The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting

Contrary to Popular Belief, Christmas Is an Ideal Time To Look for a New Job.

So says David Perry, professional headhunter and co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters: 400 Unconventional Tips, Tricks and Tactics to Land Your Dream Job.

“If you’re looking for a job, you’ve probably realized that the typical tactics like cold calling and bombarding companies with resumes don’t work well in today’s recessionary job market.”

Three Reasons To Keep Up the Job Search Over the Holidays

Perry advises, “Job-hunters should defy conventional wisdom and intensify their efforts during the holidays” because:

1. Hiring managers are preparing their staffing plans for 2009 right now.
2. It’s easier to book appointments and get in to see people, because December is generally a slower time for all businesses except retail.
3. People like doing upbeat activities during the holidays and interviewing and hiring is one of them.

Grab This Free E-book!

Labeled the “Rogue Recruiter” by the Wall Street Journal, Perry has re-engineered his unconventional guerrilla approach for job hunters, covering all the basics of a winning campaign.

Perry takes readers by the hand, cleverly using the 12 Days of Christmas as a theme to organize a free e-book that packs a powerful punch extending well beyond the holidays.

Download the e-book, “The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting,” right here, or follow along in daily chunks on Perry’s blog, Guerrilla Job Hunting.

This Is a Truly Valuable Job Search Resource

Frankly I can’t believe Perry’s just giving it away free! It runs 28 pages, jam-packed with links. The 12 topics (for the twelve days of Christmas) are:

1. A plan with a very clear goal
2. Two strategies to crack the hidden job market
3. The Three R’s of job-hunting
4. Four Guerrilla style resumes
5. Five Golden Rules
6. Six Tools to download
7. Seven Social Networks
8. Eight Resume Rules
9. Nine Tools for Researching Leads
10. Ten Super Motivators
11. Eleven other ways to find a job today
12. Twelve Bloggers Blogging

Could you find all this information somewhere else? Probably. But David Perry combines it all in an easy-to-use format perfect for building confidence and giving direction to the newly (or not so newly) unemployed.

David Perry is the co-author with Jay Conrad Levinson of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters and author of Career Guide for the High-Tech Professional: Where the Jobs Are Now and How to Land Them. As managing director of Perry-Martel International, one of North America’s top executive search, recruiting, and placement firms, he has negotiated more than $174,000,000 in salaries.

Other Job Search Resources:

• Guerilla Resumes: Gets You Hired For The Job You Want, In 45 Days. Or Your Money Back! (by guess who? David Perry!)
• Job Interview Success System. Transforms The Complicated Job Interview Process Into A Simple, Step-by-step System To Ace The Interview And Get The Job!
• All Career & Job Search Books in our Employment Bookstore
• Job Search books in our Employment Bookstore
• From About.com: “Give Your Job Search a Holiday Boost,” by Allison Doyle

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