Top Down Method: A 6-Step Guide to Getting Interviews Without Online Job Boards

By Derek Unnasch

Are you sick and tired of sending hundreds of résumés and receiving zero responses? How does a 20-40% response rate from employers you contact sound?? "Top Down Method" is the express pass you need that takes you to the front of the line, avoids gatekeepers, utilizes simple technology, and teaches you a compelling, TOTALLY NEW job search approach. Loaded with bonus extras including interview prep methods, amazing resume examples time management resources, and MORE, this book will equip you with ALL the tools you'll need to get a great job.

Did you know that only 15% of jobs are filled by online job boards? Yet, they are the place everyone flocks in their employment search. Learn how to conduct your employment search with savvy today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098330125

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Dedication

Before I mastered the craft of interviewing and alternative job sourcing, I had the tremendous support of two wonderful parents, Daryl and Judy, without whom I could never have made it this far. To you both, I wish to express my gratitude – a gratitude so deep that I could never express it adequately in words. I can only hope to live my life in such a way as to make you both proud and feel your efforts were not in vain. I love you both!

Also, to Dan Perlman of Citadel, thank you for your very frank assessment and valid criticism of my personal and professional history. You inspired me to shore up areas of glaring deficiency. To Nancy Wong, for inspiring me to be ruthless in my self-assessment and to never be satisfied with just being good. To Kim Buth, I owe you the world for your encouragement and being such an inspirational and beautiful cheerleader throughout the process. To the world’s most disciplined man, Craig Ballantyne, for revealing the secrets to bringing structure to my workday and convincing me that discipline is freedom.

I also wish to thank my Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, to whom I owe everything. Life is all about humility and service, and it is in this spirit that I write this book. I hope all who read it receive God’s blessings and good favor in their search for meaningful employment

Forward

Literally, every time I have ever posed the question, You know how you can send out 100 resumes to online job boards and never receive a single response? to a career assistance counselor or a job seeker, there is always a laugh accompanied by an immediate acknowledgement of this as being the sad reality.

I know what it’s like to meet with the extreme frustration of conventional channels of job sourcing. I have my own personal stories of having sent literally hundreds of resumes through Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn, Ziprecruiter and other online job boards and never having met with one single response. It saddens me to see how many people see this as their only path to employment, and eventually give up in despair. Desperation truly is the mother of inspiration, and this despair played a major role in my formulation of the Top Down System.

I run an employment coaching business called EliteXTraining, and when I originally decided to write this book, it came on the heels of having coached a brilliant young girl from India into a management position with Amazon. It wasn’t an easy ride, however. Not because the method that would eventually evolve into my Top Down System was flawed or ineffective, but rather because the protocol involved was so precise, that deviation from key elements of the format would result in futility. I resolved that the steps involved needed to be documented in detail and shared with the world.

Fortune favors the bold, claims an ancient Latin proverb, and the system outlined in this book is based on this very principle. You will be taught unconventional, guerilla tactics to backdoor your competition and cut to the front of the proverbial line – and maybe avoid the line altogether. For those who consider themselves less bold or even relatively introverted, GREAT NEWS – this system, while patently aggressive by its very nature, requires no intimidating tactics or pushy phone calls on your part. We will never tell you to storm the gate of Human Resources, resume in hand, demanding a face-to face with the decision maker, as do some protocols. Rather, it is email based system, so using it should not intimidate anyone.

At the time of this writing, the US is grappling with the after-effects of the great economic shutdown and national decimation of businesses by rioters and looters. The once fertile job market has become a feeding frenzy with unemployment spiking to double-digit levels not seen since the Great Depression. The competition for available jobs will likely be truly insane for the years to come. To meet the challenge of these unprecedented conditions, you are going to need to forgo the conventional route of opportunity that millions of others will be taking and forge your own path. TOP DOWN METHOD aims to serve as your step-by-step guide to securing job interviews through alternative means. You will essentially be cutting to the front of some lines while creating opportunities for yourself at companies that your fellow job seekers