Instant Interviews_ 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life - Jeffrey G. Allen [5]
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Allen, Jeffrey G., 1943-Instant interviews : 101 ways to get the best job of your life / by Jeffrey G. Allen. p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN : 978-0-470-46985-9
1. Employment interviewing. 2. Resumes (Employment) 3. Job hunting. I. Title. HF5549.5.I6A442 2009
650.14’4—dc22 2008045569
To my wife, Bev, our daughter Angel, our daughter-in-law Kathy, and our grandchildren, Jonathan, Gabby, Kevin, Amanda, Brandon, and Justin.
You’re in every syllable I’ll ever write. Yet no words can express my love for you.
Dedicated to all those
would-bes who
could be and
should be and
Who now
can be and
will be and
—watch out—
are!
May these pages live through your lives.
About the Author . . .
Jeffrey G. Allen. J.D., C.P.C. is the world’s leading placement lawyer and author of more bestselling books in the career field than anyone else. His popular interviewing books include How to Turn an Interview into a Job, The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book, The Interactive Interviewing Technique, The Resume Makeover, The Perfect Follow-Up Method to Get the Job, The Perfect Job Reference, Finding the Right Job at Midlife, The Career Trap and the three-volume series, Jeff Allen’s Best.
Jeff turned a decade of recruiting and human resource management into the legal specialty of placement law. He has served as special advisor to the American Employment Association, general counsel to the California Association of Personnel Consultants, legal advisor to the California Institute of Employment Counseling, director of the National Placement Law Center, and is a founder of Search Research Institute.
Jeff is a certified placement counselor, certified employment specialist, certified personnel consultant, and certified search specialist. He has been featured on television and radio, in magazines and newspapers, and is a popular speaker. The Fordyce Letter (the recruiting monthly) recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of Jeff’s essential “Placements and the Law” column.
Introducing Instant Interviews!
Twenty-five years ago, I jumped up in the jobjungle, swung from the nearest tree, and Tarzanned.
I’ve spent my entire career in the job placement field, and it all comes down to this:
1. The interview is almost all that counts
2. The interview is a highly predictable, controllable event, with only the places and the faces changing
Those were the first words in my first book, How to Turn an Interview into a Job. They rumbled in the jungle like a herd of charging bull elephants. The books flew off the shelves as they still do today.
In following the pages that followed those words, jobseekers became lifetime jobgetters. These days they generate job offers whenever they interview. Bigger and better job offers.
Their success was limited only by the global climate change over a quarter century. The underbrush grew above the height of the hunter. The traditional terrain—classifieds, job fairs, then the Internet—become nothing more than a mirage.
These passive ways of looking for a job or finding a job did nothing to generate an interview. Any successful