Meet Gail, the super-savvy job hunter from Detroit, who found work fast using a Guerrilla Resume.

How fast?

How does 7 weeks sound? Especially when the average job search takes 26.9 weeks, according to the U.S. Labor Department. In Detroit, where unemployment runs nearly 30%. Following 11+ weeks of struggle — and zero job interviews — with an ordinary resume.

What can you learn from Gail’s story?

1) In today’s job market, with unemployment topping 10% across America, ordinary resumes no longer cut it. If you want to stand out and get an employer’s attention, you need to try something different.

2) Gail’s Guerrilla Resume featured graphics and testimonials, two highly unconventional but proven ways to make your resume stand out.

And when I say unconventional, I mean NOBODY else is teaching this stuff apart from David Perry and me.

So be sure to watch the video above to see what’s possible in a Guerrilla Job Search.

Then consider creating a Guerrilla Resume for yourself.

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Jeff Donaldson, from Oxford, Michigan, got two job offers the week of Nov. 2 and accepted one, as a project manager for a design firm.

After voluntarily leaving Chrysler Corporation in December 2008, Donaldson took time off to be with his family and get clear on his goals.

He then started an ordinary job search in August 2009 … and got ordinary results: 0 job interviews.

After discovering Guerrilla Job Search tactics in September 2009, however, he got 7 phone interviews with employers, two job offers, and accepted a new job only 7 weeks later.

The job offer he took came after re-connecting with someone in his network. Donaldson made a terrific impression on that person by adding value with his contact: “I took an article I had read, printed it out, and attached a yellow sticky note to it.” He wrote a personal message on the note and mailed it off.

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Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting her Guerrilla Job Search, in mid-September.

To that point, 20 weeks of job hunting had produced zero job interviews.

Just 7 weeks later, she accepted a job on Thursday, November 12, as a marketing executive assistant.

She found work 13 weeks faster using Guerrilla job hunting tactics — 65% faster, to be exact.

How did she do it?

“I started with the Coffee Cup Caper. I sent a paper Starbucks coffee cup with my cover letter and Guerrilla Resume. I heard back from them a couple days later to get my first interview,” says Berman.

Berman’s second interview was with the executive vice president. Afterwards, she followed up diligently. “When I came home, I wrote a 30-60-90 day plan. I had taken copious notes during the interview and used that information given to create suggestions for what I would do in the first 30, 60, and 90 days. I sent that to them via FedEx with another thank-you note. And I got a job offer.”Now. Let’s break this successful Guerrilla Job Search down …

1. Start smart
The Coffee Cup Caper — a paper Starbucks cup, full-color Guerrilla Resume, and a Guerrilla Cover Letter (asking to meet for coffee), shipped in a box — gets extraordinary results. By contrast, ordinary resumes and cover letters, sent by email, get ordinary results.

2. Give employers another reason to hire you
Mary did this in spades after her second interview, when she sent a written plan of action for her first 3 months on the job.

A 30-60-90 day plan is a way of proving you can do the work — before you’re even on the payroll — by describing how you would learn the job, build rapport with employees/customers, and contribute to the bottom line.

Mary’s plan was 8 pages long and took the better part of a Friday night to prepare. (Before you balk at spending an entire evening at home researching and writing a 30-60-90 day plan, ask yourself if you wouldn’t trade a night out for getting a steady paycheck again.)

3. Score style points with your delivery
Mary’s 30-60-90 day plan was delivered by FedEx, not by email.

Lesson? Email should NOT be the sole delivery method for your career documents.

Bottom line: This smart Guerrilla had failed to get even one job interview in 20 weeks of conventional job hunting with conventional tactics.

After adopting unconventional Guerrilla tactics, she found work in only 7 weeks, shaving 13 weeks off a conventional job search. (What would 13 weeks salary put back in your pocket be worth to you?)

If Guerrilla job search methods can work in Michigan, where the unemployment rate tops 15%, they can work where you live. The only thing stopping you from thinking and acting like a Guerrilla is you.

Resource: The same Guerrilla Resumes and Cover Letters Mary used are here.

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Gail Neal, from Detroit, Michigan, started looking for work on June 7, 2009.

From that day until Sept. 17, when she learned about Guerrilla Job Search methods, she had zero job interviews.

After starting a Guerrilla Job Search on Monday, Sept. 21, interviews came quickly.

She accepted a new job 51 days later, on Wed., Nov. 11, in a city where unemployment tops 25-30%.

How did she do it?

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The average job search in America takes 26.9 weeks, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics for October 2009.

Yet 3 people were recently hired for new jobs in only 7 weeks — less than 1/3 the time — in Michigan, the state with America’s worst unemployment rate, 15.3%.

How did they do it?

The full story will be released in the coming days, but here’s a preview …

1) Gail Neal, from Detroit, Michigan, accepted a job offer as a sales professional for a radio station on Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

She had been unemployed since June 7, 2009.

• Time spent in an ordinary job search: 15 weeks.
• Time to hire in a Guerrilla Job Search: 7 weeks.

2) Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, accepted a job as an executive assistant for a marketing firm on Thursday, November 12, 2009.

She had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting her Guerrilla Job Search in late September.

• Time spent in an  ordinary job search: 25 weeks.
• Time to hire in a Guerrilla Job Search: 7 weeks.

3) Jeff Donaldson, from Oxford, Michigan, accepted a job as a project manager for a design firm, after getting two job offers the week of Monday, November 2, 2009.

He left his job at Chrysler in December 2008.

• Time spent in an ordinary job search: 4 weeks (after taking a sabbatical). Job interviews: 0.
• Time to hire in a Guerrilla Job Search: 7 weeks. Job interviews: 3. Job offers: 2.

Click on their names above to read each person’s story.

For now, it’s enough for you to know that each of these 3 job seekers had two things in common:

1. Using ordinary resumes produced ordinary results — from 15-25 weeks of fruitless job hunting. (Sound familiar?)
2. Using Guerrilla Resumes, each was hired in only 7 weeks.

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