Zusatztext The no-nonsense! common-sense Cracking the Hidden Job Market could certainly jump-start a stalled job search. Asher's book will hold your hand while you try to get your foot in the door. USA Today ! 1/18/11 Networking involves the 'law of large numbers.' Asher points out connection sources most of us already have and shows us how to manage 100 contacts. Dallas Morning News ! 1/16/11 " Cracking the Hidden Job Market offers tips and strategies for standing out in the crowdand looking where the crowd's not. ...a simple formula for job-hunting success." Washington Post Express ! 1/10/11 Informationen zum Autor DONALD ASHER is the author of eleven books on careers, job search, and higher education. He is a contributing writer for numerous publications and career sites and is a tireless speaker, making more than 150 appearances at college and corporate campuses across the United States each year. Recent teaching engagements have also taken him abroad to India, China, South Korea, and Germany. When he isn't traveling, Donald Asher divides his time between northern Nevada and San Francisco, California. Klappentext Asher delivers a groundbreaking career guide that gives jobseekers of all ages and at every level of experience (or inexperience) the tools for crafting a focused! successful job-search strategy regardless of the state of their chosen industry or the economy in general. Preface: How to Use This Book I wrote this book with a particular reader in mind. If you are smart, hard working, a real contributor, and someone who is open to new things, great! We're on the same page. My goal is to help good people find the employment that will advance their personal and professional objectives. I like to write for and advise intelligent people. Since most people don't read books, and you're reading this one, I'm just going to assume you're one of the good people: a high performer who wants to be of value to others and make the world a better place for all. Most job seekers look for work this way: they try things out, see what seems to work and what doesn't, then revise their approach and go at the project again. In this book, important steps to the search are presented in the order in which you would normally begin doing them. But here's the problem: you've probably already started your job search. You don't have time to read this book from cover to cover before you get out there and try some of these approaches. So, recognizing that you're already in the thick of things, I have crafted an organizational structure that supplies information in more than one spot, often introduced in one place and then more fully explicated in a later chapter. So, be aware that information is in more than one section. Use the table of contents, the index, and a little common sense to get the most out of this guide. Skip any parts that don't apply to you, or that you find boring. Feel free to skip ahead. You can always return to these sections later if they become more relevant. In the real world, you learn as you go. You're going to do some things right and some things wrong. You may eventually decide to go back and do some things over from scratch. You will definitely decide to do many things systematically that you had been doing haphazardly. I will put my disclaimer right here: this book is not for everybody. I will ask you to do things that most people don't like to do, such as contact strangers and ask for something. However, not liking something is relative. Do you dislike foreclosure? Do you dislike the idea of being unemployed for a long time? Do you disdain the idea of begging your parents and members of your family for just enough money to get through another month while you wait for a career miracle? If you can say to yourself, Yes, some of the techniques make me feel uncomfo...

ldquo;The no-nonsense, common-sense Cracking the Hidden Job Market … could certainly jump-start a stalled job search. … Asher’s book will hold your hand while you try to get your foot in the door.”
—USA Today, 1/18/11

“Networking involves the ‘law of large numbers.’ Asher points out connection sources most of us already have and shows us how to manage 100 contacts.”
—Dallas Morning News, 1/16/11

"Cracking the Hidden Job Market offers tips and strategies for standing out in the crowd—and looking where the crowd’s not. ...a simple formula for job-hunting success."
—Washington Post Express, 1/10/11

Autorentext
DONALD ASHER is the author of eleven books on careers, job search, and higher education. He is a contributing writer for numerous publications and career sites and is a tireless speaker, making more than 150 appearances at college and corporate campuses across the United States each year. Recent teaching engagements have also taken him abroad to India, China, South Korea, and Germany. When he isn’t traveling, Donald Asher divides his time between northern Nevada and San Francisco, California.

Klappentext

Asher delivers a groundbreaking career guide that gives jobseekers of all ages and at every level of experience (or inexperience) the tools for crafting a focused, successful job-search strategy regardless of the state of their chosen industry or the economy in general.

Zusammenfassung
Can’t find a job? Maybe you’re seeing only half the picture!
Half the job market is invisible
 
Are you spending all your time applying to posted job openings—postings that draw hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of applications? No matter how perfect you are for the job, there is always someone else who’s a little more qualified, more experienced. The key to success in the current job market is breaking through to the hidden job market. Over half of all jobs go to someone who did not apply to a posted opening at all. What are they doing and how are they doing it? They’re finding new jobs before the posting hits the Internet.

Career guru Donald Asher offers proven strategies for finding great opportunities in any industry. With Cracking the Hidden Job Market you’ll stop wasting time and effort and beat the job-search odds by learning how to:
 
• find jobs that are never posted anywhere
• get complete strangers to help you find a job
•  convince potential employers to give you an interview—even when they’re “not hiring”
• find—and land—the new jobs in this, or any, economy
 
Every page of Cracking the Hidden Job Market is packed with no-frills fundamentals to change the way you look for a job, this time—and forever!

Leseprobe
Preface: How to Use This Book

I wrote this book with a particular reader in mind. If you are smart, hard working, a real contributor, and someone who is open to new things, great! We’re on the same page. My goal is to help good people find the employment that will advance their personal and professional objectives. I like to write for and advise intelligent people. Since most people don’t read books, and you’re reading this one, I’m just going to assume you’re one of the good people: a high performer who wants to be of value to others and make the world a better place for all.

Most job seekers look for work this way: they try things out, see what seems to work and what doesn’t, then revise their approach and go at the project again. In this book, important steps to the search are presented in the order in which you would normally begin doing them. But here’s the problem: you’ve probably already started your job search. You don’t have time to read this book from cover to cover before you get out there and try some of these approaches. So, recognizing that you’re …