Product Description
Jobs That Matter provides job seekers with the tips they need to land a great job in government (including local, state, and federal), nonprofit, or corporate organizations serving the public good. This book helps you pinpoint the right public service career for your interests and talents, and then helps you land it with key research, networking, resume, cover letter, and interviewing techniques. Along the way you ll read profiles of people in various public service jobs, showing how they got their jobs and what they re like. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Really good resource
As a college career specialist, I was very impressed with this book.I have recommended it and lent it to students and workers interested in having a career that makes a difference. Well organized, clearly written and lists many excellent resources.Bravo Heather K.!

Fantastic Tips for Finding A job in the Public Service
Fantastic tips for finding a job in public service. Well written and accessible. Case studies are utilized, providing real world examples and tips from people working for the government, nonprofits and more. Heather Krasna has put together a wonderful guide to help people interested in finding a job that matters navigate their way towards success. This book is well organized and brilliantly written. I have bought more than one copy!

Eye-opening career guide
When I picked up Krasna's book, I thought it would be a simple how-to guide on where to send my resume. I'm happy to say that this book is so much more than that.

Jobs That Matter is a stellar book, not only because it provides information but also because it changed the way I look at government jobs. Gone is the idea that government jobs are pure drudgery for the sake of a paycheck (although there is administrative work in every profession). It was replaced by the fact that these jobs, well, matter. That you can do good. That you can use creative thinking and strategizing to forward your plans. And you can get paid while doing it.

This concept is backed by interviews from people in public service jobs who have a passion for the work they do. They describe their accomplishments, as well as their challenges. For example, one woman said she helps people with disabilities live better lives, yet she worked for low pay for years. Krasna's interviewees also give readers insider information on how to enter that particular field.

Thank you, Krasna, for opening up a world of opportunity in a field I would never have considered before.

If you want to work for the public good, or advise people who do, BUY THIS BOOK
Heather Krasna has packed an amazing amount of useful information and sound advice on a wide range of career topics between these two covers. Her broad definition of careers in public service will help individuals expand their horizons, and it is particularly helpful to find evolving fields of interest such as environmental protection, managing infrastructure, accountability and evaluation, advocacy, corporate social responsibility, security and emergency preparedness. There are solid sections on applying for federal government jobs and the organization, delivery, and competitiveness of international development work. Her résumé and job search preparation tools are excellent: the Anatomy of a Bullet Point on page 202-203 is worth the price of the book all by itself.

Key to Getting Public Sector Job
As founder of Young Gov't Leaders (young professional group for federal employees) and founder of GovLoop (social network connecting 30,000+ gov't leaders), people ask me every day how to get a government job.

Heather's book "Jobs That Matter" is a great guide for those interested in public service and its advice is dead-on.Particularly great are the case studies from the book and real advice from real people working in the government (vs hypothetical advice).

If you are a graduating from college or graduate school and interested in public service, this is a must buy.

Steve Ressler (President, GovLoop.com) ... Read more