This week, we will describe a job-hunting book called Get Hired Fast! Tap the Hidden Job Market in 15 days.

The book was copyrighted in 2005.

So, some specifics may be outdated, but some general ideas from the book may still be helpful.

How can you contribute to a potential employer?

The book talks about thinking about your background and skills and how you can be helpful to a potential employer.

How to contact a potential employer

The book mainly focuses on different ways to contact a potential employer.

The book gives a list of different ways to contact a potential employer in

• Chapter Three: Should you use still use traditional job-hunting technique?
• The book discusses some traditional ways to contact a potential employer. Some of these traditional ways are:

1. Apply for job positions
2. Network- Talk to people you already know
3. Recruiters

Direct Contact How to Contact a Potential Employer

Then, the book talks about the Direct Contact method

Direct Contact is when you contact a potential employer to see if they have opportunities even if you do not see any job advertised in the job field you are looking for.

The book gives ideas on how to do Direct Contact.

• Chapter Four Identify Your Targets - And Know What They Want
• The chapter focuses on research.
• The book explains the importance of researching potential employers.
• The book gives a way to organize the research with two sheets to organize the information, including:

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• Company Research Worksheet
• Hiring Contact Status Reports

The book suggests having 150 contact names you can contact.

You can have several names from the same potential employer.

The chapter focuses on making Contact.

Chapter Five: Making Contacts Your Fifteen-Day Action Plan

The chapter gives ideas on how to contact your potential employers.

On page 78 there is a script that you can use to contact potential employers

The chapter also deals with some objections you may have to deal with when contacting potential employers.

The last part of the book deals with employment interviews, both over the phone and in person.

The book suggests that you ask about how the job will be evaluated during an interview. On p. 130, ask, “How would my performance be measured?”

Direct Contact may be a helpful job-hunting tool for finding a remote position. You may gain insights on how to make Direct Contact.

Thanks for listening.Thank you.