I know where you're coming from. I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA and as president of the Honor's society, and yet even after a year of looking for a job, I was still flipping burgers in the snack shop at the local bowling alley. Despite my experience, knowledge, leadership qualities, excellent communication skills and my professional resume, I was still sitting there, a failure. Heck, in a year's time I only went on a single interview!
Yet today, I have a great job, and while it may not be a executive position with a cozy corner office and a nice view, it's enough to pay the bills and send me to graduate school. What happened? What changed?
With the help of my parents, retired consultants who once ran a successful headhunting and technical consulting firm, I was able to get my start in a "real job". Yes, at first I was a little unwilling to listen to their advice, after all, my father had been retired for over 10 years! What I found, however, is that with literally decades of first-hand experience, both as employees and consultants, they still knew what they were talking about, and while the job market had changed since they had been around, they still knew how to stay on top of it.
So with their help, I got myself a good job. I was thrilled! So is my girlfriend, who also got some coaching from them, as well as a former co-worker of mine, her best friend, and a bunch of former clients who my parents have worked with through the years.
With the economy in the shape it's in today, you can't afford to be out of a job for long, and I'm sure that you don't want to be employed at a job you can't stand. It's a long, hard battle to even make it to an interview these days, and with new technology and the increased use of outsourcing, it isn't getting any easier.
I've seen too many people suffer through the job hunting experience, with advice that is either too trendy or just plain wrong.
What I've done is taken the years and years of experience my parents have, and I've compiled it into a hefty, 73-page ebook. It will tell you the ins and outs of today's modern job market, teach you how the tried-and-true methods of job hunting fit in. We'll also show you what you're doing wrong, and how to fix it. I grilled them about everything from the organization process you should use when searching for a job to the process of analyzing the offers you will receive, and I wrote it all down so that YOU can benefit from it.
The result of these hours of interviews is this, the Job Hunter's Handbook: A Guide to Getting the Job You Deserve.
Here's what you'll learn in Job Hunter's Handbook:
- Beginning Your Job Search - How you start the job search process can affect how successfully it ends. Use this section to learn the importance of getting organized, using all the resources at hand, selecting jobs based on your qualifications and not your desperation or expectations, reading between the lines of the ad to be sure the job is for you, and finally, how to allocate your week.
- Your Resumé, the Key to Getting an Interview - Your resumé represents you when you can't be there yourself. In this section we show you how to format your paperwork, arranging the important information for readability, in a way that invites the reader into your story. We discuss various formats for work history presentation, why we think embellishing your background is a mistake that goes beyond ethical considerations, and how to cover less than optimal work histories.
- Successful Cover Letters - Cover letters are more than just your first contact with an employer. They introduce you to the reader and present your experience. Learn that the wrong approach can get your paperwork tossed in the discard pile before the recruiter even reads it, how to use the employers' ads to your advantage, and how to avoid the most common pitfalls in cover letter creation.
- Successful Interviews - In the most significant section of this guide, we discuss the interview techniques that will help you secure a job offer. You will learn the usual questions that are asked at almost all interviews, along with strategies for answering them. We also reveal a threefold approach to answer the difficult questions regarding the less than ideal aspects of your work history. We discuss the basic phases of the interview process and what to expect in each phase. Finally, we show you how to pull together everything you've been collecting since the beginning of your job search into a resource package that you can use throughout the interview process.
Sounds pretty comprehensive, doesn't it? I compiled all of the information, and wrote the book, and every time I read it, I'm still learning new things.
Whether you're a recent college graduate, or a seasoned professional, you can learn something new that will put your resume and your interviewing skills over the top.
Why only $34.95? Well, to be honest, it could be selling for a lot more. My competitors are charging almost $50 for a short ebook that covers just one of the topics that this guide covers. By going with this non-traditional publishing route, I'm able to cut down on the expenses for producing the guide, and I'm passing on those savings to you. Besides, $34.95 puts this guide within easy reach of anyone.
I know that I'm getting:
- 73-pages of solid information about job searches in the internet age, in 2008 and beyond!
- Resume creation and formatting tips that help me present my best attributes to potential employers.
- A tried and true methods to ensure that my resume gets read, by writing cover letters that convert.
- Interviewing tips to help me get an offer.
With your skills and the help of this guide, you'll be lining up interviews and start bowling them over. Grab your copy today.
Sincerely,
Robert Watson
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