Kennedy's Pocket Guide to Working With Executive Recruiters
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Kennedy's Pocket Guide to Working With Executive Recruiters
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Packed with the tips, advice and know-how you need to maximize your career opportunities with executive recruiters, including: How the Industry Works; Using an Executive Recruiter; Working with Job Search Professionals; The Executive Recruiting Industry; Types of Executive Recruiters; Retainer and Contingency Firms; Specialists and Generalists; The Client/Recruiter Relationship; The Executive Recruiting Process; The Candidate/Recruiter Relationship "Insider" Tips and Techniques: Forming a Recruiter Contact Strategy; Identifying Specific Recruiters; Professional Organizations; Making Your Achievements Visible; The Right Tools - Resumes, Cover Letters, Interviews, Mailings; The Right Etiquette - Make the Best Use of Your Time and the Recruiter's Time, reserve Confidentiality and more How to Get Noticed; Mass Mailings, Traditional and E-mail PLUS! A glossary of recruiting terminology and much more!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Very useful for managers and exeuctives.......2006-01-31

This book is a must if you are looking for a job in the executive category, earning $100,000 or more. It's also useful for people below that salary level, especially if their careers are in business and their resumes show strong, recent experience in the kind of work they're looking for.

In addition to this book, Kennedy offers directories and databases of recruiters, online and in print, searchable by specialty. The directories also cover employment agencies handling jobs in the $50,00 to $100,000 category.

For someone with a reasonably strong, "career-track" resume, using recruiters is important, and Kennedy is a well established authority on who they are, where they are, and how to work with them

3 out of 5 stars Not necessarily for the executive..........2005-08-23

I bought this book as I was preparing for a job search. The book does a good job of defining the differences between retained and contingency recruiters. They recommend that executives earning over $100K focus on retained recruiters.

The issue I have with the book is that they tell you to not bother contacting retained recruiters - they will find you. The book would have been more valuable had they given you some techniques for reaching this 'high-end' recruiter.

1 out of 5 stars Go online for headhunter info. Its free and more up to date........2001-12-31

This was totally useless information. I do not recommend that anyone buy this book. Go online and get free headhunter information, and save yourself the agony of reading this outdated job search info. What a waste.

4 out of 5 stars Really Helps.......1999-03-27

One of the few resources, along with Vaultreports.com, that I have seen which provides great preparation for the recuruitment and hiring process.
Kennedy's Pocket Guide to Working With Executive Recruiters
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    Access to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey: Demographics of Daily Travel (Access to)
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      Grant's Cavalryman: The Life and Wars of General James H. Wilson
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      • GENERAL JAMES H. WILSON , CIVIL WAR GENERAL
      Grant's Cavalryman: The Life and Wars of General James H. Wilson
      Edward G. Longacre
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      11 b/w photos 3 drawings 4 maps 6 x 9 "Edward Longacre marshals his facts, both for and against General Wilson, in a well-researched and well-written book." -Jay Monaghan, American Historical Review At the start of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Union army seemed habitually to lag behind its Confederate opponents. It was not for want of brave men or good animals. The fault, rather, laid in the least glorious aspect of all military branches-organization and administration. Once Union authorities applied some system to their cavalry service, telling results rewarded their efforts. More than anyone else, the man responsible for that success was Grant's cavalryman, Gen. James H. Wilson. Drawing from a host of sources unused by previous historians and marked by a dramatic narrative, Edward G. Longacre's Grant's Cavalryman is the only modern biography of the man who revolutionized the Union cavalry.

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      5 out of 5 stars GENERAL JAMES H. WILSON , CIVIL WAR GENERAL.......2001-06-18

      EDWARD G. LONGACRE IN HIS "THE CALVALRY AT GETTYSBURG" PRAISED JAMES HARRISON WILSON, AS A "...DYNAMIC NEW CALVALRY LEADER... ." LONGACRE TOOK WILSON AND BREATHED LIFE INTO THE LESSER KNOWN BUT BRILLANT UNION HORSEMAN, WHO GAVE CONFEDERATE NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST HIS ONLY 'LICKIN' IN THE CIVIL WAR. AFTER A SHAKY LEARNING EXPERIENCE AS DIVISION COMMANDER IN THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN IN 1864, WILSON CHARGED HIS WESTERN CALVALRY CORPS CONTINUALLY AFTER JOHN BELL HOOD'S BELEAGURED ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE UNTIL IT BECAME LITTLE MORE THEN A SHADOW OF ITS FORMER STRENGTH. NEVERTHELESS, LONGACRE DELIVERED HIS PROMISE OF A BALANCED BIOGRAPHY IN HIS BOOK GRANT'S CALVALRYMAN: THE LIFE AND WARS OF GENERAL JAMES H. WILSON. WILSON WAS BORN IN 1837 AND GRADUATED SIXTH IN HIS CLASS AT WEST POINT JUST IN TIME FOR THE START OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES. LONGACRE MOVED THROUGH THIS PERIOD OF MATURATION AND QUICKLY PLUNGED INTO HIS CIVIL WAR YEARS. THE GENERAL'S ACHIEVEMENTS AS WELL AS HIS EGOTISTICAL AND AMBITIOUS PERSONALITY ARE MINGLED IN AN INFORMATIVE TALE. WILSON WAS SO BOLD OR WAS IT ARROGANCE THAT ALLOWED HIM TO CRITICIZE THE GREAT U. S. GRANT, ONCE HIS IDOL. ALL OF WILSON'S MILITARY AND CIVIL LIFE IS PRESENTED FROM THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR. WILSON WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE INTERNATIONAL EVENT CALLED THE BOXER REBELLION IN CHINA, WHILE AT THE AGE OF EIGHTY, HE PUSHED FOR COMMAND OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN WORLD WAR I. SCORES OF BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT FLAMBOYANT CALVALRY LEADERS LIKE CUSTER, STUART, AND SHERIDAN, WHO POSSESS A MOSIAC OF ABILITIES AND SHORTFALLS. BUT WILSON ACHIEVED MILITARY SUCCESS IN BOTH THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY FAR SURPASSING ANY OTHER FORMER CIVIL WAR CALVALRY LEADER. MR LONGACRE HAS GIVEN THE GENERAL HIS JUST DUE.
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              GRANT'S CAVALRYMAN; THE LIFE AND WARS OF GENERAL JAMES H. WILSON.
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                DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY: SUPPLEMENTS 3 + 4: 1941-1950
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                  The Weight of Nations : Material Outflows from Industrial Economies
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                    The Weight of Nations: Material Outflows from Industrial Economies, is the second product of a remarkable collaboration between the World Resources Institute and research partners in Europe and Japan. Our task has been to document the materials that flow through industrial economies, and to develop sets of national physical accounts that can be used alongside national monetary accounts. In addition, we have developed indicators of material flows that complement economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 1997, the first report, Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies, documented material inputs to industrial economies, and showed that the Total Material Requirement of major OECD countries (Germany, Japan, The Netherlands and the U.S.A.) is between 45 and 80 metric tons per capita annually. This new report completes the material cycle. It documents the relatively modest quantities of materials that are recycled or added each year to stock in use (largely in the form of infrastructure and durable goods), and the materials that are quickly returned to the environment as pollution or waste, with potential for environmental harm. The report shows that, in the five countries studied, between one half and three quarters of resource inputs to the economy are returned to the environment as wastes within a year. It further shows that, despite waste reduction measures and significant improvements in the efficiency of material use, the overall quantities of wastes flowing into the environment each year have continued to grow. Much greater improvements in energy and materials efficiency will be required if modern industrial economies are to achieve a real reduction in their levels of resource throughput.

                    Collaborating Partner Institution Wuppertal Institute, Germany; University of Vienna, Austria; University of Leiden, Netherlands; National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.

                    Aretha From These Roots
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                    • For deep fans only; agree with other reviewers
                    • Enjoyed The Queen of Soul's From These Roots
                    • Real average but this book ain't BAD!!!
                    • simply dreadful
                    Aretha From These Roots
                    Aretha Franklin , and David Ritz
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                    Release Date: 1999-09-28

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                    Unlike the soul-baring performances that have drawn listeners to her for four decades, Aretha Franklin is a bit cagey when it comes to discussing her personal life in her autobiography, From These Roots. The famously press-shy Aretha is a free-speaking anecdote spinner and a blunt sharer of opinions of coworkers and fellow artists. (Don't get her started on Natalie Cole.) But some areas remain blurry; for instance, her troubled first marriage to a temperamental music-business figure named Ted White is covered in only a tiny handful of pages. Other happier memories of lovers and of her late father, the famed minister Rev. C.L. Franklin, find her in a more expansive mood. Most consistently indelible in this telling, though, is her musical story. Born in 1942, she grew up around some of the century's greatest singers--Clara Ward, Dinah Washington, and Sam Cooke were all family friends. A voice that many consider the world's finest, a strikingly individual touch on piano, and an eclectic ear for material combined to make her a notable artist who moved quickly from the gospel circuit to Columbia Records and moderate success in a variety of contexts, from show tunes to a gritty tribute to Washington. Her reminiscences of those days, and of the conquests that followed when she moved to the forefront of the soul revolution after signing to Atlantic, are obviously still fresh for her. A formidable presence even in her 20s, Aretha continues to be a daunting figure. While From These Roots isn't as splashy a triumph as her 1967 Atlantic debut or her house-rocking at the 1998 Grammys with a rendition of Puccini's "Nessun dorma," the book does make for an irresistible reflection on a singular woman and her art. --Rickey Wright

                    Amazon.com Audiobook Review

                    The bluesy voice of narrator Ann Duquesnay lends an authentic quality to this inspirational and revealing biography on Aretha Franklin. Duquesnay's lyrical narration relates well with the events of the singer's life and colors each moment with a lively nod toward Franklin's immense talent. "When my piano teacher came to the house, I would hide behind the coats in the back of the closet because I thought her exercises far too elementary. I wanted to skip to the intermediate material. I wanted to run before I could walk." Tracing Franklin's life from a child singing in church choirs through hard times as an unwed teenage mother to her dramatic rise to superstardom, Duquesnay gives voice to the lifetime of family, music, and faith that gave the world the Queen of Soul. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney

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                    Her soulful, soaring voice has earned her mythic status. Now, in her own moving words, the woman behind the myth is revealed. The result is a captivating self-portrait of one of this century's most fascinating artists, an Aretha Franklin as real as the songs she sings.
                            
                    For the first time anywhere, Aretha tells her story--the glorious triumphs as well as the heartbreaking pain. With refreshing candor, Aretha tells it like it is, the way she sees it, the way she lived it.
                            
                    A child prodigy of the golden age of gospel, the daughter of a world-famous preacher, Aretha was the anointed successor to Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward. But her father had a broader vision and helped Aretha enter the field of pop and jazz. By age eighteen, she was under contract to Columbia Records. Six years later, after only a few minor hits, she switched to Atlantic, where she shook the musical world to its roots. Her song "Respect" became the anthem of an epoch, a touchstone for African Americans, for women, for all people struggling to be free. Aretha became the Queen of Soul, the genre's finest interpreter since Ray Charles.
                            
                    In Aretha: From These Roots, the singer gets up-close and personal. In rich detail, she paints a vivid picture of a Detroit long gone: the storefront churches, the basement parties, the explosive R&B shows. She documents her life as a single teenage mother, working to balance home life with career, coping with two challenging marriages and, later, romantic relationships that were the source of both tremendous joy and unforeseen heartache.    
                            
                    Along the way, we meet the characters who lit up her life: her charismatic father, the Reverend C. L. Franklin, "the man with the million-dollar voice"; Sam Cooke, the man of her dreams; her singing sisters, Erma and Carolyn, and her manager-brother, Cecil; her famous colleagues--Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Luther Vandross, and Luciano Pavarotti--as well as some famous rivals.
                            
                    Aretha emerges as a triumphant woman of rare wit, willing to share with us her passion for great music, great food, and great love affairs. Her book does more than illuminate some of the most exciting songs ever sung; it lets you into the heart and mind of the mesmerizing woman who sang them.  

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                    2 out of 5 stars Don't Bother.......2007-05-25

                    I've been listening to pop, rock, soul, R&B, reggae, world music, etc., etc. for roughly fifty years, and I will always maintain that Aretha, in her prime, was the greatest singer I've ever heard or ever will hear. That's why I picked up this book. However, there's no getting around what a huge disappointment it is. There is something false and brittle about the whole enterprise. From what I've read elsewhere, though a phenomenal talent, Aretha 's personal life was messy and her business and financial acumen left much to be desired. You get very little of that in this book. And how many times do I want to hear who designed a gown she was wearing or what posh hotel she stayed at? Or her many references to food and eating? I wanted to know about her personal life honestly related, and I wanted to know much more about the nuts and bolts of her musical career. For instance, there's barely any mention of the many great sidemen she worked with at Atlantic (Richard Tee, Cornell Dupree, Bernard Purdie, etc.), or of specific recording sessions. In the few interviews I've seen of her, she always comes across as distant, guarded,and slightly pretentious, and the book leaves you with the same impression. It's ironic that a vocalist whose performances ring so true can sound so false in print.

                    3 out of 5 stars For deep fans only; agree with other reviewers.......2007-04-02

                    Aretha's life has too much meaning to give this anything less than 3 stars, but I'm pretty biased. I love soul music and gospel music and I gain from some of the silences that many of the other reviewers here justifiably complain about. There's deep meaning in her silences on her father's philandering and her mother's disappearance. There's deep meaning in the silences about the identity of Mr. Mystique, an unidentified prominent black male who she has a long running affair with. There's also deep meaning in the lack of explanation on her process and technique in making music.

                    I gained from hearing her talk about some of her influences such as Clara Ward, but again, that's probably information that's equally available elsewhere. Aretha has a reputation as a private diva who can be tough to deal with; this book won't really do much to counteract that sentiment because she's not that transparent.

                    Still, I feel an artist has a right to represent herself in the way that she's comfortable. I'm glad that I read this, although casual readers would be better advised to go elsewhere. I read "I Never Loved a Man", which is a book about her first album for Atlantic after reading "From These Roots". I found that much better and would recommend checking that out over this book for casual fans.

                    2.5 stars and that may be kind

                    --SD

                    5 out of 5 stars Enjoyed The Queen of Soul's From These Roots.......2006-03-17

                    I'm surprised at all of the negative reviews of From These Roots. I checked this book out from the library twice and read it through both times. While reading it I felt as if I were sitting having a cup of coffee or tea with a good friend. I don't need to know the names of Aretha's babies' daddies, and I'm not gonna judge her for being a young unwed teenager. Her having babies as a teenager is not news to most people who grew up in the 60's and 70's. Everyone has always known that, and they were proud that she accomplished so much in spite of it. Not proud that she was a teenaged parent, but proud that she overcome all obstacles to achieve her dream. I'm quite sure that it must have been very hard on her at that young age. God only knows what she went through. Thank God that she excelled in her music. If not, she would be somewhere living in some projects in the ghetto, and living off of welfare and food stamps, and putting up with crap from her babies' daddies. Then, she would not be the Queen of Soul, and her name would not be a household word.
                    And another thing, I don't believe that her father just shrugged her pregnancies off with an "oh well, that's that." I know that he was probably devastated when he found out that his young unmarried teenage daughter was pregnant. But, what was he suppose to do, condemn her and kick her out? I'm quite sure that he reprimanded her, but he also supported her to help her get through the hard times. Which is probably why she was able to become as successful as she is.
                    Love ya' Aretha, and may you forever reign as the Queen of Soul.

                    3 out of 5 stars Real average but this book ain't BAD!!!.......2005-09-30

                    Why's there much criticism or hypocrisy behind this book? Why u're gonna dis her or treat her like that 'cuz this is not REAL or it ain't Aretha at all? Ya'll haters should be ashamed. I'm happy to share one of my all-time favorite artists off this book co-written by her and writer himself Mr. David Ritz. When I getting ready to read this, I found it quite interesting to see behind the life and times of Aretha Louise Franklin (her full name). Can't describe to yet maybe later. She was and still is today THE QUEEN OF SOUL. She stands along as "Rev. Aretha" which is my new nickname to dubbed 'cuz she can blow and can knock the place down in a heartbeat like Bro. Ray Charles. Once I finished BROTHER RAY, I'm amazed to do the same w/ ARETHA: AFTER THESE ROOTS. And 1st and foremost, both of these books aren't that dissappointing or just depressing. Lemme they're Must-Haves and really Great books. Love 'em all. For all the naysayers and the haters need to go back listening to her albums or Greatest Hits compilations to prove your lil' interest and then or before read the book if that's the case. For the lovers that bought it and loved it and totally agree w/ it, I don't blame ya and I'm not gonna let ya'll down. Please stop w/ the fuss 'bout Aretha not being the Greatest Artist or Greatest Female Singer of All-Time since Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, James Brown and Smokey Robinson. Truly a Must if u're interested. If not, then this in not 4 u, read something else or perhaps the Bible.

                    2 out of 5 stars simply dreadful.......2005-04-23

                    I preface this review the way I always do when I write about Aretha Franklin. I am a long time fan and admirer. Lord knows the Queen of Soul has a heck of a story to tell. What's disappointing is that she doesn't really tell it. This is lightweight, to say the very least. SO MUCH is left to speculate, Aretha is cagey about many events, many people. In other words, if you're not gonna write a warts and all autobiography, and leave yourself open to the world, to your FANS, who really want the details, then don't do one at all. The only impression this book left me with is the enormity of Aretha Franklin's self-importance, and utter self-righteousness. A much better book is "Queen of Soul."
                    Aretha : From These Roots
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                      Aretha with David Ritz Franklin
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                      Aretha From These Roots
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                        Aretha Franklin; David Ritz
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                          Aretha / David Ritz / Ann Duquesnay Franklin
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                          Aretha: From These Roots
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                            Aretha Franklin
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                            Unabridged audiobook on cd.

                            Of Men and Mountains: The Classic Memoir of Wilderness Adventure
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                            • This book allows you to visit MY mountains
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                            Of Men and Mountains: The Classic Memoir of Wilderness Adventure
                            William O. Douglas
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                            A book of personal adventure and discovery: an account of the way Douglas and other men managed to find a richer life in the mountains.

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                            5 out of 5 stars This book allows you to visit MY mountains.......2006-02-10

                            This book is a wonderful and gentle journey of one man who loved to be in the mountains! As an adult I started backpacking the very areas Douglas talks about in the book and have grown quite fond of the southern portion of the Cascades. Names like Darling Mountain, Fryingpan Lake, Fifes Peak, Old Snowy Mountain and Conrad Meadows - I've been to most of these places!

                            Through Justice Douglas I get to see how it was so long ago! Very well written, you get to hear about the adventures of young men growing up and doing the things that young men did in the early 1900s. And while specific to the Wallowas and the south central Cascades, the story is told as if the forests he visits were the forests closest to you. Each little lesson he learns, he shares. Tips on cooking and fishing and surviving - and how to be a little less afraid and a little more inspired. These are the forests that are visited by wise scholars and simple horsemen and everyone in between.

                            The book is definitely not a work of fiction - you couldn't possibly describe these places in the way that he does without having been there. The book is about real places with real people. Don't take my word for it - drive to Tampico near Yakima in Washington and hike up to Darling Mountain. Then go down to Conrad Meadows and to the Tieton Basin. Walk across Highway 12 and up Indian Creek trail to the Blankenship Meadows and then up to the top of Tumac Mountain. When you're tired looking as far as the eye can see, go down to Twin Sisters Lake for bit of fishing and a night of rest before the long journey to Bumping Lake and then on to Goose Prairie where Douglas once lived. These are a few of the places that Justice Douglas takes you to.

                            If you want the controversy of William O. Douglas read "Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas". If you want to read about men and mountains, then I highly suggest this book.

                            3 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Written Fiction.......2004-10-08

                            When I first read this book several years ago, I was truly inspired by it. This is a delightful story of a boy that overcame the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of paralysis (if memory serves, induced by polio) by forcing himself to walk in the mountains of the great Northwest, and eventually becoming a United States Supreme Court Justice. Finding his strength and his soul (and his paralysis cure!) in the wilderness, he would often retreat to the great outdoors. This is a story of his lessons, and his adventures. A wonderful read.

                            There is a problem with it, however. It isn't true. For one thing, Douglass never suffered from paralysis as a child as he claimed in the book. He sufferred from re-occuring intestinal colic. He also stated that he lived in poverty with his mother. As it turns out, his mother was typically middle-class. He claimed to have graduated second in his class from law school. Again, a lie.

                            Apparently, discerning the reasearch I have done on Douglas, this book was politically motivated by a man who wished to paint himself as wholesome as possible in order to obtain his life's ambition - the White House. Studying more on this man is revealing. He left his wife of 28 years for a series of younger women. He left his third wife for a high school student. 24 months later he married a college student that he met waitressing at a cocktail bar. His own children thought him "scary" who only spoke to them when "press photographers wanted a picture." There is also a controversy about his military service - if he ever did actually serve, and if he deserves to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery (where he is buried.)

                            The book itself, as I said, is a delightful read. If it were true, I would give it five stars without blinking an eye. Read and enjoy this piece of masterful, self-revisionist fiction.

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