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Summary: I LOVE IT!!
Review: Since I faithfully read these reviews before I purchase a book, I thought I should contribute. This book really helped me a lot. I am changing careers and have not been jobhunting in a while. I loved it!
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Summary: Landed a Job in 8 Days Using this Book
Review: Since I was moving into an entirely different field, I was concerned that my lack of direct experience would cause my resume to get overlooked. After reading this book I realized it didn't matter--I wasn't going to send them a typical resume. Instead I made up my mind to follow the steps of the book and land a job in this field.I sent out 3 resu-letters and immediately got a phone call for an interview with one company. Several days later I had the interview, which I prepared for using Fox's interview "sales" techniques. The interviewer seemed very impressed with both my anwers and my prepared questions. At the end of the interview I was offered the job. Of course not everyone is going to have such immediate results, and I feel fortunate to have had such good results so quickly, but the ideas expressed in this book are direct, powerful, and clear. By the time I had finished reading the book I felt confident that I was going to land a job in my new field soon--I just didn't realize how soon.
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Summary: Indispensable---Helped me land a great job!
Review: This book helped me land a great job in the customer service and sales industry. I wrote an impact letter almost word-for-word like the example in this book, emailed it to the human resources director at my new job, and I was literally hired the next day! In addition to describing how to write impact and boomerang letters, this book will give you a plethora of valuable tactics and insider information for getting hired (one tactic the author mentions is sending an impact letter or "resu-letter" directly to the company's C.E.O.). This book was written by a Harvard-educated M.B.A., and I felt like I had an M.B.A. my own after reading it. You'll learn such jargon as "top line" and how to sell yourself to employers (who are essentially buying your services). In short, this author has a good feel for job hunting lingo and his sales pitch works. Take one job hunter's word for it... this book is worth its weight in gold!
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Summary: Great approach and techniques for job hunting.
Review: To Jeffrey Fox, nothing is more important in business than marketing and making the sale (ref his other books such as "How to become a Rainmaker").His guide to job hunting basically adopts a sales model to the task of landing a job. At the risk of sounding a little depersonalised, you are the "product" and in your job seeking the task is to sell the "product" to the customer (ie the prospective employer). If you think about it, it makes perfect sense and explains why many conventional job hunting approaches have such a poor success rate. The book contains a wealth of strategies and tactics but to me the real value is the approach and the mindset he sets out. I am currently employed but I work in an industry where takeovers and mergers are an occupational hazard, so I bought the book to "be prepared". Although not actively looking for a job, I was aware of an attractive opportunity and decided to try out some of the ideas in the book. An "impact" letter got an almost immediate response and led to an interview. At this stage, the company is looking for someone with a different skill set to me but they are likely to expand and there could well be an opportunity in a few months time. Maybe not a decisive demonstration of the book's efficacy but certainly enough to convince me that Jeffrey Fox's approach has merit and is worth exploring further.
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