Paul Hill - The Panic Free Job Search: Unleash the Power of the Web and Social Networking to Get Hired

THE PANIC FREE JOB SEARCH

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE WEB AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TO GET HIRED

BY
PAUL HILL

Copyright2012 by Paul Hill

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THE PANIC FREE JOB SEARCH
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TYPESET BY NICOLE DEFELICE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hill, Paul, 1961

The panic free job search : unleash the power of the web and social networking to get hired / by Paul Hill.

p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60163-203-6 -- ISBN 978-1-60163-616-4 (ebook) 1. Job
hunting--Computer network resources. 2. Internet. 3.
Online social networks. I. Title.

HF5382.7.H55 2012
650.14--dc23

2011046641

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY SISTER DANIELLE, WHO ALWAYS REMINDED ME THAT I COULD.
REST IN PEACE.

This book was made possible by the loving support and encouragement of the following people:

My family, for the incredible patience and understanding they demonstrate and their support throughout the project; Nicholas, Justin, Eric, and of course the angel Trish. My brother, Marc, and sisters, Lise, Martine, (Danielle), Jeanne, Leslie, and Andree.

Navgeet Bajaj for her selfless and endless hours of work, dedication, support, encouragement, editing, re-editing, and total commitment to the project.

My mom and dad for supporting and encouraging me throughout the years and for setting the bar a little higher.

My agent, Herb Schaffner, for his friendship and great representation, and his superb ideas and direction in the proposal stages.

All my friends, thank you for the great ideas and encouragement, especially Chris Demerah for his support and words of inspiration and for being a lifelong friend for 43 years and counting. Jackie Hill who kept things organized. Chrysantha Xavier, Jay Mistry, Keith Dawson, and Robert Bafaro for their continuous encouragement.

All my clients and staff from ADV Advanced Technical Services Inc. and TransitiontoHired, present and past, from around the world for your dedication, friendship, support, and help throughout the years.

Libby Gill for her timely advice on becoming a published author. Lainy Phillips for all her work on the first draft of the manuscript. For the team at Career Press for believing in me.

Alex Mandossian and Kieron Sweeney for stepping up and making a key telephone introduction.

YOUR WORK IS TO DISCOVER YOUR WORK AND THEN WITH ALL YOUR HEART TO GIVE YOURSELF TO IT.

BUDDHA

What if you could wake up every morning energized and eager to take on your work challenges? What if you loved your job, work, or career? What if you could get the edge over your competition and land the job you really want? What if you could be irresistible to employers and have employers chasing after you? What if you could have financial security and never, ever have to look for another job again? Do you think you would be healthier, wealthier, and happier? Get ready to find out!

Recent surveys have shed light on just how discontented workers are with their jobs. As Lynn Franco states, in a revealing Washington Post article, Tellingly, when asked to name the most enjoyable part of their jobs, the top answerjust above enjoying the company of co-workerswas the commute.

This direct correlation between job stress and cardiovascular problems is just as deadly for women as it is for men, as new studies presented at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions 2010 clearly show. Not only do workers need to contend with the effects of job stress, but worrying about losing a job can raise heart risks, too, as researchers discovered in this same U.S. government-funded study.

Did you order the double job whammy with a side of myocardial infarction?

If you are like most people, you are cutting your life short because you dont like your job. If that is not crazy enough, you are adding to your health risks because you are afraid to lose the job you hate. Come on! Are you serious? Is this any way to live? Think about it.

If you are not satisfied with your work, it is killing you.

I believe most people dont get the job they want because they do not know what they want! If they know what they want, they dont know how to get it! If they know what they want and they know how to get it, then they dont take the steps and action to get it.

This book will give you the gift of knowing what job you want, show you step-by-step how to get it, and energize you with the power to take the action to get it!

When I ask professionals if they like doing a job search, the answer without hesitation is always a loud No. I hate it!

Would never, ever having to look for work again appeal to you? Panic Free Job Search is not about searching high and low for work but rather about creating your irresistible offer that employers are attracted to and are compelled to act on. It is about being a candidate without first being an applicant. By the end of this book you will have all the tools you need to create your irresistible offer through the development of your powerful Professional Internet Brand (ProfessionaliBrand) and the deployment of the Smart Search system. Profes-sionaliBranding is about managing and promoting the message about who you are as a professional on the Internet. It is also about managing your online reputation; this is critical to getting hired today. Smart Search is about combining your ProfessionaliBrand with an innovative job search that gets you hired.

It would be foolish to assume that one job-search technique works for everyone. For most professionals, the combination of various strategies and technqiues work best. To some, networking, be it face to face or through social networking sites, is jsut not comfortable; the Internet and social sites are foreign lands they prefer not to visit. For others, building an online presence, complete with an active blog, a Website, a YouTube channel, a video resume, a Web TV show, and a flourishing social media presence is exactly what they want in order to attract employers. For these reasons this book offers various Smart Search strategies and you will find at least one that is right for you.

Your powerful ProfessionaliBrand is the key to unlocking the new job search, and when you do, employers will come looking for you.

How is this possible, you ask?

Job search on the Internet used to be about applying to advertisements on job boards and employer sites, and of course e-mailing resumes to hiring managersthe click and send approach. Although these still work to a much lesser extent, and mostly today for commodity jobs, all are based on conveying your message through the confines of the traditional resume. The traditional resume does a poor job of telling the story of who you are. Employers will hire you only if they like you, and the only way to figure that out is if they get to know you and trust you. The Web offers the perfect conduit for giving employers all the information they need about you.