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5.0 out of 5 stars
Timid Job Seekers Have Skinny Kids!!, March 13, 2010
This review is from: Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job (Paperback)
First review: March 13, 2010
Now, April 13, 2011, 13 months later...
If you are serious about finding a new career opportunity, this book is required reading. Don't do another thing at all in your job search until you have this book in your hands and read it. It is better that you do nothing at all than to do something without David Perry's guidance, coaching, wisdom and insight.
Do you want a larger paycheck sooner rather than later? If so, invest in yourself. Buy this book. Not buying it will probably cost you thousands of dollars. Buying it will cost you about $[...] (with shipping). If you had the opportunity to buy David Perry a Starbucks, sit down with him for 3 hours and pick his brain, I bet you would do it. That is what you are doing here...having a virtual cup of coffee with the best in the business in job hunting. But it gets even better...with his book you have all of the notes from that meeting, in writing, to review and use over and over again.
Now, with that having been said, I am sitting here at my desk eagerly downloading my preview copy of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0. WHY?
I am a "headhunter." I do not call myself a recruiter. I do not call myself an "executive search" consultant. I PLACE PEOPLE into COMPANIES. I help companies "hire to win." I am 100% commissioned in what I do. If I do NOT place my candidate into an open position, I don't get paid. I don't eat! I am in the JOB HUNT BATTLE EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE!
Thus, what I do MUST WORK! All too many job hunting books are written by HR professionals and career counselors who will get their salary or get their "career counseling consulting fee" regardless of whether you get hired or not.
SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH GUERRILLA 3.0?? In one word, "EVERYTHING"!
I started my "headhunting" business in 2003. I was very good at it. In 2005, I saw Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters in the book store. I read the bio and learned that David Perry is a "recruiter" so I figured I would buy a copy and peruse it. After just a few pages, I was highlighting, paper clipping, taking notes and devouring the book. The very next day I was in the office reshaping the way I did business.
*I learned how to write powerful cover letters and send them to my clients on my candidate's behalf
*I honed my voice mail scripts
*I started role playing mock interviews with the candidates I presented
*...and the list could go on...
The main point is I learned how to truly differentiate myself as a recruiter. I learned how to be a "guerrilla" and that is when I can say I went from being a recruiter to being a "headhunter." More importantly, I learned how to powerfully differentiate the candidates I represented so THAT THEY WOULD GET HIRED!!! And they did. I was a top 200 recruiter in the MRI Network out of over 8000 recruiters for 3 years in a row. GUERRILLA WORKS for getting hired.
In 2009, I started building my firm and started hiring people to work for me. The first book I went to buy for training my new people was Guerrilla and to my dismay, it was "out of print." I panicked. But with a few clicks, I quickly discovered that, in just another few weeks, Guerrilla 2.0 was coming out. I pre-ordered 7 copies.
When the book landed in my office, we all did a deep dive. That year our entire recruiting firm, with rookies, billed close to a million dollars by PLACING PEOPLE.
So you can see why I can't wait to read 3.0.
David teaches you HOW TO PLACE YOURSELF...HOW TO RISE ABOVE YOUR COMPETITION AND WIN THE JOB YOU WANT instead of letting it go to someone else.
If you get 3.0 and don't get anything from it, I want to know why. Shoot me an email at [...]
Yes, his methods are different. Yes, they can be scary. Yes, you initially will be nervous using them. Guess what!? I have made money using them and you will too....HOW? You will get hired and get your paycheck!!
And here is the best part...he tells you exactly what to do. You aren't left guessing. So unless you are retired or planning on retiring this year, you need this book. Whether you are an introvert, extrovert, salesperson, engineer, manager, accountant, lawyer or just graduating from college, this publication is required reading.
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179 of 198 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Useful Information, But Also Some Serious Flaws, July 6, 2009
This review is from: Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics for Landing Your Dream Job (Paperback)
I was an enthusiastic reader of the first edition of this book, "Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional Tips etc. for Job Hunters."
I was about halfway through that book, when I found out that the second edition, "Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0: 1,001 Unconventional Tips, Tricks, and Tactics" was about to be released. I was very excited, stopped reading the first edition, and ordered the second edition. When it arrived, I threw out my copy of the first edition.
Frankly, I wish that I had kept the first edition and finished reading that one. OK, it was published in 2004, and much has happened since then -- a recession, and the development of many new online resources like Linkedin. But while the first edition was short, well-organized, and very focused on "doable" -- the second edition is not as well-organized and is much, much longer.
While the new edition has much of the excellent advice contained in the first edition, it has added-on so much technological goobledygook that even an admiring and computer-savvy reader like myself is left with a serious case of TMI (too much information).
We're paying co-authors Mr. Levinson and Mr. Perry for their expertise in narrowing down a clamoring field of job boards, technologies, and tactics to those which are most effective, a task they performed admirably in their first book.
In this second edition, virtually every job hunting technique -- including the kitchen sink -- is hurled at the reader. I'm at page 61 -- and have quickly flipped through the rest of the book -- and I'm starting to tune out as the co-authors breathlessly recommend: sign onto technology X! add widget Y to your desktop! read blog Z! you can't afford not be on network A! join the following 15 networks! -- and you must do tactic B! etc., etc., etc.
Each resource is presented as something indispensable, that a reader "must" do. The reader gets the feeling that if he or she doesn't sign up for all 1,001 resources and tactics, it is his/her own fault that they remain unemployed.
But we're paying the authors to pick the best resources and tactics, which they aren't doing.
Any reader who does even 10% of all these tactics will need to stay awake 24 hours per day to implement them. Now I expect that the co-authors are trying to give us the widest possible array of tactics and strategies to choose from. But people buy books like this to have wise, experienced authors recommmend the top four or five strategies in any niche, not, say, the top twenty-five.
And some parts of this book, unlike the first edition, are written in career counseling and business jargon psychobabble. Here's my favorite, from p. 16, "They [employers] are searching for a person . . . who can explode outward from an open-ended initiative-driven space." What the heck does that mean?
And some statements appear to be out of touch, despite the authors' repeated references to our current recession. My personal favorite on page 46: "Show an employer you have that spark and they will hire you over more experienced candidates any day!"
Uh -- no! Not during the current recession, where employers with 10 points on their job candidate wish list are insisting that candidates meet 10.5 of those points. It's disturbing to see statements that are out of touch, as they break the concentration needed to absorb the flood of otherwise good information in the book.
Another problem is that tactics and resources are recommended without any indication of which industries or job searches they might be most useful for. A job hunter could easily spend hours signing up for the hundreds of recommended resources, and only discover later that perhaps 5% of them are really useful for that person's particular job search. The book is indiscriminately enthusiastic over every single widget, blog, network and tactic.
In the next edition, the co-authors need to edit the book line by line to remove some of the hyperbole, out-of-touch comments, promiscuous resources recommendations, wittle down the recommended resources to a reasonable number, and categorize the resources according to the fields and careers they would be most useful for.
Also, it would be helpful to have a little more space devoted to interviewing and negotiating salaries and benefits, which are crammed into two short chapters at the end of the book. While I appreciate that so much of the book is devoted to finding job leads and securing interviews, it is very easy to "lose" a job during the interview(s) themselves or during salary negotiations.
Now, on the plus side, the book does contain a ton of innovative resources and ideas, which is why I will probably try to finish the book -- if I can get through such statements as (p. 64)"This is a must-have applet." Oh right -- just like the other nine applets, search engines, and other resources on pages 64-66 listed as being good for your "war room" (translation -- home job search office).
Bear in mind, all ten resources appear really, really good! but they're apples and oranges all thrown together in one basket. It would be helpful to have some categorization: This is your home office -- here are (1) phone apps; (2) seach engine apps; (3) etc.
Well, excuse me, I have to start reviewing my "must-have" "applets" -- only 267 more pages to go. I do plan to finish the book, but will likely not adopt more than one or two tactics from each chapter, as I need time to sleep and eat.
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