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Get the Job You Want: Successful Strategies for Selling Yourself in the Job Market

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Do you know how to get job interviews even when you've been turned down by a personnel department? Get the Job You Want shows you how you can market and sell yourself to get the job or promotion you want. You get step-by-step, no-nonsense information, tips, and strategies, based on organizational psychology, marketing communication, and the techniques used by big business to sell their products. You get the invaluable, but little-discussed, principles of gaining access to essential resources upon which your job campaign must be based. Providing examples galore, the book guides you through questions, exercises, and rehearsals of all the techniques you need in order to dramatically increase the likelihood of your job-hunt success and satisfaction.

This book tells you how to get job interviews even when you have been turned down by a personnel department. While being good at what you do is important, in today's job market it is not enough. You have to know how to promote and sell yourself. You can't be hired unless you're interviewed and you won't be interviewed unless you convince the potential employer you're worth meeting, and you can't do that unless you know how to effectively market yourself. And that's what this book shows you in great detail, complete with examples, exercises, tests, and strategies galore. It helped me get my foot in the door.