5 Ways to Stimulate Employment — At a Savings of $786,999,999,984.58
By Kevin Donlin | February 18th, 2009
The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan” is now law, aimed at creating or saving more than three million jobs at a cost of $787 billion.
My business partner, David Perry, and I would like to offer 5 ways for Americans to find work …
For a Total Cost of About $15.42.
What are they?
“To get noticed by employers in today’s dismal economy, in which the average job search takes nearly 6 months, job seekers need to use unconventional, low-cost tactics that are proven to work,” says Perry.
“More important than positive thinking is positive action. In our 35 years of combined experience, we’ve found that job hunters can get more interviews with employers if they do just a few things differently,” says I, Kevin Donlin.
The 5 Guerrilla Job Search methods are as follows:
1. Start sending sales letters to employers. Job seekers should take a cue from sales letters and include a P.S. at the end of every cover letter. Why? The P.S. always gets read, so it’s a perfect place to include a provocative statement for employers to see, even if they skim the letter. Cost: Free.
2. Use testimonials in your resume. The easiest and most-effective way to sell yourself to employers is to let others sell you via testimonials — just as infomercials do. Get testimonials from your LinkedIn profile, letters of recommendation, emails from happy customers, or annual performance reviews. Cost: Free.
3. Start working before you’re hired. The easiest way to ace an interview is to demonstrate your skills. Examples: the Detroit woman who brought a marketing plan to a marketing job interview … the Minneapolis man who brought prior issues of a magazine (with typos!) to a proofreading job interview … the Los Angeles woman who brought sales leads to a sales job interview — all were hired. Cost: Free.
4. Use thank-you notes — differently. What comes in small, square envelopes? Invitations and thank-you notes. Both are good things. If you mail your Guerrilla Resume inside a thank-you note, the employer will be smiling expectantly as s/he opens the envelope. Your note can begin, “Thank you for reading my resume!” And you gain an instant advantage over other job seekers. Cost: $0.42 for a stamp.
5. The final Guerrilla Job Search tactic costs about $15. It produces phone interviews with employers in approximately 66% of cases, is 100% legal, 95% non-fattening, and eliminates all competition from ordinary job seekers. We teach it in our Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course.
Media Only: To schedule an interview with Perry and Donlin, call David Perry at 613-236-6995 x114. They are immediately available for print, radio, and television interviews, in-studio and via satellite.
TV and radio producers can see and hear Perry and Donlin in action here.
About the authors: Perry and Donlin are job search experts in such areas as finding a job in a recession, recession-proof job searches, using social networking sites to find jobs (Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook), finding executive jobs, cover letters, job interview techniques, and resume writing.
Resource: Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course.
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May 13th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hi, your system looks interesting but I still have reservations. How do I obtain the Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course For a Total Cost of About $15.42. as your blog offers?
I hit the link & asks for $200. Also, you are from Ottawa, i am down south here in No Work Windsor area, is the material Canada$$ ?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Richard,
Good question — the tactic costs $15 and it’s revealed in our course, which is 2 payments of USD $99. Sorry for any confusion.
I can’t predict if you are going to succeed using our Course. That’s why we offer a money-back guarantee.
If you want to try something different in your job search, we invite you to give The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course a try.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’ve been reading your materials and bought your Guerrilla Marketing book and I wonder one thing: you talk a lot about getting people high-level executive jobs and expert tech careers and management and so forth. What if someone just wants a simple job. To go to work every day doing, for example, medical transcription, do a good job, effectively and efficiently, not have to get involved in office politics, not have to tell other people what to do, and go home at the end of the day to the rest of one’s life. Is your program for such an ambition?
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Quite frankly, I think Jan has a point. Let me take her perspective a step further.
What if a person is NOT raised as a high end power player? What if none of that person’s schooling ever taught him how to itemize his worth at the work place?
What if the managers over this person never tell him about his overall worth because his function is so compartmentalized? Most corporations are highly compartmentalized. Unless you’re a high level CEO who oversees many depts., it’s difficult to itemize one’s self worth as an integral part of a company.
On the other hand, the high end power players (like you) were raised and school in guerilla job hunting. There are political barriers within companies that are difficult to cross - unless you teach underlings how to build rapport with those power players.
Getting that job of our dreams is half the battle. The other half is keeping that job by building rapport with the power players and itemizing your self worth to constantly update your resume to further your position. At the price you’re selling your course, you better sell the whole ball of wax.