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Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: Tips and Tricks to Land Your Dream Job
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Job Hunting? How to Make a Good First Impression
I was asked by the Wall Street Journal to comment on networking for job hunters. What follows is 30 seconds of advice you better get right especially if you're trying to network in an industry that has had a lot of layoffs or downsizing [read New York AND investment banking]. Click the link above and add a comment to the posting. |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 12 On the 12th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 12 Bloggers Blogging Recruiting Animal and Recruiting Bloggers is the best roundup of thought leaders on job search and recruiting currently available for free on the Net. Michael [animal} has cajoled some of the finest writers on recruiting and job hunting into contributing to this site. I expect a best selling book is in his future. Recruiting ... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 11 On the 11th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 11 other ways to find a job today Perhaps networking, cold-calling aren’t for you. You should try any way. Having said that there are many other ways to break the ice and get into see an employer. Here are eleven which have all been successfully used in the past. 1. Send ½ your resume 2. Write a... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 10 On the 10th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 10 Super Motivators As you can probably tell I’m pretty practical. A block & tackle kind of just get at it guy. I know you know that looking for job is a sales and marketing activity. I also know that the loneliness of prospecting whether for a job or new business will eventually get even the toughest battle hardened war horse down. No. No.... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 9 On the 9th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: Nine Tools for Researching Leads There are a vast number of services you can subscribe to for free that will bring information on hot new companies straight to your desktop every morning. JustSell.com for example delivers a list of all the companies in America that were newly funded and categorized by state or province, complete with the contact numbers for their executives. Nearly... |
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8 Resume Rules - The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 8 On the 8th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 8 Resume RulesYou Inc. 2009 is available now. There are certain unwritten rules that if you adhere to will increase your chance of getting the attention you deserve. Give’ em What They Want You have 6-30 seconds to convince a reader that your resume warrants a complete read, an investment on their end of 5-6 minutes. A recent poll I conducted among fellow recruiters revealed... |
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Day 6 On the 6th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 6 Tools to download Google local - If the geographic location of your potential employer is very important to you for reasons of the commute distance, or maybe because
Day 7 On the 7th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 7 Social Networks The key to networking, of course, is to find people you can network with. Fortunately, for those of us who are terminally shy the Internet has made it possible to network from our computer keyboard and avoid those awkward mixers. There are many of online networking sites. All of the sites are based on the “six degrees of separation”... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 6 On the 6th Day of Xmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 6 Tools to download Google local - If the geographic location of your potential employer is very important to you for reasons of the commute distance, or maybe because you’re relocating to a new city, you may want to consider limiting your search to a specific location. There are ways to get local with Google. From http://local.google.com you can conduct a search... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 5 On the 5th Day of Xmas Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: 5 Golden Rules It’s not about you – it’s about them. I can not over emphasize this! Employers don’t care about what you want to do or even who you are until after they’ve hired you. So stop telling them about your dreams and start selling to their needs. No just means – “Not Today”. An employer’s needs... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 4 On the 4th Day of Xmas --- Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: Four Guerrilla style resumes Chronological Functional Value Based A special 1-page eXtreme Makeover resume Now there’s a lot more to landing your dream job than writing a simple resume. But you know what? That’s what employers typically see first and their decision to interview you [or not] is often made in the blink of an eye. Here’s the... |
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting
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The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
Day 3 On the 3rd of Xmas --- Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me::Download 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting The 3 R’s of job-hunting In grade school we learned the 3 Rs of Reading, wRriting and aRithmetic. Those were our most important lessons [ok so I’m dating myself]. For job-hunters it’s Research, Relevancy, and Resiliency which will deliver an A+ interview. Research As a job-hunter you need to research and determine: ♦ what... |
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On the 2nd day of Xmas --- Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me:
Two strategies to crack the hidden job marketDownload 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting Focus all your time and effort on the companies you’ve identified as being the Tier 1 buyers of your product - you. Anything else is a waste of your time, energy and money. Target your campaign at those companies where you know you can help solve a problem. Nothing beats a direct approach for speed and accuracy. Because of the current recession caused by the sub-prime meltdown,... |
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Day 1 - The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting: How to put a job under your tree and Recession proof your career in 2009
On the 1st day of Xmas --- Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters revealed to me: “A plan with a very clear goal.” Your plan must be clear and detailed in every way. It must also be: Clever, Results driven, Marketing oriented, Inexpensive to execute, Realistic, and Achievable. Clever - That’s because the most qualified job hunter is rarely the one who gets hired. The positions[s] invariably go to the person who does the best job at positioning themselves as the solution... |
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Unemployed? You May Be a But-Head (sic)
Kevin Donlin, Creator of TheSimpleJobSearch.com So listen up if you're looking for a new job and need to get better results.Which group are you in — Guerrillas or But-Heads?David PerryCo-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Job HuntersManaging Director of Perry-Martel International Inc. |
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I LOVE YOU TOO: How to close the interview and get the job offer
I am amazed at how many people forget that an interview is a "personal selling" situation. Obviously I don't mean jumping up and down and doing a raw-raw sis-boom-bah chant but I do mean turning in your best effort AND asking for the job at the end. Just the other day I witnessed a candidate not get an opportunity because the employer didn’t think they where all that interested OR at least, “not as interested as another candidate”. When I asked... |
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The Original Boss-from-Hell
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How to get employers to read your resume and call you for an interview
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Job Hunting Secrets revealed from Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters
Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters Allan Zander and Daryl Praill were celebrating. After tripling their company's valuation and taking it from worst to first among competitors -- 56 months ahead of plan -- their company had just been acquired for the highest multiple in their industry's history. How were they rewarded for their incredible efforts? They were laid off, of course. Undeterred, Praill and Zander immediately went on the offensive, and teamed up with the headhunter... |
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Planning and perseverance pay off for job hunter
What's your story? What's working best for you?- David Perry, www.perrymartel.com / www.gm4jh.com |