Guerrilla Job Hunting

Interview questions: How do you define success?

With reference to the definition of success, how successful have you been so far?
Relate your answers to your career accomplishments. Be prepared to define success and where you believe you are in relation to your career plan.  Map your successes to their requirements for the job.  Re-read the job posting before you go in the interview.  Remember, they want to hire you because they think you've got the experience they need and they made that assessment form the information they pulled form your resume.  If the employer can put 2&2 together you better make sure you can.

How to use research as a competitive advantage in job hunting

The most obvious change in job-hunting is the advent of the Internet. In the old days people would wait for the Sunday paper and check the classified section to see who was hiring or they’d simply ask their friends and neighbors if they knew of any job openings. Now, thanks to instant communications and round-the-clock access you can research companies and job-hunt anytime at more than 42,000 job boards and 500,000 corporate web sites. You can network with total strangers, thousands of miles from home, in your pajamas… not that where watching!

The Ultimate Resume Guide

Your typical resume is a bland lifeless boring 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper which most hiring managers dread reading.    Like a Black & White television it's capable of getting your story across but - as they say - it ain't very engaging.  It's competing for their attention in a world of MTV and You Tube.  Guerrilla Job Hunters use modern marketing principles like graphics and color to grab a reader's attention. 

the Key to Networking

I was reminded the other day of a comment I made at a  speech I delivered following the Tech-Wreck crash in 2000, "the key to networking 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 most people associate with networking events. There are many of online networking sites now to facilitate networking. All of the sites are based on the “six degrees of separation” principle which recognizes the actor Kevin Bacon as the center of humanity. Each site has slight variations on how you build and grow your network.  The following are the leading sites for job hunters who want to e-network their way to success.

Linkedin.com From a head-hunter’s standpoint, LinkedIn has it all. From a job-hunter’s standpoint LinkedIn represents an opportunity of a lifetime to establish a powerful network of influential colleagues and friends, Linkedin.com {www.linkedin.com} is my favorite. You can open a linked in account for free. It works by first requiring you to set up your on-line profile and then invite your friends to join your network. After people join they ask their friends and colleagues to join. For job-hunters this is a treasure trove of leads.  For recruiters it's one of the 1st places we all start searches.  Like ZoomInfo, if you can't be found on LinkedIn

10 New Year’s Resolutions for Job Hunters

Faced with a career change in the new year you can – pull in your horns and settle for an uninspiring routine job that doesn’t challenge you - or seize the moment and work through the problems.

By now you know full well that finding a job is a full time job. There's no silver bullet. Finding a job is a lot of work… mapping out a career even more so, but it does work - if you make the commitment to your self to work at it.

The big question is “do YOU think you're you worth it?” Are you worth the investment you're about to make in yourself?  only you can convince yourself you are.  The strategies in the book will produce interviews for you but wishing you had a new job or “getting around” to acting on the advice won’t. You can’t keep the book under your pillow and expect to find your dream job.

If you’ve finished reading Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters then in a nut shell here’s what you must do next:

1. Define the environment that gets your motor running. [Chapter 1, 2, 3]
2. Detail your career history with absolute precision.
3. Define the industries of interest to you. [Chapter 5]
4. Analyze your skills and personality characteristics. [Chapter 5]
5. Draft your Resume. [Chapter 6]
   1. Actually --- draft 2 – one Guerrilla Style for knocking down doors and 1 regular for leaving behind after you have an interview.
6. Determine your attack strategy [Chapter 6, 7, 8, 11]
7. Draft your cover letter templates. [Chapter 6]
8. Organize your computer for highly effective and rapid response. [Chapter 4]
9. Prepare for future interviews. [Chapter 9, 12, 14]
10. Concentrate on filling your Opportunity funnel.  [Chapter 7, 8, 10]

My wish for you this year is that you take your job search seriously and that means carving time out of your schedule EVERY DAY to work at it. That’s the only way to ensure success.

Happy Hunting,