New Book Shows College Grads, Unemployed, Returning Military Personnel How to Get Attention of Hiring Managers in Any Economy
December 10th, 2011 | 
Author: Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 25, 2010
College graduates, people between jobs, and returning U.S. Armed Forces personnel now have a new tool in their arsenal to find a job with the release of “CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER: Sage Advice for Fearless Job Seekers and Career Changers in a Confused Economy” by author, workshop leader, speaker and former hiring manager, J.T. Kirk.
CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER shortens the timeline and increases the chances of getting hired or changing careers based on hard-hitting, focused, and tried-and-true strategies author Kirk has seen in his twenty-year career as a hiring manager in marketing, communications, and technical positions for Fortune 500 companies in energy development and high technology businesses.
THREE METHODS FOR GETTING THE ATTENTION OF HIRING MANAGERS
Kirk’s strategies and tactics in CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER reveal an insider’s perspective on how successful candidates approach the hiring process. “First, you must realize that the hiring process is not about you,” says Kirk. “It’s all about the hiring manager’s needs and how well you sell your skills, knowledge, and experience as his or her problem solver, solutions provider, or revenue generator.”
“Second, if your cover letter contains more instances of the words ‘I/me/my/mine’ instead of ‘you/your/yours’, you are not addressing the hiring manager’s needs. This is a simple rule of thumb that indicates how well your approach targets the hiring manager’s needs.”
“Third, your resume must contain quantitative evidence of your accomplishments. Hiring managers want to know how much revenue you earned, what amount of costs were avoided, what percentage increase in improvement or efficiency you were directly responsible for. You can tell a hiring manager how great you are all day long, but it’s the quantitative data–the numbers–that tell the true story of your capabilities and accomplishments.”
HOW IS “CONFESSIONS” DIFFERENT FROM OTHER JOB AND CAREER BOOKS?
Unlike other jobs/career books written by career coaches, resume writers, and business writers, it is the hiring manager who ultimately has the inside track on who gets hired. Resume writers and career coaches offer a perspective mostly from outside looking in; the hiring manager is already on the inside and knows the subtleties that give one candidate the edge over others equally qualified.
CONFESSIONS shows how to craft interview-getting cover letters (and highlights bad ones) and job-offer resumes; how to control the job interview and how to negotiate a salary without leaving money on the table. In addition, there are chapters on working as a contractor, part-time worker–and even working for free when all other options fail. Kirk’s strategies for keeping your name at the top of the job-offer list are novel and have proven effective time after time. In addition, Kirk includes a chapter devoted to returning U.S. Armed Forces service men and women showing them how to convert military expertise into marketable skills, knowledge, and experience that hiring managers have a need for. Kirk’s website contains many free online assessments and downloadable tip sheets so people can perform their own analysis of their cover letters, job search strategy, resumes, interview skills, and salary negotiation skills.
CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER offers a view from the other side of the desk that reveals the perspectives, presuppositions, and expectations hiring managers have of people looking for a job or a new career. While resume writers and career coaches may give you a fish to feed you for a day, CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER teaches you how to fish so you can feed yourself for a lifetime.
Brian Jud, author of JOB SEARCH 101, COPING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT, and THE ART OF INTERVIEWING said “The information in CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER gives job seekers a distinctly competitive edge, expecially in today’s job market. I highly recommend it.”
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) says of CONFESSIONS: “J.T. Kirk has written the ultimate guide for properly positioning yourself for a job offer in this or any economy. No question is left unanswered in the process and the job seeker receives a valuable and powerful perspective from a hiring manager…this book covers it all…”
J.T. Kirk was recently interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Penny Sansevieri for the Fascinating Authors website, where he discussed how candidates can use elements of what Kirk calls “consultative marketing” to enhance their chances of getting a job offer.
CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER is distributed through Ingram Book Distributors and available from Amazon.com, CreateSpace, and Kings Crown Publishing, the publisher’s website.
For additional information or to receive a review copy of CONFESSIONS OF A HIRING MANAGER for qualified professional associations, organizations, and corporations, contact Chloe Baxter at info(at)jtkirk-author(dot)com.
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