Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve (Paperback)

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Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring

You CAN find a good job in a bad economy – but NOT with conventional search strategies.

New Rules for a New Reality

Today’s job market is the toughest in recent history, and the challenges are here to stay. Even so, you CAN get the job you want – IF you discard conventional approaches to the search. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring is the ONLY career book that:

• Explains the special strategies necessary to land a job during an economic crisis
• Integrates comprehensive, practical guidance on both job search and career management
• Provides an extensive online “Job Search Survival Toolkit” to augment the book 
• Addresses the realities of this job market with real-world, actionable steps
• Positions this downturn in the economy as a positive opportunity to develop a much better career

In Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring, career expert Ford R. Myers maps the new world of job search and reveals essential strategies for your success. You’ll learn how to seize opportunities that aren’t posted yet … how to make yourself an instant asset to potential employers … how to clearly stand-out as the best candidate ... and how to leverage social media, blogs, and other Web tools.

Best of all, you’ll learn how to “recession-proof” your career for the long term. Can YOU Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring? With this powerful new book – YES, you can!

From the Back Cover

You CAN find a job in a bad economy—but not with conventional search strategies

To win a job now, you need a recession-proof plan. Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring explains why your chances are better than you think, gives you the strategies to land your dream job, and includes:

• The twenty habits of effective job-hunters in a down market

• Why your resume is your least important job-search tool
• Tips on building an online career identity with blogs, web sites, and social media

"Ford Myers' excellent Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring shows you clearly and realistically how to be one of the millions of people who land a job rather than the millions who lose a job. His book should be required reading for anyone facing unemployment."
—Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books

"Mounting a strategic job search can be confusing, especially when compounded by the emotional toll of job loss and an economic crisis. Myers' book explains how to find a job that fits your long-term career goals. Armed with renewed confidence and a strategic plan, a good job is attainable."
—Robyn Greenspan, Editor in Chief, ExecuNet 

"If you feel alone in this tough and puzzling job market, Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring is a must-have. No matter where you are on your professional journey, this book will show you step by step how to reinvent, reignite, and reestablish your career."
—Beverly Kaye, CEO and Founder, Career Systems International, and author of Up Is Not The Only Way

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Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (June 15, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470457414
• ISBN-13: 978-0470457412
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,124 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource, June 26, 2009

By	CC (California) - See all my reviews

I am giving "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring" an excellent rating for several reasons. You get a lot of bang for your buck. This comprehensive resource covers all aspects of the job search, and is a workbook too with exercises to help you gain clarity on what you have to offer and what you want. Also many sample documents, such as resumes, cover letters, job tracking forms, etc., are included - all of which can also be accessed online via the author's website. Mr. Myers states that the job search is an "inside job" and an "outside job," and he provides strategies for the reader to be successful in both realms of career management. Mr. Myers introduces concepts that most people don't consider when selling themselves on the job search - such as providing an employer with a "Testimonial Page," and submitting a "Perfect Match Letter." The author also explains exactly how to avoid revealing your salary requirements, and how to have more bargaining power when negotiating an offer. As I read this book, I felt like I had a seasoned career coach by my side, guiding me through each step of the job search process. In short, "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring" is a unique, powerful resource - especially now when the job market is so challenging!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book will complete your job search skill set..., June 25, 2009

By	David Keadle (Louisiana) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having been in both positions of needing to look for a job after losing one and looking for a new or better job while employed, I have a considerable set of job-search skills that I have cultivated over the years. I didn't know I was missing that last little bit of knowledge until this book definitely covered it all. Between the simple, easy to understand language Mr. Myers uses and the extensive example worksheets and documents that are given I now have a killer set of job-seeking skills.

It is also a perfect book to help those that may have little to no knowledge of how to look for a job. In fact it should be considered required reading for anyone who needs to find a job or is just unsatisfied with their current one. Too bad they don't hand copies of this book out at employment offices!

By all means, buy this book even if you think you know everything about searching for a job. You will be surprised at what you will learn and I hope you get as much out of the worksheets and example documents as I did.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the book you have been waiting for..., June 26, 2009

By	Dianna Wettlin "Avid Reader" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There is nothing I dislike more than reading a self-help book that turns out to be filled with re-warmed platitudes and stale ideas. That is definitely not the case with "Get the Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring". Ford R. Myers gets straight to real time solutions, with a step by step approach that gets the job done. Finding yourself unemployed is not a pleasurable circumstance in the best economic times. In today's environment it can be downright terrifying.

From new graduates to those displaced later in their careers, this book is the best tool in your job search arsenal. So buy it, read it, do the exercises, regain your confidence and get out there, armed with a realistic strategic plan to do what needs to be done to "Get the Job You Want When No One's Hiring".