Rites of Passage by John Lucht is America's and the World's #1 bestselling book on executive-level job-changing and career management. For over a decade it has outsold all others in the field by 20-to-1, and today it is more widely read and influential than ever.

The main focus of "Rites" is the executive search industry, its current operating methods, and their implications both for career-building executives and for management-team-building employers. Indeed, a key feature of the book is always its current list of outstanding retainer-compensated search firms in the U.S. and Canada. Firms honored in Rites of Passage are permitted to display the book on their Web sites and are entrusted with special privileges on RiteSite.com, the Web site set up to assist executive readers of Rites and the ethically-oriented search firms honored in it.

If you are an executive currently seeking a new job, or if you're currently employed and interested in positioning yourself for future attention from the finest search firms, you owe it to yourself to thoroughly read Rites of Passage. If you are an employer spending the very substantial fees required to engage top-echelon executive search assistance, you too should know the inner workings of the high end of the executive search industry.

Rites of Passage is one of the most widely acclaimed business books ... seen in Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Dallas Morning News, Investors Business Daily, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, and a vast number of others in the U.S. and Canada, plus foreign publications as distant as Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and mainland China. The book's usefulness is indeed wide-ranging: Chief Executive says, "CEOs had better know everything there is to know about job-changing. As 'how to' books go, this one could serve as a model." And The New York Daily News sums up: "This book is for anyone looking to change jobs, get a job, or sit pretty."