Jay’s latest tips for resumes that get results!

• LinkedIn: The Resume of the Future is Here - Jay’s Newest Program on Creating Powerful LinkedIn Profiles
• Resumes as Powerful Self-Marketing Documents – Your Resume Must Stand Out
• The 5 Steps to RAPID Employment – 1-on-1 with Jay Block
• RésuméPLUS© – One of The Jay Block Company’s Most Popular Services
• How to Thrive in the NEW Protean Workplace – Thinking Differently About Today’s Workplace
• 4 Powerful Techniques to Conquer Fear and Maintain a Positive Attitude – Shift Your Emotional State Instantly to Achieve Goals Quickly
• The 2 Interviewing Strategies that Land Jobs – Most People Wing It – Successful People Prepare For It
• Profits Are Better Than Wages: The Entrepreneurial Edge – Succeed and Thrive Creating Your Own Profits

With some 25-30 MILLION people looking for jobs in the US, your résumé must STAND OUT from the millions of look-alike documents we call “chronological obituaries.”

JBC creates customized self- marketing documents that professionally differentiate you from your competition – and lead to rapid employment! Since 1993, The Jay Block Companies has helped thousands of job candidates around the globe land jobs that they otherwise would not have landed because of their résumé. Here’s why:

1. JBC résumés are professionally exciting and generate excitement from hiring managers and prospective employers. We write résumés you can be proud of and that will get you noticed!
2. JBC résumés integrate sizzle and substance. We write award-winning résumés using the Showcase Format that Jay Block created in 1995. This format has led to 5 best-selling books (published by McGraw-Hill) and an international reputation for creating résumé masterpieces that lead to rapid employment – for all level job candidates!

3. We write résumés that communicate your VALUE quickly. Prospective employers want to know in just 15-20 seconds…

   • What results can you produce better than other qualified candidates
   • What contributions you can make that would benefit them
   • What differentiates you from your competition
   • What labor assets (skills, talents, abilities, and qualifications) do you have that will benefit them now and in the future
   • What specific results you have achieved in the past that would indicate you can deliver these results in the future
   • Why you are the best candidate for the job and why you deserve to be hired

The Jay Block Companies offers 5 levels of résumés:

• Level 1: Entry-level and positions up to $25,000
• Level 2: Mid-level positions with salaries between $25,000 and $50,000
• Level 3: Upper-level positions with salaries between $50,000 and $100,000
• Level 4: Senior-level positions with salaries between $100,000 and $150,000
• Level 5: Executive-level positions with salaries over $150,000

All résumé services include:

• Test marketing of the résumé to ensure it is perfect and exceeds client expectations
• A FREE cover letter template
• A FREE reference portfolio to replicate (the SECRET WEAPON) for landing a job
• A FREE 53-slide PowerPoint presentation to optimize LinkedIn (the résumé of the future)
• A FREE PDF (4 pages) of online websites for posting résumés, federal jobs, etc.

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Rapid employment is easy no matter what kind of job market or economy we face. Securing the right job at the right pay is a process; and the process is a simple 5-step one. All you have to do is work diligently at what’s simple.

Verifiable Success

We have coached thousands of people to successfully secure great jobs at great pay using the 5 Steps to Rapid Employment process. This process is the most powerful, effective, and results-proven program available anywhere. Testimonials from jobs seekers and Department of Labor professionals, in states with the highest unemployment rates, have raved over the statistical success this program has produced.

Job search doesn’t work

Politicians CAMPAIGN for jobs, they don’t search for one. Successful advertising agencies don’t create an advertising search… they plan and orchestrate an effective and strategic marketing campaign. If you are seeking a new job or to grow in the one you’re in, you must do the same – plan and implement an effective campaign to beat out your competition.

The 5-Steps to Rapid Employment is Jay Block’s SIGNATURE program. The 5-steps include:

1. Attain and maintain the right mindset and a confident can-do attitude
   • Learn how to over come fear and negative emotions
   • You are what you think; learn how to successfully manage your thoughts
   • Learn how to RE-THINK what you think to get a job quickly

2. Define meaningful and exciting career goals that meet your core values
   • Learn how to identify the right job / career that gives you the life you want
   • Learn that there are many job and unlimited opportunities waiting for you
   • Learn how to make the best long/short term decisions for your better future

3. Create strategic value-based résumés and other high-impact self-marketing tools
   • Learn how to create a powerful marketing résumé; NOT a chronological obituary
   • Learn how to develop a Reference Portfolio – the secret weapon for landing a job
   • Learn why LinkedIn and having a strong online presence is critically important

4. Develop a Meticulous Action Plan (MAP) – a written GPS to your next job
   • Learn how to write a comprehensive MAP with daily tasks and weekly goals
   • Learn how to include personal tasks/goals like exercise, social, and family time
   • Learn that if you don’t have a tactical plan; your plan is called “Winging It”

5. Master just a few self-marketing skills to beat your competition
   • Learn how to use discipline to execute your Meticulous Action Plan
   • Learn the art of building your own sales force and relationships that lead to jobs
   • Learn how to manage and optimize your time to get results quickly and efficiently

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This is one of The Jay Block Company’s most popular services. Many people do NOT need to invest a lot of resources (time, energy, and money) to receive the right amount of assistance required to land the job they want at the pay they deserve – quickly.

This program is extremely popular because clients receive a Jay Block prepared résumé along with 3 hours of individual, private 1-on-1 coaching with Jay Block.

ResumePLUS© includes:

1. The full service Résumés as Powerful Self-Marketing Documents program (As presented in the Individual Services).
2. PLUS 3 hours of 1-on-1 coaching with Jay Block.

The 3 hours of coaching can be on any topic (or combination of topics) you feel you want to cover to enhance your job campaign. The menu of topics includes:

1. Managing fear and negative emotions
2. Identifying the right career path / job for you
3. Creating / polishing up your LinkedIn profile
4. Interview training
5. Creating a MAP (Meticulous Action Plan)
6. Effective networking and / or salary negotiating
7. How to campaign for a job while you already have one
8. Creating an effective Reference Portfolio or Case Study Portfolio

* ResumePLUS© can be expanded from a résumé and 3 hours of coaching to a resume and 5 hours of coaching. (Call or email for specific details).

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Think about it: 

- No job security or careers for life anymore
- No guaranteed benefits, pensions, or perks anymore
- No guaranteed vacation pay, paid sick days, or even a weekly paycheck anymore
- Industries and companies are disappearing entirely
- Workplace uncertainty and confusion is affecting almost everyone

The Industrial Age Workplace is Over – Welcome to the New Protean Workplace

Everyone must THINK DIFFERENTLY about today’s workplace. Individuals can no longer depend on companies (employers) to take care of them. And businesses themselves can no longer rest of their laurels, given significant global competition. The SHIFT from the Industrial Age to the Protean workplace is creating societal upheaval and anxiety like we’ve never experienced. And this goes well beyond “cyclical.” It’s a permanent reality of the present and future workplace.

The good news is that if you shift your thinking – there are “unlimited opportunities”

The word “PROTEAN” comes from the Greek Sea God Proteus. Proteus was best known for 1) taking personal responsibility, 2) anticipating the future, 3) adapting to the future he foresaw, 4) taking massive action to achieve significant results. He set NO LIMITS on the opportunities he could create.

Today, everyone including all businesses, must become like Proteus.

The Program:

• Learn the 3 ways to SHIFT / CHANGE your thinking to thrive in the new workplace
• Learn the 5 Steps to Rapid Employment and how to succeed in the Protean workplace
• Learn the 8 Principles of Protean Success to design and manage the right career / job that provides you with the life you want
• The need to consider multiple sources of income; not placing all your eggs in one basket
• Receive a copy of Jay Block’s latest book: The Proteus Solution: One Person’s Journey from Fired to Hired (a fun, easy-to-read parable on how to successfully navigate today’s ever-changing Protean workplace
• How embrace the concepts of Protean Careers and the Proteus Solution©, so you can reach out and touch 7 BILLION people around the globe for new jobs and new business opportunities!

Once you understand the new Protean workplace and how to take control of your career, you’ll land the right opportunity at the right compensation… easily and quickly!

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Fear: The #1 enemy for all success

Like an athlete – your emotional state is more important in achieving success than your skills! This power-packed program teaches you what world class athletes, entertainers, business and political leaders use when adversities, setbacks, and failures affect them.

If you experience fear, doubt, guilt, resentment, anger, a lack of self-confidence, or any limiting / negative emotions, this is the program for you. It’s like having your own personal sports / career psychologist that will teach you simple but powerful techniques to shift your emotional state instantly, so you achieve your goals quickly.

Your emotions determine your quality of life

It’s not where you live, what you drive, or who you live with that matter. What matters is how you FEEL about where you live, what you drive, and who you live. And it’s not adversity, setbacks, disappointments, or failures that determine your situation. What matters is how you FEEL about what you face; and the skills you have to turn adversity into opportunity; setbacks into new benchmarks for your career and life; and disappointment into triumph and success.

To get the most out of life – out of your career – you need to be in total control over your emotions. To land a new job or move up the ladder of success, you must manage your emotional state.

This program examines:

1. The ‘10 Principles for Success’
2. The ‘8’ Enemies to Success
3. 4 Powerful techniques to conquer fear and maintain a positive attitude
4. The ‘3’ questions to ask every day to get “FROM” the day rather than “THROUGH” it
5. Methods to develop a personal life philosophy
6. How to eliminate procrastination
7. The miracle piece to abundance – to have all that you want; and more! (It’s NOT what you think)
8. The story of “The Boat that Had No Place To Go”

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Most People Wing It – Successful People Prepare For It

You don’t have to master 100 things to interview well and to win a job offer. Just 2 things! This is a benchmark program where you will master the art of interviewing by mastering the art of simple communications.

Interviewing is not a process where you are judged. The interview is merely a meeting between two parties where both parties benefit from their relationship. Both parties give and both parties get. Both parties invest in each other and the result is a win-win scenario. All you need to do is go to “the meeting” well-prepared.

Jay Block created one of the most powerful and effective interviewing certification programs in the nation for professional career coaches. Now you can benefit from this program to win the job you want at the salary you command. You’ll be 1-on-1 with Jay Block and will learn the 2 interviewing strategies that land jobs.

In this program, you’ll be introduced to the Organizational Message Chart™ – the most effective communications tool used by political candidates to prepare for their interview – the debates!

You will also learn:

1. Jay Block’s ‘6-to-8 Communications Formula’
2. The 9 major mistakes INTERVIEWERS make and how to take advantage of them
3. How to use the Organizational Message Chart™ to ace the interview
4. How to identify and capitalize on the 4 major decision-making styles of interviewers
5. How to handle ‘tough / uncomfortable’ question (and illegal questions)
6. The 6-steps to the interview process and how to prepare for them
7. How to prepare engaging and high quality questions to ask the interviewer
8. How to master telephone, Skype, and video interviews
9. How to handle salary issues during the interview
10. How to use video technology to ensure a winning interview performance (Optional Program)

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In a workplace that no longer guarantees jobs for life; benefits, sick days, vacation time, or pensions, many people are opting to take their future into their own hands by creating their own jobs and starting their own enterprises. This program shows you how to succeed and thrive creating your own profits and not depending on wages that can be eliminated at any time for any reason by any employer.

The Thrill of Victory

Whether you create a one-person operation or build a business empire, almost nothing can be more exciting than owning and operating your own enterprise. The thrill of freedom, independence, control, creativity, self reward, and financial riches are the innate dreams of the human spirit. Indeed, with the right mindset and skills, anyone can succeed in today’s global market – one that offers “unlimited opportunities.”

Success IS Possible

If you are considering entrepreneurial options or just creating your own job (plumber, electrician, landscaper, etc.), you may hear negative voices that tell you that 80% of businesses fail within the first 3 years. But keep in mind that statistics can be deceiving. Those people who begin their own enterprise with a good plan, a good attitude, the right team of advisors / coaches, a creative and visionary outlook, and the right amount of financial resources will succeed.

The Jay Block Companies has worked with hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs including a person who started a hot dog establishment in the middle of 4 automobile dealerships made a fortune; a 1-man carpet cleaning company that changed the name of the company and turned a tiny 1-man operation into a multi-million dollar enterprise; and many successful coaching clients in diverse areas including nutrition coaches, life coaches, career coaches, and wellness coaches.

The 10 Entrepreneurial Edge Fundamentals

The Entrepreneurial Edge™ is a coaching program that provides the “fundamentals” for building and growing a successful business enterprise – small to large. This program teaches you The 10 Entrepreneurial Edge Fundamentals that result in successful, profitable operations.

When you study highly successful entrepreneurs like Hewlett and Packard, the Wright Brothers, Oprah Winfrey, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, and Madonna… you learn that the secrets of success boil down to just 10 basic fundamentals. Whether you want to start a small shoe repair company or purchase a national franchise, the “fundamentals” are the same.

The 10 Entrepreneurial Edge Fundamentals covered in this program are:

Fundamental 1: FOCUS ON: Budgets and Profits: Numbers Tell the Whole Story

Fundamental 2: FOCUS ON: The Power of Anticipation and Adaptation

Fundamental 3: FOCUS ON: If You Market It, They Will Come: Your USP (unique selling proposition)

Fundamental 4: FOCUS ON: The 3 Key Strategies that Guarantee Growth and Profits

Fundamental 5: FOCUS ON: Creating Your “WOW” Factor; Providing Unparalleled Levels of Service

Fundamental 6: FOCUS ON: Systems of Operation and the Power of Efficiency Replication

Fundamental 7: FOCUS ON: Creating a Meticulous Action-Oriented Business Plan

Fundamental 8: FOCUS ON: Implementation and Measurement of the Plan

Fundamental 9: FOCUS ON: Creating a Strong Team Including Your Board of Directors

Fundamental 10: FOCUS ON: Expect the Unexpected; Character Wins Out in the Wake of Adversity

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