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PRAISE FOR The 6 Reasons Youll Get the Job

Once again, Debra and Elisabeth deliver! No One Is Unemployable became a Top Ten Career Book of the Year by giving job seekers who face tough barriers genuine hope and effective practicality. The 6 Reasons You ll Get the Job is great because it reveals to the rest of us how people really get jobs. Insightful, smart, and fun to read! I rate this book a Buy Now.

Joyce Lain Kennedy, syndicated columnist, Tribune Media Services

As a former employer, I am impressed with the research and insight that went into this book. I wish Id had it when I was interviewing and hiring people for my company. The authors have it right! Readers will learn to think like the employers they want to work for. They will gain the confidence and focus needed to present themselves as applicants that employers want to pursue. A lot of employers and a wide variety of job seekers will benefit from this.

Rich Van Hattem, cofounder and vice president (retired), $5.5 billion company with 30,000 employees

Theres only one reason to read this book: Debra and Elisabeth tell you exactly what you need to know to get hired.

Tory Johnson, CEO, Women For Hire

Finally, a job search book that teaches people to think like the employer. More people would be getting hired faster if every job seeker in America understood what this book teachesthat they are hired to make the company successful, that its not just about their ability but their overall fit for the company, and that they must make the company more than they cost. If youre already working, this book can help you keep your job and advance your career.

Joel Manby, featured on CBSsUndercover Boss, CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation

If you want to change your luck in the job search, read this book! It reveals insightful secrets and strategies to positively position yourself at the head of the pack.

Susan Whitcomb, author,Rsum Magic

A glut of job search and career books floods the market, but most repeat the same information or lack research-backed authority. Finally, MacDougall and Sanders-Park have brought a fresh, new, authoritative perspective to this saturated world of job search adviceincluding that on the Internet. Their six reasons model challenges job seekers long-held, but ineffective, practices. Giving employers what they really want seems like such an obvious concept, but candidates rarely grasp the employers perspective. All that is poised to change with this revolutionary book. Its a must for the bookshelf of anyone who ever expects to look for a job.

Katharine Hansen, PhD, associate publisher and creative director, Quintessential Careers

A great new look at an old topic! As always, Deb and Elisabeth give clear, accurate advice. Whether you are white collar or blue, this book offers you lots of great, practical tips.

Richard Knowdell, executive director, Career Development Network, and author,Building a Career Development Program

In todays highly competitive job market, its more important than ever to understand how to position yourself as the perfect match to the hiring companys needs. In this book, Debra and Elisabeth hit the nail right on the head!

Craig Karasin, president, CareerSuccessions.com

Many job seekers are on overdrive in todays very tough job market. What they need are real-world, creative ideas that can be put into action now. Elisabeth and Debra have written the one book that offers true insight and impact so many of us needand they have done it all in a style that is easy and breezy to read. Masterful and magical!

Jerri Rosen, CEO and founder, Working Wardrobes

Theyre right! You have to think like the employer, and ability alone will not get you hired... Luckily, they tell you what will. Ive seen the principles of this book in action. They work, and theyll get work for you.

David Mills, nationally known trainer and how-to book author

Practical wisdom, whimsical expression, and realistic and doable strategies on how to job search and be the employee an employer will keep, promote, and delight in having on their team. Debra and Elisabeth know the how-to of getting the career you dream of and breaking the just get a job mentality.

Shirley Shackleford, national director of adult development, Heres Life Inner City

The degree gets college grads in the hunt... but The 6 Reasons You ll Get the Job gets them the prize! Id hand college students this gem with their diploma.

Rich Feller, PhD, professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Colorado State University

Dedicated to the thousands of job seekers and
employment professionals who have proven that
these techniques work, and to those of you looking
for workmay the tools and hope you find here
help you find a job and keep you employed for
as long as you choose.

Acknowledgments

We are incredibly passionate about the work we do, and we are thankful for the support we have gotten over the years from partners around the world and for their help in bringing this book to life. Thank you... to the employers and industry experts we have worked with and learned from over the years, and to those who invested their time in reviewing our manuscript: Gill Tulloch, Rodney Halstead, David Cowie, Keith Winters, Gordon MacDougall, Brian Sanders-Park, Gretchen Maswadeh, Dale Susan Brown, Denise Bissonnette, and Jennifer Repo. To the Margret McBride Literary Agency and our agent, Donna Degutis, who believed in us and this project from the beginning, and to the Prentice Hall Press publishing team and our extremely talented editor, Maria Gagliano, for her extraordinary guidance in making this book a reality. To our mentor, Richard Bolles, for his faithful guidance over the years, and to our husbands and families for their unwavering support. To God for His love, His grace, and the opportunity to serve people in such a powerful and meaningful way.

Foreword

I am always on the lookout for interesting people who then decide to write a book.

Because, generally speaking, if they are interesting, their book will be, too.

I found one of these interesting people in the person of Deb Angel, who is one of the two authors of this book. When I met her, she was leading a seminar at a careers conference that I have attended routinely for many years, mostly because they invited me back to be the keynote speaker year in and year out. At the conference, Id prowl the halls long before and long after it was my turn to speak. All kinds of job-hunting seminars would be going on, and I would drop in on one, listen for a while, then go see if something more interesting was happening in another room, farther down the hall.

What was I looking for? Well, Ive already said it: interesting people. But, more than that: new ideas. Interesting, innovative, and helpful new ideas.

I had a peculiar handicap in this search: I was an author myself, and in fact, my book was the first bestseller in the field of job hunting or career changing, thus kindling publishers interest and sparking their search for other titles that they could publish in this field. By the time I blundered into Debs seminar, my book, revised annually, had already sold millions of copies around the world, and there were now literally thousands of career books out there, when there had only been twelve when I first began. Over the years my ideas had been copied by so many authors, many of whom didnt even know where the ideas came from, that the careers editor at the

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