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Really Useful Job Search Tactics: A Handbook of Contemporary Job Hunting Techniques

by Rick Gillis

185 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2332; ISBN 1-4251-0574-2; US$18.95, C$21.79, EUR15.57, £10.90

Q. How do you make yourself SO compelling to an employer that they will be afraid not to hire you?
A. Read Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics.

About the Book

Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics by Rick Gillis is a contemporary, real world, “street credible” handbook on job search techniques. It has been written to help today's job seekers (whether currently employed or not) navigate the brave new world of human resource software and management tools as well as, and perhaps most importantly, how to create The Superior Resume™ (this is not your old college resume).

Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics will teach you how to internalize the Rick Gillis mantra: “Show me, as an employer, how you are going to Make Me Money or Save Me Money™ and I will assure you of getting the job you want.”

The issues raised and addressed by Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics include age-discrimination and the mature job seeker, the entry-level job seeker, the stay-at-home Mom (we call her The Professional Mom), how to really network, getting the hiring manager on the phone and, the single most important component of the book: How to make yourself, your resume and your interview so compelling that your recruiter will be afraid to let you leave the office for fear that you will end up with the competition!

Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics will guide you step by step through the amazing process of embedding keywords and phrases in your resume that will guide it the top of the pile—so that a real person will actually see it! (You are aware, of course, that your resume is actually “graded” by a computer before a real person sees it - if anyone sees it at all.)

Every bit of advice offered in Rick Gillis: REALLY Useful Job Search Tactics can be applied to your job search today!

About the Author

Rick Gillis, founder of The Really Useful Job Company, is a talk radio host, public speaker and author.

After several years as a live-sound engineer based out of El Paso, Texas followed by nearly 10-years in commercial real estate, Rick relocated to Houston in 1995 seeking a change of career. In a very short time, he became employee number one of a brand new internet start-up called HoustonEmployment.com, the first Houston-based local employment website. As a direct result of Rick’s sales efforts, HE.com quickly became the go-to site for a host of the most recognized corporations located in Houston such as Compaq Computer (now HP), Continental Airlines, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Treatment Center, Shell Oil Company, Rice University and even major league baseball’s Houston Astros.

In early 1998, Rick was asked to speak to a job seeker’s networking group on how to utilize the internet in the job search. During that first presentation, Rick began studying job seeking. Watching, listening and learning from job seekers, as well as the human resource and staffing company professionals he was meeting on a daily basis, Rick developed a version of what soon came to be known as “Guerilla Job Search Tactics” - a presentation of the fundamentals of the job search that most academics and professionals don’t even acknowledge.

The compelling central theme of this message is simple: “Show me, as an employer, how you are going to make me money or save me money™—and I will assure you of finding the job you want.”

This basic premise applies to all aspects of the job search from the preparation of your Superior Resume™ and “30-second elevator pitch” to the interviews that result. Even more importantly, it has been proven to apply to all levels of job seeking - from entry level to the boardroom. It is this simple statement, coupled with his energetic and entertaining style, that has launched Rick’s professional speaking career.

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