Jeffrey G. Allen - Instant Interviews: 101 Ways to Get the Best Job of Your Life

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HERES WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING ABOUT INSTANT INTERVIEWS ...

Every page of this exciting book explodes with the energy of new ideas!
You havent read these techniques beforeon the Net or anywhere else.
Highly recommended!

Joyce Lain Kennedy, Americas No. 1 Syndicated Careers Columnist

With Instant Interviews you dont look for a job. You actually interview as you create the best job for yourself. The impact of this remarkable book on your life will be positive, dramatic, and permanent!

Deborah Hall-Kayler, President, National Association of Executive Recruiters

Easily the best book on finding a job ever written! It makes conventional ways of looking for a job obsolete. This will be the breakthrough book of our generation.

Alan R. Schonberg, Founder, Management Recruiters International

Instant Interviews is must-reading and must- doing for these revolutionary times. If you need to work and want the best job, theres no other way.

Valeria D. Prevish, Business Columnist, Cincinnati Enquirer

Your dream job will remain a distant dream unless you interview for it. Instant Interviews gives you the edge you need to get interviewed for the best jobs now .

Gary M. Spinner, President, Mid-Atlantic Association of Personnel Consultants

Instant Interviews will jolt you out of where you are and propel you to the job of your dreams. Whether you want to create that job or get promoted into it, get this book!

Jeff R. Goldman, Executive Vice President, Forbes Worldwide

Dont do another thing to look for a job until youve read and applied Instant Interviews ! Follow its action plan and you will generate interviews continuously. Youll be using the techniques for as long as youre workingwith optimum success.

Patricia A. Turner, Publisher, Employment Marketplace magazine

Other Books by Jeffrey G. Allen, J.D., C.P.C.

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
Jeff Allens Best: The Resume
Jeff Allens Best: Get the Interview
Jeff Allens Best: Win the Job
The Career Trap
Successful Job Search Strategies for the Disabled
Surviving Corporate Downsizing
Complying with the ADA
The Employee Termination Handbook
The Placement Strategy Handbook
Placement Management
The Best of Jeff Allen (two volumes)

Copyright 2009 by Jeffrey G. Allen. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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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

650.144dc22 2008045569

To my wife, Bev, our daughter Angel, our daughter-in-law Kathy, and our grandchildren, Jonathan, Gabby, Kevin, Amanda, Brandon, and Justin.

Youre in every syllable Ill 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 worlds 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 Jeffs 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.

Ive spent my entire career in the job placement field, and it all comes down to this:

1. The interview is almost all that counts2. 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 terrainclassifieds, job fairs, then the Internetbecome nothing more than a mirage.

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