101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times

With 2.4 million jobs lost last year alone, the American job market will continue to become more and more challenging. Most economists predict a murky job market through 2015. To make matters worse, most job seekers are not properly prepared to navigate the job market, as they don't under-stand many of the key strategies and tools needed to successfully land a job in these troubled times. In 101 BEST WAYS TO LAND A JOB IN TROUBLED TIMES (McGraw-Hill Professional; December, 2009; Paperback, $14.95; 208 pages), master career coach and national trainer Jay A. Block provides readers with motivational techniques combined with new, effective, and proven strategies and self-marketing tools for landing a job in troubled times. Jay challenges job seekers to treat the process as a “campaign,” not a job search! His successful, proven approach teaches them how! .

Great Answers! Great Questions! For Your Job Interview

This best-selling book prepares you for anything that might come your way during that all important interview. This thorough guide provides groundbreaking strategies and techniques to win the job you deserve. This resource also gives you answers for all the most common questions interviewers ask and suggests smart questions you’ll want to ask interviewers in return. This has been heralded by industry professionals as the best book ever on the art of interviewing .

101 Best Resumes to Sell Yourself - Introducing the Organizational Message Chart™

There is no other resume book like this one. This book is the most comprehensive book on HOW to market your value NOT your biography. This groundbreaking book explains how to transform a resume from a dry listing of employment history, education, and hobbies (a chronological obituary) into a dynamic, strategic, value-based tool. Outlining a step-by-step process for "personal branding" and separating yourself from your competition, this book introduces you to the Organizational Message Chart™ - the most powerful communications model (tool) ever devised for selling yourself. This resource offers dozens of tips, tactics, and techniques for professionally packaging and positioning you to attract the job you want at the pay you deserve.

101 Best Cover Letters

One of the most important books in the entire career and employment field. This is one of McGraw-Hill's best-sellers in the area of career and employment books. This book shows you how to create an image of accomplishment, professionalism, and competence that today's employers are begging for in the creation of a cover letter that properly introduces the resume! Job-seekers have paid hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for the expertise in this dynamic resource and regarded every cent as well spent! With these sample cover letters for any situation, you will be guaranteed that your resume will be read with interest and enthusiasm. Cover letters must NOT repeat what the resume communicates – it must build rapport with the reader. This extraordinary book shows you how.

Courageous Health (5-hour; 5-CD audio program)

(How to think positive and manage fear to promote healing, recovery, and peace of mind)

We are told to “think positive,” when bad things happen; but we are NOT taught how! We are told that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going;” but we are NOT taught how the tough get going! Courageous Health is NOT a program that will eliminate or reduce adversity. However, it is a program that empowers you with specific techniques to think positive in tough times and specific techniques to conquer your fears when fear infects ever fiber of your being. An “Award Wining Program” produced by earshot, a subsidiary of Nightingale Conant.

2500 Keywords to Get You Hired

Now that 70% of job searches are conducted online, and resumes are processed by computers programmed to scan for keywords, knowing the right keywords or buzzwords associated with a profession, industry, or job function and how to use them effectively has never been a more critical job-search skill. This is the most comprehensive reference of its kind, this powerful resume-writing resource gives readers instant access to 2,500 indispensable keywords germane to 300 careers in 9 employment categories from business, the law, and health care, to the arts, education and media and shows how to use them effectively both in the resume and during an interview.

202 Great Resumes

This blockbuster best-selling book gives job seekers more of everything they need to get a great job at the best pay. These resumes cover more professions, more resume styles and formats, and more cutting- edge job search strategies than ever before. Fresh sample resumes for today's most sought-after professions are included, as well as special samples for recent grads, government jobs, and those who've been out of work for extended periods.

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• 101 Best Tech Resumes (McGraw-Hill)

Any Idiot Can Make It Through a Good Day - HOW to Think Positive in Difficult Times

It's true; anyone can make it through a good day - when things are all going right. But when problems arise; when crises and tragedy occur; or when negative forces overpower positive ones, we’re all told to think positive, look for the silver lining and find opportunity in all adversity. The only problem with this is no one or no resource teaches us HOW. This high energy, 2 hour Audio CD is the best work Jay Block has ever produced and the most important - because "the quality of life IS the quality of our emotions." This CD inspires you to use the specific techniques to live a life of infinite abundance, to live life on YOUR terms, and to be in total control / command of your emotions and to OVERCOME FEAR - so you can achieve all your dreams and desires.