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Summary: No more passive interviewing!
Review: As a job hunter, this book will give you confidence by putting you in control of the job hunting and interview process. In the past I've shown up for interviews prepared, or so I thought. Looking back on past interviews, I realize I wasn't truly prepared to communicate to the hiring manager that I could, in fact, do the job. Luckily, because I'm in a hot field, that never cost me a job I wanted. Still, Nick's preparation methods will also enable you to understand the job thoroughly, so that when the time comes, you have all the information you need to evaluate it and decide if you truly want it. It's easy to see how this method can not only help you win the job, but possibly a better offer as well.
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Summary: Job Hunting or Hiring: A Must Read!
Review: As a Recruitment Professional, I can honestly say that this is the best guide for finding and getting the right job that I have ever read. Nick Corcodilos obviously knows his business and shares with the reader what hiring authorities really want from job candidates and what they are willing to give in return to the well-prepared and knowledgeable candidate. From personal experience, I received an offer of $15,000 more than I was expecting just by using the book's techniques. As a Recruitment Specialist for many years, I thought I knew it all, but even I learned some effective new techniques for getting the right job from this book. If you are job seeking, buying this book will be the best investment in your career that you could make!
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Summary: Good advice/ Very repetitive
Review: Don't "do the interview," "do the job in the interview."
Excellent advice as is advice about trying to skirt HR and getting to the hiring manager (something anyone who has been in the corporate world should already be clued into.)
Still - this is one of the most repetitive books I have ever read. The two pieces of advice noted herein are repeated in every imaginable way throughout the book - again and again and again.
Worth a gander and contains useful advice but don't feel you need to read the entire book to get the gist.
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Summary: Good for Interviewing not finding a Job
Review: I have to admit I came at this book with a lot skeptism as I do most job books. The only good point I can state about this book: is viewing a job interview as a problem solving session with a manager. That means you must demonstrate to employers how your skills can applied to the job. This book is good to use as a guide for your next interview. However it does not give you a concrete method to getting to the hiring manager. Calling a company and trying to find a hiring manager does'nt work anymore. Manager will most likely ignore your calls, get there gatekeeper to screen you or worse send your resume to HR. In addition, there are a couple of things that I really did'nt care for about this book, such as the excessive repitition of the same idea over and over. I think this book could have been reduced to twenty pages and crystalize the main points effectively. Another thing is the author loves to pat himself on the back as well as the headhunting profession far too much. He makes headhunters look like high and mighty professionals that make perfect matches for employers. Many headhunters I have dealt with are as incompetent and useless as the "personnel jockeys" (ie HR people, Job Counselors)that the author repeatedly bashes in the book.
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Summary: A must for any job hunter!
Review: I'm from Latin America, and had to adapt this book to my local market. However it is a great book. It brings you much insight about the hiring process and it is a motivational book also.
If you are proactive and want to land a new job, this book is the one for you.
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Summary: Tell me something I don't already know
Review: Nice book, nice topic, fairly well written. Unfortunately,
the author takes a lot of paper to say very little. The basic
premise is that is during the interview you should demonstrate:
1- That you can do the work
2- That you want to do the work
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Summary: not for everyone -- and that's what makes it so good
Review: Nick Corcodilos runs a website called "Ask the Headhunter." I have never encountered so much valuable advice dispensed without a fee. In this book, Nick explains why the traditional job hunt almost never works. Then he outlines an absolutely brilliant method of breaking away from the Human Resources machine and separating yourself from the herd of "cows" looking for jobs. Best of all, almost nobody is going to do it! It is far too different and requires too much work for most people. Which means the few of us who follow his advice have that much more of an advantage. Old way: Scan the help wanted ads, the internet job sites, register with a recruiting agency. Send out dozens, maybe hundreds, of resumes. All of which gets you into the Personnel Department, where people who do not understand the work you do scan through a checklist and try to find reasons to disqualify you. Even when you find a job that fits you perfectly, now you are one of perhaps a hundred would-be applicants. Nick's way: Do some in-depth research to discover the companies you'd like to work for. (His advice: "Don't look for a job, look for a company.") Then ask yourself how you might become an "insider." Do you know anybody who works there? Can you find out who their customers are? Their vendors? He offers various ways of getting an inside track to speak directly to the person you would be working for -- not someone in Human Resources. Then when you meet, do the job right then and there! Show them how you work, how you think. I read this book last week, and followed its suggestions: I did a good deal of research on target companies over the weekend, arranged a personal referral to the hiring manager (not the personnel department) of one of them, and have an appointment scheduled for next Thursday. Having done my homework, I already know what probelms the company is facing. When I get there, I'm going to steer the conversation toward that issue, and start working on that problem right then and there. To this point, I am further along toward a job I really want with a company I REALLY want than I ever would have been the old way. All because of this book.
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Summary: I didn't get 2 jobs from nothing
Review: Nick Corcodilos runs a website called "Ask the Headhunter." I have never encountered so much valuable advice dispensed without a fee. In this book, Nick explains why the traditional job hunt almost never works. Then he outlines an absolutely brilliant method of breaking away from the Human Resources machine and separating yourself from the herd of "cows" looking for jobs. Best of all, almost nobody is going to do it! It is far too different and requires too much work for most people. Which means the few of us who follow his advice have that much more of an advantage. Old way: Scan the help wanted ads, the internet job sites, register with a recruiting agency. Send out dozens, maybe hundreds, of resumes. All of which gets you into the Personnel Department, where people who do not understand the work you do scan through a checklist and try to find reasons to disqualify you. Even when you find a job that fits you perfectly, now you are one of perhaps a hundred would-be applicants. Nick's way: Do some in-depth research to discover the companies you'd like to work for. (His advice: "Don't look for a job, look for a company.") Then ask yourself how you might become an "insider." Do you know anybody who works there? Can you find out who their customers are? Their vendors? He offers various ways of getting an inside track to speak directly to the person you would be working for -- not someone in Human Resources. Then when you meet, do the job right then and there! Show them how you work, how you think. I read this book last week, and followed its suggestions: I did a good deal of research on target companies over the weekend, arranged a personal referral to the hiring manager (not the personnel department) of one of them, and have an appointment scheduled for next Thursday. Having done my homework, I already know what probelms the company is facing. When I get there, I'm going to steer the conversation toward that issue, and start working on that problem right then and there. To this point, I am further along toward a job I really want with a company I REALLY want than I ever would have been the old way. All because of this book.
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Summary: Do you want a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE in your next interview?
Review: Nick Corcodilos, the author of 'Ask the Headhunter', has taken job hunting to the next level! Maybe I'm totally naive when it comes to job hunting (well, at least not anymore), but this book changed my entire mindset on the conventional methods of seeking employment. To cut directly to the chase.... THE NEGATIVES: * Some of his writings get really redundant. He's trying to drive home a point, but too excessive. * His method could leave you spending weeks if not months preparing and researching information just for one company; Especially, if you are changing careers or a recent college graduate seeking employment in an industry you're totally unfamiliar with. THE POSITIVES: * Easy to read. I like that! * Will this book help you get the job you are seeking? - Without reservation nor hesitation, if you follow the method Nick has outlined, your probability of success is greatly enhanced. The real question is 'how could you not?' (beware of personnel jockeys) * The 'added-value' to this book where the others leave off is simply the difference between SHOW & TELL in your 3rd grade elementary class (showing was always more interesting, huh?) Where the other books will TELL you how to get the job, Nick will SHOW you how to DEMONSTRATE your abilities to DO THE JOB in the interview. Mark Fredricks
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Summary: Extraordinary!
Review: The book Ask the Headhunter by Nick Corcodilos can best be described as an honest book; it has done some plain speaking. It should be admired for novelty of style and for propagating proactive and revolutionary ideas in job hunting. It reflects originality of approach to job search; and is conceptualized on hard realities and not imagination and fantasy. It reinvents the concept of interview and explores how it can be used in securing the right jobs and hiring the right candidate. It exhorts job hunters to refrain from gimmicks or perfecting any meaningless interviewing skills. The reader gets provoked into re-examining the interview clichés and stick to responding to the exigencies of the job. The central message of the book should also be viewed as indirectly communicating the changing hiring practices that are being resorted to in the new corporate world. In nutshell, the book helps the jobseeker in many respects including: discovering the job that best suits her disposition, assessing the requirements of the employer, the "how" of taking control of the interview so as to compel the employer to hire her, bargaining the best possible deal, and appreciating issues related with these points of key focus. In its efforts to focus on some plain speaking, the book contains a good bit of hard-hitting advice. It has succeeded remarkably well in exploding several myths about job hunting and in expounding a new approach to winning job offers. It has tremendous potential of becoming perhaps one of the finest job search books emphasizing ways to get jobs on merits. Of course, it may not be of much help in situations where suitability of job seekers is decided by incompetent or unmotivated and unprepared interviewers, and also where jobs are fixed and pre-decided on extraneous considerations no matter how talented, competent or fit the job-seeker is. Such practices can be seen even in some private sector organizations where the hirers fear talent and innovate ways of finding pretexts for rejecting them so as to hide their own weaknesses and incompetence. Candidates seeking jobs with such employers may therefore need standard how-to books on perfecting the traditional interview skills, along with mastering effective ways of lobbying to get jobs. But as organizations move towards greater degree of transparency and sense of professionalism in a real sense in their working including hiring practices, they will be guided more and more by considerations of merit and purposiveness. Job seekers and employers whose considerations are delivering their best and employing the most suitable will benefit immensely by following the prescriptions and messages contained in this book. It is also interesting to note that the author's website (asktheheadhunter.com) permits access through free membership, and provides a "free sample" of the Ask The Headhunter concepts
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