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Headhunters Confidential! 125 Insider Secrets to Landing Your Dream Job

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Written in a very breezy style, this book is full of surprisingly good tips and advice about the job market. Some of it is common sense, but common sense to a professional headhunter might not occur to someone who doesn't look for a new job every day of the year. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to make a career change, but particularly to anyone fairly new to the job market. Many of the tips are equally good for keeping your job or getting ahead as for changing.

This alleged "book" offers insights only a seriously impaired job hunter would find valuable. You won't learn anything about Head Hunters or the executive search industry. The "chapters" average 1 1/2 pages long -- no exaggeration. Geared to a third grade reading (and job hunting) level, you fully expect pictures and the words The End on the last page. Prepare to be disappointed. Enjoy gems of advice akin to 'Use your hand to shake hands at the beginning and end of an interview!' and 'Paper is a good material to use when creating a resume'. (These are not quotes from the book -- but I fully expect the author to try to steal them for use in his next "book.")

While it contains a few useful nuggets, this book never really addresses how to team with a recruiter to get a top position. For a more direct, concise look at working successfully with a headhunter, see "The Road to CEO" by Sharon Voros.

While it contains a few useful nuggets, this book never really addresses how to team with a recruiter to get a top position. For a more direct, concise look at working successfully with a headhunter, see my book, "The Road to CEO."

It's nice to read a book written by the fellow "who wrote the book." Alan R. Schonberg is that guy, the chairman of the world's largest executive recruiting firm. The insights into job hunting that he provides are well worth the classy sales pitch he offers on behalf of the headhunting profession. You wish he would give more insider headhunter's information - one senses that he has politely declined to publish all his business secrets. Still, there's a lot here to ponder. Thus, we at [...] recommend this book to people who want to turn job hunting into a process that can enhance their dignity, salary and job-satisfaction. A show of hands, please.