Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve
by: Ford R. Myers
Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve
By Ford R. Myers
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 202
Publication Date: 2009-06-09
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470457414
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470457412
Product Description:
Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring
You CAN find a good job in a bad economy – but NOT with conventional search strategies.
New Rules for a New Reality
Today’s job market is the toughest in recent history, and the challenges are here to stay. Even so, you CAN get the job you want – IF you discard conventional approaches to the search. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring is the ONLY career book that:
Explains the special strategies necessary to land a job during an economic crisis
Integrates comprehensive, practical guidance on both job search and career management
Provides an extensive online “Job Search Survival Toolkit” to augment the book
Addresses the realities of this job market with real-world, actionable steps
Positions this downturn in the economy as a positive opportunity to develop a much better career
In Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring, career expert Ford R. Myers maps the new world of job search and reveals essential strategies for your success. You’ll learn how to seize opportunities that aren’t posted yet … how to make yourself an instant asset to potential employers … how to clearly stand-out as the best candidate ... and how to leverage social media, blogs, and other Web tools.
Best of all, you’ll learn how to “recession-proof” your career for the long term. Can YOU Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring? With this powerful new book – YES, you can!
Summary: Can I give this book ZERO stars?
Rating: 1
I'm rating this book low for pretending to be something special, something specific to this job market, when it really is not. It is really "just another job search book" that the author probably had about ready to go and then when the current Depression came along he changed a few words, changed the title, and suddenly had a marketable book on his hands... without really giving us anything new, just a spiffy new package.
As the other reviewer said, the main thrust here is Network, Network, Network!
Who doesn't know that already? If you don't know it I hope you read it here in my review, then you can avoid buying this book because 80% of the book, or so it seems, is the author telling you how you must network.
The problem with networking is, some of us just don't know that many people or everyone we know says their company just laid off a bunch of people... These are tough times. So yeah, go ahead and network all you can, but it's no better than looking for jobs on the net, if no one is hiring. In fact, I would make the argument that if you live in a small town, are not an upper management type or professional, networking in your small town will likely NOT land you a job. In that case, you should use the net and newspapers, cold call, etc. in the big city an hour away to get a job. Networking is not going to help you much in that case, and any way, people in small towns just call it "asking friends". Everyone knows who's hiring and who isn't and if no one is hiring, your friends can't help you.
Now if you're a highly respected such-and-such with contacts all over the country and a great reputation, live in a big city or are willing to move, then you may well get a job by networking. But then, you won't be looking at books like this... If you're a warehouse worker like my friend, or some other non-professional worker, and you live in a small town where every company is laying people off, networking probably isn't going to get you very far.
I wish the author had spent more time on Resume's and cover letters. I'm not sure WHAT he should have done, all I know is THIS book didn't help ME much, and in fact it just depressed me because it made me feel like if I don't know 100 people to "network" with, I'm screwed. It really doesn't help the "lower and middle class" people much at all, it's more for upper class management and professional types.
To me this book just is not honest nor realistic for the majority of workers.
And it should be honest and say so on the cover.
Summary: Just okay, there MUST be better ones out there...
Rating: 3
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