As a career coach for STEM professionals, I notice that many of my clients are pretty process-centric. They like to follow instructions and check boxes. So to them, getting vague advice like "you need to network more" or "reach out to people on LinkedIn for informational interviews" can be panic-inducing.
Enter: Steve Dalton's 2-Hour Job Search.
Steve lays out, in incredible detail, how to evaluate your needs and then start a structured approach to networking through Informational Meetings - from finding the companies, to finding contacts, to reaching out to these contacts, to researching for the Informational Meeting, to the meeting itself and the FollowUp. And, you'll never be sitting around agonizing about when to send a follow-up email to a potential contact because, yep, Steve has a method for that as well!
It is obvious that he has taught this method many times at the university level, because his instructions are clear and his explanations are relevant. He knows every place were people might want to short-cut his program steps, and he has examples of what happens when they do.
I use this program to coach my clients who get overwhelmed easily because it is broken down into clear steps. And for visual learners, Steve includes flow charts to summarize the process. For those of you who like outlines, Steve supplies those at the end of his book as well.
I found that having the digital version of this book was more useful to me because it's easily searchable. I do have a hardcopy as well, though, full of tabs and dog-eared pages. If you are comfortable with a spreadsheet, google searching, job-search websites and LinkedIn, you have the skills to use Steve's methods.
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THE ONLY WAY TO GET A JOB IN TODAY'S IT JOB MARKET
I was introduced to this book in 2018 during my MBA studies and then bought another copy of the book in early 2024 when I was laid off from my IT consulting job. This book teaches you how to spend 2 hours laying out the framework for your job search.It teaches you how to prioritize companies you want to work for, how to reach out to the right people in your network, how to communicate with them and find the right ones that want to help (think of like an NPS scoring system), so on and so forth.The important lesson it teaches is the fallacy of applying for endless jobs online and how pointless it is. Thanks to this book I was able to land a product manager job through a contact I worked with 8 years ago. 2 15 minute interviews and I was in, because he was the hiring manager.For the cost of this book the ROI is unbelievable. It's a good read, give it a shot!
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I wasted a lot of time not being able to create a process for my job search. For months I’ve been trying to piece together the MASSIVE amounts of advice I’ve been getting, which left me with a lack of direction, and a lot of rejection.
There is NO WAY this book won’t help you!! Good luck!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
I never write reviews, but I can’t pass this one up. This book has changed everything. I am now telling everyone I meet that is looking for a job to buy this book right away!!!Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2024
I wasted a lot of time not being able to create a process for my job search. For months I’ve been trying to piece together the MASSIVE amounts of advice I’ve been getting, which left me with a lack of direction, and a lot of rejection.
There is NO WAY this book won’t help you!! Good luck!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
It teaches you how to prioritize companies you want to work for, how to reach out to the right people in your network, how to communicate with them and find the right ones that want to help (think of like an NPS scoring system), so on and so forth.
The important lesson it teaches is the fallacy of applying for endless jobs online and how pointless it is. Thanks to this book I was able to land a product manager job through a contact I worked with 8 years ago. 2 15 minute interviews and I was in, because he was the hiring manager.
For the cost of this book the ROI is unbelievable. It's a good read, give it a shot!
THE ONLY WAY TO GET A JOB IN TODAY'S IT JOB MARKET
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
I was introduced to this book in 2018 during my MBA studies and then bought another copy of the book in early 2024 when I was laid off from my IT consulting job. This book teaches you how to spend 2 hours laying out the framework for your job search.Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
It teaches you how to prioritize companies you want to work for, how to reach out to the right people in your network, how to communicate with them and find the right ones that want to help (think of like an NPS scoring system), so on and so forth.
The important lesson it teaches is the fallacy of applying for endless jobs online and how pointless it is. Thanks to this book I was able to land a product manager job through a contact I worked with 8 years ago. 2 15 minute interviews and I was in, because he was the hiring manager.
For the cost of this book the ROI is unbelievable. It's a good read, give it a shot!
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Very very practical strategy
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Great book for systematic job search approach
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