Instant interviews : 101 ways to get the best job of your life / by Jeffrey G. Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Jeffrey G., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employment interviewing.

Résumés (Employment).

Job hunting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

One hundred one ways to get the best job of your life

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Every page of this exciting new book explodes with the energy of new ideas. You haven't read these techniques on the Net or anywhere else. Highly recommended!"-Joyce Lain Kennedy, America's No. 1 Syndicated Careers Coumist Get all the interviews you want-instantly! It's a jungle out there-a jobjungle. You're crouching-and grouching-waiting impatiently to attack the next job that appears. You hear a rustle through the trees and hold your breath. Something moves-but before you can pounce, it's gone. Each time you get better and better...at blowing interviews. Is that you? Wh

Contents:

INSTANT INTERVIEWS: 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life; Contents; About the Author . . .; Introducing Instant Interviews!; Foreword . . . and Forward March!; Do 1: Appearing Magically-Like a Genie!; Do 2: Making and Taking the Instant Interview Magic Potion; Do 3: Maintaining Magic Potion Potency Throughout the Day; Do 4: Breaking Out of the Box-Job E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N; Do 5: E-Mailing, Faxing, and Mailing Your Rest-You-Mary; Do 6: Getting Your Resume Scanned; Do 7: Writing the ASCII Resume; Do 8: Getting You Covered with the Better Letter; Do 9: Broadcasting a Letter with High Bandwidth

Do 10: Faxmailing for NofailingDo 11: Dollaring for Instant Interest; Do 12: Maximizing Instant Availability Announcements; Do 13: Blasting Instant Availability Announcements; Do 14: Shifting into Overdrive with the Callback Card; Do 15: Interviewing Instantly over the Internet; Do 16: Courting a Corporate Partner-Online; Do 17: Getting Personal to Get Interviewed; Do 18: Surveying to Get Instantly In; Do 19: Reading Between the Classified Ad Lines; Do 20: Responding to Classified Ads; Do 21: Mining the Yellow Pages; Do 22: Breaking the Code in Business Periodicals; Do 23: Teaching a Class

Do 24: Giving a SpeechDo 25: Making Your Own Recordings; Do 26: Expediting Executive Recruiting; Do 27: Writing for Newspaper Special Sections; Do 28: Guiding a Counselor at a Free Career Center; Do 29: Inciting Potential Offerors to Interview; Do 30: Answering Inside Job Listings: Gold without the Shaft; Do 31: Vacationing Free While They Interview Thee; Do 32: Forming Your Very Own Job Club; Do 33: Launching a Proactive Proposal; Do 34: Interrupting the Interview Intervention; Do 35: Arriving at Airports, Stations, and Depots

Do 36: Transforming Ground Transportation into Interview InformationDo 37: Tracking on Trains; Do 38: Taking Off in Business Class; Do 39: Developing Your Persona; Do 40: Calling and Enthralling the Offeror; Do 41: Reading the Offeror Like a Book; Do 42: Increasing Your Interviewing Instincts; Do 43: Bossing around Your Boss to Get You Interviews; Do 44: Indemnifying an Offeror for Your Instant Dream Job; Do 45: Networking Out at the Jobgym; Do 46: Renewing Acquaintances Instantly; Do 47: Obtaining Publicity about Instant Availability; Do 48: Writing Letters to the Editor

Do 49: Writing Articles or ColumnsDo 50: Using a Rent-a-Mentor; Do 51: Sampling the Sweets at Job Fairs; Do 52: Writing the Instant Bio; Do 53: Writing a Press Release; Do 54: Crashing Parties at Hotels; Do 55: Granting Celebrities an Interview; Do 56: Mixing and Matching at the Chamber Mixer; Do 57: Learning to Play Ball from the Blue Crew; Do 58: Promoting Interviews Using Postal Centers; Do 59: Targeting Interviews with the F-O-C-U-S Principle; Do 60: Outerviewing There and Now; Do 61: Uncovering the Office Building Underground Instantly; Do 62: Running the Routes with the Jobjungle Scouts

Do 63: Banking Personal References Instantly

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612114038

9780470470961

0470470968

9781282114036

1282114034

9780470470954

047047095X

OCLC:

430955911