Cracking The Hidden Job Market How to Find Opportunity in Any Economy

This concise, hard-hitting guide gives job-seekers cutting-edge advice on what it takes to find--and land--a job in virtually any field no matter how dire the predictions from media pundits and so-called experts. Ever the straight-shooter, top career coach Donald Asher neither minimizes nor sugar coats reality. In ten succinct chapters, he turns conventional job-search advice on its head by counselling readers that what they think they know is probably wrong and that they're looking for work in all the wrong places. Why? Because all industries are always hiring all of the time; most jobs are never advertised; there are usually bigger opportunities at smaller companies; contingent jobs are great jobs, not last resorts; and you get jobs through people who can help you, not through computers that can't. Every page of Cracking the Hidden Job Market is packed with the no-frills fundamentals every job-seeker needs to find great opportunities--and get hired.

DONALD ASHER is the author of ten books on the topics of career, job search, and higher education. He is a contributing writer for the MSN homepage, US Airways Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, and NACE Journal, as well as many other publications and career sites.