"Job Search Survival Kit"

By Jeffrey Percival

Having worked with Job Seekers for over 25 years, I have heard them talk about "Surviving this period of unemployment". It is time for Job Seekers to have their own Survival Kit to help them through the process of landing a new job.

So we will start with looking at the contents of a Survival Kit and work to understand what you need to do to Survive. Next, we apply this to the process of being unemployed or under employed until you find new work, to give you your own "Job Search Survival Kit". This ebook is filled with proven techniques to help you land your new employment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781624888311

Book preview

2012

Preface

I am a survivor

I have survived:

A divorce

Getting laid off, by a pink slip

Hitchhiking over 10,000 miles

Nearly being killed by a road raged, drunken driver

A Dear Jeff letter, from my first love

Nearly going bankrupt, from my first business

Falling through the ice, when I was 11 years old

Having my franchise value being wiped out, by the franchisee

Being cheated out of a $30,000 commission

Threats of lawsuit, for telling the truth

Giving up a sales force of 8 salespeople to start over for myself

Being sucked into an agitator at the bottom of a waterfall

Losing 50% of the value of my first home

Losing my canteen in the Nevada desert

Totaling my car

Living Yesterday

Living Today

I am a Survivor

Introduction

Why Survival?

Right now the concept of survival is very popular. The television show Survivor has great ratings. Numerous magazine articles and books talk about surviving and survival situations. The survivors from hurricane Katrina have been interviewed and re-interviewed because people are interested in how they survived. The survivors from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have their own stories.

These are all extreme survival situations. We tend to overlook the everyday survival situations. This book is dedicated to those people who survive the job search process. It can be a devastating ordeal which questions your personal value. (By the way, not all survive.)

This book is