( 6 reviews )
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Posted: May 11 2009
The contents of the book is insightful and helpful but it is of VERY POOR print quality. The words are not focused and have shadows. I'd recommend you buy "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters" instead. They have a great deal of the same contents.
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Posted: Aug 14 2007
The worksheet sections are a slightly different twist on Parachute, but pretty much amount to the same thing, although cynically enough I'll say a book written by a headhunter will of course recommend that you turn to a headhunter when all else fails (and it will). The intriguing part of this book is the introductory portions. As a software engineer in the business 23 years, I have often felt stuck. The introduction identified factors that explain why I should feel this way, based on a gap between what executives look for in a hire vs. what line managers and HR are seeking. It explains the runaround technical types get when they try to break in to a "technical executive" position by arranging interviews with HR or first lines. The book explains why this is a waste of time and cannot succeed, because the hiring goals of the two strata are opposed. Read Invisible Man along with the preface/introduction and you should be suitably depressed and paranoid. You will finally see the H1-B argument from Lou Dobb's angle, and take a more cynical view of some corporate sites' exhortations to overproduce engineers and mathematicians (raise supply, reduce wages). I am now pleading with my sons to choose careers as lawyers, doctors, truck drivers, or even politicians. Technical specialists over the age of 43 are the Oakies of the 22nd century (The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)). Isn't that ironic? We created the information age and it made us obsolete. Even dentists weren't that stupid.
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( 3 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 12 2005
I am a business book junkie and always have a few "how-to" career books on the go and David Perry's book is the best I have ever read. The one thing career counsellors and the like always tell you is to target a company that you want to work for and then make contact with people inside that company. But what they can never tell you is how to go about doing that. David's book actually tells you how to do this! Plus it gives expert advice on building a resume that gets attention - it actually becomes a one page marketing datasheet and the product is you. Buy the book, you will not be disappointed.
