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    Job Hunting Today
    Job Hunting Today
    Job Hunting Today
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    Job Hunting Today

    By Mike Macartney

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    If you have suddenly found yourself unemployed, between jobs, or even in a thin spot in your career that you thought was stable, you may find that job hunting today is anything but traditional.

    While book is written to encourage and empower, it also challenges and motivates job hunters in today's fast changing job market.

    The book focuses on the up-to-date job hunting techniques that work in the modern world, giving readers an understanding and a lay of the land in this computerized job world. From linkedin, to facebook, to twitter, there is more than just a good overview here.

    As in its title, the book works to instill employable attitudes such teamwork, and coordinated efforts. From finding the right application for your skillset, this book sends the message that every job hunter is as unique as every job is. Written by an engineer, this book includes traditional common-sense job hunting advice on such things as interviewing advice for people who think that they might not normally interview well, but have valuable skills to offer in today's job market. If also offers inspiration and motivation to those of much greater experience who may be looking for a job in today's youth-oriented job market.

    Written concisely and in a comfortable and informal style, this book provokes the reader through real world and personal examples rather than trying to coerce the reader.

    Using today's modern means for personal networking and promotion, this book works to bridge the gaps that can lead the reader to success at finding employment. This book can help you position yourself not only in gainful employment, but to recognize and draw from your own strengths in everyday life for other personal benefits as well as just employment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Macartney
    Release dateDec 3, 2015
    ISBN9780983301103
    Job Hunting Today
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    Mike Macartney

    Mike Macartney is an aerospace engineer from Nevada. He spent a career in the space business as an analysis engineer, an engineering manager, an armored vehicle business manager, and a consultant to NASA. He helped to found an IT and a software company in Northern California.

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      Job Hunting Today - Mike Macartney

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      Job Hunting Today

      Is A Team Sport

      by Mike Macartney

      Job Hunting Today

      Is a Team Sport
      by Mike Macartney

      Published by Shoot Your Eye Out Publishing

      http://www.syeopub.com/

      Copyright © 2011 Mike Macartney

      Revised April 2014

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either prior written permission of the publisher.

      Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The contents of this work are intended to further general scientific research, understanding, and discussion only and are not intended and should not be relied upon as recommending or promoting a specific method, diagnosis, or treatment by physicians for any particular patient. The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation any implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. In view of ongoing research, equipment modifications, changes in governmental regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to the use of medicines, equipment, and devices, the reader is urged to review and evaluate the information provided in the package insert or instructions or indication of usage for added warnings and precautions. Readers should consult with a specialist where appropriate. The fact that an organization or Website is referred to in this work as a citation and/or potential source of further information does not mean that the author or publisher endorses the information the organization or Website may provide or recommendations it may make. Further, readers should be aware that Internet Websites listed in this work may have changed or disappeared between when this work was written and when it is read. No warranty may be created or extended by any promotional statements for this work. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for any damages arising herefrom.

      ISBN: 978-0-9833011-0-3

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Prologue and Acknowledgements

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      Sometimes, you start out writing a short book of job hunting advice, then somehow, it goes somewhere with a mind of its own. No other writer has had that problem, I am sure?

      I wish to thank Brenda Make for quietly telling me that much of the job networking and the job interview process discussed in this book are challenging for many people, in particular people living with Asperger's Syndrome. You will find much more about this inside these pages.

      Brenda was invaluable in catching the writing flaws and errors that writers never can seem to see in their own work. She also created the graphics for the chapters. Then she took the cover and the cover photograph, after they were finished, and remade them with the puzzle basketball court, changed the layout, and the colors. Thank you Brenda.

      I also wish to thank Steve Ulrich who I asked to read for mistakes and grammar at the end, and he marked it all up in red! Thank you Steve.

      And finally Cindy, who proofread the book for the 2014 revision!

      - - -

      The old world of putting people into boxes labeled with some of the attributes they display, like introverted, extraverted, obsessive compulsive, depressive, bi-polar, attention deficit disorder, Asperger ’ s Syndrome, and so on, is changing. The new normal is complex individuals with many different parts that wax and wane over a lifetime.

      There is also an explosion of research and understanding of just how brains, human and otherwise, really work. What are emotions? How do different parts of the brain handle them? Why can somebody with Parkinson's disease who almost cannot walk, ride a bicycle? What is memory? What is mental illness, and what is personality? It is a fascinating time for beginning to understand what makes us, us.

      The place this book ended up at was not a list of little tricks and techniques you can use to help you get a job. Those can be found anywhere. This book may have become more of a story about how to find a job with your brain. How do you think effectively to find a job? Most importantly of all, how do you find, support, and work with all the many people you will need to help you find a job? Why do people want to help each other in tough times?

      You can find other books of forms to fill out and boxes to check to help you find a job by yourself. Part of your job search is filling out the forms and checking the boxes to make sure you are doing everything you can to find a job. Those things would have helped you and been a primary tool for finding a job in better economic times, when the American job market was healthy and the United States dominated most markets in the world. That is not the case today.

      The answer to job hunting in competitive and difficult economic times is changing faster than we all may realize. How do you change yourself to adapt to it? How do you succeed by changing yourself? The job seeker today, no matter who they are, must change and adapt themselves from the inside out to match the changes happening at breakneck speed outside of themselves.

      The way that you will change yourself is by working as a group with others who are also adapting to the 21 st century global economy. This book is an attempt to cover some of the things you and your group will need to work through to improve you chances of closing the deal on a job.

      2014 Revision

      The revisions in 2014 include making the book an interactive ebook with hyperlinks to referenced information and some sample forms for job searchers to use to get them started with the methods and practices that this volume suggests.

      The revision also updates the social media sections. Social media and the Internet have evolved faster and further since this book was first published in 2011. Both are even more important to job seekers today in 2014 than ever.

      Mike Macartney, April 2014

      Introduction

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      When you find yourself in Hell, keep going.

      Winston Churchill

      This book is a general roadmap of the process of job hunting in the 21 st century. There is a big secret hidden in this book. The secret is an old secret people have used for thousands of years. Suffice it to say that if you are serious about job searching and follow techniques like the ones discussed in this book you will already know the secret.

      Many of the practices in this book are taught by one of the best re-employment organizations in the US, Nova/Promatch , located in Sunnyvale, California*. The State of California and the Federal government fund it. In the early 1990s when it began, it was helped by the Clinton administration under the umbrella of its parent, NOVA. Now, when the CBS 60 Minutes television news show wants a story about what works for employment assistance it comes to NOVA/Promatch. When California media wants a story about what works for employment assistance the reporters come to Nova/Promatch. The organizations have all manner of relationships with schools, organizations, companies, consultants, and politicians that members can take advantage of. But in the end the things that are the rest of this book are what matters to all the thousands of job seekers who have passed through their doors over the last decade and a half. There are many other re-employment organizations like Nova/Promatch across the country. There are many job assistance consultants, schools, and outplacement companies that assist laid off workers from industry that charge thousands of dollars for seminars, classes, and books that teach the things offered at Nova/Promatch and this book.

      In fact you can find the guides, forms, resources, help, free papers, and all the rest about job hunting all over the Internet. You can spend countless hours reading, researching, searching, compiling, and trying many different things like these to find a job by yourself. The world may not need another publication to list all the resources that are available to help you find a job. Rather, this book asks: what do you do with all that information so it does something effective for you and your job search?

      It is worthwhile to try to cut through all the clutter, duplications, and misrepresentations to instead focus on very simple things that you can practice day-in and day-out in your job search. Think of it like that basic practice of Buddhism, mindfulness. The intuitive practice of awareness of all that is happening to you and around you that you see, feel, hear, taste, smell, and experience. The Buddhist practice is to appreciate all of it, to just look and become aware in yourself, of everything around you as you go through life. It is a process and the destination is the practice.

      This book may cost as much a large fancy coffee or a gallon of gasoline, like many of those things you consume in the course of your routine day without thinking very much about them. The goal here is for the methods discussed in this book to

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