Crisis-Proof Your Career: Finding Job Security in an Insecure Time

Marion, a San Francisco-based career counselor, here delivers a comprehensive self-help employment guide. Systematic self-evaluation and conditioning techniques (``Imagine you are inhaling a color that symbolizes relaxation for you.'') combine with job-hunting and business-startup aids in this wide array of suggestions intended to help readers to cope with their fears of such setbacks as layoffs, miscasting and being overtaken on the executive track. Unemployment itself becomes a full-time job: networking and establishing new connections are essential, and well-drafted telephone scripts are provided to illustrate effective techniques. Marion stresses clarity and specificity in preparing resumes and in rehearsing for interviews with prospective employers. (Aug.)