Block - 5 Steps to Rapid Employment: The Job You Want at the Pay You Deserve

Five Steps to Rapid Employment is proof that Jay Block is not only a fine author and first rate coach, but a man of principle, integrity, and compassion.

DICK BOLLES, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

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 Block is an industry icon and 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. Five Steps to Rapid Employment is his most important work to date. Jay continues to find new and effective approaches to challenge us all to successfully navigate through todays complex and ever-changing job market to secure meaningful employment.

FRANK X. FOX, Executive Director, Professional Association of Rsum Writers and Career Coaches

Jay has written a one-of-a-kind book combining motivational techniques with job search innovation. Jay offers fresh, exciting, and timely strategies, tools, and processes to help people land jobs in competitive job markets. This book is way overdue, is enjoyable and easy to read, and offers encouragement and specifics to successfully meet the challenges and complexities of todays job market. This is mandatory reading for anyone seeking a new/better job.

SUSAN LEVENTHAL, Manager, Professional Placement Network, Workforce One, South Florida

This book is a must-read for all job seekers in todays 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. This book should be required reading for all graduates before entering the job market.

SHERRY ZYLKA, PHD, Provost, Wayne County Community College District, MI

101 Best Ways to Land Job in Troubled Times

101 Best Resumes

101 Best Cover Letters

101 More Best Resumes

Great Questions! Great Answers! for Your Job Interview

202 Great Resumes

101 Best Resumes to Sell Yourself

2500 Keywords to Get You Hired

101 Best Resumes for Grads

101 Best Tech Resumes

Copyright 2014 by Jay A. Block. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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To my son, Ryco... the brightest star in my universe

Master a Few Self-Marketing Skills...
Then Take Massive Action to Land a Job Quickly

SUSAN D. COREY, M.ED., CWDP, BES, MS

Southeast Michigan Community Alliance; Manager of Workforce Development

Board Member, The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals

Dear Reader:

E very 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 in the new global job market 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 five-step strategic process for conducting a successful job campaign. He makes the process of pursuing and landing a new job inspirational and enjoyable. He shows you how to remain fearless, hopeful, confident, and highly engaged in the wake of adversity and setbacks. And the good news is that the process of landing a job is simple. This book will show you just how simple. The only thing you need to do is work diligently at what is simple.

Five Steps to Rapid Employment will be the only resource you will need to land a new job or discover your true calling. Todays competitive, global job market requires new ways of thinking, new beliefs, effective and inspiring 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 established over the past 20 years by constantly applying new ways of thinking so you can better plan your career and achieve your 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!