Introducing Instant Interviews!

Twenty-five years ago, I jumped up in the jobjungle, swung from the nearest tree, and Tarzanned.

I've spent my entire career in the job placement field, and it all comes down to this:

  1. The interview is almost all that counts

  2. The interview is a highly predictable, controllable event, with only the places and the faces changing

Those were the first words in my first book, How to Turn an Interview into a Job. They rumbled in the jungle like a herd of charging bull elephants. The books flew off the shelves as they still do today.

In following the pages that followed those words, jobseekers became lifetime jobgetters. These days they generate job offers whenever they interview. Bigger and better job offers.

Their success was limited only by the global climate change over a quarter century. The underbrush grew above the height of the hunter. The traditional terrain—classifieds, job fairs, then the Internet—become nothing more than a mirage.

These passive ways of looking for a job or finding a job did nothing to generate an interview. Any successful recruiter will tell you they're virtually useless for a jobseeker today. Only active jobgetting skills work for the professionals—and only those skills will work for you.

That's why I wrote Instant Interviews. The law of the jungle didn't change: Survival of the fittest. The law of hiring didn't change either: No interview, no job.

Right now, you're probably all dressed up in your jeweled jungle jacket with no place to ...

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