Guerrilla Job Hunting

Read Your Goals Every Day

Zale Tabakman — 2009-07-16T10:01:00-04:00

Today I have selected my number one idea for everyone including job hunters. I have listed it as number 5 in my article The Top 10 Priorities For Job Hunters. This article has been one of my best - I have had several requests from the media for interviews on it.

Read Your Goals Every Single Day.

Having clear goals in life gives you a significant advantage.

In fact most people think having dreams are goals. Dreams are not goals, goals are measurable, tangible, and have a date.

Saying “One day I will take the family to Disneyland” is not a clear goal. Saying “In August 2011, I am taking the family to Disneyland” is a clear goal.

In my Success Through Balance philosophy I promote having goals in in five different areas,

Health,
Relationships,
Financial Stability,
Giving Back and
Personal Growth.

Your written goals must be Personal, Positive, and in the Present.

There are different approaches to creating your goals. If you already have an approach - then use them.

Did you know all successful people have goals written down and they review them on a regular basis?

Here is an effective, but simple way to create goals:

For 30 days, each day, write down (without looking at the day before) at least 10 different goals.
At the end of the 30 days, your list of goals will be set.
Rewrite them once a month. In fact one of your goals should be, "I rewrite these goals at the beginning of every month".

I have actually about 50 goals I read each day. For goals that are far out - say 3 years away - I have some shorter goals.

Here is an example about my marathon running:

I am running the 2009 Toronto Marathon In Under 5 Hours.
I am running the 2011 Boston Marathon.

Here is a business example:

I am helping 10,000 people find jobs in 2009-2010
I am a regular on Oprah helping people find jobs starting in 2010

In both these cases - the first is a step to the second. But you will notice that the goals are Positive, Personal, and in the Present. The three "P"s of goals.

Read your goals out loud.

Reading them out loud does two things in your subconscious that will help your conscious mind.

Firstly it creates cognitive dissonance between the reality and the goal, and,
secondly it tells the reticular activating system to stop ignoring things that you need to help you.

Once you get hooked on goals, you will see successful people using them all the time.

You will wonder how you got anywhere at all.

Its one of the "Secrets of Success".

Create goals and read them everyday.

I am a little side tracked, but I loved the movie UP because I believe its all about setting goals, read what I wrote about UP in my Movie Review: Up – Forget The Story – Its About Setting Goals.

Take a job hunting action today - action is 1000 times better than thinking about an action.

Planning an action is great - if you take the action.

Zale

Have multiple approaches to finding your job.

Zale Tabakman — 2009-07-15T11:19:00-04:00

Today I have selected a thought from my The Top 10 Skills Needed By Job Hunters article.

(FYI - This is not David Perry, but Zale Tabakman providing guest posts for the week - see Monday's post for background on who I am.)

This article on job hunting is obvious especially if you read David's blog or his book or have purchased the Guerrilla Job Search System. I have tried to simplify several concepts down and generate some immediate actions items.

Continuous forward Action is the single thing that is guaranteed to get you a job.

Have multiple approaches to finding your job.

Finding a job is not about a single activity and never ever is it “Click and Apply”.

When you start your job hunting efforts, you don’t know where you will get the job, you don’t know how they will hear about you, and you don’t know what skill is the one the employer needs.

Therefore you need to have many different approaches to job hunting, and many different tactics for each approach.

Its a simple thought, but practically its a big job and should consume you until you get the job you want.

Here are four different approaches to job hunting - you need to have a plan for each one of them.

Finding job openings - The standard include job fairs, another is online networking, face-to-face networking, job clubs, head hunters. The non-standard approaches are e-mail and direct marketing, and reading newspapers to name a few.
Being found. The standards are LinkedIn and Zoominfo. The best non-standard approaches include becoming known as an expert, creating a newsletter, creating a website, answering questions on LinkedIn and Google answers.
Direct contact of hiring authorities. In this approach you are looking to contact people before they actually are hiring. When they are wandering around the office asking - do you know somebody for this job? You want to be their at that time - so you are not competing with others.
Marketing Yourself - This is related to the previous one, but the focus is slightly different. Instead of waiting to be found - you actually go out and contact people for the express purpose of letting them know you exist. With this approach you are putting yourself out. This method takes some guts - you will get rejected and you will get insulted. On the other hand, the rewards are greater. You will be quoted in newspapers and on peoples blogs.

These four methods can all use the same basic content you have created for solving the 12 different problems. (see Monday's post).

For how to implement these four approaches take a look at 77 Guerrilla Job Hunting Tips I have created. They are based on ideas from David and Kevin with a Zale spin on them.

To your success!

Zale

Today's Thought - Job Hunters Focus On Opportunities

Zale Tabakman — 2009-07-14T10:32:00-04:00

In yesterday's post I introduced myself and I explained I was going to take one thought from my top 10s lists.

Today's article comes from my The Top 10 Ways A Job Hunter Must Think article and the topic I will write about is that The job hunter focuses on the opportunities.

In every economic cycle there are winners and their are losers.

Companies grow and companies fail. Even 100 year old companies fail. On the world stage we have seen GM and Chrysler bite the dust.

In Canada its Nortel.

A couple of years ago it was Eaton's and Simpsons.

Its sad and for the people who work at these companies its horrible.

But all these companies have been replaced.

People continue to buy products and services, they just change suppliers.

Its just like a forest. Old trees fall and new trees come up.

For years people thought forest fires were evil (its called the Bambi syndrome), but the latest forest management techniques allow forest fires to rage, the forest fire is healthy for the forest and for the environment.

Unemployment has the same potential, unemployment is traumatic, its painful, and its massively difficult in the short term, but unemployment has the potential to be exceedingly healthy in the long term.

Think about your role in the current economic forest fire, are you going to see it as opportunity to grow or a situation where you are going down in flames?

Ok, so how does this help you in your job hunt?

With the right mindset you can and will see opportunities everywhere.

Let me show you a few:

Identify companies that are losing market share. These companies are looking for ways to stop their loss of market share. If you have one or two proven ideas that grow market share - don't you think they are willing to listen? Use some of the ideas from yesterday to apply to get the doors open.
Identify companies taking market share. This of course is the opposite of the previous opportunity - these companies are growing, therefore they are expanding, therefore they need you to help them keep their gains. Again, use some of the ideas from yesterday to get on track.
Identify the low cost players - This is the easiet solution. These are probably going to be the next leaders in the industry. When times get tough - people want to save money. The low cost providers are the ones that grow. Usually they are smaller companies with less overheads, or they are companies that have figured out how to save money. In any event - the low costs guys are the ones that are going to grow.
Identify Changing Technologies - This is two opportunities for an expert in a field. Take a long hard look at what new technologies are taking a shot at the established old guys. These new companies already understand how the technology is going to wipe out the old guys - but they probably are so excited about their ideas that they don't understand why people keep buying from the old guys. The second is the old guys - you can help them fight the new technology. Not but down playing it - but by absorbing it, creating it, or buying it. In any event - you can be the savior of the old guy. This is all about using your knowledge about the early and late majority. If "early majority" and "late majority" was babbly-gook check out the technlogy adoption curve. I highly recommend Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm for more on it.
Consider Alternatives To Job Hunting. Maybe its time for you to consider starting your own business. Maybe you can take advantage of some of these opportunities.

I hope this was helpful and gives you some things to think about.

You can read more of my ideas at http://www.ZaleTabakman.ca

Zale

Introducing Me - Your Guest Blogger For The Week of July 13

Zale Tabakman — 2009-07-13T09:22:00-04:00

I am so pleased to be asked to guest Blog on David's site.

This is an honour and a pleasure.

Since, you probably don't know me - I thought I would be best to introduce myself and explain why you should keep reading, and then I will give you a couple of great ideas about how to help you can get a job.

The short and sweet is I am Speaker, Writer, and Entreprenour. I provide practical help for people wanting to acheive their goals.

My passions (that are relevant to job hunters) include the following:

Teach a 12 week course of YMCA for young entrepreneurs called The Magic Profit Formula where I go through all the core thinking skills entrepreneurs need.
I write a blog at http://www.ZaleTabakman.ca with 100's of job hunting tactics and beyond.
I own a Curves franchise.
I am a back of the back Marathoner runner.
I am big on LinkedIn, connecting to me adds 2,700,000 to your network, I run 12 different Groups - you can find me at http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/ZaleTabakman

I write my articles in themes - all the articles are related to one another through constant.
I have been writing for a couple of years, so I have lots of themes.

My most popular article themes for job hunters is My Top 10's - each article lists the top 10 things a job Hunter needs to do. For this week, I am going to choose, the Top 1 Thing from each of the top 10 items to discuss.

The article is about today selects number 2 is from the My Top Ten Job Hunting Tactics.

Its tactic #2 and is Know 12 problems that you can solve in your 20 companies that increases sales or saves the company money.

This tactic integrates several concepts and will provide you with material and content you can use over and over again in multiple ways.

First we will break down the tactics into its components, secondly we will give you some ideas about how to use the results of the tactic.

12 Problems - Remember no matter what you do - you are being hired to solve a problem, unless you are a model, you are not hired for your good looks. A job is about solving problems such as low sales, bad customer service. the list is endless.

If you are a CEO of a public company the twelve topics could include (1) Raising the stock price, (2) Introducing new products, (3) Improving manufacturing processes, (4) Hiring the best and the brightest, (4) Acquiring new companies
If you are a sales person, some of the twelve include (1) Identifying prospects (2) Contacting prospects, (3) Presenting to prospects, (4) Overcoming objections, (5) Closing the sale, (6) Getting payment, (7) Up selling to new products, and the list goes on.
What ever you do, you know that when you do the job - you are expected to solve problems. But the problems need to be specific for your industry and the kind of companies you work for. Identifying prospects for a hovercraft manufacturer is quiet different than for a Mary Kay consultant. Understand the difference.

20 Companies - David and Kevin over and over again talk about the 20 companies. You must have that list. The list will help you focus. Its not the only companies you will accept a job from, but it makes you an expert on these companies and their problems. Actually having 20 companies is the first on the list.

Now you know what you need to do. Let's talk about just some of the things you can use these 12 problems.

You can create 12 resumes and cover letter that focus on the problem. This gives you a template to select when looking at a particular job. (Using a Guerrilla Job Resume of course.)
You can create pages on your blog dealing with the problem.
(Creating a blog is whole other way of marketing yourself)
You can list the problems on your LinkedIn profile.
You can write a white paper for each of the problems - going into depth about it. (Using white papers as a marketing approach is a whole other topic)
You can create a seminar on each of the topics - and give it for free
(This is about becoming known as an expert on a topic)
You can create a little booklet - different than the white paper that just includes all the solutions - to give away at networking events.
You can self publish the 12 white papers a book and leave it during the interview process - Big Thud Value.

This is just a short sample of some of the ways to use the 12 problems to get you a job.

Is Guerrilla Marketing Right for You? Part Seven in an Eight Part WebUrbanist Gmarketing Series

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-07-06T11:37:10-04:00

Job Hunters beware... could this be your inspiration?

S.E.X Tips for Job Hunters - employers will thank you

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-06-17T12:50:12-04:00

The current recession has shown that being good at your job is just not enough anymore. The FREE guide covers:

exposing yourself in public;
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satisfying an employer's needs;
handling rejection; and
positioning.

And finishes with a step-by-step Case Study that demonstrates the tactics and techniques.

- David Perry, Managing Director, Perry-Martel International Inc.
- Co-author "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0"

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Phone interview jitters? Stop Guessing - learn what to say right now!

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-06-11T12:38:25-04:00

Phone interviews have become standard fair in this job market. I could write a book on it BUT thanks to Peter Clayton I don't have to and you don't have to wait. Peter's just recorded a fantastic informative pod cast with Paul Bailo. Click over now to TotalPicture.com and listen for youself.

Learn how to jump-start your career

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-06-02T06:31:03-04:00

Greg Collett was a director at Deutsche Bank in New York until June last year, when he succumbed to a long-standing itch to try something else.

He had read every book he could find about changing career, saved his money and finally drawn up a list of things he wanted to do. With this in hand, he resigned and began his long march away from Wall Street.

To borrow a manufacturing term now widely used to describe career transformations, he set about “retooling” himself for the rest of his life. Want the Full Story - click here now

Guerrilla Job Search tactics in Christian Science Monitor

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-05-29T12:37:39-04:00

By Kevin Donlin | May 22nd, 2009

David Perry and I were in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor in a story about extreme job-search tactics.

Here’s how one woman found work using our tactics:

Then there’s Jann FritzHuspen. After 18 months of looking for work, in September she express-mailed a coffee mug along with her application to three prospective employers, asking each if they’d meet her for coffee. Two ignored her. The third agreed and, a month later, offered her a job as executive director for a nonprofit organization in Roseville, Minn.

Here’s more about Jann and how she got hired:

Ms. FritzHuspen wasn’t the first to send a coffee mug to a prospective employer. The idea came from a guerrilla job-search boot camp she’d attended, hosted by Mr. Perry and Kevin Donlin, author of “51 Ways to Find a Job Fast – Guaranteed!” Mr. Donlin and Perry call the tactic “the coffee cup caper” and claim it yields phone interviews 100 percent of the time and an in-person interview about 30 percent of the time.
“This was just one of my tools in the toolbox,” says FritzHuspen. “[I]f I didn’t set myself apart, I simply wouldn’t get myself in the door.”

Jann was a member of our last job search bootcamp. Membership is closed for now, but her “coffee cup caper” is described in full detail, with step-by-step instructions, in our Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course.

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The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-05-27T12:56:42-04:00

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Job Hunting Case Study: Kevin Watson - Part 5 - Landed

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-05-25T18:21:00-04:00

Kevin Watson agreed in February to let me blog about him as we worked together to land his next gig. Kevin landed quite a while ago despite being in a city with high tech unemployment with a glut of "consultants". About 5 weeks after we started. What he's been doing since then is even more interesting than the job hunt itself at least for me ---- and possibly for you]

{If you've just joined the discussion you might want to start here}

Much of what Kevin has done all his life in technology is cutting edge and quite unique OR at least his approach to things has always seemed unique. No surprise then that he decided early in his search to spend time on what was important rather than what was urgent. Whereas most job seekers feel they've put in a full day of job hunting because they've been to a hundred job boards and applied to 50 postings, Kevin knew that keeping score this way wasn't going to make him feel good or get him a job. So he figured out a way to make the jobs come to him OR should I say his wife dared him to.

Natalie - Kevin's wife - nonchalantly commented one evening over dinner [after Kevin had been interviewed by the Globe & Mail newspaper about the dismal economic outlook] that he was a great programmer and that what he needed to do was figure out a way to have the jobs come to them. You see Natalie now needed a full time job too. She said that since he had worked with me for several years automating job boards he ought to be able to figure out how to make the jobs come to them instead of spending all his time surfing corporate webs sites looking for opportunities.

With this new "incentive" Kevin set out to do just that. The result was an automated job search engine which he set up to search for specific jobs that fit the requirements that he and Natalie specified. Each time the engine found a job that fit his requirements it sent him the details. Pretty innovative and according to Kevin, not that hard [that's his way of bragging]. Anyway, Natalie landed a job in 2 weeks and Kevin 3 weeks later. Now Kevin has turned around created NatsJobs.com for others to use. Now that's what I call guerrilla. Truth be known - I think it's more a testimony to Nathalie's powers of persuasion than anything. It's amazing what people will do with the proper incentive. else. so what's driving you? Are you following what everyone else is doing or are you cutting a new path and blazing your own trail? there's never been a better time in job hunting history to try something new.

There are a lot of different ways to be creative in your job search. Maybe you're not a programmer but you don't have to be. How many of these tactics are you using?

I hope Kevin's story has helped you in your job search.

PLEASE PASS THE POST ON TO YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY - WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.

- David Perry, co-author Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0 AND the original Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters.

Amazon Best Selling book for job hunters being retired.

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-05-01T09:29:01-04:00

Yes it's true folks Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters
the book is nearly sold out AGAIN but will NOT be reprinted.

You can however, still get 3 chapters, including the one
one on Radical Networking from this blog, for a few
more days. The chapter on negotiating your best deal
is also included.

Thanks for all your support.

David Perry
co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters.

Managing Director

Perry-Martel International Inc.

Guerrilla Job Search video cleverly 'Forces' Employers To Call YOU To Interview

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-29T09:27:25-04:00

Many people have asked Kevin Donlin and I to record our Guerrilla Job Search Boot Camp seminars which we've been giving around the country.

Up until now the challenge has been to get a video crew who were talented enough to do it outside a high end TV studio. And believe me we tried - several times [and paid a lot each time] but the quality was never there - until now.

Kevin and I finally went into the TV studio and spent the time and money to have it done. You can preview what's covered by clicking this link. You can even buy your own copy AND it's inexpensive. When you buy it and get a job because of it - please record a thank you video and send it to us.

Here’s what you’ll discover ...

· Should you include a picture on your resume? (Answer: Yes! But not a picture of your face.) And should you print your resume in color? Revealed live onstage.

How a “cup in a box” can get you a job interview, even when hordes of people are competing against you for advertised positions. It worked for one California woman, for a director-level woman in St. Paul, for a Washington lobbyist -- and it can work for you too.
What to do FIRST in your job search. (Get this wrong and no hiring manager or recruiter will return your phone calls. Period.)
Fact: Most people put less time into choosing employers than they do in writing a grocery list -- and then struggle to get hired. We’ll fix that and show you how to make job leads appear where before you saw none, almost as if by magic.
What to write in the one part of your cover letter that EVERY employer reads (and how to know with certainty that it will get read -- nobody else will show you this.)
How to legally “hack” into Monster.com and clarify your employment goals in only minutes -- with almost no effort on your part.
Finally! How to REALLY prepare for a job interview. You can banish the jitters, walk calmly into almost any hiring manager's office, and blow them away if you do one simple thing. It lets you set the agenda and take control of the entire conversation.
How to leverage social media like LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook and other web sites to take advantage of “the secret lives of recruiters.”

Kevin and I are the only speakers in America teaching these “Guerrilla Job Hunting” tactics.

You can read more about us and our techniques in: CNN/Money, Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal,The Washington Post, CIO Magazine

Job Hunting Case Study: Kevin Watson – how to create a personal web site to put your resume on, be found and land a great job – the crash course.

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-27T20:22:00-04:00

{If you've just joined the discussion you might want to start here}

Kevin’s done a lot right so far and he’s had a job now for quite some time. I’ve just lacked the time to blog about it. So let me tell you how he did his web site and what he did to get on the radar of recruiters and hiring managers once it was done.

Kevin’s smart and he didn’t want to take the time to code a site from scratch so he bought a personal template from All Web Design. He could also have gone to Templatemonster.com for an even bigger selection but he chose that one because he liked the graphics and the Ajax scripts were easy to work with. If you don’t know how to code you should use Templatemonster.com

Kevin bought and downloaded the template and had his site up and running the same day. Now Kevin is ~~cheap~~ er frugal so he didn’t want to spend ~$9.99 a year to host his web site or buy his domain – which I highly suggest you do even if you have to buy a .ca or .biz or .tv etc. Fortunately he has a few sites which he’s built so he can host his web page on the back end. Not ideal but Kevin had an evil plan… More on the evil plan in a minute.

You’ll notice on his site that Kevin Watson has all of his resumes. He’s got a page that highlights all his technology prowess. Another for his project experience. Because a lot of recruiters and hiring managers are anal retentive when they look for specific experience and when you have a web site you can put up as much information as you want. More – in the case of techies – is better. His employment history. His accomplishments. And most importantly his contact information is just a click away on every page. Me I would have put it on every page but he got fancy. But he has his full contact information including a live link to his email and his HOME phone number.

Now, what did he forget. He forgot to link his site to his LinkedIn profile and he neglected to cross reference his recommendations from LinkedIn. He should also have used his LinkedIn address to get people to view his LinkedIn profile. But at least his LinkedIn email address is personalized: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinwatson Now, why does this matter? Because it drives up his ranking on Google. At least his LinkedIn profile carries all the versions of his resume.

So shy wasn’t he concerned about the personal web url [besides being frugal]? Because he developed a new technology for a job board that was released in October [just in time for the recession]. He developed a “scrapper” like the ones used by SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com which also has a posting capability which he used to push his résumé out to a targeted group of recruiters which drove views of his web site.

Essentially he used the RecruiterPix job board to find his job leads. First RecruiterPix captures all the jobs off the newsgroups and then RecruiterPix sends a note to the recruiter who posted the job telling them that their job posting had been aggregated and reposted to RecruiterPix for free. It also invited the recruiter to post all of their other jobs free. Second, RecruiterPix reposts a summary of all the jobs posted to RecruiterPix by category to the newsgroups thereby creating more traffic. The genius in all of this is that both the email to the recruiters and the ones that go to the newsgroups carry an advertisement for the “project manager” or “product manager” of the week – with a link to his resume. Great idea eh! This tactic delivered 1400+ “views” of his resume and several dozen interviews.

In the next installment, how Kevin’s wife Natalie helped created a tsunami that got both of them jobs faster than either could ever have imagined.

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The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-27T07:56:00-04:00

Our CD was downloaded more than a thousand times last week . By request, here's the link to it again.

How to get a job - more ideas from Fortune Magazine

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-23T07:14:00-04:00

It's brutal out there. But the people getting hired aren't necessarily the most connected - they're the most creative. From food diarists to Twitter stalkers to candidates tapping the "hidden" job market, here's what's working now. more There are audios portions starting on page 2.

How to Get The Job You Want Even When No One's Hiring

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-22T10:39:49-04:00

When the jobs are hidden To get a job, you have to find the openings that no one's advertising, and really impress your potential employer. This is an interview I did with Jia Lynn Yang, writer-reporter from FORTUNE Magazine. There is more available on the Fortune site.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- David Perry, a longtime headhunter, says you're wasting your time if you're looking for job postings online. And he should know: he's often the guy on the other side helping companies lure new talent. Perry, who's based in Ottawa, says that in the last 22 years he has accomplished 996 searches totaling $172 million in salary. And the bottom line in today's economy, he says, is you have to tap the "hidden job market." more

Guerrilla Job Hunting Tips 2.0 with Kevin Donlin co-creator of the Guerrilla Job Search System

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-19T17:24:38-04:00

Several of the totally new job search tips from the Guerrilla Job Search System.

Zoom Zoom ZoomInfo - here's why I insist my job huntering friends need a ZoomInfo profile

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-04-06T14:44:09-04:00

Sometimes FREE is good - especially if you're job hunting - but in ZoomInfo's case it's absolutely essential.

People that know me well and understand how the recruiting and search business function know why I'm a HUGE fan of ZoomInfo. It works. It makes my life simpler by doing the upfront grunt research work involved in every search project faster and in a lot of cases more meaningful.

ZoomInfo makes gathering a long list of potential candidates blindingly fast. Now our database is 2.2 M strong [which rivals the largest search firms] but ZoomInfo's is 42M. Cross referencing our info with theirs helps us start every search on a solid foundation.

Why should you care as a candidate? If you're not found in the research phase of a search you'll very likely never be called. The search project will be completed before you even know it's happening. It doesn't take the "art" out of the recruiting process but it sure adds a depth of rigure to the science of sourcing.

So listen to Peter Clayton's pod cast and you'll understand why need to be in ZoomInfo if you value your career. Did i mention it's FREE? Who cares! Some day ZoomInfo may wake up and start charging for this. In the meantime click quiockly over to ZoomInfo.com .

Job Hunting Case Study: Kevin Watson – Supersizing your LinkedIn Network

The Guerrilla Recruiter — 2009-03-30T00:19:32-04:00

Kevin needed a job - fast. The job market was getting worse by the day. Trouble was, Kevin had a great resume , but his network was out of work too. As the old saying goes, Network or No work.

Kevin’s situation is common. He was so focused on creating value for his employer he neglected to establish a safety net for himself. Yes he had a lot of senior level contacts but they were all looking for new opportunities as well. He had no idea how to build a network of powerful people who can help you move you career forward in a crisis.

What do you do if you’re looking for a job today because you got axed yesterday or might tomorrow – and need to build your network as quickly as possible?

You apply a “loose connection” strategy on LinkedIn. This will get you the most number of 2^nd and 3^rd level connections in the least amount of time.

Here’s how Kevin did it.

First he imported all his email contacts into LinkedIn and sent thoughts which were already LinkedIn members an invitation. That brought him to 79 contacts in LinkedIn.

Then he logged on to Dave Mendoza’s site. Dave is the über LinkedIn connector who runs Six Degrees from Dave. His “pay it forward” attitude pervades his site. Dave’s mission is to help others connect to people he thinks they would want to connect with if only they knew they could - like the world’s leading headhunters, top thought leaders and corporate recruiters around the world.

For Kevin Watson, Dave’s personal rolodex is a who’s who of the people he needs to connect to for his job hunt. Mendoza does all of this for free. FREE – when he could easily be charging and getting a lot of money. For job hunters this is THE place to start building a powerful network. All the instructions for downloading, importing and inviting 100s of people at a time each with huge networks of their own are right here on his site. First Kevin downloaded Dave’s mega list and then he followed Dave’s “HOW TO SEND MASS NETWORKING INVITES: STEP BY STEP” word document. So simple any non-techie can do it. What follows is the good part.

This is where Kevin started. Before downloading Dave’s list Kevin’s network statistics looked like this:

24 hours later he had added 72 people and increased his network by 6.1 million. Kevin’s network statistics looked like this:

Next Kevin reached out to the Top 50 LIONs. A LION is a LinkedIn Open Networker who will connect with anyone. The more connections you have to others the closer you get to opportunities they have in their networks. His network is growing by leaps and bounds. If you want fast access to LinkedIn’s Groups then check out the Top LinkedIn power groups link on the left hand side of the page Top 50 LIONS web site..

Next week I tell you about how Kevin’s done his web site and built a viral marketing tool too.

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