Instant Interviews : 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life

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Pub. Date: 2009-06-01
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"Every page of this exciting new book explodes with the energy of new ideas. You haven't read these techniques on the Net or anywhere else. Highly recommended!" Joyce Lain Kennedy, America's No. 1 Syndicated Careers CoumistGet all the interviews you want-instantly!It's a jungle out there-a jobjungle. You're crouching-and grouching-waiting impatiently to attack the next job that appears. You hear a rustle through the trees and hold your breath. Something movesbut before you can pounce, it's gone. Each time you get better and better...at blowing interviews.Is that you? Why? What are you waiting for? You could be having more fun and more success than you've ever had in your life! Instant Interviews turns you into an interview magnet. If you're going to use traditional lead sources like the Internet, classified ads, or job fairs, this book will supercharge their effectiveness. You'll stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen yourself.Instant Interviews includes 101 easy, proven techniques for getting the only thing that counts in the job junglean interview. Get face-to-face with your future using these strategies and dozens more: Find your ideal employer online right now Incite potential employers to interview you today Immediately reply to only the hottest job listings Know now what employers want, not what they say Read between the lines in help-wanted ads to get interviewed first Develop your interviewing persona fast Develop a list of personal references by tomorrow Use temporary assignments differently to get hired right away Get interviews through the back door this Saturday Auction yourself to the highest bidder by next week Develop an endless flow of job offers without delayIt's all inside. The techniques in Instant Interviews are designed solely to have you in the right place at the right time to land your dream job. Starting today. Smart, savvy, and sure-these are the ultimate skills for unlimited career success through unlimited interviews in any economy.

Table of Contents

About the Author . . .
Introducing Instant Interviews!
Foreword and Forward March!
Appearing Magically-Like a Genie!
Making and Taking the Instant Interview Magic Potion
Maintaining Magic Potion Potency Throughout the Day
Breaking out of the Box-Job E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N
E-Mailing, Faxing, and Mailing Your Rest-You-May
Getting Your Resume Scanned
Writing the ASCII Resume
Getting You Covered with the Better Letter
Broadcasting a Letter with High Bandwidth
Faxmailing for Nofailing
Dollaring for Instant Interest
Maximizing Instant Availability Announcements
Blasting Instant Availability Announcements
Shifting into Overdrive with the Callback Card
Interviewing Instantly over the Internet
Courting a Corporate Partner-Online
Getting Personal to Get Interviewed
Surveying to Get Instantly In
Reading Between the Classified Ad Lines
Responding to Classified Ads
Mining the Yellow Pages
Breaking the Code in Business Periodicals
Teaching a Class
Giving a Speech
Making Your Own Recordings
Expediting Executive Recruiting
Writing for Newspaper Special Sections
Guiding a Counselor at a Free Career Center
Inciting Potential Offerors to Interview
Answering Inside Job Listings: Gold without the Shaft
Vacationing Free While They Interview Thee
Forming Your Very Own Job Club
Launching a Proactive
Proposal
Interrupting the Interview Intervention
Arriving at Airports, Stations, and Depots
Transforming Ground Transportation into Interview Information
Tracking on Trains
Taking Off in Business Class
Developing Your Persona
Calling and Enthralling the Offeror
Reading the Offeror Like a Book
Increasing Your Interviewing Instincts
Bossing around Your Boss to Get You Interviews
Indemnifying an Offeror for Your Instant Dream Job
Networking Out at the Jobgym
Renewing Acquaintances Instantly
Obtaining Publicity about Instant Availability
Writing Letters to the Editor
Writing Articles or Columns
Using a Rent-a-Mentor
Sampling the Sweets at Job Fairs
Writing the Instant Bio
Writing a Press Release
Crashing Parties at Hotels
Granting Celebrities an Interview
Mixing and Matching at the Chamber Mixer
Learning to Play Ball from the Blue Crew
Promoting Interviews Using Postal Centers
Targeting Interviews with the F-O-C-U-S Principle
Outerviewing There and Now
Uncovering the Office Building Underground Instantly
Running the Routes with the Jobjungle Scouts
Banking Personal References Instantly
Banking Professional References Instantly
Getting Your Foot in the Store Door
Newspapering on Your Route for Instant Ins
Remembering Your Lines Instantly Like a S-T-A-R
Turning On Off-Offerors
Demonstrating the Instant You
Auctioning Yourself Off to the Highest Bidder
Lowering Your Interview Age Instantly
Partying Early at the Offerors-Only Warehouse
Generating Instant Revenues and Interviews
Grabbing the Bigbucks Instant Offerors
Interviewing as an Intern Instantly
Zipping Through It All at City Hall
Accepting Temporary Assignments
Temping Differently to Interview Instantly
Igniting Intense Interview Interest from Competitors
Bonding Instantly with Immigrant Offerors
Disabling a Disability Instantly
Recalling Offerors' Names Instantly
Swap Meets for Top Greets
Supercharging Your Sphere of Influence
Interviewing for an Instant Increase
Magnetizing Muckety-mucks
Getting Paid for Instant Interviewing
Getting Leads from Leasers
Passing Instantly Through the Personal Screen
Passing Instantly Through the Professional Screen
Using Lead Cards for Instant Referrals
Controlling the Offeror Like a Robot
Sending Icon Introduction Letters
Slipping in the Back Door this Saturday
Making a Maven an Interview Mentor
Doing Informational Interviews Instantly
Consulting for Instant Resulting
Infiltrating the Secretarial Secret Service Instantly
Jolting Overworked Offerors
Pursuing Your Passion
Acknowledgments
Index
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