"How to Find a Job: When There Are No Jobs" by Paul Rega

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How to Find a Job: When There Are No Jobs
(Career & Job Development Series Book 1)

by Paul Rega

How to Find a Job: When There Are No Jobs is the first book in Paul Rega's Career & Job Development Series. Also available: 12 Steps to Career Freedom (read my blog post).

Description

Download this bestselling career book by Paul Rega, nationally recognized Executive Recruiter, with over thirty years of job hunting and career planning experience. The book rocketed to #1 in Job Hunting, Careers, and Resumes and was ranked in the Top 10 overall on Amazon at #9. This is a must read for anyone who is looking for a new job or wants to change careers in the worst economy since the Great Depression.

Paul Rega is president of a retained executive search firm he founded in 1985. His provocative new book strikes a nerve with millions of displaced workers and goes well beyond the principles of job hunting. He introduces a revolutionary new concept in career management and personal development called Intuitive Personal Assessment (IPA). Paul takes his readers on a powerful journey as he tells a gripping story about his own career and the unique challenges he's faced as an executive recruiter.

The author shares his vast knowledge of career planning and the inner workings of the job search process, citing hundreds of proven and effective job search techniques. He explains how to market your background to a targeted audience, interviewing skills and techniques, network building strategies, how to utilize personal and business contacts, effective use of social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, insider tips on working with recruiters, salary and benefits negotiation, how to write a resume, cover and follow-up letters, how to start and succeed in your own business and much more.

Despite the many challenges faced by those suffering as a result of the weak job market, Paul believes that change in one's life can be positive. He explains that, "Change throughout your life is inevitable, and as your life changes so often does your career." His book is an effective guide that will provide you with the necessary tools, skills and inside knowledge from a professional recruiter to help you navigate through difficult economic times and find a new job or change careers.

Excerpt

How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs is a necessary and effective guide for those who are in the process of making a career change or looking for a new job and want to survive and prosper in today’s hyper competitive job market. In order to conduct a successful job search in a weak labor market, it is imperative that you first identify and determine your individual career path. Once established, your career path will act as a map to further guide you through your job search.

As president of a retained executive search firm for over twenty-seven years, I have developed a unique twelve-step career assessment and goal setting process called "Intuitive Personal Assessment" or IPA to help accomplish this important first step in your job search. The twelve steps and exercises of the IPA process will guide you through the discovery, acceptance and implementation of your desired career path. The IPA self-assessment program utilizes an individual’s intuition and incorporates their ideas, skills, interests, values and life experiences to determine one’s career path.

Coupled with the IPA process are hundreds of proven job search techniques and career planning strategies I have developed over a period of twenty-seven years as a recruiter, including how to effectively market your background, interviewing skills and techniques, networking strategies and more in a practical and easy to read format.

Nearly everyone is keenly aware of a friend, relative, neighbor or coworker who has been laid off or fired due to corporate restructuring and subsequent downsizing. The job market and the economics of the United States continue to change at a staggering pace. To be successful and prosper in today’s rapidly changing hyper competitive job market, you must be armed with the proper job search knowledge and skills. It will be imperative to identify your specific career path and be able to quickly adapt to a continuously changing job market by increasing your job search knowledge and by making proper adjustments to your skills and career.

Praise for the Book

"This amazingly, informative manual takes you through a concise step-by-step procedure to first realize and assess your own values and self-worth. The author uses his personal experiences in an anecdotal manner to convey situations that may occur, whether you're pursuing a career in your chosen field of study, looking to be promoted in your current job, or just looking for something brand new. The book offers helpful hints in resumé writing, interview do's & don'ts, and is 'chock-full' of helpful websites to connect and guide you through your job-finding quest. I highly recommend this book to anyone, whether you're job searching or not; it full of common sense advice that can simply enrich your life." ~ Pat Potilechio

"I must thank my friend for sending me in the direction of this book. It's written by someone who has gone through unemployment and shares how not to just get through it, but thrive. It includes all areas of a job search, as well as how to find the right balance between spiritual, family, health, knowledge, relationships, financial and career. It's personal, practical, poignant and very informative on how to get started in finding your dream career path, and not just another job." ~ Mary K. Hougaard

"Having been unemployed for 6 months, I decided to give this book a try. From the moment I started reading it, I knew this wasn't going to be your typical 'Finding A Job 101' book which to be honest, I thought it would be. From the personal trials, tragedies and successes of the author, to the know-hows of communication and follow up after an interview, this book truly helps you understand your journey in life, know where you have come from, where you are now and where you want to be." ~ Melanie Ouellette

About the Author

Paul Rega is an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author. He began his writing career in 1980 while attending Western Illinois University as a staff reporter for the Western Courier. Upon graduating with a degree in biology and journalism, he spent the next thirty years in business having started an executive search firm in 1984.

Paul's passion for writing stayed with him throughout his business life, and he started writing his first book in 1993. He published, How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs in December 2011. The book was an instant success, and hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list for job hunting books in March 2012. He published 12 Steps to Career Freedom in August 2013, Trail of 32, a true coming of age story in September 2013, The Syndrome, a novel in April 2014 and A Two Pedal World series in May 2014.

Paul currently lives in a small town along the Gulf Coast of Florida, where he is writing his next book.

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"12 Steps to Freedom: A Career Planning and Self Help Manual for Prospering in Today's Job Market" by Paul Rega

12 Steps to Freedom:

A Career Planning and Self Help Manual
for Prospering in Today's Job Market

by Paul Rega

Paul Rega's new career book, 12 Steps to Freedom, is a #1 bestseller in several categories and has 9 five-star reviews.

Description

Nationally recognized executive recruiter, Paul Rega, bestselling author of How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs, introduces a revolutionary new concept in career management and personal development. This is an outstanding inspirational guide on how to never give up on your dreams and pursue your chosen career path. Paul introduces his unique career-planning program called, Intuitive Personal Assessment (IPA).

Utilizing his business experience as a executive recruiter since 1984, Paul has developed a unique twelve-step career self-assessment and goal setting process. The twelve-step program will guide you through the discovery and implementation of your desired career path. The IPA program utilizes your intuition and incorporates your ideas, skills, interests, values, and life experiences to determine your career path.

The goal-setting segment of IPA focuses on the principle of establishing and maintaining balance in all of life's seven components, including: Health, Family, Knowledge, Relationships, Spiritual, Financial, and Career. Balance is the key to life's longevity. By achieving balance in your life, your career will prosper. Setting goals and taking action to achieve them as they relate to the components of the IPA process will enable you to visualize and accomplish your career objectives.

If you want to change careers or are simply looking for a new job, this informative manual takes you through a methodical, step-by-step process to help you determine your true career path. Take action today and download this book. It will alter your approach to career planning and possibly change your life.

Excerpt

My father introduced me to the idea of freedom in 1971 as a young boy. I had just turned fourteen and my family was playing a heated game of Monopoly while on vacation. The game for us took on aspects of real life events. My father was a business owner that had risen from poverty to a moderate level of wealth through hard work and determination. He felt strongly about his freedom as a worker and citizen of the United States. As a young boy having been born in 1936, he had lived through World War II, the Korean War and now the Vietnam War, which was raging with no end in sight.

Somehow, the subject of freedom came up as part of the game we were playing. My father started talking about how the United States was prepared to preserve our freedom no matter what the cost. He spoke of the large number of nuclear warheads our country had amassed versus the Russians. He said we had enough nuclear bombs to blow up the entire world a few times over and described how the US had built a nuclear bunker into the side of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado as a defense against long-range Soviet bombers. Although he had never fought in a war, he said that he would die to preserve our freedom. I believed him. My father never lost a game of Monopoly or any other board game we would play over the many years. He was competitive but also a teacher and, by not allowing us to win, he had taught us a valuable lesson about life.

As I would soon find out, life would be a challenge and not easy. In 1972, my Boy Scout troop took a trip that would have a lasting impact on the rest of my life. On July 22, we shoved off from Wood Dale, Illinois and rode our Sears Free Sprit 10-speed bicycles to Jacksonville Florida. The trip took us just under a month to complete with a great deal of hardship along the way. Nearly half of the 32 Scouts and leaders were food poisoned by tainted hamburger meat at one point during the trip. Several were rushed to the hospital. Fortunately, no one died. We continued on despite our setback. The trip was yet another lesson in life about perseverance and how to never give up. We were successful in our quest to make it to Florida having pedaled 1,253 miles through eight states.

Many years before our Florida trip, a group of mountain climbers were preparing to climb Mount Everest for the first time. A reporter covering the climber’s story interviewed the group just before they began heading up the mountain. “Are you going to make it?” the reporter asked each member of the climbing team. Every climber except one said, “Yes, I think so.” That one climber said, “Yes, I'm going to make it!” Guess what—he was the only one that did! If you are to succeed in anything you have to take on that attitude. There can be no question in your mind as to whether you will make it or not.

A number of boys on our bike hike to Florida went through some level of difficulty but, through our Scout leader’s guidance, they were all able to make it. Some were as young as 11 years old. I personally never felt that way and was one of the older boys and junior leaders on the trip. Some of my assigned duties included serving as the troop’s personnel officer to provide discipline and morale to all 32 Scouts and leaders. I took my job seriously and helped to motivate many of the Scouts during our month long journey. There were a number of incidents usually with the younger boys saying that it was too hard and that they didn’t feel they could make it. We had trained for two and a half months for the trip. There was no doubt that they could physically make it. The problem was one of attitude where they were telling themselves that they couldn’t pedal any further. The attitude spread to other Scouts, some who were older. Our Scoutmaster was eventually able to quell the situation before it became a real problem, and we were able to get everyone back on board with a positive attitude.

Having grown up in an entrepreneurial environment, I was used to the attitude of never giving up—no matter what. My father had grown up in a family that struggled financially. His father had died at the early age of 47. For this reason, my father had to leave college and secure a full time job to help his mother and siblings survive. After working a number of jobs, he took a chance and started his own pizzeria on the South Side of Chicago. A few years later, his business went bankrupt and he was once again forced to find a job. He soon started working for a corrugated box company as a shop mechanic. His boss recognized that he had a talent for business management and sales and encouraged him to take some college courses at Northwestern University in Chicago. It would be there that he would meet a gentleman by the name of Maynard Garfield who owned a sales training company. Mr. Garfield asked my father to join him as a salesman for his company. He would eventually become a partner in the business, and later buy the company.

My father’s rise to success was not an accident. It was purposeful and deliberate. His attitude of never giving up and always striving to do his best were principles he had learned as a young boy in the Boy Scouts. He would later pass those values on to me as a boy. Throughout his business career he had developed a unique goal setting plan that he and his partner would work on every Thanksgiving. It was an elaborate system that they had devised in order to succeed in business. The two men had perfected their system that was akin to a map, and it worked. The business according to the plan and the goals they had set grew over the years and both became very wealthy individuals.

In June 1997, my father passed away at the early age of 60. He had been in poor health for a long time, having survived a kidney transplant a few years before his death. The constant stress of his business had taken a toll on his body and mind. He was not one to work out to keep his body in good physical condition and ate poorly most of the time. At 6’2’’ and 300 lbs., he had been obese most of his life and always struggled to lose weight. It was difficult for me to watch his health decline over a period of several years. His mantra was, “The guy with the biggest pile of money in the end wins.” With his incredible work ethic, he was able to achieve his goal. But at what cost? I questioned myself soon after his death.

At the time my father had passed away, I was already well into my business career having graduated from college in 1981. After a short stint of working for two different companies and a layoff, I started my own executive search firm in 1984. I had started a successful karate school in college in response to a number of assaults on students on campus. With very little money, my partner and I started the business and it quickly grew to over 150 students. Over the next few years, it helped to pay our way through college.

My recruiting business grew to where I had hired three recruiters and an administrative assistant. At the age of thirty, I was personally making over $100,000 a year. I was making more money than any of my friends at that point. I suppose back then that’s what I based my success on. At around the seven year mark in business, I was burnt out and wanted to sell the company. Despite having found a buyer for my business, my father encouraged me to keep it, saying that once I sold it—it was gone. His advice proved to be wise, and after some time away from the business, I jumped back in and expanded it, making even more money than I had before.

The business continued to grow but my feelings towards it were not completely positive. Recruiting is a tough business and most people only last a few years at best. Around the time my father passed away, I had been in the business over 12 years and the stress was wearing on me. In 1998, I lost my oldest child in a tragic car accident. My life was unraveling. It had only been a year since my father passed away. It was almost too much for me to handle and major depression, as my therapist called it, set in. My marriage showed signs of cracking.

I turned to something I had done since the time of starting my business. Planning and goal setting had been instilled into me since I was a child. My father had instructed me on the finer points of goal setting. Since the time I owned my search business, I developed elaborate plans and put them into motion year after year. The plans worked and the money was flowing into the business like never before. Another year passed and, for the most part, my plans were working but the life events beyond my control had taken their toll, and a crash was near.

I just stopped working in 1999 and lived off my savings, but it wasn’t enough to completely sustain my family’s lifestyle that had grown to much larger, more lavish proportions. Our life was moving at a fast pace. We had built a new house in 1996, a new baby arrived in July of 1997, followed quickly by the purchase of a new car. All of it would have been fine if I had been okay—I wasn’t. We suffered financially for the next two years with my recruiting business only barely sustaining our lifestyle.

In mid-June of 2000, I was on a trip to Dallas, Texas in an effort to shore up my fledgling search business. I had decided to drive to give myself some time to reflect on the state of my company. As I drove down the highway and got into a more desolate part of Oklahoma, it started to pour. This instantly reminded me of my bicycle trip with the Scouts many years before. We had experienced our share of rain on that trip and were often soaked to the gills. I had always thought it would be a great book, but never had the time to start writing it. I was alone during this trip, which was unusual due to the size of my family. As I drove farther down this lonely stretch of highway, it occurred to me that it would be a perfect opportunity to start writing the book, using a tape recorder I had brought.

Review

By Brian V. Menard

There is a saying that goes ..."People don't plan to fail, but they often fail to plan". When it comes to career choice, this may be particularly true. Many of us simply grab the best option we can find to suit our needs at that particular point in time. Our choice is often based upon financial needs and for most people, lacking in any true inspiration. How many of us never truly find our niche when it comes to career choice? I suspect the majority of people I know fall into this category. I believe there is a lack of understanding about how to choose our best path and thus, this book is a great solution for filling that void.

The author of this book offers a simple and concise, twelve-step process which is designed to clearly guide you through the discovery and implementation process for a new career. In some respects, you could say that this is a road map to self discovery. Each step is carefully designed to reveal important aspects of your personality, strengths and weaknesses. In addition, it looks at all of the important aspects of your life in a way that makes it easy to see the direction you should be heading towards. If you are looking for a career change or if you are simply dissatisfied with your current job, I'd highly recommend this book.

About the Author

Paul Rega began his writing career in 1980 while attending Western Illinois University as a staff reporter for the Western Courier. Upon graduating with a degree in biology and journalism, he spent the next thirty years in business having started an executive search firm in 1984.

Paul's passion for writing stayed with him throughout his business life, and he started writing his first book in 1993. He published, How To Find A Job: When There Are No Jobs in December 2011. The book was an instant success, and hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list for job hunting books in March 2012. He published 12 Steps to Freedom in August 2013 and Trail of 32, a true coming of age story in September 2013.

Paul lives in a small town along the Gulf Coast of Florida, where he is working on his next book.

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"How I Made 80K Part Time On The Internet: While Working a Full Time J.O.B." by Rick Macaulay

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How I Made 80K Part Time On The Internet:
While Working a Full Time J.O.B.

by Rick Macaulay

Description

With all the stories of fortunes being made on the Internet, it becomes a powerful draw to those who are looking for a quick fix to their financial problems. Unfortunately it also attracts scam artists who prey on these same people promising fast money with little to no effort. Making money online can be done when you follow a proven process but it is rarely a get rich quick method. Here is a step by step guide showing the methods I used to make over 80 thousand dollars over a three year period. Each year I cleared twenty five to thirty thousand dollars. Using a three year model shows that this process is a consistent one that paid off generously three years in a row. Use the guide, and even the gift on the first page, to start making real money online like I have. You can even use books with helpful tips to give away like this one.

Excerpt

Even if you’ve never made a penny online I will show you a simple way to make thousands of dollars online working as little as one to two hours a day.

These are simple techniques you can use to entice people to join your list or even buy your products. One way to have people sign up for your list is you can offer a great gift that has value to visitors just for dropping by. You can even give it away without asking people to leave their email address. When people see they don’t have to leave their personal information, they will usually take advantage of your gift. I can show you how to make money even with this kind of scenario. I will give you a great gift let people have free and I’ll show you a genuine way to make money with it! Or you can just give it away to visitors and build a reputation for quality content. That goes a long way in this business.

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By Artful Dodger

How I Made 80K Part Time On The Internet by Rick Macaulay gives excellent first hand information direct from someone who is actually 'in the trenches' doing this for himself.

The author explains how anyone with the right mindset (i.e. willing to put in a little effort) can replicate his methods to help bring in a nice little part time or even full time income from e-mail marketing. Everything is explained in detail with no unnecessary fluff or filler and links to all of the necessary tried and tested resources are provided for you along with the authors contact details should you require any further help or guidance.

Two methods are provided and both would work equally as well but every individual will have their own favorite. All you have to do is put this in to action!

About the Author

Rick Macaulay has been an online entrepreneur since 1998. His first three years were spent learning about online marketing but with little success until meeting a local online marketer. Within 30 days of being mentored, Rick received $1000 in his first month. Understanding online marketing better, he refined the process and had a successful online business grossing eighty thousand dollars the next three years working a couple of hours or less each day. With the release of his new book How I Made 80K Part Time On The Internet: While Working A Full Time J.O.B., Rick streamlines the process and shows how to cut costs to a bare minimum.

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