While looking for a new job and going though hiring interviews can be exciting for some people, for many of us it can be a stressful experience.
Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially… if you don’t know how to do it properly. The ‘old ways’ don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work... is work!
Looking for work and going through stressful job interviews isn’t something we do every day. It is difficult to become skilled at an activity, if you don’t practice regularly.
You’re Hired! Power Tactics is a compilation of the contents of the following books in the You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work series:
• You’re Hired! Resume Tactics
• You’re Hired! Leveraging Your Network
• You’re Hired! Job Interview Preparation
It is often said that “resumes are your ticket to job searching success.” You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work, focuses on resume writing tactics to maximize your job searching effectiveness.
You won’t win a lottery if you don’t have a ticket and you are unlikely to be invited for a job interview if you don’t have a dynamic, effective resume that features you as a potential solution to a problem. Your resume is your ticket that leads to being invited for an interview where you can expand upon your value.
Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. You may think you don’t know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first.
You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work, focuses on tactics to build and leverage your networking effectiveness.
“It’s not who you know… it’s who knows you know…”
You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to create a professional network that will increase your likelihood of landing your job.
Now it’s time to work at letting people know ‘what’ you know and get to know ‘who’ they know. Your next connection may be looking for a candidate to fill an open position.
You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work, focuses on the job interviewing process:
• how to prepare for your job interview
• how to anticipate and answer questions in a manner that lead towards your successful landing a job.
This book offers strategic tactics to maximize your job interviewing effectiveness.
You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use ‘best practices’ to land your ‘dream’ job.
If you are a sports fan, you will recognize that any sport has a set of rules and varying degrees of competition. Searching for a job, your job, is a competitive situation. It could come down to two or more possible candidates, hopefully you, being one of them, having very similar qualifications.
Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice.
