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Dr. Marty Nemko has helped over 2,000 clients to improve their careers or their education. He enjoys a 96% client satisfaction rate. He has distilled the best of what he does with his clients into these two books.Enjoy the sample chapters. To purchase one of the books, click on the amazon.com logo.
COOL CAREERS FOR DUMMIES
NEW, COMPLETELY REVISED 3RD EDITION (2007)
Still trying to figure out what you want to be? Cool Careers for Dummies includes quick introductions to 500 great careers, including many little-known ones. Plus it contains other invaluable sections: Overcoming Procrastination, Top Ten Career Tips for Women, the Top Ten for Men, the Top Ten for everyone, and A Guide to The Future, . This is the #1 rated career guide in the Reader's Choice Poll and reached #2 on the Wall Street Journal National Business Bestseller list. Richard Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute wrote on the cover of this brand new edition, "Read this book Use this book. You're in good hands. I guarantee you." USA Today's review of the book said it is "Full of smart advice."
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THE ALL-IN-ONE COLLEGE GUIDE
A more-results, less-stress plan for choosing, getting into,
finding the money for, and making the most of college
The book provides all of the above in just 220 student- and
parent-friendly pages.
Excerpts
Press Release from Barron's, the publisher
Dr. Marty Nemko is a true higher education expert, filled with fresh ideas. He can compellingly discuss any of these:
College without tears.
Families are ever more overwhelmed by the process of choosing, getting into, finding the money for, and making the most of college. There are ways to get better results with less stress.
Advice for busy parents:
What are the most time-effective things parents can do for their college-bound child?
How colleges deceive the college-bound.
We revere colleges as beneficent nonprofits. Too often, even many reputable colleges act like standard businesses, hiding important truths from college-bound students and families. Finally, a former insider is willing to break the code of silence.
Why you might want to turn down Harvard even if you get in.
Ivies have advantages, but also hidden downsides.
Secrets to maximizing the investment in your child's education.
The sticker price of four years at a brand-name public college is approaching $100,000, $200,000 at a brand-name private. Yet many families aren’t getting sufficient benefit from the invetment--and they can.
John Kerry wants to send 1.5 million more students to college. It's an appealing notion but the evidence suggests we should send fewer, not more.
America’s most overrated product:
Higher education. Nemko can compellingly support this controversial claim.
A solution for schools with poor college counseling.
Nemko has developed a Virtual College Counselor, an interactive handbook that generates for each student, an individualized on-target list of colleges to apply to, best counsel on how to get in, find the money, and make the most of college. It provides the sort of advice for which wealthy parents pay thousands of dollars to private college counselors.
Who is Marty Nemko?
He was introduced at ABC-TV’s Summit on Education as “The Ralph Nader of Education.” He is the author of 400 articles and five books, including the just-published All-in-One College Guide (Barron’s, July, 2004). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley specializing in the evaluation of educational programs, and subsequently taught there. He has been a consultant to 15 college presidents, to Consumer Reports, and to hundreds of college-bound students and families. An extraordinarily good interviewee, he has been the primary interview source for dozens of articles in major newspapers and is a frequent repeat guest on radio and TV shows. Currently, he appears three times a day on CNN-TV Local Edition in San Francisco, and is in his 17th year as the regular education and career expert on the #1-rated radio show in San Francisco.
You can reach Marty Nemko at 510-655-2777 or mnemko@comcast.net.
For a review copy of the All-in-One College Guide, contact Steve Matteo, Director of Publicity, Barron’s Educational Series: 1-800-645-3476, extension 208.
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