To survive a life-long quarrel with authority-and come out the winner-takes luck.

Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to the boardrooms of some of the world's mightiest corporations and beyond? Or was it something else-a series of marvelous coincidences unexplainable by any rational means?

Unlike his previous books, "HIRE POWER" (Putnam/Perigee 1993) and "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker "(iUniverse, 2004), "Just My Luck?" is not a how-to book. Zuckerman makes it clear that-to this date, even he is not sure how it all happened.

To survive a life-long quarrel with authority-and come out the winner-takes luck.

Was it really just luck that took Irv Zuckerman from a Depression-era childhood in a Brighton Beach rooming house, through a life that should have ended at 20 in a French forest, to the boardrooms of some of the world's mightiest corporations and beyond? Or was it something else-a series of marvelous coincidences unexplainable by any rational means?

Unlike his previous books, "HIRE POWER" (Putnam/Perigee 1993) and "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker "(iUniverse, 2004), "Just My Luck?" is not a how-to book. Zuckerman makes it clear that-to this date, even he is not sure how it all happened.

In "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker," Irv Zuckerman, author of the best-selling "Hire Power," tells you "how" the job hunt is different after you are fired, and what to do to get work. For example:

-The successful resume is different. It's no longer enough to tell what you've done. You've got to show that you can do what a specific employer wants done. But can you really get a potential employer to help you write your resume? Sure you can. The Guide shows how.

-Ads and postings are different. Waiting for the right job listing is like waiting to win the lottery. But can you find the opening before it's even open so that you're the only one in line? Sure you can The Guide shows how.

-Interviews are different. 'Telling about yourself' is no longer enough. It's up to you to change the focus of the interview from what you've done to what the decision-maker wants done. But can you master the one question that will do it? Sure you can The Guide shows how.

Got some specific job-search problems you'd like to resolve? Ask Irv, by checking in at the Careers Forum on CompuServe.com at http: //forums.compuserve.com/vlforums/default/asp?SRV=careers.
On the WEB: IrvZuckerman.com