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Win the Race for 21st Century Jobs

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"Win the Race for 21st Century Jobs" provides a more effective way to search for your next job! Today's job search is all about who knows you are looking for a job. The applying to jobs on the Black Hole of the Internet just doesn't cut it anymore.

To make yourself stand out among the others submitting for the same job, you need a personal IN. How do you get that IN? By reading this book and practicing the "7 Step Job Search Methodology."

This is a great book, which I would recommend to anyone seeking a new job.
In the author's own words, this book details "the new normal", and the process is so logical.
I was doing a large percentage, but not all before, but I am seeing the value already.
Change is not easy, but this guide steps you through.

This book is the one to read if you are starting a job search or are looking for your next career opportunity. It is packed with great ideas and guidance on how to manage your career progression as if it were a business -- CEO OF ME, Inc. Rod provides practical, hands-on advice on networking, building your own personal brand, identifying job opportunties, and providing a 7-step methodology to land an interview. After reading his book, I came away with a career mindset that I will continue to use throughout my professional journey.

This book gives you step-by-step advice about how to conduct your job search but it is so much more. Rod's approach teaches you how to cultivate a mindset in which you manage your career as a"CEO of Me." As a CEO, you will probably never need to suffer through the typical job hunt again because you have cultivated the mind set, the skills and the community to keep you attuned to new opportunities continuously. Rod sees the modern career as one attached to developing skills as well as relationships based on trust and integrity and as such suggests a new empowered paradigm for today's professional.

I was really inspired after reading Rod's book. It presented critical and pertinent facts relating to job search that is unknown to the average individual. I highly recommend reading the book, as it is a gold mine in the job and career search arena.

Candid, straight forward and easy to follow, "Win The Race for 21st Century Jobs" is a must read for any recent college graduate as well as anyone in a career transition. Practical, step-by-step methodology with plenty of tips will make you rethink your career strategy and act as the "cookbook" for your job search.

It's my great honor to have the chance work with Rod during my career hunting and interview , and I highly recommend this book to every ambitious & determined working professionals, As a recent MBA student I can see there is a "Gap" between what we learn and what we have seen in the real world, but Rod's book address and guide me to the right direction and I am very confident and dedicated during my Career hunting and running the business of me., Inc

This is a "must read" beyond the MBA or other working profession program and I wish you to success.

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Haoran Zheng , MBA
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As an individual who runs a transition and career management networking group of over 3,000+ members - [...] that I founded and have run since 9/11 I feel I am most qualified expert on the topic of job search. Job search is the hardest job you will ever have and is a game of "inches". This is the one must have text for landing your next position successfully & quickly. Rod sets a framework that teaches you the best way to tackle each step in the job search process, and getting ahead of the rest of the pact in this TOUGH market at each step. Wholly adopt the methodology, embrace it, and follow it completely and your job search will still be a lot of hard work but will insure that the time you invest is working towards a clear goal that will definitely yield/pay dividends sooner and quicker. Job search and transition is the hardest times in many peoples life next to losing a loved one or a serious illness - the landscape is forever changed due to the economic crisis - don't let it get the best of you. Instead get this the best playbook available on the subject, let it guide your actions and make the most of them - and land as quickly and best as possible. Rod has developed this over 10+ years of working hand & hand with those in transition and has honed/refined it into something that is easily understood and works!

I have read this book several times. It's a very timely resource, since companies are being more selective about hiring people. Win the Race for 21st Century Jobs fills in the gap where colleges and MBA programs don't teach. Running your career as a CEO of ME, Inc. business, which is the theme of the book is the only way for people to survive in today's economy. I have even used the 7 step job search explained in the book to acquire new clients, as an entrepreneur. This mini business plan definitely works.

Rod Colon does a great job in fining tuning networking skills to develop a network people willing to help with a job search or business development.

This book is not just a great read 1 time. It's a reference manual to insure a person can create options for continuous career management. These days every job is temporary. This is a great career management survival manual for all business professionals.

Carl E. Reid, CSI
Business Career Coach, Technology Expert, Speaker and Author