Insiders Talk: How to Get and Keep Your First Lobbying Job is the first of the five manuals making up the Insiders Talk series. This small book prepares aspiring lobbyists to deal with career-defining questions before investing all the dreams, time, and work it takes to find a job. Do I know what lobbying really requires? Do I have the aptitude to succeed as a lobbyist? What kind of lobbyist do I want to become? Where do I start building the expertise that makes me a good hire? How do I build job-opening relationships? How do I prepare myself before looking for a job? What do I do to define myself during my first days on the job? Answering these questions will give you a firm foundation to determine whether or not this a job you really want to do. And if you conclude that it is, then it will lead you in preparing yourself to be seen as a good hire, getting your first job and then, during their first critical weeks in the profession, establishing the professional reputation that will direct the rest of your career. "It is better to be prepared and not have an opportunity than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Franco Genarro, NCAA/NFL Sports Chaplain The next step in developing into a lobbyist is Manual 2, Insiders Talk: Glossary of Legislative Concepts and Representative Terms. This small book lays out the fundamentals of legislative procedure and vocabulary to start readers into thinking and speaking as government affairs professionals.
Insiders Talk: How to Get and Keep Your First Lobbying Job shows aspiring lobbyists how to prepare for and get your first lobbying job and then, during your first critical weeks in the profession, how to establish the reputation that will direct the rest of your career. How to Get and Keep Your First Lobbying Job prepares aspiring lobbyists to answer career-defining questions before opportunity comes: Do I know what lobbying really requires? Do I have the aptitude to succeed as a lobbyist? What kind of lobbyist do I want to become? Where do I start building the expertise that makes me a good hire? How do I build job-opening relationships? How do I prepare myself before looking for a job? What do I do to define myself during my first days on the job?
"It is better to be prepared and not have an opportunity than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." Franco Genarro, NCAA/NFL Sports Chaplain
Insiders Talk: How to Get and Keep Your First Lobbying Job shows aspiring lobbyists how to prepare