Instant Interviews (Paperback)

About the Author . . . xiii

Introducing Instant Interviews! xv

Foreword and . . . Forward March! xvii

1: Appearing Magically—Like a Genie! 1

2: Making and Taking the Instant Interview Magic Potion 22

3: Maintaining Magic Potion Potency Throughout the Day 26

4: Breaking out of the Box—Job E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N 28

5: E-Mailing, Faxing, and Mailing Your Rest-You-May 31

6: Getting Your Resume Scanned 35

7: Writing the ASCII Resume 36

8: Getting You Covered with the Better Letter 38

9: Broadcasting a Letter with High Bandwidth 42

10: Faxmailing for Nofailing 45

11: Dollaring for Instant Interest 47

12: Maximizing Instant Availability Announcements 50

13: Blasting Instant Availability Announcements 52

14: Shifting into Overdrive with the Callback Card 54

15: Interviewing Instantly over the Internet 56

16: Courting a Corporate Partner—Online 59

17: Getting Personal to Get Interviewed 61

18: Surveying to Get Instantly In 63

19: Reading Between the Classified Ad Lines 65

20: Responding to Classified Ads 67

21: Mining the Yellow Pages 68

22: Breaking the Code in Business Periodicals 70

23: Teaching a Class 71

24: Giving a Speech 73

25: Making Your Own Recordings 77

26: Expediting Executive Recruiting 78

27: Writing for Newspaper Special Sections 82

28: Guiding a Counselor at a Free Career Center 83

29: Inciting Potential Offerors to Interview 84

30: Answering Inside Job Listings: Gold without the Shaft 87

31: Vacationing Free While They Interview Thee 91

32: Forming Your Very Own Job Club 94

33: Launching a Proactive Proposal 97

34: Interrupting the Interview Intervention 101

35: Arriving at Airports, Stations, and Depots 106

36: Transforming Ground Transportation into Interview Information 107

37: Tracking on Trains 108

38: Taking Off in Business Class 110

39: Developing Your Persona 114

40: Calling and Enthralling the Offeror 117

41: Reading the Offeror Like a Book 119

42: Increasing Your Interviewing Instincts 122

43: Bossing around Your Boss to Get You Interviews 126

44: Indemnifying an Offeror for Your Instant Dream Job 130

45: Networking Out at the Jobgym 135

46: Renewing Acquaintances Instantly 140

47: Obtaining Publicity about Instant Availability 143

48: Writing Letters to the Editor 144

49: Writing Articles or Columns 145

50: Using a Rent-a-Mentor 146

51: Sampling the Sweets at Job Fairs 147

52: Writing the Instant Bio 151

53: Writing a Press Release 151

54: Crashing Parties at Hotels 153

55: Granting Celebrities an Interview 154

56: Mixing and Matching at the Chamber Mixer 157

57: Learning to Play Ball from the Blue Crew 159

58: Promoting Interviews Using Postal Centers 160

59: Targeting Interviews with the F-O-C-U-S Principle 163

60: Outerviewing There and Now 166

61: Uncovering the Office Building Underground Instantly 171

62: Running the Routes with the Jobjungle Scouts 173

63: Banking Personal References Instantly 175

64: Banking Professional References Instantly 181

65: Getting Your Foot in the Store Door 189

66: Newspapering on Your Route for Instant Ins 193

67: Remembering Your Lines Instantly Like a S-T-A-R 195

68: Turning On Off-Offerors 196

69: Demonstrating the Instant You 199

70: Auctioning Yourself Off to the Highest Bidder 202

71: Lowering Your Interview Age Instantly 205

72: Partying Early at the Offerors-Only Warehouse 209

73: Generating Instant Revenues and Interviews 210

74: Grabbing the Bigbucks Instant Offerors 213

75: Interviewing as an Intern Instantly 215

76: Zipping Through It All at City Hall 217

77: Accepting Temporary Assignments 220

78: Temping Differently to Interview Instantly 221

79: Igniting Intense Interview Interest from Competitors 223

80: Bonding Instantly with Immigrant Offerors 225

81: Disabling a Disability Instantly 228

82: Recalling Offerors’ Names Instantly 232

83: Swap Meets for Top Greets 234

84: Supercharging Your Sphere of Influence 236

85: Interviewing for an Instant Increase 240

86: Magnetizing Muckety-mucks 243

87: Getting Paid for Instant Interviewing 244

88: Getting Leads from Leasers 245

89: Passing Instantly Through the Personal Screen 247

90: Passing Instantly Through the Professional Screen 252

91: Using Lead Cards for Instant Referrals 256

92: Controlling the Offeror Like a Robot 258

93: Sending Icon Introduction Letters 260

94: Slipping in the Back Door this Saturday 263

95: Making a Maven an Interview Mentor 267

96: Doing Informational Interviews Instantly 271

97: Consulting for Instant Resulting 274

98: Infiltrating the Secretarial Secret Service Instantly 279

99: Jolting Overworked Offerors 281

100: Pursuing Your Passion 287

101 and DONE! Deciding Which Offer to Accept 289

Acknowledgments 293

Index 295