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How to Land the Best Jobs in School Administration - Book Cover

How to Land the Best Jobs in School Administration

The Self-Help Workbook for Practicing and Aspiring School Administrators
Second Edition
By: Georgia J. Kosmoski

Follow the strategies outlined in this book and prepare for success!

Whether you're ready to move up, change jobs laterally, or go after your first job in school administration, this book is for you! This valuable resource covers all the aspects of finding, interviewing for, getting, and keeping your new job in school administration.

This comprehensive, self-help workbook will help you:

  • Find the right mentor to assist you in your job search
  • - Write a professional letter of intent and a riveting rTsumT
  • - Capitalize on your strengths and defuse perceived weaknesses
  • - Prepare quality answers to the most often asked questions
  • - Negotiate your new contract successfully
  • - Succeed at your new job
  • You'll learn to communicate effectively with interviewers and selection committee members of the opposite sex, and how to recognize and deal with different types of harassment. Tips on how to dress effectively and appropriately apply to both men and women. Research to support all information was compiled from current accepted literature and actual field surveys: more than 600 individuals from all socioeconomic strata and ethnic populations were interviewed extensively.
  • An excellent resource for students and faculty in schools of educational administration, and for principals and administrators seeking to move up in their profession. A valuable asset for university, college, school district, and school libraries.

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How to Land the Best Jobs in School Administration - Book Cover
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9780803967991
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 1998
  • Page Count: 144
  • Publication date: December 15, 1998
Price: $34.95
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Description

Description

Follow the strategies outlined in this book and prepare for success!

Whether you're ready to move up, change jobs laterally, or go after your first job in school administration, this book is for you! This valuable resource covers all the aspects of finding, interviewing for, getting, and keeping your new job in school administration.

This comprehensive, self-help workbook will help you:

  • Find the right mentor to assist you in your job search
  • - Write a professional letter of intent and a riveting rTsumT
  • - Capitalize on your strengths and defuse perceived weaknesses
  • - Prepare quality answers to the most often asked questions
  • - Negotiate your new contract successfully
  • - Succeed at your new job
  • You'll learn to communicate effectively with interviewers and selection committee members of the opposite sex, and how to recognize and deal with different types of harassment. Tips on how to dress effectively and appropriately apply to both men and women. Research to support all information was compiled from current accepted literature and actual field surveys: more than 600 individuals from all socioeconomic strata and ethnic populations were interviewed extensively.
  • An excellent resource for students and faculty in schools of educational administration, and for principals and administrators seeking to move up in their profession. A valuable asset for university, college, school district, and school libraries.
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Georgia J. Kosmoski

Georgia J Kosmoski is Professor of Educational Administration at Governors State University located outside of Chicago, Illinois. She has been an educator for over 25 years She has been a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and assistant superintendent.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acquiring Your Mentor

The Quality Cover Letter and Riveting Résumé

Identifying Personal Qualities and Emphasizing Strengths

Recognizing Personal Weaknesses and Defusing Fears

Selection Committees

Women and Men Talking

Recognizing and Dealing with Harassment

Doing Your Homework Before the Interview

Clothing Makes the Administrator

Most Often Asked Interview Questions

Negotiating Your Contract Successfully

Securing the Position

Price: $34.95
Volume Discounts applied in Shopping Cart

Review Copies

This book is not available as a review copy.