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Religous Manifesto
As a career-guidance manual this book is OK, not great. It is very Americanised, with a lot of anecdotes and information quite annoying and irrelevant to a European etc audience. But what gets my goat is that this book reads like some sort of religous manifesto. Appendix A (20 green pages) goes into some long religous rant about finding your mission in life and "to seek to stand hour by hour in the conscious presence of God, the One from whom your Mission is derived". There are frequent God references throughout the main text and in the introduction. It is way over-the-top in my opinion for a book that should be focussed on the technical details of achieving a job and attaining one's goals....it is supposed to be a 'practical manual' after all. Obviously some readers will like the not-so-subtle-God-focus but not me.
Streamlined version 
A quick review to say that, while I love this book - I borrowed a very old copy and was really inspired by it, so decided to get the most up to date version - I sent this particular one back as it is missing a lot of what helped me in the previous editions.
It's a 'hard times' edition for the recession, and as such is streamlined and very practically focussed, with punchy chapters on e.g. interview advice, CVs etc. That may be just perfect for a lot of people but what I bought the book for was the really (for me anyway) helpful chapters that talk about what sort of thing you want to do with your life, with advice and exercises to help you think about your values and goals; just what I need at a time when i'm trying to re-think my career. In the 2010 edition this is largely absent, save for a brief chapter at the end, so it wasn't for me and i'll probably try and get the 2009 edition intead, but if you're looking for very practical jobhunting advice, this could be helpful - as long as you remember it's very US-focussed.
what a great book 
My wife recently took redundancy from work and was lacking a little direction and confidence so i bought this book for her after hearing about it at a management training course.
The book is actually quite good and helped to cheer my wife up a little and gave her some ideas she hadn't really thought about.
Also - its a great book to have on the bookcase because of its title and is often a talking point!
JJ
Not Bad for one book
This was an easy read, job hunting can be complex and the book attempts and suceeds to cover most of the top areas that need to be considered. I cannot say it will be a one stop shop for all recruitment needs but it will certainly get you thinking about the skills you need to develop to get that position. overall I enjoyed it, all i need to-do now is get that job!!!
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