Your Guide to Launch a Successful Career
Do you want to get hired?
This book is a guide to beating your competition. Getting Hired lays out a simple program to get the job you want. Imagine applications producing interviews, and your interviews producing offers. This can be your reality if you are better prepared than other candidates.
Getting Hired leads you through the steps to be better prepared and better compete to win the job you want.
Career Coaching Experience
PAUL MCBLAINE has worked on five continents and coached hundreds of professionals in many industries. Thanks to this depth of experience, he has developed effective strategies, tools, and behaviors that work across industry, levels, and roles. He spent most of his career, either creating his career transitions or helping others to design their careers. The result is a program that applies to job hunters at all stages of their careers.
Take Control of Your Career
Getting Hired is the first book in Paul's Career Series. The Career Series will be a complete guide to help you take control of your career and be successful. In addition to Getting Hired, the series will have books covering careers such as consulting, managing, leading, and retiring.
Whether you are getting your first job, a new job, or wanting to be promoted, this book will help. Getting Hired contains over 160 specific actions to help you create a powerful job-winning toolkit. There are helpful hints on writing winning resumes and cover letters, developing a personal marketing message, and optimizing your LinkedIn Profile. Everything you need to get noticed. The program doesn’t stop there. Getting noticed and scheduling an interview is just the beginning.
The program focuses on how to prepare yourself to crush all of your interviews. Getting Hired will be a lifelong roadmap for owning your career path and your future. Your career is your most important job. Unless you are an entrepreneur or independently wealthy, you will spend a considerable amount of time looking for employment throughout your career.
Even if you want a different job in your current company, you need to be prepared to apply and interview for your new position. If you are well prepared, you will get the job you want. Make no mistake, getting hired is a competition. This book will help you discover what you can do, what you want to do, and how to find companies that will hire you.
Change Is the Only Constant
Perhaps you already have a job, but you are not happy in your current position; you might want a promotion, be out of work, or have just graduated. Further, you may not yet know what job you can do, what career will make you happy, or how you want to pivot your career. There is an infinite number of reasons why you might look for something new, but to make a career change, you need to get hired. At some point in everyone’s career, they will need to change jobs, careers, or both. Even the CEO of a company will eventually need to find another position, maybe a board position, or become a CEO at a different company. Nothing lasts forever, and you need to prepare for the change.There is, and will continue to be, enormous competition for jobs at all levels. You are not alone.
You Must Stand Out!
There are millions searching for a job, and millions of jobs available. Yet, there are still hundreds of thousands of open opportunities that go unfilled. Well-qualified individuals struggle to get an offer. Many won’t even get a response to their application. Fewer still will be offered a screening interview.
Why? Because they lack focus, are not prepared, or are not going about their job search campaign in the best way. They don’t stand out from the crowd. To be successful, you must stand out! You must compete and win. The Getting Hired Program has helped Paul's clients stand above their competition.
The most common ways to find a job are networking and applying to a job posting. The Getting Hired Program is a step-by-step guide to successfully managing careers using both approaches.
The Program helps you be more confident by illustrating how to do thorough research and job search preparation. Adequate preparation demonstrates to any employer that the candidate cared enough to do their homework. Well-prepared candidates will compete, win, and get hired.
How to Succeed as a Consultant
Consulting is an excellent career for any stage of working life. Consulting is a broad category of professional services careers that includes numerous business and technical specialties, including providing financial advice, expert engineering advice, medical expertise offered to clients on a project basis. Because of this breath, consulting can be a great stepping-off point for someone unsure of what they would like to do or be and a way to transition to a new field, geography, or level within an organization.
CONSULTING takes you through all of the stages of the job and in 30 chapters outlines tips and tricks to progress up the ranks.
