Do You Have An Innovative “Guerrilla Job Hunting Technique”?

in David E. Perry,Guerrilla Job Search System,Job Hunting,Kevin Donlin

Every few days I publish an article about a Guerrilla Job Hunting Technique. Ideas that will help you the find the perfect job for you.

I am looking for some great innovative ideas to share with other people. Ideas that demonstrate the essence of a Guerrilla Job Hunter. I want you pass them along in a message in my facebook account or in a LinkedIn account. I will share them with everybody. If you tell me, I will even share your contact information (LinkedIn profile link or Webpage) on the posting.

Why Do You Care that I post it?

  • It will go out to my 16,000+ direct LinkedIn connections
  • It will be listed in my 10 groups, several with over 5,000 members.
  • It will go out to my 1,700 Twitter connections

What Is A Guerrilla Job Hunter?

The Guerrilla Job Hunter uses practical job hunting techniques.

By practical, the techniques are cost effective and they generate real opportunities with targeted people. They are rifle shots directly to the person they want to hire.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter does what it takes to get a job as soon as possible. They don’t wait around.

They know how to great the presentation for the job interview.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter uses aggressive job hunting techniques.

An aggressive job hunting technique means that you are driving the action. You are selecting the people. It doesn’t mean hitting them over the head. It means putting your story and your resume in front of a person who needs you.

Its strange, some people think that Guerrilla Job Hunting techniques are for people earning over a hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) a year. Some think its for job hunters earning less than a $100,000 a year.

Guerrilla Job Hunting is for anybody who wants to find a meaningful employment doing the work they want.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter Is Busy Job Hunting, Networking, and Building Their Personal Brand

A Guerrilla Job Hunter knows that their job is just waiting for them. They just don’t know which of the twenty companies they are working for. They know how to network. They know how to do what it takes to get a job. The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows how long it will take them to get a job, because they know what to track.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter has business cards designed for job hunting. They have cold call scripts for job hunting. They know the problems faced by job hunters and they know how to avoid them.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter Knows Many Different Approaches To Getting A Job

The Guerrilla Job Hunter does not rely on Click and Submit job hunting. They have many different approaches to solving the job hunt issue. (And with all the help I am going to get from people, even more)

A Guerrilla Job Hunter knows how to get beyond “The any job Anywhere” syndrome.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows how to avoid depression or being unhappy during the job hunt.

They know the value of getting dressed properly and appropriately for the job interview.

They understand the importance of appearance, enthusiasm,  and having a pleasing personality when they are job hunting.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows how to leverage LinkedIn and Facebook for their job hunt.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter Knows How To Market Themselves For A Job

Marketing yourself for a job means many different steps:

  1. Knowing the kind of job you want
  2. Knowing what you can offer the employer
  3. Knowing who to contact
  4. Knowing how to contact the person
  5. Knowing how to create a great resume
  6. Knowing how to create a great covering letter
  7. Knowing how to follow up after submitting a resume or covering letter
  8. Knowing how to prepare for the job interview
  9. Knowing how to act and answer at the job interview
  10. Knowing how to followup after the job interview
  11. Knowing how to negotiate the job offer

The Guerrilla Job Hunter Knows How Access The Unadvertised Job  Market

Getting interviews before a job is even published is built into the DNA of a Guerrilla Job Hunter. The shy job hunter is also a Guerrilla Job Hunter. They know which techniques will work for them and the ones that won’t.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows how to ask for help finding a job. They know how to handle it if they are an overweight job hunter, if they have bad teeth, if they are overqualified for the job.

The Guerrilla Job Hunter Knows What To Do

The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows what their daily job hunting routine should be. They know how to maximize every moment. The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows the cost of being unemployed. They know when to spend their money and when not to. The Guerrilla Job Hunter knows that spending money on tools to shorten the job hunt is an investment that pays the greatest dividends.

This is my Monday Morning Job Hunting help. I have taken material provided to me by Kevin Donlin and David Perry, co-creators of the Guerrilla Job Search System.

Kevin and David have been interviewed by CNN, New York Times, Fortune magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor about their method to finding a job.

Become a Guerrilla Job Hunter with a free CD from Kevin and David on get your job search into high gear

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