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Launch Your Career: How Any Student Can Create Relationships with Professionals and Land the Jobs and Internships They Want

by Sean O'Keefe

A practical framework for building professional connections

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A practical framework for building professional connections

Sean O’Keefe organizes career exploration and job searching around an eight-step method for creating relationships with professionals. The guide breaks proactive networking into practical steps and frames students’ limited experience as something they can use when approaching people in their fields of interest. First-person accounts describe students who applied the method across different programs of study and workplaces, while a readiness assessment invites readers to consider their skills in five areas. The book centers on relationship-building as a route to learning about careers and pursuing internships and jobs, including opportunities that may not appear in online listings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students exploring career options and preparing to seek internships or jobs
  • Young adults who want practical steps for initiating professional relationships
  • College staff seeking a career-readiness resource for students

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Career explorationProfessional relationship-buildingInternships and job searchingStudent readiness and self-assessment

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Book overview

This book shows how any college student can land the position they want by creating relationships with professionals in the industries they're interested in by using the author's proven Career Launch Method.


Did you know only 20 percent of jobs and internships are posted online? This means 80 percent of positions are filled in what Sean O'Keefe and others calls the hidden job market. This book will teach you how to tap into that 80 percent!

O'Keefe, in partnership with the Career Leadership Collective, is now sharing his proven eight-step Career Launch Method that will help any student explore career options and land the internships and jobs they want by creating professional relationships from scratch. This book demystifies the concept of intentional, proactive relationship building by teaching all the practical microsteps needed to succeed. And O'Keefe teaches readers how to "play the student card," turning inexperience and eagerness to learn into a powerful advantage.

Launch Your Career features first-person stories of students from all backgrounds and programs of study who have used the Career Launch Method to earn jobs or internships at all types of companies, nonprofits, government agencies, social enterprises, and institutions across the country and around the world.

The book includes the Career Launch Readiness Assessment, which helps students evaluate their competency in five key areas. This book will become a go-to resource for students looking to find internships and jobs, as well as a needed tool for colleges looking to increase retention rates and student's return on investment.

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