Packed with stories from a wide variety of fields and industries, this text shows how to position and present yourself to your employer so that the next time opportunity knocks, you'll be the obvious choice for promotion.

Can't find a job? Maybe you're seeing only half the picture
Half the job market is invisible
Are you spending all your time applying to posted job openings--postings that draw hundreds, and in some cases, thousands of applications? No matter how perfect you are for the job, there is always someone else who's a little more qualified, more experienced. The key to success in the current job market is breaking through to the "hidden" job market. Over half of all jobs go to someone who did not apply to a posted opening at all. What are they doing and how are they doing it? They're finding new jobs "before the posting hits the Internet."
Career guru Donald Asher offers proven strategies for finding great opportunities in any industry. With "Cracking the Hidden Job Market" you'll stop wasting time and effort and beat the job-search odds by learning how to:
- find jobs that are never posted anywhere
- get complete strangers to help you find a job
- convince potential employers to give you an interview--even when they're "not hiring"
- find--and land--the new jobs in this, or any, economy
Every page of "Cracking the Hidden Job Market" is packed with no-frills fundamentals to change the way you look for a job, this time--and forever

Donald Asher, America's career guru, believes that success comes from an alignment of passion and preparation. First tip: Your college major has very little to do with your job options. In fact, you can get to virtually any life-goal destination from virtually any starting point. Stephen Colbert was a philosophy major. Chad Hurley, billionaire founder of YouTube, was an art major. And while we're at it, Albert Einstein was a high-school drop-out. Still think your college major will determine your life path? Think again.
HOW TO GET ANY JOB is the first book that definitively answers the following questions, and many more:
- What is "life launch" and how is it different from getting a job?
- Why do employers hire people like you?
- Which skills do employers value most? (They're not what you think )
- How do non-tech people get hired and thrive in tech companies?
- How do you set yourself up to get promoted?
- How do you prove you have skills that don't show up on your transcripts?
- How do you get experience if you can't get a job, or have the "wrong" major?
- How can you get famous and influential people to help you?
- How do you hit restart if you get stuck in a dead-end job out of college?
- What should you do if you're a graduate and living in your parents' basement?
- What should you do if you're a junior to make sure you don't end up in that basement?
Whether you're twenty and still in college or twenty-nine and still wondering how to start your life, HOW TO GET ANY JOB offers the most creative and innovative thinking on life launch to date. It is used by college career centers nationwide.

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