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Acknowledgments

Special thanks to my editor, Shannon Vargo, for recognizing the importance of Instant Interviews, and to my assistant, Gerald Jones, for working with me day and night to complete the manuscript.

Truly, you are the awesome genies who made the wish come true. Now it’s time for the miraculous results.

Index

Acquaintances, renewing

Adult education departments

Advancing adverbs

Advertorials

Age, lowering appearance

Airport shuttle services

Airports and airplanes

Alternative jobs

AM Chicago

Americans with Disabilities Act

Appearance

Application forms

Application Tracking Systems (ATSs)

Applications for employment

Appreciation

ASCII format

Asking questions

Associated Press style

Attire

Auctioning yourself

Automatic goal-setting

Automobile leasors

Awareness

Bad habits

Basic personality structure (BPS)

Biographies

Booking flights

Bosses, past and present

Breakfast

Broadcast letters

Building inspection departments

Bus depots

Bus terminals

Business cards

Business license departments

Business periodicals

Buzzwords and buzzphrases

Callback cards

Career centers

Catering

Celebrities

Cell phones

Chain of command

Chambers of commerce

City halls

City managers

Classified ads

responding to

situation wanted

types of

Clothing

Coffee shops

Cold markets, fear and

Community newspapers

Compensation surveys

Competitors

Confrontation

Consent to contact employer

Consulting

Contact management

Contractions

Convention commandments

Conversation

County fairs

Cover letters

Creating

Curriculum vitae (CV)

Deadlines, imposing

Demonstrations

for demostration companies

in-house

Direct mail campaigns

Disabilities

Dollar bills, sending to offeror

Dressing up

Elevators

E-mail response to online job postings

Employee payback agreements

Employer database services

Employers, past and present

Employment ads

Employment applications

Enthusiasm

Envelopes

Equipment leasors

Excuses

Executive recruiting

Expectations

Experience

Fairness ultimatums

Fax cover sheet

Fax numbers, asking for

Fear of cold markets

Feel-felt-found statements

Flea markets

Flyers

Flying classes

FOCUS principle

Follow up

for broadcast letters

for gogetem kit

for introduction letters

by mentors

for raise interviews

Follow-up methods

Follow-up telephone calls

Food

Former co-workers, referrals from

Former teachers, referrals from

Framing

Freelance writing

Friends, referrals from

Furniture leasors

Gatekeepers

Gathering information

Genie technique

benefits of

example

gathering information (Step 3)

identifying yourself (Step 1)

introducing yourself (Step 2)

list of steps

motivating yourself (Step 5)

repeating the process (Step 6)

showing appreciation (Step 4)

tools

Gyms

Hair

Hands

Hard sell

Headhunters

Hill, Napoleon, Think and Grow Rich

Hotels, parties at

Humor

Icon introduction letters

Indemnification

Inertia, causes of

Information gathering

Informational interviews

Instant Availability Announcements

as classified ads

e-mailing

faxing

placement of

writing tips

Instant gratification statements

Instincts

Integrity

Intent

Internal interviewing

Internet

distribution of Instant Availability

Announcements

employer database services

networking sites

as personal job search engine

resume database services

Internship

Interruptions

Interview words

Interviewing uniform

Introductions

Job clubs

Job expansion

Job fairs

Job incompatibility

Job intelligence network

Jobgyms

Journals

Keywords

for Internet job searches for interviews for retail interviews and applications

Language to avoid

Lead cards

Letters

with gimmick enclosures

resume cover letters