The Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself for Todays Job Market [Paperback]

David Andrusia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1997

Whether it's finding a new job, holding on to current employment, or nailing down a new promotion, the key is learning how to effectively sell or "pitch" oneself to others. In this insightful and entertaining handbook, Andrusia explains how to succeed in today's competitive and constantly shifting job market by perfecting the tailored pitch, the personal pitch, the power pitch, and the team pitch.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446672947
• ISBN-13: 978-0446672948
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,864,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Pitch Yourself, March 1, 1999

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This review is from: The Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself for Todays Job Market (Paperback)

Were it not for this book I would never have gotten the dream job I now have. I have been a capable researcher for years but underemployed due to my distaste for "marketing" myself, based largely on my complete inability to market myself. This book provided the "Eureka!" I needed to understand how to pitch myself. The author is a friendly, offbeat guide to the world of ethical self-promotion. I recommend it to anyone who freezes in job interviews and to whom selling oneself does not come naturally.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very effective, November 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself for Todays Job Market (Paperback)

David Andrusia provides a very unique yet upbeat approach to job-hunting. I used his techniques to land interviews and a nice job with a fantastic company. The best thing about the book is that it provides tools to perfect your delivery and obtain results by marketing yourself effectively. Not only does it emphasize on what to say but how to say it. My resumes, cover letters, and follow up letters used to be bland, uninformative and trite. Now, I am more concise, elegant and upbeat when looking for a job or promoting my credentials.

The book itself paid off by helping me land a position with a compensation of 50K per year and is now helping me land another job with a salary of 65K per year. Another good thing about the perfect pitch is that it is not just intended to high caliber professionals but for everybody be him/her a white collar executive or a blue collar worker.

I can't thank David enough for such a fantastic book

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The techniques work, August 10, 1999

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James Lor "James Lor" (Montreal, CANADA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Perfect Pitch: How to Sell Yourself for Todays Job Market (Paperback)

One of my friends used the techniques in this book and "pitched" herself into a new and better job in three weeks. And it's summer, usually a dead season for job hunting. The techniques work.