'm an adult, can I come home now? Is moving back home a smart move?; title: Focus...and how to find it; title: Behave like a brand; title: I love the buildings you build, they're so eyestriking : why writing skills are so important; title: Thanks, but no thanks; title: Resumes : they're not about what you've done, they're about what you can do; title: Degrees of Kevin Bacon; title: All I need to do is look at the company web site : the secrets of effective research; title: No one likes a rambler, especially during an interview; title: What do you mean, I can't wear my nose ring?; title: An interview is a sales pitch disguised as a conversation; title: The finish line.