The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company [Hardcover]

Orville Pierson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 16, 2005

The Proven Program Used by 600,000 Job Hunters!

You put hours and hours of hard work into your job search and the companies you've contacted never call. It's a story all too common in the fast-paced, highly competitive world of job hunting. Nothing is more discouraging than sending one resumé after another into the job-hunting void. Eventually, you expect silence from the other end.

The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search was written so this never happens to you again. These techniques, developed by author Orville Pierson, have been used successfully for ten years by Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), the world's premier career services company. Here, Pierson provides you with the job-search techniques that up to now have been limited to the LHH consultants he trains.

Orville Pierson has helped thousands of job hunters during his career, taking note of the characteristics that have led to success as well as failure. In The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search, he supplies key information on how professional job search consultants structure the job search project so you can apply the same winning strategies to your own search. You'll also be privy to inside information on how decision makers operate, enabling you to get the inside track on job openings before they are announced.

This insider's guide covers every phase of the job search, leading you step by step through the process of creating a clear-cut plan-essential to every job search. Using the Pierson Method, you'll learn how to

• Develop a Target List (the key ingredient to every job search)
• Measure your progress
• Create a “core message” about yourself that decision makers won't forget
• Present yourself in the best possible light to prospective employers

Using these strategies, Orville Pierson and LHH have helped 600,000 people land great new jobs. Employ the Pierson Method in your hunt for employment and you'll soon be doing what you love in the company that's right for you.

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Land the Job You Love Using the Methods Top Career Professionals Teach Their Clients

To conduct a successful job search, it's imperative to develop a well-formed strategy aimed at getting the right message to the right decision makers-before they have announced job openings. The career services company Lee Hecht Harrison has helped over 600,000 people land great jobs using the proven strategies of Orville Pierson. And now, for the first time, Pierson shares his secrets with you!

The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search helps you create a powerful plan using the Pierson Method. You'll learn proven methods to sharpen your focus, taking you step by step through the search process that has helped make LHH the world's leading career services company. Put Pierson's strategies to use and you'll soon be embarking on a successful job search. Learn how to:

• Structure a personalized search project and measure your progress
• Target the companies that best suit your immediate needs and long-term goals
• Create a “core message” about yourself that decision makers will remember
• Overcome job hunting obstacles-and get back to work!

A clear focus is essential to success. Remember, you can find a great job at the best company-as long as you have the right plan!

About the Author

Orville Pierson is Senior Vice President, Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery, for Lee Hecht Harrison, a 240-office career services company that is part of the $20 billion Adecco global family of employment services and placement firms. Yale educated, he has worked in career services for nearly 30 years, authoring career publications that have helped over a million people land jobs they love. For more information, visit: www.highlyeffectivejobsearch.com

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 16, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071464042
• ISBN-13: 978-0071464048
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Orville Pierson is Senior Vice President, Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery for Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a human resources consulting company offering Leadership Consulting, Executive Coaching, and Career Transition services in 240 offices worldwide.

With LHH since 1992, Orville leads a team that creates books, websites and videos to teach career management and job search to about 100,000 unemployed managers and professionals each year. He is the sole or principal author of dozens of LHH publications, including Executive Directions: Creating Options in Life and Work, a career management book for senior executives and Managing Your Search Project, a comprehensive job search guide used by over 1,000,000 people in the $50,000 to $150,000 income bracket. He also designs training materials for LHH's staff and has trained hundreds of career coaches.

Yale educated, he has been in career services since 1977 as a program designer, author, speaker and facilitator as well as a consultant to hundreds of private clients.

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inside Knowledge, January 22, 2006

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John Kador (Winfield PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company (Hardcover)

You may be lucky enough, if you have the bad luck to be a downsized executive, that your last employer will see fit to plunk down $10,000 so that the author of this book will coach you to get a new job. If not, your best bet is to plunk down $21.95 and buy this book. You won't get the hand-holding or on-call career consulting, but you'll get just about everything else an insider with the world's biggest executive outplacement firm has learned about the brutal facts of landing the next job. Orville Pierson tells it like it is. He treats the reader like he would a member of his family who comes to him for advice. It's a guide that covers all the basics, sure, but what really sets the book apart is the no-nonsense advice required to score a new job. The Pierson Method, as he terms the collection of his dos and donts, is a proven roadmap for unemployed people. Yes, it can be a lonely and scary journey. What I like the most is that Pierson acknowledges that the biggest obstacles aren't out there in the woods. They are inside us. In our minds. The important thing is not to act like a victim. The case histories he provides give us the confidence to move forward in trying times, and that's all anyone of us can aim for.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting unstuck., July 16, 2006

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This review is from: The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company (Hardcover)

So many books on job search are about writing resumes, getting interviews, selling oneself, etc. Pierson's book has sound advice on the basics of job search, but he starts at the beginning, that first step: how to start. For anyone who is at a crossroads, either because of a lost job or a need for a change, The Unwritten Rules will help you take that first step towards getting the job you want. You know, the one you can't even define for yourself? Pierson uses real conversations and a casual style to help the reader succeed at small tasks which bring one closer to one's ultimate goal: employment. Very useful!

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This Book!, June 14, 2006

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Mariah McTavish (Sebastopol, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the World’s Leading Career Services Company (Hardcover)

You will find that this is the book that has been missing from the top seller's list on how to get ready, get moving and manage your job search. With a great deal of insight and with a whole lot of common sense, along with a sound grasp of what it takes to find a job, Pierson's book is invaluable to job seekers. It is sound advice and helpful tips from the man who can demystify the job search for anyone. For example, he reminds us that to increase your odds in job search, a Target List is crucial. In the Pierson Method, this Target List is a key tool in job search - just as important as your resume - because it focuses on a group of organizations you might want to work for and hire people for the kind of work you want to do. He reminds us that the Target List also helps you see exactly who your resume is designed for before you sit down to write. And, in 10 pages he gives us the strategies for pulling together a Target List that is proven to work!

Don't want to work the Pierson Method alone? Check out the special bonus section on how to Team Up for a Successful Search which outlines how to use a Job Search Work Team to work with others or to set up a program to work with others. Don't conduct your next job search without reading this book first!