Guerrilla Job Hunting

5 Ways to Stimulate U.S. Employment — At a Savings of $786,999,999,984.58

The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” is now law, aimed at creating or saving more than three million jobs at a cost of $787 billion. read more

A must read for anyone whose job search is stuck in neutral

Louise Fletcher over at Blue Sky Resumes shares her insight  Soak it up.

Job Hunting Case Study: Kevin Watson - How to craft a consulting resume and a guerrilla resume for a recruiter.

Writing your resume ranks alongside root canals as fun-things-to-do. So why would I suggest Kevin Watson write a special one for contract consulting firms and another one for headhunters? Sadistic tendencies aside... 1st, the terrible truth about headhunters.

Job Hunting Case Study: Kevin Watson - The Resume Makeover with before and after examples

Kevin and I have been working on his job hunt not for about 3 weeks.  He got serious about it after Christmas.  The plan came first.  That took a couple of days.  Then we began work on his resumes.  Yes, he has more than one but I'll get to that in a minute.

Kevin's heard me say a thousand times, “The most qualified job hunter is rarely the one who gets the offer?”  Yup that’s right.  It’s not a typo.  I’m not crazy.  The best positions go to the people who do the best job at positioning themselves as the best solution to an employer’s problem --- once in they’re in the interview.  And that’s the rub.