How to Find a New Job 65% Faster

SUBJECT: How to Find to a New Job 65% Faster

BODY: Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting her Guerrilla Job Search, in mid-September.

Up to that point, 20 weeks of job hunting had produced zero job interviews.

Just 7 weeks later, she accepted a job on Thursday, November 12, as a marketing executive assistant.

How did she use Guerrilla job hunting tactics to find work 65% faster?

"I started with the Coffee Cup Caper. I sent a paper Starbucks coffee cup with my cover letter and Guerrilla Resume. I heard back from them a couple days later to get my first interview," says Berman.

After her first interview, which went well, Berman followed up with panache.

"It was Halloween time, so I decided to send them a chocolate covered apple with my hand-written thank-you note attached. A friend of mine, who was off work that day, played delivery person and took it to [the employer]. That was a big hit -- they were thrilled -- and I got the second interview out of it."

Berman's second interview was with the executive vice president. Afterwards, she followed up diligently. "When I came home, I wrote a 30-60-90 day plan. I had taken copious notes during the interview and used that information given to create suggestions for what I would do in the first 30, 60, and 90 days. I sent that to them via FedEx with another thank-you note. And I got a job offer."

Now. Let's break this successful Guerrilla Job Search down ...


1. Start smart

The Coffee Cup Caper -- a paper Starbucks cup, full-color Guerrilla Resume, and a Guerrilla Cover Letter (asking to meet for coffee), shipped in a box -- gets extraordinary results. By contrast, ordinary resumes and cover letters, sent by email, get ordinary results.


2. Follow up with style

Delivering a Halloween treat with her thank-you note was correct seasonally, if not politically. Use good judgment before sending items that might be perceived as bribes by employers sensitive to such things. In Berman's case, however, it worked like a (chocolate-covered) charm.

And, leaving out the gift, could you arrange to have your thank-you note delivered by a courier, or a friend posing as one? Of course.


3. Give employers another reason to hire you

Mary did this in spades after her second interview, when she sent a written plan of action for her first 3 months on the job.

A 30-60-90 day plan is a way of proving you can do the work -- before you're even on the payroll -- by describing how you would learn the job, build rapport with employees/customers, and contribute to the bottom line.

Mary's plan was 8 pages long and took the better part of a Friday night to prepare. (Before you balk at spending an entire evening at home researching and writing a 30-60-90 day plan, ask yourself if you wouldn't trade a night out for getting a steady paycheck again.)


4. Score style points with your delivery

Mary's first follow-up, the chocolate-apple-thank-you note, was delivered by a courier, not by email. Her 30-60-90 day plan was delivered by FedEx, not by email.

Do you NOT see a pattern? Email should NOT be the sole delivery method for your career documents.

Bottom line: This smart Guerrilla had failed to get even one job interview in 20 weeks of conventional job hunting with conventional tactics.

After adopting unconventional Guerrilla tactics, she found work in only 7 weeks.

If Guerrilla job search methods can work in Michigan, where the unemployment rate tops 15%, they can work where you live. The only thing stopping you from thinking and acting like a Guerrilla is you.


Resource: The same Guerrilla Resumes and Cover Letters Mary used are http://www.guerrillaresumes.com/?hop=kp1st

Cover Letter

Five common cover letters mistakes


With every resume submission, you should have a cover letter that accompanies it and presents you as a positive and qualified nominee for the job. A cover letter should highlight field of your resume which promote your professional experience, and should address any dispute an employer may have roughly hiring you for the job. There are five common cover letter mistakes outlined below that you must avoid in outcome to get through the first round of resume survey and action one step closer to becoming the post that you want.

1. Addressing the cover letter using a generic greeting, or misspelling the name of the personal liaison or the company. The address column is the mass prominent components of the cover letter; it should be included even if the cover letter is sent via email. Generic greetings are not favored; they type it seem like you have a miniature for your cover letter and you simply send it to all employers you are interested in campaign for. Do the research and discovery out who the appropriate conspiracy is for the frame letter. However, type sure that they name and the band name is spelled correctly. If your address column contains errors, your cover letter likely to never make it to the hiring manager.

2. Telling the firm what they will do for your career. Simply stated, employers behavior approx your atitudes and what you will do for the company. Do not spend your time informing the visitor how handling for them will be great for your career. While that could be true, it certainly is not what the employers wants to hear. Your potential employers wants to hear how you will prerogative their team; they demand to know what you will bring to the table that is innovative, and focused on results. Make sure that your resume lets your employer know just why you are the best nominee for the job.

3. You re-state your resume. Do not go over the intelligence that is in your resume in your cover letter. Your cover letter is meant to entice, and provoke the employer to coverage your resume in great detail. Re-stating the data in your resume doesn’t address what the employers shortage to know, which concerns reasons why you are the best examinee for the job. Highlight certain domain of your resume but do so in the connection of your career destination and how such abilities right the company.

4. Starting every decree with “I”. While your cover letter is closely you, starting each assessment this technique evidence type your employer believe that your interaction atitudes are not up to the height of your professional background. Discuss your qualifications, your purpose and what you bring to the table in terms of the company, and your professional attributes.

5. Asking the employer to provocation you at their convenience. The mass generic closing declaration in frame knowledge ask the employer to liaison you at their convenience. If you are truly excited roughly the occasion with the employer, you won’t poverty to expectation for them to summons you back whenever they sense like it. What you should do instead is let them know when you shortage to follow up – and then do follow up. Close your casing missives by renting your potential employer know that you testaments liaison them, as well as the way in which you testaments do so. This shows your interest, and your take-charge attitude.

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