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“Over 70% of all jobs are never published. This book will help you discover and land these jobs!” –John Challenger, CEO, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. Your perfect job will never be advertised. But you can find it–or create it. Even now. Especially now! TOP CAREER EXPERTS SHOW HOW TO: Uncover hidden opportunities Help companies design the perfect job for you Network without sounding phony, lame, or desp… More >>
Unlock the Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps to a Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough
#1 by C. S. Ramsay on June 27th, 2010
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As a Human Resources professional who has landed every job in his career — now going on 25 years — through proactive networking precisely the way this book describes, I am delighted to see the process so well documented. This book does not uncover profoundly new angles on landing a job; however, it clearly describes the steps needed even in these tough times, and especially for those who have had frustrations using traditional methods. Using the techniques in this book moves the job-seeker “upstream” into conversations with hiring managers in the planning stages before a job is posted publicly – and that’s how almost all jobs are being filled right now.
In a world of instant virtual access to people and information, and net-enabled social networking, the steps described in this book are clearly detailed and made easy to plan and execute — even for those who may not consider themselves strong networkers. Given the amount of time you may devote to finding a job using the futile “sit at home, search the internet and blast resumes” approach, this guide has 100′s of tips on how to use that time more wisely, and in ways that will actually help you land a job.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Daydream Believer on June 27th, 2010
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Books on career and job-finding abound and it’s hard to find ones that have anything new to say. “Unlock the Hidden Job Market” is a good basic guide to the job search, but doesn’t really present any information you won’t find in 20 other books. The word “hidden” implies there’s some secret job market out there we haven’t found– but when you read the book you learn that this “hidden” market is really just the usual advice to network, look for connections to organizations to learn about jobs before they’re advertised, etc. Richard Bolles covered that years ago in What Color Is Your Parachute? 2010: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. “Unlock the Hidden Job Market” is well-written and well-organized, but if you’ve read other books on the job search you probably won’t find anything new here.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Sacramento Book Review on June 27th, 2010
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In these tough times, there’s a job for you out there, but it’s not listed–not on Craigslist, Monster, or anywhere else. It’s hidden, and it’s up to you to find it. The good news is, you will find it–that is, if you want it badly enough. That’s what Duncan Mathison and Martha I. Finney want to tell you in //Unlock The Hidden Job Market: 6 Steps To A Successful Job Search When Times Are Tough//.
More than 70% of today’s job opportunities are not publicized, and that percentage is actually growing–that’s what experts say. This means, you can forget about search firms, internal recruiters, and job fairs. If you know how and where to find these hidden job opportunities, you have an unstoppable inside advantage, and this is the job search technique that works–even when you think no one is hiring.
The lowdown: turn the system upside down and regain control of your job search; make networking really work (yes, really); create your targeted opportunity profile (or, an anti-resume); and bustle through gatekeepers, delay tactics, and rejections.
If you are continually frustrated by job searches and would like to try a new approach, consultants Mathison and Finney, whose job is to work for their own company, might just have the roadmap that will point you on your way to gainful employment in their book, //Unlock The Hidden Job Market//.
Reviewed by Dominique James
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Aundrea Ristine on June 27th, 2010
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This is a great book about job search with principles that can be used at any time, but most useful in a tough job market. The authors really understand what it’s like to be looking for a job and they have true sense of how people feel about the networking process. This empathy provides them with the knowledge needed to provide really practical insights on how to go about networking and most importantly setting the groundwork for you to be noticed, remembered, and ultimately hired by people who don’t have posted job openings but might still be interested in meeting a really talented person. This book is full of tangible tools, strategies, techniques, and words to use, it is not just a theoretical guide. It’s worth every penny!
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Mahlers2nd on June 27th, 2010
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I’m in the IT field and my position was recently outsourced to an off-shore team. So I picked up this book to see what else I could be doing.
As many of the reviewers have mentioned, this book is oriented towards a very “interpersonal” time-intensive process which will help folks who are looking or jobs that are focused on “soft skills” such as sales/marketing, project management. However, for folks who have built their careers on hard technical skills, it is going to be difficult to implement “the plan” laid out in this book unless you are looking to move into a position that is more oriented towards soft-skills.
However, if you were good at the soft-skills, you would probably be in that type of position to begin with and your job would not have been outsourced to a group in India.
While it is true that every job benefits from a combination of soft skills and hard-core tech skills, it is also true that in certain occupations, employers are more interested in how quickly/accurately you can code rather than your ability to lead/direct individuals. Not everyone gets to be a “chief”… and frankly not everyone even WANTS to be a chief! If you try to implement this process and you are not comfortable using the “sales”/”meeting” approach described in this book, you could actually make yourself look worse than if you had done nothing — you have put yourself in a position where you are displaying your weaknesses. And unless you are on the “inside”, intellectual property issues will prohibit you from being given the opportunity to show off your strengths.
I also agree with the reviewer that makes the point that the approach advocated in this book definitely is oriented towards “elite” white-collar jobs and that folks fresh out of school or people who are not looking for a management-type job will not be successful because they simply will not have the level of experience needed to pull off the suggestions laid out in this book.
So before you pick up this book — first analyze the type of job you are looking for… if it is one oriented towards soft-skills, go for it. However, if you are a proud computer geek — you might be better off pursuing additional certifications and training that will highlight your hard skill bonafides.
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Rating: 3 / 5