PREPARING FOR A SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH CAMPAIGN This book will help you... Deal with any emotional, personal or professional challenges related to managing change associated with job loss and career transition. Understand your motivation, career strengths, career interests, and values. Focus on your uniqueness and its value to you and the marketplace. Identify transferable skills and accomplishments. Focus on a more realistic future and how to get over the difficult hurdles that may in your way. The most successful job searches almost always start with a plan. The right amount of preparation, planning, and strategizing is essential. Planning helps you clarify your goals, understand your skills, target specific jobs/employers, give you more confidence, and puts you a step ahead of competitors. Most of all, it keeps you focused on and in control of your search campaign. In order to be successful job seekers need to have several things going for them: 1.A organized approach to the task of developing a job search campaign. 2.A profound perception of what value they bring to the table and what they are looking for. 3.A willingness to listen, takes advice, and tries new things. 4.The support of friends, associates, etc. This last item is exceptionally important-This last item is exceptionally important-family support, including your spouse or partner, young children as well as grown kids, parents, in-laws, people you have worked with, etc. Get them involved. Get their ideas and recommendations. Get their help in practice interviews and simulated telephone calls. I have also found that most unsuccessful job seekers have things in common: 1.Most don't spend a lot of time looking and do not treat the job search as if it were a full time to job to find a job. 2.Most don't use the most effective methods in today's job market. 3.Job seekers often look for any job. 4.They are stuck in their old ways and not open to constructive feedback. There's no single tool for conducting a successful job search. There are many inventive and efficient ways to go about it. Still, there are some essential tools that all job seekers should comprehend and have in their stash of methods before they start. Getting Over Job Search Hurdles, Preparation and Positioning, provides the comprehensive insights and realistic advice you need to get over the hurdles and help you plan to launch a successful job search campaign, even in the utmost challenging of times. So, first things first. Before you get started with your search, you must understand the rules of a successful job search campaign including the Stages of Job Loss and how it can affect your search. Then you can start defining your goals, identifying your accomplishments, develop your plan, and then write your resume and other job search marketing materials."