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Category: Tactics

Job Hunt Depression? Here’s How to Stay Motivated and Get a Job Faster

Rejection – it’s a fact of life for most job hunters. After a while it starts to grind on you. I know it’s hard not to take it personally because every rejection pushes validates your worthlessness – at least that’s how one woman described here feelings to me last week. "The silence from hiring mangers when you apply on-line is deafening," she said. I know exactly what she means. The lack of acknowledgment that you even exist eventually gets to most people. As a head-hunter who’s done quite well over the last 25 years, I’ve had a front row seat as friends and family had their "buttons pushed” — not once — but sometimes dozens of times each day. BUT the cold hard truth is … it doesn’t have to be that way. If you want to find a job faster than the national average of 39 weeks, you need to do four things average people don’t do – starting with taking responsibility for developing empowering yourself. Action Step 1: Take Charge of Your Job-Hunt Only you know your strengths and weaknesses. Only you know what you really enjoy doing. Only you know where you want to work and why….

Jul 06, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Required/Preferred – What do they really mean?

This is the old Wal-Mart tactic – we want as much experience as we can get for the same low low price
Compliments of David E Perry and Kevin Donlin. For more creative job search tactics, go to the Guerrilla Marketing for job hunters blog and download …

May 09, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Thank you notes for when you don’t get the offer

It’s Friday Guerrilla and Friday is the best day to do two things: book interviews for next week fill your opportunity pipeline It’s also a great day to examine your job hunt progress. What progress have you made this week? [Which employers are you going to speak with next week?] How where your interviews? Did you send thank you notes to everyone you talked to? Even the ones where you where not successful…. that’s an often over looked source of leads. Just because you didn’t get the job or even the interview shouldn’t stop you from saying thank you. Stop and think about this for a minute. Have you ever gotten a thank you card from someone whom you didn’t hire? What would you think? Crazy *&%#* Let me tell you how I would react – yes I know CEOs and hiring managers in general will react this way – remember I do this for a living. One of your best sources for leads to fill your pipeline are the people who turn you down. That’s right – and it doesn’t matter at what level in the company they’re at. They know who else is hiring … they also know…

Aug 01, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Job Search Propaganda: The Networking Myth

A letter from a job hunter after I presented at ExecuNet. "Dperry"- Thanks for a stimulating and frank discussion of guerilla job tactics and for not recycling the same old tired mantras on the Execunet webcast. I would like to see what your lost chapter is all about. Also, although you demonstrated that direct contact was the way to go, the reason a lot of people aren’t doing it more is that there is so little agreement about the best way to accomplish it. Your story about tracking the exec down in his bathroom was cute and made for a good journalistic newsbite, but I don’t know how practical and systematic that is for most of the non-sales executives on the broadcast, especially when there is some uncertainty about how how good a match or how great a need there may actually be at one particular employer. (I’m also the one who asked about "research" and the lack of specifics it yields.) As a "for instance" of the propaganda we get, see the quote below for a hardened opinion by one of the opinion makers in the executive job search business, John Lucht (Rites of Passage at $100,000…). I’m sure…

Sep 05, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

"No Excuse For Failure" Drives Rogue Recruiter – WSJ.com

Recruiter David Perry’s do-whatever-it-takes search style is in his blood. via online.wsj.com Yes this guy is for real? the lighter side of being a headhunter.

Oct 22, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Don’t try this at home: #49 of 50 Ways to Find a Job

There’s a huge obvious benefit to engaging in creative out-of-the-box activities which will bring you to the attention of hiring managers. There’s also a real danger of crossing the line and doing something in poor taste or something that puts you or the potential employer at risk. Here’s an example pulled from the pages of the Montreal Gazette in Montreal, Canada on October 15th , 2004: “The job hunter hoped his resume would land him an interview. What he got was the attention of the bomb squad. The man was arrested after he included his CV in a ticking package left in a Montreal marketing firm’s washroom last month. It was his way of drawing attention to the application, as he was among 400 contenders vying for six paid internships. The 24-year-old didn’t get the job but he did get charged with public mischief. He had handed the receptionist an Arabic newspaper with a note alerting her to the ticking parcel in the men’s washroom, police said. At a time of heightened concerns over terrorism, the package raised the specter of a bombing. Montreal police evacuated the company’s building. Later, police discovered the package was harmless. It contained a metronome…

Nov 07, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

How to stay motivated during a prolonged job search

You must appear to be at your best during your job hunting no matter what. Employers and recruiters will not understand if you’re having an off day. They won’t care. They’ll be on to the next candidate. Motivating your self to perform at peak levels aint easy, so let me give you a hand. Actually let me refer a book. I don’t do this often but since it’s one I read every day – I thought I should share it. Allan C. Elliot has written what I belive amounts to the best collection of short stories [1 page each] on the planet. "A Daily Dose of the American Dream: Stories of Success, Triumph and inspirtaion", encapulates the lives of Kodak, Hewlett & Packard, Cross, Disney — all people who have become hosuehold names or at least their companies have. The true-to-life stories of Calvin Clien, Bob Hope, and Edison where filled with hardships most people would faint at hearing. So if you need a shot in the arm every now and then I suggest you pick this gem up and read it cover to cover. 366 inspirational readings that show how ordinary people from all walks of life have achieved…

Nov 29, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

PR for Job Hunters: Managing Your Public Image

Networking is about who knows you – so be visible and cultivate a powerful public image. Make sure your promotions and major sales wins are noted in the trade press and visible through LinkedIn and ZoomInfo. People judge you by the company you keep… that’s especially helpful for you when it’s a high profile account potential employers may covet. Go to both sites now and join. Fill out your profiles and makes sure you use them in your emails. Make sure you know what people are going to find and make the necessary corrections to ensure they find "you" and you understand what they find. If you click on the link to my LinkedIn profile you’ll see that you read what I want you to read while at ZoomInfo I’ve been mistaken for my evil twin who’s with the Canadian Tax Foundation [actually they're the good guys - they defend the public]. But the point is it’s not me, so I need to go in and correct that. Go check out your public image now. Compliments of David E Perry and Kevin Donlin. For more creative job search tactics, go to the Guerrilla Marketing for job hunters blog and download…

Dec 27, 2011 | 0 comments View Post

Ask for what you want

I love courageous people. Today my hat goes off to a young university grad I know. He’s had multiple offers over the last few months and each time we reviewed them he’s always had reservations on accepting. I like that. Bob knew what he wanted BUT he wasn’t finding it – until I suggested he write down the 5 companies he really wanted to work and why they should hire him. This is perhaps the most difficult part of looking for a job – especially a first job out of school. But he did it. Then I suggested he write the president of each of the firms in his order of preference and explain why they should hire him. Essentially the letter was used to detail why he wanted to work for them – not the company but the actual owner or President explaining specifically what he could offer. The first letter went out a while back and we really hadn’t bumped in to each other until yesterday. Turns out his number one pick was so impressed with his forwardness that she flew someone out to meet him. They offered him a job on the spot. But wait, it gets…

Feb 14, 2012 | 0 comments View Post

Q: How can you tell a sincere job posting from a fluffed up job posting?

A: It’s more than 25 words long. A sincere ad will as much try to screen people out as in. For example minimum requirements often means exactly that. If you don’t know the difference between thermal underwear and a thermal coupler – you shouldn

Apr 02, 2012 | 0 comments View Post
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