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"Overall, it was a great book! I think it will be quite helpful for anyone on the job search - from the recently graduated college student to the seasoned professional."

Jonie Watanabe Tsuji, NCC
Career Counselor
California Institute of Technology
Career Development Center

"This book provides distilled and succinct material written to a broad audience in a truly step-by-step reader-friendly format. The ‘Rules’ listed in the Prologue are absolutely right on and include points overlooked in other ‘how to’ books. ATS (post Chapter 10) provides effective daily and weekly job search activity tracking system. Our clients with a ‘military mind-set’ will identify and find comfort in the daily to-dos.

Exercises-really quite excellent and remarkably ‘doable’ and approachable by the most intimidated job seeker.

Materials covered in Chapter 5 (specifically, SIC code) are often overlooked in other ‘how to’ books. Resources in this area are difficult to come by. Chapter 9, focusing on Post Employment Rules-innovative and good ideas.

Resources--Phone Scripts with ‘Bypassing the gatekeepers’ and ‘Sample phone scripts’ is an excellent resource tool with depth/details not often found in other ‘how to’ resources. The Letter Pack with ‘Example letters for search response’ is the most comprehensive I've ever seen."

Ruth Nations
Career Focus Program Manager
Scott Air Force Base
Air Mobility Command
United States Air Force

"I found your ‘book’ to be very useable because it was written in down-to-earth language. Your writing style and advice are to-the-point, and job seekers don't want to have to read a novel to get ideas. ... Also, the book is direct (job seekers need to be spoken to in a supportive manner but not too softly if they are to take action) and practical (job search techniques need to appear "do-able" if the job seeker is going to even try them).

The worksheets, word and phrase lists and exercises were great. It is one thing to just tell a job seeker they need to self-assess. It's another to actually provide basic checklists and self-inventories right in the book!

The pdf, EXCEL or html options are great too and make it easy to retain records (i.e., worksheet data). The interactive learning methods and graphics utilized through the CD ROM format appeal to many learning styles. As a career professional, this CD ROM will be a great resource for my staff, clients and students."

Good Job!
Nancy White
Manager, Career Services
Lakeland Community College

"Your book is fantastic! I love the humor and very practical approach it takes. It takes a very intimidating process and changes it to a tangible, doable set of action plans. I found myself reading parts of it out loud to my co-workers."

Thank You
Shannan Fasold
Director
Center for Service and Work
Lewis & Clark College

"...found it not only comprehensive, but clever in the way you had worksheets attached in many of the sections. Your material seemed to be up-to-date and would be really beneficial for the job seeker...found the interview section especially good!..."

Susan Luff Chritton
Master Career Counselor
Pathways

"I work with mid-career professionals and I would not hesitate to recommend ‘Ready, Aim, Hired’ to them as a valuable and succinct job search resource guide.

While I am partial to Laurence Boldt's ‘Zen and the Art of Making a Living,’ I found your book to be less labor intensive and more focused. ...your book is especially useful to job seekers who have too little time and too much anxiety. Your step-by-step process is especially comforting. ... your humorous, but no-nonsense, approach to the job search process...

In short, you've written a valuable tool for turbo-charging the job search right from the start, all the way through to the finish. In other words, you've written a comprehensive guide that doesn't require more volumes than the Encyclopedia Brittanica."

Roger Howson
RenewVia, Inc.