One hundred pages of lifesaving advice for people out of work. When over ten million people have needed help with their job-hunt—or with figu...
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Jul 26, 2011
JayJay
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If you've been job hunting for a while, this won't necessarily tell you anything you don't already know, but it does package it all together pretty nicely, and provides some helpful perspectives on the art of job hunting. For instance, I found the inverted pyramid showing how the ways employers prefer to fill vacancies (by promoting from within, hiring previous temps) versus the ways the average job hunter is trying to get hired (resume, online job board) to be helpful in that it shows that the
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Nov 30, 2010
Paul
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Here is a basic job-hunting guide for the growing number of people who are unemployed, and don’t have the time, or desire, to read a lot of details.
Among the first things you should do is to do a Google search of your name, to see what the Internet says about you. If there are any drunken, or racy, photos of you on Facebook, for instance, restrict their availability or delete them, now. You can plan on a potential employer doing the same search.
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Among the first things you should do is to do a Google search of your name, to see what the Internet says about you. If there are any drunken, or racy, photos of you on Facebook, for instance, restrict their availability or delete them, now. You can plan on a potential employer doing the same search.
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Aug 28, 2009
Kaye
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This short 100-page book is actually very concise and thorough in its descriptions of the diametrically opposite behaviors of job-seekers and employers. While The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide is not filled with humorous anecdotes, it is a very well-thought-out and well-organized work with enough reason for hope built into it to keep the reader moving forward. Author Richard Bolles uses statistics deftly to present reasons to stay hopeful in this desperate economy, and he also demonstrates a multi
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Jun 14, 2011
Dawne
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You can read this book in an evening, and I did. It contains a nice combination of inspiration and practical advice. Excellent and timely information and links to help a job seeker avoid the Black Hole of Internet job searching and find the ways the web can be most useful. Now that I have read it through, I intend to work with each chapter individually, though it almost seems as though one should work it as though it were written in Hebrew -- back to front. Readable, funny, this book is at times
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Jun 03, 2011
Chad
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A good book that would have been helpful to me about 2 years ago. In my own personal irony, the day after I started to read this book, I got a job offer. However, reading this book showed me some errors that I was making over my personal unemployment nightmare. The positives of this book is that it helps give ideas for a person who may feel like he is out of ideas and/or gives hope to the person who may have lost or is in danger of losing hope. It helps the reader formulate a plan to be effectiv
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Sep 20, 2009
Elizabeth
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The Washington Post reviewed this book favorably, and since I have quite a few resume customers, I wanted to see if it had some good ideas for them. Definitely worthwhile--short, full of useful information, and easy to read for the most part. Even though I write resumes, I totally agree with the author's opinion that a resume is only a tool and cannot be relied on for getting a job by just "sending and forgetting."
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There was a disconnect, I felt, between his repeated assert More...
Sep 28, 2009
Chanell
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as i reflected on it, this book was actually pretty helpful. it's super short but he offers some practial tips on how to deal with unemployment, finding a job, and keeping busy in the meantime. i was expecting one of those: "if you do these 10 steps, i can guarantee you a job." but his book offers a pragmatic realistic approach to job-hunting that is definitely needed for the unemployed.
Jan 22, 2010
Megan
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I appreciate any 100 page book that attempts to give me guidance I may or may not want. Good tips: take naps, find three or four different ways to look for a job, internet job hunts aren't the best way to spend your time, and that the way employees look for employees is the exact opposite way job hunters look for jobs.
Jul 25, 2010
Marc David
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The title says it all "Job-Hunter's Survival Guide". In addition this book also provides insight and self examination to determine how close you are to you're dream job, all the while giving hints and tips on the way of attaining it.
Aug 23, 2011
Joni
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For those looking for a job, especially newbies. This book is very informative: short & sweet. Looking for a job in todays world vs twenty something years ago, has surely changed.
Aug 17, 2010
Lisa
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Short and sweet, it's given me some direction on how to drill down on the skills I most enjoy using, so I can find the next right place for me!
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