Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough
Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough
“Over 70% of all jobs are never published. This book will help you discover and land these jobs!” –John Challenger, CEO, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Your perfect job will never be advertised. But you can find it–or create it. Even now. Especially now! TOP CAREER EXPERTS SHOW HOW TO: Uncover hidden opportunities Help companies design the perfect job for you Network without sounding phony, lame, or desperate Reinvigorate a dead-end job search Break free from the frustration and tyranny of online job boards Get the interviews that count and run them like a pro Leap-frog salary levels or change professions Turn your experience into hot new skills Negotiate compensation from a position of strength Fix a broken career Get the great job nobody else knows about!
User Ratings and Reviews
1 Stars Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough
FLUFF! Just a fancy way to say that one should network for job opportunities. VERY disappointing and lacks substance.
5 Stars Practical variant to the networking approach
As one who has been fortunate to never have had to look long for work until recently, I found this book a source of practical advice on how to approach job hunting. There is nothing easy, consistent, or predictable about job hunting. It can be a messy and frustrating business. How do you reach the hiring manager? How do you approach persons you do not know to learn of opportunities in your chosen profession? What do you say when you manage to get audience with a contact who knows the hiring persons to make the most of the conversation? The book provides a workable method and tool to assist. Is the book for everyone? Maybe not. But if you want to do more than respond to posted jobs which is how the fewest number of jobs are realized, and the networking concept is foreign to your nature and a pattern to follow would help, then this book is an excellent reference. Based upon research of what successful job hunters do and how they conduct themselves, the chapters are purposely short to focus on each factor and to provide an example of how it might manifest.
Job hunting is work. There are no short cuts here. But, there are constructive ideas of how to go at the goal of getting back to gainful employment and suggestions for supportive activity to reinforce your hirability.
5 Stars Finally–a great book for this job market
I own some good books that worked in previous job markets, but this market is different. This book explains the new job market and the new ways to go about getting a job. Anyone that has been job-hunting recently or that knows someone who has realizes that the old-school rules of job hunting are largely gone; this is a new and tougher environment that calls for more creative tactics and persistent effort. If you want to look for a job, this is a book you’ll use, and if you do use it, it can make a significant difference in the outcome of your search. I know people whose idea of job hunting is just to send out resumes and hope for the best; if that’s your approach, believe me, you need this book. Getting a job today is almost a job in itself, and this book tells you how to come at it systematically and give yourself the best possible opportunity to get hired. If you’re out of work, this will be your invaluable handbook, and it will be well worth every penny as long as you do it rather than just reading it. There’s an old saying that “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” but you won’t feel so desperate after reading this; it will give you a roadmap for getting the job you need. These may be desperate times for many people, but the best measures to follow are the kind that work. This book will help you understand the job search and show you what to do to land a job. I would like to see statistics on the people that do what this book suggests; my guess is that the percentage that land a job is much higher than for people that have not read this book or have not followed the suggestions.
5 Stars Yup, it’s true!
How to surf, network, meet, subvert and rebuild yourself and your career value while beating your competition by making yourself closer, smarter and looking a lot hipper.
The jobs that click are NEVER going to be published and the only way to beat the depressing BULL of writing resumes to job search sites. Take this instead of feeling frustrated and DO SOMETHING for yourself!
Look, my whole career for the past 20 years started with a really good cover letter that was, in reality, a tear-out-your-heart secret attack. It not only worked to get me in the door when the job was already filled, it got me there for 8 years, reinvented me, and opened up a whole new rock layer. UNLOCK spells out what I’ve not only learned myself, but how to go even farther.
Stop bitching about job searches! MAKE IT HAPPEN! Here’s how, and I support it 100%. This, and a lot of guts will show you how to become what nobody even knows they need: YOU!
4 Stars Unlock the Hidden Job Market
In these tough times, there’s a job for you out there, but it’s not listed–not on Craigslist, Monster, or anywhere else. It’s hidden, and it’s up to you to find it. The good news is, you will find it–that is, if you want it badly enough. That’s what Duncan Mathison and Martha I. Finney want to tell you in //Unlock The Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps To A Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough//.
More than 70% of today’s job opportunities are not publicized, and that percentage is actually growing–that’s what experts say. This means, you can forget about search firms, internal recruiters, and job fairs. If you know how and where to find these hidden job opportunities, you have an unstoppable inside advantage, and this is the job search technique that works–even when you think no one is hiring.
The lowdown: turn the system upside down and regain control of your job search; make networking really work (yes, really); create your targeted opportunity profile (or, an anti-resume); and bustle through gatekeepers, delay tactics, and rejections.
If you are continually frustrated by job searches and would like to try a new approach, consultants Mathison and Finney, whose job is to work for their own company, might just have the roadmap that will point you on your way to gainful employment in their book, //Unlock The Hidden Job Market//.
Reviewed by Dominique James
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