101 Ways to Get Best Job of Your Life

323 Pages·2009·1.28 MB·English

by  Allen, Jeffrey G.

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It’s a jungle out there—a jobjungle. You’re crouching—and grouching—waiting impatiently to attack A
the next job that appears. You hear a rustle through the trees and hold your breath. Something moves—
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but before you can pounce, it’s gone. Each time you get better and better. . .at blowing interviews.
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Is that you? Why? What are you waiting for? You could be having more fun and more success than INTERVIEWS
you’ve ever had in your life! Instant Interviews turns you into an interview magnet. If you’re going to
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use traditional lead sources like the Internet, classifi ed ads, or job fairs, this book will supercharge their
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effectiveness. You’ll stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen yourself.
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Instant Interviews includes 101 easy, proven techniques for getting the only thing that counts in the job
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jungle—an interview. Get face-to-face with your future using these strategies and dozens more:
(cid:127) Find your ideal employer online right now V
(cid:127) Incite potential employers to interview you today I
(cid:127) Immediately reply to only the hottest job listings E
(cid:127) Know now what employers want, not what they say W
(cid:127) Read between the lines in help-wanted ads to get interviewed fi rst
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(cid:127) Develop your interviewing persona fast

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HERE’S WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING ABOUT INSTANT
INTERVIEWS . . .
“Every page of this exciting book explodes with the energy of new ideas!
You haven’t read these techniques before—on the Net or anywhere else.
Highly recommended!”
—Joyce Lain Kennedy, America’s No. 1 Syndicated Careers Columnist
“With Instant Interviews you don’t ‘look for a job.’ You actually interview
as you create the best job for yourself. The impact of this remarkable book
on your life will be positive, dramatic, and permanent!”
— Deborah Hall-Kayler, President, National Association of Executive
Recruiters
“Easily the best book on finding a job ever written! It makes conventional
ways of looking for a job obsolete. This will be the breakthrough book of
our generation.”
—Alan R. Schonberg, Founder, Management Recruiters International
“Instant Interviews is must-reading and must-doing for these revolutionary
times. If you need to work and want the best job, there's no other way.”
—Valeria D. Prevish, Business Columnist, Cincinnati Enquirer
“Your ‘dream job’ will remain a distant dream unless you interview for it.
Instant Interviews gives you the edge you need to get interviewed for the
best jobs now.”
— Gary M. Spinner, President, Mid-Atlantic Association of Personnel
Consultants
“Instant Interviews will jolt you out of where you are and propel you to the
job of your dreams. Whether you want to create that job or get promoted
into it, get this book!”
—Jeff R. Goldman, Executive Vice President, Forbes Worldwide
“Don’t do another thing to look for a job until you’ve read and applied
Instant Interviews! Follow its action plan and you will generate inter-
views continuously. You’ll be using the techniques for as long as you’re
working—with optimum success.”
—Patricia A. Turner, Publisher, Employment Marketplace magazine
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Instant Intervi ews
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Other Books by Jeffrey G. Allen, J.D., C.P.C.
How to Turn an Interview into a Job
The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book
The Interactive Interviewing Technique
The Resume Makeover
The Perfect Follow-Up Method to Get the Job
The Perfect Job Reference
Finding the Right Job at Midlife
Jeff Allen's Best: The Resume
Jeff Allen's Best: Get the Interview
Jeff Allen's Best: Win the Job
The Career Trap
Successful Job Search Strategies for the Disabled
Surviving Corporate Downsizing
Complying with the ADA
The Employee Termination Handbook
The Placement Strategy Handbook
Placement Management
The Best of Jeff Allen (two volumes)
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Copyright © 2009 by Jeffrey G. Allen. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Allen, Jeffrey G., 1943-
Instant interviews : 101 ways to get the best job of your life / by Jeffrey G. Allen.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-43847-3 (pbk.)
1. Employment interviewing. 2. Resumes (Employment) 3. Job hunting. I. Title.
HF5549.5.I6A442 2009
650.14’4—dc22
2008045569
Printed in the United States of America
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To my wife, Bev, our daughter Angel, our daughter-in-law
Kathy, and our grandchildren, Jonathan, Gabby, Kevin,
Amanda, Brandon, and Justin.
You’re in every syllable I’ll ever write. Yet no words can
express my love for you.
Dedicated to all those
would-bes who
could be and
should be and
Who now
can be and
will be and
—watch out—
are!
May these pages live through your lives.
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