Job reconnaissance : using hacking skills to win the job hunt game / Josh More ; edited by Beth Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

More, Josh.

Contributor:

Friedman, Beth, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Vocational guidance.

Information technology.

Job hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Using hacking skills to win the job hunt game

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Syngress, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

There is considerably more skill in the IT and security communities than is reflected in the jobs people are able to attain. Most people's limiting factor in their ability to get better jobs is not technical skills or even the soft skills necessary to do well in a new job. It is that getting a job is a completely different skill set and one that most people only practice every few years. Job Reconnaissance: Using Hacking Skills to Win the Job Hunt Game explains the job hunting process, why the most commonly followed models fail and how to better approach the search. It covers

Contents:

Front Cover; Job Reconnaissance; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Foundations: What You Ought to Have Done before Buying This Book; Task Management; Time Management; Your Personal Brand; Website; LinkedIn; Blog; Microblogs, Social Platforms, and Forums; Content Creation; Becoming Public; Open Source Projects; Freelance; Repurposing Work Products; Personal Brand Management; Networking; SEO Cycles; 2 Time to Leave: How to Know When You Should Move On; The End of the Road; Economic Cycles; Maturity; Identifying What You Want

3 Résumés and Cover Letters: Why the Common Approach Only Works against YouRésumés Close Doors; Networking Opens Doors; Cover Letters Open Doors; Catch Attention; Explain the Benefits of Hiring You; Ask for a Meeting; Using Résumés to Tell Stories; Creating and Tuning a Master Résumé; Example Résumé and Story Cards; 4 Talking about Yourself: The Fine Lines around Boasting, Bragging, Belittling, and Begrudging; Telling Timely Stories; Distracted Storytelling; Attentive Storytelling; Involved Storytelling; Socially Engineering Your Audience; What to Avoid; Presentations

5 Targeting: Cyclical Filtering to Choose Targets with High Likelihoods of SuccessJob Tasks; Job Potential; Location and Size; Rating; Technology; The Short List; Example Short List; 6 Initial Reconnaissance: Uncovering Seeds; Ethics; Continual Reassessment; Time Management; Google; Bing; Alternate Search Engines; Quick Reference; Filling in the Lists; Harvester; Filling in by Title; Market Visual; Jigsaw/SalesForce Data.com Connect; Hoover's; Threat Agent; Recon-ng; 7 Deeper Reconnaissance: Uncovering Hidden Data; Company Analysis; Determining Recent Finances; Analyzing the Present

Uncovering the PastDiscovering the Future; Professional Analysis; Personal Analysis; Hail Mary Sites; LittleSis; Donations; Social Mention; NNDB Mapper; Entity Cube; Wolfram Alpha; Glassdoor; 8 Metaphor Mapping: Adjusting to Your Target; Discovering Existing Metaphors; Guessing at Metaphors; Industry; Generation; Hobbies; Race and Culture; 9 Repositioning: How to Make You Stand Out; Rebottling the Genie; Loading Social Media; Custom Résumé; Custom Cover Letter; Targeted Networking; 10 The Phone Interview: Dial M for Meeting; Prerequisites for a Good Discussion; Goals for the Phone Interview

The Actual Phone InterviewPlanning the In-Person Interview; 11 The Portfolio: Items to Leave Behind; The Portfolio Process; Custom Documents; Business Cards; Notes on Design; Fonts, Colors, and Gradients; Minimalism; Visual Metaphors; Copyeditors; Print Shops; 12 Thinking about Money: Making the Most of Change; Total Compensation; 13 Before the Interview: Plan to Succeed; Physical Investigation; Question Planning; Time Planning; Appearance; Planning the Conversations; 14 Interview: Take Control; The True Purpose of the Interview; Social Niceties; Using Your Tools

Manipulating the Conversation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 14, 2013).

ISBN:

9780124166608

0124166601

OCLC:

879495599