John Lucht, an executive recruiter during the past three decades for some of America's top corporations, knows what it takes to snag a new six-figure job. Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1 Million+ is his newly revised guide to the ins and outs of a search for a job that ends in success. It promises a "comprehensive cram course in accelerating your career"--a contemporary corporate equivalent of the traditional initiation into adulthood from which it takes its title--updated for the cyber-age. And it delivers, with Lucht offering inside tips on the basic routes to a new executive-level position: personal contacts (i.e., "ask for a reference instead of a job"); networking ("never fail to get into the office of anyone whose name is mentioned to you, never depart with less than three new names"); executive recruiters ("understand their hidden financial arrangements"); direct mail ("write to the CEO or a person two levels above your target job"); and the Internet ("insert plenty of the right 'keywords' so that the computer will find your resume"). Extensive online references are also included throughout, and the material is presented in a way that's easy to understand and implement. --Howard Rothman


Review
"John Lucht's book is about as complete as any book on this far-ranging subject possibly could be." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"This book is for anyone looking to change jobs, get a job or sit pretty!" --Daily News



Review
"John Lucht's book is about as complete as any book on this far-ranging subject possibly could be." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"This book is for anyone looking to change jobs, get a job or sit pretty!" --Daily News



Book Description
Unrevised since 1993, this #1 bestseller in its field is totally rewritten for a new era. The Internet is now a central theme!Every year since it first appeared in 1988, John Lucht's Rites of Passage at $100,000+ has been America's bestselling executive career guide. With the mushrooming importance of the Internet, Lucht rips apart his revered classic to bring it startlingly into the twenty-first century! Lucht's New Thinking merges his adroit handling of top executive recruiters (selected and honored in Rites for the past decade) with the incredible communicating power of the Internet. Add to the mix a brand-new $350,000 Internet site, RiteSite.com, which Lucht will open on the pub date of Rites to help readers use the principles in Rites, and you have a unique publishing event that befits a new technology and a new millennium. The last rewrite and relaunch of Rites in '93 attracted media attention and was a major sales success. Expect far more excitement and even bigger sales this time!



Book Info
Insider's lifetime guide to executive job-changing and faster career progress. If you are even thinking about a job change, this book is a must read. DLC: Executives - U.S. - Recruiting.


About the Author
One of America's best-known executive recruiters for twenty-eight years, John Lucht is also one of America's most successful and highest-paid executive outplacement consultants and career coaches. He lives in New York City and is also the author of the Executive Job-Changing Workbook.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Do you want to move up? Find a new job? Attract the top headhunters? Manage your career at every stage from college to retirement, so that you'll get the best possible rewards for what you do?

Rites of Passage helps you do all that and more.

And now RITES puts the Internet at your disposal with the same depth of insider's information that RITES has always brought to the executive recruiter and onpaper dimensions of the career-building process. Now, through adroit use of all the tools at your disposal, you can take control of your career...a feat that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

Ever since it first appeared, RITES has been the world's #1 bestselling career tool for executives, and today at 250,000 copies and accelerating, it's even more widely read and followed than ever before.

Why? Because Rites doesn't stand still!

Times change. Business changes. Author John Lucht is one of America's top executive recruiters. He sees the changing ways that corporate America deals with its managers and successful executives deal with their employment.

Today, the Internet so profoundly increases the opportunities-and hazards-of aggressive career management that John has torn apart the old RITES and created an entirely new RITES for new times.

Vast amounts of new information have been added. Every statement in the prior RITES has been challenged and modified wherever facts have changed or wording could be clearer...making Rites absolutely the leading edge of practical advice to deal with today's exciting career scene.

Delightfully unchanged is the sheer joy of reading Rites. John Lucht has a uniquely succinctand witty way of imparting information. Few serious business books are fun to read. This one is. "It will grip you," says The Denver Post. "Lucht is a good communicator...punchy and spare. As 'how to' books go, this one might serve as a model," says Chief Executive. "Noteworthy," says Business Week.

So enjoy a "great read" as John Lucht brings you his insider's view of executive career management and job-changing... both traditional and online ...from adroit handling of personal contacts, to effective networking, to persuasive letter- and resume-writing, to successful interviewing, to every facet of dealing with recruiters. Handled right, they'll call with attractive opportunities throughout the rest of your career.