Guide for the Pissed-Off Job-Seeker : Angry? Good! Use That Anger to Get Work!

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Summary: Guide for the Pissed Off Job Seeker
Review: I thought I had read everything but boy, was I wrong. Forget What Color is Your Parachute and all the other job-hunting books out there. This is it, everybody. THIS IS THE ONE. A month after I read "Guide for the Pissed-Off Job Seeker," I was no longer pissed off! And that's 'cause I was no longer a Job Seeker! I had a job! A good job! And all because when I went on that interview after I read the book, I knew how to turn the interview on its head by asking The Question. "By what criteria will you select a person for this job?" Once I had the answers written down on my yellow legal pad, I knew what to say when my interviewer said, "now tell me about yourself." When I started talking, the words flowed like good wine. I knew how to match my skills to the crieria desired.

You will be amazed at how these guys, Zuckerman and Abel, take you through the job-search step-by-step, holding your hand at each stage of the process. Like getting in the door to get the information you need about a particular job, or industry, or field. And doing it without a resume!

They give you the structure and format and sample dialogue to appear bright, interested, focused, and dedicated, wherever and whenever you find yourself being interviewed. I must confess that while I was reading this and saying some of these things out loud, I kept thinking, "this is not me. This is definitely not me."

But once I found myself in front of the interviewer and mouthed the Guide's words as if I were an actor on stage, my interviewer became as rapt an audience as any job-seeker would wish.

I learned from this book how to tailor each and every resume according to the criteria desired so that I would have an 'inside-track resume' that would vault its way to the top of the pile. I learned how to write a different 'job objective' for each resume I submitted.

And last but not least, I learned how to write a thank-you letter that went beyond the usual cliches to really remind my interviewer of all the valuable skills he agreed I had when I made my presentation and sold myself for the job.

In a word, it's all about selling, say Zuckerman and Abel. So if you're still out there pissed-off and peddling the sidewalks looking for work, then may this book be the answer to your prayer, as it was to mine.

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Summary: But it's for the experienced, over-fifty crowd
Review: Instead of the usual here's-what-you-do-because-I-say-so book, here's an account of what happened to David Abel -- a pissed-off job-seeker with three strikes against him: Too old (early fifties) too qualified and too well paid.

At first, he does what everybody does -- sends out a lot of resumes. When nothing happens, he get's even angrier than when he was fired. The turning point comes when he decides he has nothing to lose, and turns that anger into some rather unorthodox ways of getting work.

Don't let the listing at Amazon fool you. It should read, By David Abel as told to Irv Zuckerman, instead of the jumble of names it now presents. But theire's no mistaking the title of the book itself.