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Praise for 101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times

A true A-to-Z approach to landing the job of your choice regardless of market conditions. Jays book empowers job seekers to take control of their future by being proactive, resourceful, and innovativeincluding building a referral network both online and off. If you are serious about landing a quality job quickly in todays job market, this book will practically guarantee your success.

Bob Burg
Author of Endless Referrals and
The Go-Giver

Jay has written a unique and highly effective book combining motivational techniques with job search innovation. Jay offers fresh, exciting, and timely strategies, tools, and processes to help people land jobs in troubled times and in highly competitive job markets. This book is way overdue, is enjoyable and easy to read, and offers encouragement and specifics to successfully meet the challenges of todays troubling economy and job market. This is a must-read book for everyone seeking a new/better job.

Susan Leventhal
Manager, Professional Placement Network
Workforce One, South Florida

Jay Block has taken his place as one of the career-coaching industrys most innovative thinkers and contributors. He is always challenging traditional ways of thinking to develop new techniques and tools to inspire people to achieve career and life success. 101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times is his very best work. Jay continues to find new and effective approaches to challenge us all to successfully navigate through these trouble economic times and secure meaningful and sustainable jobs.

Frank X. Fox
Executive Director, Professional Association of Rsum
Writers & Career Coaches

This book is a must-read for all job seekers in todays highly competitive job market. Whether youre a graduating student or a transitional worker, you will benefit from all the simple motivational techniques and career management tips that are offered from cover to cover.

Sherry Zylka, MA
Associate Dean of Continuing Education and
Workforce Development
Schoolcraft College, Michigan

101 BEST WAYS TO LAND A JOB IN TROUBLED TIMES

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JAY A. BLOCK

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This book is dedicated to all you job seekers who have not given up on your dreams or settled for less than you can be.

Susan D. Corey, M.Ed., CEIP, CWDP, BES, MS

Southeast Michigan Community Alliance; Manager of Workforce Development

Board Member, The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals

Dear Reader:

Every once in a while you meet someone using his gifts and talents to really make a difference in peoples lives. Jay Block is that person. His message is a clarion call for you to take action in your life: to provide a guide on how to survive and thrive not only in this troubled economy but when the good times return (and they will), and to motivate yourself to achieve all that you are capable of and deserve. Finally, someone provides an upbeat and inspirational approach to career management and job change! Jay combines commanding motivational techniques with a highly effective strategic process for making a successful and rewarding job change. He makes the process of pursuing and landing a new job fun and enjoyable. He shows you how to remain fearless, hopeful, confident, and engaged in the wake of adversity and setbacks. And his good news is that the process of landing a job in troubled times is simple. This book will show you just how simple. The only thing you need to do is work diligently at what is simple.

101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times will be the only job transition resource you will need to land a new job or discover your true calling. Tough economic times and competitive job markets require new ways of thinking, new beliefs, enjoyable processes, and a renewed sense of hope. Jay is a pioneer in the career management industry, by definition, an innovative thinker. The foundation of his successwhich he measures by the success of his clientswas built over the past 20 years by constantly applying new ways of thinking so you can better plan your career and achieve your career goals. Actually, this book is not only a book on job transition and career management, it is also a book on how to significantly improve your quality of life. You will be inspired to take specific actions that will lead to a richer life!