The Advice of a Headhunter
Subtitle: How to Land the Perfect Job in Today's Competitive Job Market
Edition: First
Publisher: Durban House
Published: September 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9780977986309
Subjects: Careers - General; Business & Economics / Careers; Business & Economics; Careers / Job Opportunities; Career/Job
First sentence: One of the most perplexing problems that we face at the beginning of the 21st century is the difficulty in finding and keeping a good job.  The vocational market during the past few years has been a tumultuous one, and the future promises to be even more difficult.  Yet, despite this increasing level of competition, everybody seems to think that one can be less than perfect during an interview and still be successful in the job market.  To this end, this book is designed to eliminate all of the potential mistakes that one might otherwise make on the way to obtaining a new or better job.  The real premise of this work is to help everyone not just look like a better candidate, or act like a better candidate, but to actually be a better candidates while on the job market.
Description: The Advice of a Headhunter is the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and systematic job search book that exists in it genre today.  After being formally schooled in both Chemical Engineering and Clinical Psychology, Don Hite has used the past 25 years to sharpen his skills as one of the foremost Executive Recruiters in the country in one of the most competitive technical fields in our job market – the Commercial Nuclear Power Industry.  Don writes with a simple elegance that is both effective and efficient in allowing the reader to use the same engineering principles that guide our spacecraft to the planets in negotiating his or her vocational travels in literally "reaching for the stars."  This is the first book in its genre that has been written in decades, from start to finish, by an actual Headhunter who must practice every day what he preaches.  This book is destined to become the gold standard in the 21st Century in its field.
Notes: Nearly all of the other books in the job search field are written by short-time ex-Headhunters, those who don't actually find jobs for others, or are ghostwritten or team-written on behalf of individuals who work tangentially to the employment field.  The Advice of a Headhunter differs from nearly anything else on the market because it has been written from Don Hite's experiences as an Executive Recruiter over the past two and one-half decades.  As a successful Headhunter, Don actively utilizes the same techniques in the career field every day that he has carefully documented in this book.  

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Table of contents: title: Table of Contents; title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1 – The Importance of Your Job; title: Chapter 2 – Using the Systems Approach to Further Your Career; title: Chapter 3 – The Importance of Quality; title: Chapter 4 – Developing a Personal Quality Plan; title: Chapter 5 – Getting to Know Yourself; title: Chapter 6 – Writing Your Resume; title: Chapter 7 – Sample Resumes; title: Chapter 8 – Writing Your Cover Letter; title: Chapter 9 – Mentally Preparing for the Interview; title: Chapter 10 – Emotionally Preparing for the Interview; title: Chapter 11 – Physically Preparing for the Interview; title: Chapter 12 – Interview Etiquette and Protocol; title: Chapter 13 – Developing a Global Interview Strategy; title: Chapter 14 – Utilizing Individual Interview Tactics; title: Chapter 15 – Common Interview Questions and Answers; title: Chapter 16 – Soliciting an Offer and Negotiating Salary; title: Chapter 17 – Writing Your Thank–You Letter; title: Chapter 18 – What to Look For in a Job; title: Chapter 19 – How and Where to Look For a Job; title: Chapter 20 – Investing Wisely in Your Future; title: Glossary; title: Recommended References; title: Comprehensive Index (38 Pages Long)