Product Description

This book identifies those fatal mistakes and tell what one needs to do to avoid them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341339 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 163 pages

Customer Reviews

How To Stop from Derailing Your Job Search
Job Hunting is a stressful time. At my staffing company we've found that most of the time it's the candidate - not the recruiter, job market, industry, or economy - that makes or breaks the job search. If we had been able to offer this book, 95 Mistakes Job Seekers Meet, we may have been able to help alleviate the stress of the job hunt and the glitches that come as a result.

This little book may be short, but every word is worth absorbing before you begin your hunt. Compiled from lots of interviews of hiring managers, employers, recruiters and the like, Richard Fein has created a smart pocket-sized compendium on stopping you from derailing yourself with the simplest mistake.

The 95 tips are compiled into 15 easy to digest chapters. Each bit of advice begins with the mistake job seekers - usually a paragraph or just a couple sentences; for example, Mistake #34: "Lack examples for your personal characteristics." The mistake is followed by a longer discussion of why this it's dangerous and what you can do to avoid it. Solution #34? If you say you're hard-working, back it up with an example like "I typically work 60 hour weeks." Don't throw characteristics around - especially if you are doing it because it sounds good - if you can't explain yourself.

The format is simple and useful; the writing is clear and easily understood, but not elementary. I read through 95 Mistakes pretty quickly, but I'd recommend reading it over again, picking out each mistake and incorporating Fein's advice in your job hunting mindset. His interviews have found common mistakes I probably wouldn't have thought of - and ones I've been guilty of myself.

As an added bonus, four extra chapters discuss five or six common mistakes for candidates in special circumstances including moving from the military to civilian employment, mistakes minorities make, advice for college graduates and tips for those with disabilities.

In all our years of matching qualified professionals with successful jobs, we've read some really great resumes, enjoyed quite a few interviews, and met some impressive candidates. On the other hand, we've encountered those who've seriously derailed themselves, too. Stop yourself from derailing by picking up this easy to read book.

Great...Wondeful...It does what it says it will do.
This book does a great job of helping you avoid what not what to do. Which I feel is important. This book is a wonderful resource in this respect, but it left me with the question, "What should I do?"

This leads me to the classic, "How to find your dream job and make it a reality." By Jason McClure. This book doesn't tell you want to avoid, like the book reviewed, it tells you what to do to find a meaningful career. I think both of these books work hand and hand with each other. It is almost like the authors knew each other, and worked as a team to develop a resource library for job seekers.