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Knock 'Em Dead 2003

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I live in NYC and I have been struggling off and on in the daily grind for a job for months. I tried employment agencies and the internet but hadn't been receiving any positive responses to my submissions. ***I admit I was beginning to take it personal.*** I didn't know if I wasn't getting the response I had hoped for because the market is so competitive, because I had been out of the job market for so long (I took about 3 years off to be a stay at home mom), or because maybe I wasn't marketable anymore.

So, I figured I better revamp the old resume and try again. I would start with online submissions before I took it to the agencies. I couldn't afford to get it professionally redone so I bought the "Knock em Dead" book along with the "Knock em Dead Resume" book in the hopes that I could get some fresh ideas.

In the span of one week, I redid my resume based on the formats given in the book and emailed it to a few corporations to see if I got any bites. I did. I landed an interview with a huge company the following week. In fact they were so impressed with my resume and presentation that I received a very lucrative offer last week. (The whole process took about 3 weeks total!) I simply followed the steps as Mr. Yate laid them out and I am starting this coming Monday.

His advice was dead on! I knew I had an edge on the competition based on my interviewers response to me. I actually had one interviewer stop me in the middle of our meeting to compliment me on one of the best presentations he has ever had the pleasure to participate in. HA!!! HE THANKED ME!!!! This had to be the Twilight Zone!!!

I can't think of any other way that I can express my gratitude to Mr. Yate for writing this book other than this endorsement...

BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING THE JOB YOU WANT!
Mr. Yate, I couldn't have done it without you and some serious prayer!

This is by far the best strategy book I have ever seen for job hunting. The questions offered to help you interview the company, and the excellent responses he recommends for those tough interview questions most everyone will receive, especially those used on men, will turn around your interviews to get your prospective employer to possibly even chase you with offers you thought unimaginable.

No, this is not your dandy dating book for flirting through the interview, no siree. This book shows you how to negotiate the deal, prepare yourself for ivestigating the career paths of those who have gone before, the culture and environment you'll be working in, and how to tread new inroads to bring about a more meaningful paradigm of personal excellence and the perks to help you make this all come true.

I made outlines of three chapters, reading them between each interview and practicing what I learned at every interview, even engaging some where I had slight chance of getting the job but squeezed every element I could bring to bear to make the interview an experience to learn from and try these techniques as best I could so I'd be better prepared when the better opportunities came along.

This book and the other Knock 'Em Dead books offer the skills that should be passed down from generation to generation so that no young person should ever have to go through life with the trial and error that stifles their career growth and constipates their financial viability. Preparation Yate sets you free.

I bought this book on a recommendation from a friend. I am very glad that I did so.

This book helped me to gather my achievements for a situational type of interview. I spent a lot of time before I bought this book thinking about my achievements, but the book gave me some advice that made it very easy to think about them.

I also want to mention that I spend countless hours searching on the web for job hunting information. I also bought other books. Without a doubt this is the only book you will need for your job hunting.

Using the advice in Knock 'Em Dead, I have gotten jobs that I would've otherwise had no business getting! The first time that I used his book I got a job where I was the least experienced, the least qualified of all the candidates. But, I had the best presentation of all the candidates. So, just like Mr.Yate promised, it's not the best qualified candidate that gets the job, it's the candidate with the best interviewing skills that wins the day.

If you are not of the corporate cloth, or one who feels that you MUST shoehorn yourself into a job that you will have to contort yourself into doing day after day after day, I would not recommend this book.

This book's method of sending out countless resumes, looking at newspaper want ads and telephone book listings is a pointless waste of time. It is a method that is a surefire way to have your countless resumes you sent out to be thrown right into the trash and land you a job you can have at best, a cordial hatred of doing.

I really disliked the author's overall tone in that if you were looking for a job, or god forbid, didn't have one, then you were a miserable expletive that only deserved a job if you pulled yourself up by your own bootstraps. At one point in this book, the author suggests that if you went to the library to get information in searching for a job, then you didn't even deserve to drive your car to the library, and that you should consider walking.

I think that this book is a degrading waste of time to read, and has a much better use as fuel for a fire in a fireplace. Once you've used it this way, you'll never have to look at this book ever again.