Here are the highlights from each chapter to pique your interest.
Chapter One: Get Motivated for Job Searching
Learn how to:
- ► Renew your positive attitude and work through negative emotions associated with the job search
- ► Build your job search self-esteem
- ► Believe you are employable
- ► Expand your job search vision
- ► Become a motivated, enthusiastic, proactive job seeker
Chapter Two: Identify Companies Where You Want to Work
Learn how to:
- ► Identify companies where you want to work
- ► Determine criteria for evaluating job offers
- ► Avoid poor decisions regarding career growth and opportunity
- ► Avoid career default and make a career choice
Chapter Three: Speak the Hiring Manager’s Language
Learn how to:
- ► Speak so hiring managers will listen
- ► Identify your transferable skills
- ► Create a list of results-produced statements to use throughout your job search
- ► Demonstrate how your experience can solve a hiring manager’s business problems
- ► Remove trepidation and doubt regarding yourself and your job search
- ► Distinguish yourself from the competition.
Chapter Four: Create Your Job Search Sales and Marketing Kit
Learn how to:
- ► Develop essential job search tools: references and reference letters, referral sources, and call structures
- ► Create correspondence that will distinguish you from the competition: resumes, marketing letters, follow through letters, and emails
- ► Develop proof statements and prepare a personal commercial
- ► Apply a winning job search strategy
Chapter Five: Secure Interviews
Learn how to:
- ► Secure interviews regardless of the economic climate
- ► Implement telephone and voicemail strategies that work
- ► Find job openings in the theoretically hidden job market
- ► Get your resume read by hiring managers
- ► Develop relationship building, referral requesting, and networking skills
- ► Manage successful relationships with agencies and recruiters
Chapter Six: Interview for Success
Learn how to:
- ► Become the employer’s number one choice
- ► Give excellent answers to common interview questions.
- ► Distinguish yourself as a premier candidate by asking the right questions.
- ► Understand your advantages during the interview and learn why like and trust can win over qualifications
- ► Control unique or difficult interview situations
Chapter Seven: Get a Raise Before You Start
Learn how to:
- ► Understand the psychology of the hiring manager and negotiate a raise before you start
- ► Obtain job offers
- ► Evaluate offers against predetermined criteria
- ► Develop negotiation skills