1. The job Market Is Tight: It's Time to Take Back Control of Your Career
2. Don't Trust the Official " System" It's Not Working in Your Favor
Step 1. Make Five Mindset Fixes to Get Your Search on Track
3. Stay Home or Stay in Control: Beliefs That Can Kill Your Job Search
4. The HJM Search Is a Different Kind of Numbers Game
5. You don't Have to have a job to get a Job
6. Make Your Passion Your Most Competitive Asset
7. Think Like a Hiring Manager
Step 2. Connect Your Hottest Skills to What Hiring Managers Really Care About
8. Ability, Motivation, Fit: The Top Three Factors for the Ideal Job
9. Maybe You Were Fired for Fit, Not Failure Recovery from a job Disaster
10. Don't have the Exact Experience? No Problem!
Step 3. Upgrade Your networking to Get Better Results
11. How to Make Networking Really Work, Really
12. How to Network without Sounding Phony, Lame, or Desperate
13. Make Your Networking Strictly Business
14. Seven Essential Signs That Your Networking Is Working
Step 4. Power Up Your Job Search
15. Opening Day: How to Organize Your HJM Search Campaign
16. Backdoor Research to Uncover HJM Targets
17. Your Resume Is Not Your Friend
18. Your Power Tool: The Targeted Opportunity Profile
19. Find the Hot Issues to Uncover the Hot Jobs
Step 5. Get the Interviews That Count and Run them like a Pro
20. It's Not Rude to Intrude
21. Get Past the Gatekeepers
22. What to Say After "Hello"
23. Disrupt HJM Targets' Delay Tactics and Rejections
24. Own the Agenda to Make Every Minute Count
25. Get Their Attention: Tell Your Story in Two Minutes Flat
26. Flipping the HJM Meeting into Job Interview
Step 6. Negotiate Everything
28. Collaborate on Creating Your Job Description
29. Negotiating Your New Job
Conclusion You Have What It Takes to Get the Right job
Afterword Why We Wrote This Book
