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Featured Book Review
by Daniel R. Murphy
Category: Success / Personal Development
Title
and Author: Use Your
Head to Get Your Foot in the Door by Harvey Mackay
Synopsis
of Content:
The subtitle of this book is "Job Search Secrets No One
Else Will Tell You". Published in 2010, in the midst of a faltering economy and multiyear
recession this book gives solid advice to those seeking work and gives them hope.
Mackay, who has established himself as a knowledgeable
thought leader and teacher provides a series of vignettes and chapters of advice for anyone
hoping to keep their job or find a new one. He starts describing the telltale signs that you
need to watch for when your job is endangered followed by strategies to save it. If you are
terminated he discusses what to do and not do on your way out to improve your chances of
re-employment.
He advises how to "reconstruct" your attitude to enable
you to tackle the often difficult and defeating job of finding a new job. He teaches how to
market yourself, discusses when further education may be the best answer, and offers tips on
moonlighting and developing second and third skill sets. Included are survival tips for the
unemployed including The Mackay Daily Planner for the Unemployed. He teaches how to improve your
resume and how not to be distracted. He gives advice for the young job seeker, the middle ager
and the older job seeker. Finally he discusses key skills to develop to get hired and stay
employed as well as a list of great books to read for inspiration and advice.
Finding employment in a difficult economy is a struggle:
first a struggle with yourself, and second a struggle with the forces that act to prevent you
from succeeding. This book is a great place to start in a serious search for finding and
maintaining employment.
Readability/Writing
Quality:
This book is very readable. Chapters are short and easy
to follow. The structure is logical and well laid out. He uses quick summaries and tips to move
the reader along.
Notes
on Author:
Mackay is the author of
five New York Times best sellers and is a nationally syndicated columnist. He is one of
America's most popular business speakers. He is chairman of the MackayMitchell Envelope Company,
a $100 million dollar company he founded at the age of 26.
Related
Website:
His main website is at: http://www.harveymackay.com/
Three
Great Ideas You Can Use:
1. The most important goal to maintain employment is to
make yourself indispensable to your employer.
2. Learn to face and control your emotions so that you
do not defeat yourself.
3. There is more than one path to success - it may be
about becoming an entrepreneur or a consultant, or it may be about being something that does not
exist. Break through barriers and go beyond where others stop.
Publication
Information:
Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door, Job Search
Secrets No One Else Will Tell You by Harvey Mackay is published by Penguin Group. ©2010 by
Harvey Mackay.
Rating for this
Book:
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Over
All Rating:
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Excellent
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Writing
Style:
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Easy
to read
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Usefulness:
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Highly
useful to the employed and unemployed
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Difficulty:
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Not
difficult
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Poor / Fair / Good / Very
Good/ Excellent
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