How to Find a Job in Another City
By Kevin Donlin | October 25th, 2008
Here’s a really cool, very detailed story of one man’s journey 2,500 miles away, where he got hired for a new job. It’s chock full o’ ideas you can use if you want to try your luck in a new city.
Read the whole story, but here’s the intro:
- 30 days ago, I was driving from South Carolina to Los Angeles without a full time job.
- 20 days ago, I was on my first interview at a social networking company in Westwood.
- 10 days ago, I was on my third callback interview with a tech company in El Segundo.
- 5 days ago, I had three different job offers in my lap.
Today, I finished my first week at a job I absolutely adore. My co-workers are fantastic, my boss is extremely savvy, the company culture is awesome and the work is refreshingly challenging. It’s the type of job that I’ve always wanted, but never been able to find on the East Coast. So how does one manage to pull this off in an economy supposedly headed for a recession?
Talk about a leap of faith: He moved with no job waiting for him. But he first read and applied the ideas in Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters. So I guess not so much faith was needed after all?
Bonus: Two nights ago, I did a one-hour phone call with David Perry, author of the aforementioned GM4JH.
We talked about a whole slew of new ideas you can use in your job search — even in these increasingly tough times.
Here’s a sample:
- How 2 men got 8 job offers in a city with 65% unemployment — and how you can do what they did
- How one man relocated from Florida to Tennessee and got a new job, with a corner office, making $10,000 more than he originally planned (and he’s not a CEO or even a VP)
- How a recent college grad got hired in a new city for a job making nearly 50% more than she originally planned (and what she sent to employers instead of cover letters that forced them to sit up and take notice)
- What recovering drug addicts can teach you about resume writing that will change your life
- Extreme Networking Secrets you can use to “recruit yourself” into your next job (revealed by a David Perry, who’s a working recruiter)
- And a bunch more.
Best Part: The call was free and the MP3 recording of the call is free, too. You can get it right here.
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