Available as an e-book at oreilly.com and the iBookstore.
For many prospective college students, the toughest part of the application process is writing the required admissions essay. Using the proven Help in a Hurry formula, students can quickly craft an effective application essay. Key features include targeted questions and helpful worksheets, quick-start strategies, professional advice from college admissions directors, and dozens of actual essay lead-ins and examples.
Chapter 1: Why You Need a Terrific Essay
Chapter 2: Quick Steps for Crafting an Essay in an Hour
Chapter 3: Tools to Help You When You Have More Time
Chapter 4: What the Experts Say
Chapter 5: Diverse Sampling of Actual Winning Essays to Inspire You
Chapter 6: One Student’s Application Story—From Start to Successful Finish
Jan Melnik is the author of One-Hour College Application Essay and a co-author of Executive’s Pocket Guide to ROI Resumes and Job Search. In addition, she is the president of Absolute Advantage, a career management, resume-writing, and job-search coaching practice she founded in Connecticut 23 years ago. Her slogan is, "Be inspired. It’s your career. It’s your life.”
Melnik helps clients coast-to-coast with career strategies, resumes, and coaching services, and high school/college students with applications, college search, and job search. A Master Resume Writer and Credentialed Career Manager, she is the careers and business start-up expert on Money Matters radio, syndicated nationwide. She holds two undergraduate degrees in business management and is working on her master’s degree at Wesleyan University.
She has been featured in numerous periodicals, including the LA Times, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Woman’s Day, Country Living, Business Investor’s Daily, The Hartford Courant, The New Haven Register, and The Middletown Press. She does a regular career and entrepreneurial segment on NBC television.
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