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Unlock the Hidden Job Market Duncan Mathison

Unlock the Hidden Job Market By Duncan Mathison

Unlock the Hidden Job Market by Duncan Mathison


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Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough by Duncan Mathison

More than 70% of today's job opportunities come through the "hidden job market": they're never advertised, assigned to search firms or internal recruiters, or displayed at job fairs. What's more, as employers cut recruiting costs, the proportion of "hidden" job opportunities is actually growing. And, since most jobseekers know practically nothing about it, those who do understand it have a powerful inside advantage. Now, two career experts reveal the hidden job market, and show how to use it to dramatically improve your chances of landing a job that fits your passions and skills perfectly. Duncan Mathison and best-selling author Martha Finney help you launch a custom, personal job search that avoids competing with thousands of desperate, laid-off job seekers. Learn how to: Use the hidden job market to leap-frog salary levels or even change professions Uncover hidden market opportunities, and your target employers' unspoken needs and wants Tell your story in two minutes, and make people want to know more Get the interviews that count, and run them like a pro Network without sounding phony, lame or desperate Reframe experiences, passions, and hobbies as "transferrable skills" Build a strategic support team of advisors Identify a "dead-ended" job search, and get it restarted Negotiate compensation for "hidden" jobs.

About Duncan Mathison

Duncan Mathison For nearly 18 years, as Vice President, Managing Director, and Senior Consultant for DBM, an international outplacement, coaching, and career management firm, Duncan Mathison advised companies and their employees through reductions in force (RIFs), reorganizations, acquisitions, and operation shutdowns. For the employees impacted by job loss as a result of these actions, he has developed and delivered career transition strategies to help them rapidly find work in their field or successfully reinvent their careers. His clients have ranged across industries including finance, technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, retail, and entertainment. Duncan is an author and speaker on organization performance, leadership, and executive career topics. He was a contributor to the three-volume book set Building High-Performance People and Organizations (Praeger, 2008) and an expert source in Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, by Martha I. Finney (FT Press, 2009). Mathison is frequently quoted on career and leadership issues in The New York Times, The San Diego Union Tribune, on CNN and MSNBC, as well as on online career advisors such as CareerBuilder.com and HotJobs.com. Duncan Mathison may be reached at [email protected]. Martha I. Finney Martha I. Finney is President and CEO of Engagement Journeys, LLC, and an internationally respected expert in employee engagement and leadership communications. A business journalist for 20 years before becoming a full-time consultant, she specializes in helping organizations achieve greater employee loyalty, retention, and passion for their work. Her original research on the American workplace has been featured on CNN, NPR's Morning Edition, and major newspapers nationwide. Finney is the author or coauthor of more than 14 books, which have been translated into 5 languages. Her most recent book is Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss (FT Press, 2009). Contact her at [email protected]. Follow Martha via twitter.com/marthafinney.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xii About the Authors xiv Break Away from the Herd 3 Chapter 1: The Job Market Is Tight: It's Time to Take Back Control of Your Career 4 Chapter 2: Don't Trust the Official "System": It's Not Working in Your Favor 12 Step 1: Make Five Mindset Fixes to Get Your Search on Track 21 Chapter 3: Stay Home or Stay in Control: Beliefs That Can Kill Your Job Search 22 Chapter 4: The HJM Search Is a Different Kind of Numbers Game 30 Chapter 5: You Don't Have to Have a Job to Get a Job 36 Chapter 6: Make Your Passion Your Most Competitive Asset 42 Chapter 7: Think Like a Hiring Manager 50 Step 2: Connect Your Hottest Skills to What Hiring Managers Really Care About 57 Chapter 8: Ability, Motivation, Fit: The Top Three Factors for the Ideal Job 58 Chapter 9: Maybe You Were Fired for Fit, Not Failure: Recovery from a Job Disaster 66 Chapter 10: Don't Have the Exact Experience? No Problem! 74 Step 3: Upgrade Your Networking to Get Better Results 85 Chapter 11: How to Make Networking Really Work, Really 86 Chapter 12: How to Network Without Sounding Phony, Lame, or Desperate 94 Chapter 13: Make Your Networking Strictly Business 102 Chapter 14: Seven Essential Signs That Your Networking Is Working 108 Step 4: Power Up Your Job Search 115 Chapter 15: Opening Day: How to Organize Your HJM Search Campaign 116 Chapter 16: Backdoor Research to Uncover HJM Targets 122 Chapter 17: Your Resume Is Not Your Friend 130 Chapter 18: Your Power Tool: The Targeted Opportunity Profile 136 Chapter 19: Find the Hot Issues to Uncover the Hot Jobs 142 Step 5: Get the Interviews That Count and Run Them Like a Pro 149 Chapter 20: It's Not Rude to Intrude 150 Chapter 21: Get Past the Gatekeepers 154 Chapter 22: What to Say After "Hello" 160 Chapter 23: Disrupt HJM Targets' Delay Tactics and Rejections 168 Chapter 24: Own the Agenda to Make Every Minute Count 174 Chapter 25: Get Their Attention: Tell Your Story in Two Minutes Flat 180 Chapter 26: Flipping the HJM Meeting into a Job Interview 188 Step 6: Negotiate Everything 199 Chapter 27: How to Nudge a Dud 200 Chapter 28: Collaborate on Creating Your Job Description 206 Chapter 29: Negotiating Your New Job 212 Conclusion: You Have What It Takes to Get the Right Job 218 Afterword: Why We Wrote This Book 222 Index 226

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GOR004965063
9780137032495
0137032498
Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough by Duncan Mathison
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
2009-10-22
256
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