Customer Reviews
Guide for the Pissed-Off Job Seeker
I thought I had read everything but boy, was I wrong. Forget What Color is Your Parachute and all the other job-hunting books out there. This is it, everybody. THIS IS THE ONE. A week after I read "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job Seeker," I was no longer pissed off! And that's 'cause I was no longer a Job Seeker! I had a job! A good job! And all because when I went on that interview after I read the book, I knew how to turn the interview on its head by asking the The Question. "By what criteria will you select a person for this job?" Once I had the answers written down on my yellow legal pad, I knew what to say when my interviewer said, "now tell me about yourself." When I started talking, the words flowed like good wine. I knew how to match my skills to the crieria desired.
You will be amazed at how these guys, Zuckerman and Abel, take you through the job-search step-by-step, holding your hand at each stage of the process. Like getting in the door to get the information you need about a particular job, or industry, or field. And doing it without a resume!
They give you the structure and format and sample dialogue to appear bright, interested, focused, and dedicated, wherever and whenever you find yourself being interviewed. I must confess that while I was reading this and saying some of these things out loud, I kept thinking, "this is not me. This is definitely not me."
But once I found myself in front of the interviewer and mouthed the Guide's words as if I were an actor on stage, my interviewer became as rapt an audience as any job-seeker would wish.
I learned from this book how to tailor each and every resume according to the criteria desired so that I would have an 'inside-track resume' that would vault its way to the top of the pile. I learned how to write a different 'job objective' for each resume I submitted.
And last but not least, I learned how to write a thank-you letter that went beyond the usual cliches to really remind my interviewer of all the valuable skills he agreed I had when I made my presentation and sold myself for the job.
In a word, it's all about selling, say Zuckerman and Abel. So if you're still out there pissed-off and peddling the sidewalks looking for work, then may this book be the answer to your prayer, as it was to mine.
