Publisher's Synopsis
If you're qualified for the opportunities you seek and recruiters ignore you, I bet your self-confidence and self-esteem are on shaky ground. You're losing your 'INNER GAME' when you could be winning interviews as an IDEAL CANDIDATE each time you apply. Would you like some help from an in-house recruiter with 18 years of successful recruiting experience and over 35 years helping job seekers create custom resumes and cover letters that moved them from GENERIC APPLICANTS to IDEAL CANDIDATES? In a nutshell, if you have the experience and recruiters are ignoring your generic resumes, here's why. This is a job market that IGNORES GENERIC and REWARDS CUSTOMIZED. You are sending GENERIC JOB SEARCH JUNK MAIL. You are causing your own crisis of self-confidence prolonged unemployment. This Workbook will show you how to regain your self-confidence, WIN YOUR 'INNER GAME' and present yourself as an IDEAL CANDIDATE so you'll win INTERVIEWS for meaningful work you want to do. As one client wrote in a testimonial, "Don Burrows has put a spin on the traditional resume which, unlike so many others out there, actually works." If you'll work this Workbook to the best of your ability, speed bumps and all, and not quit on yourself, I can guide you to STOP SENDING JOB SEARCH JUNK MAIL, regain your self-confidence, and win interviews as an IDEAL CANDIDATE. In today's labor market, with so many qualified, enthusiastic and available applicants who are WINNING THEIR 'INNER GAME', Human Resources, recruiters and hiring managers have their pick of the crop. If you are not part of the crop being picked and your self-confidence is in free-fall, this 'INNER GAME' Workbook is for you. WINNING YOUR 'INNER GAME' in this very competitive and niched economy means regaining and sustaining your personal resiliency, self-esteem, self-confidence, sense of future optimism, and belief in your ability to persist until you win interviews for meaningful work you want to do. JOB SEEKERS / SOLOPRENEURS / FREELANCERS / EXECUTIVES.IN.TRANSITION: It's nearly impossible to keep your spirit up and fill your cover letters and resumes with positive and enthusiastic vibes when you're losing your 'INNER GAME'. And yet that's what you must do because those are the applicants recruiters are calling. If your generic reverse-chronological resumes and cover letters are radiating fearful, angry or depressed vibes, recruiters and hiring managers pick up on them and step away from you. YOU are LOSING YOUR 'INNER GAME' and that makes YOU the primary cause for not getting interviews and work. Nothing will change until you learn to "see" yourself and then present yourself more effectively. The most effective way for that to happen and begin winning interviews for work you are qualified for and want to do is to identify and then customize your RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS and SPECIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES to create TARGETED RESUMES AND COVER LETTERS. This COMPANION WORKBOOK to my D-I-Y Amazon Kindle best seller HOW TO GET INTERVIEWS! STOP SENDING JOB SEARCH JUNK MAIL is about helping you identify those accomplishments and skills as the first step to changing your "self-talk," your attitude and your mindset about how you "see" yourself and about the job search tools and strategies you choose to use to present yourself to HR, recruiters, and hiring managers. YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF an IDEAL CANDIDATE EVERY TIME YOU APPLY.
