Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door: Job Secrets No One Else Will Tell You

<p class="null1"><i>New York Times, Wall Street Journal</i>, and <i>USA Today</i> bestseller</p> <p class="null1">"You can have the finest moves in the talent contest, you can boast a trophy speed-dial list on your iPhone, you can possess the single-mindedness of Paul Revere and be as self-assured as Muhammad Ali . . . and you still won't nail the job unless you know how to mold and merchandise your personal pitch. If this is true when times are booming-and it is-you can only imagine how true it is in times like these."</p> <p>Harvey Mackay, <i>Fortune</i> magazine's "Mr. Make- Things-Happen," has written five <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, including one of the most popular business books of all time-<i>Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive</i>. Now he returns with the ultimate book on how to get, and keep, a job you truly love whether you're twenty-one, fifty-one, or seventy-one.</p> <p>The average person will have at least three career changes and ten different jobs by age thirty-eight. In this era of downsizing and outsourcing, you can never be sure your job will still exist in five years- or five weeks. So you'd better think of your career as a perpetual job search. That demands a passion for lifetime learning and the skills for relentless and effective networking.</p> <p>Mackay shows you how to be at your best when things are at their worst. His hard-hitting topics include:</p> <p>- beating rejection before it beats you<br> - warning signals that you might be losing your job<br> - acing interviews<br> - negotiating the job you want not the job they offer<br> - taking advantage of the way bosses make hiring decisions<br> - blending the latest contact tools with old-fashioned face-to-face networking</p> <p>Uplifting, amusing, and jam-packed with proven tips, <i>Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door</i> will guide you through the toughest job market in decades. It's also the definitive A-to-Z career resource for the rest of your life.</p>

Author(s): Harvey Mackay  

ISBN 10: 1591843219
ISBN 13: 9781591843214
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Publication: February 2010