Here’s a second job-search tip based on the marketing ideas in a new book by Jay Abraham, The Sticking Point Solution.

To recap, Abraham’s new book (or any good marketing publication) can help you a great deal if you extract just one new idea to use in your search for work.

Because, ultimately, every job search is really a marketing campaign.

Here’s today’s idea:

Prescribe Solutions to Employers, Like a Doctor

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You can find great job-hunting ideas by reading publications that have nothing ostensible to do with job hunting.

Example: a new book by seminal marketer, Jay Abraham, called The Sticking Point Solution.

What, you may ask, does a book for entrepreneurs and marketing/sales professionals have to do with your job search?

Nothing. And a whole lot.

You’ll find nothing in it if you’re satisfied with ordinary job-search tactics. There are no mentions of networking, dressing for success, or answers to the top 10 interview questions, for example.

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Kathryn Valentine delivers talks to secondary students on such life skills as budgeting, resume writing, and job interviewing, as a High School Presenter for Heald College in Concord, Calif.

How did she get this job? It walked into the room. Literally.

“I was working at a nearby high school and looking for something different. Because I worked in a career center, I was the one who scheduled presenters to come to our campus. The Heald College rep came in and said to me, ‘This is my last day.’”

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The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, right?

And the shortest distance between you and your next job may lie in your making straight for the hiring manager.

In other words, if you decide to cut the crap, stop jumping through hoops and just go meet your next boss, you may get … hired.

That’s what happened to one “Guerrilla Job Hunter” who shares his story below.

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Here’s a 7-minute podcast I did with Jennifer Perkins, who was hired for a job that was created just for her.

She found a job posted by a small business on Craigslist and, even though she was overqualified, applied anyway, because the employer looked interesting.

You can learn two important things from her job-hunting success story:

1) You should focus most of your job-search efforts on small businesses, because they create up to 80% of new jobs in the U.S. economy. And they almost always make hiring decisions faster than Fortune 500 companies.

2) When you interview at a small business, you’re probably talking to the owner. So be ready to get hired on the spot for an existing job or, as in Jennifer’s case, discuss creating a new job just for you.

What’s more impressive is that Jennifer got hired for her job in February 2009, during the current recession (the worst job market in 20+ years), in Michigan (the worst job market in America).

Listen below or download the audio to get the whole story.

Click here to download the MP3.

Like that audio? You’ll LOVE this free Guerrilla Job Search audio.

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