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Do you know the main factors employers look for when they hire? Get Hired, based on research conducted by the author who is a noted career expert, provides six insider secrets that employers look for when they hire. Understanding these insider secrets will give you an advantage in writing more effective cover letters and resumes as well as being more successful in job interviews.Get Hired is a best-selling self-directed career guide that would be a great companion book to What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles. One of the main benefits of Get Hired is that the author, a career counsellor for more than 20 years, has interviewed more than 500 companies to identify the major factors employers look for when they hire and these insider secrets are shared with you in Get Hired. This book can help you to write more effective cover letters and resumes by showing you the key personal traits and skills that employers are looking for. While other books often show you how to format a cover letter or resume, Get Hired will provide you with the key words and content that will increase the likelihood that your cover letter and resume will stand out. Get Hired can add to books such as The Resume Writing Guide by Lisa McGrimmon or Knock Dead Resumes by Martin Yate by helping you to better understand six employer secrets that can improve all aspects of your job search.It's been said that the first step in successful marketing is to understand the needs of your customer and then the next step is to demonstrate how your product meets these needs. Applying this to being successful in your job search, the author shows you the main needs of most employers (based on his research with employers) and then shows you how to address these needs in all aspects of your job search.In addition to helping you to write more effective cover letters and resumes, the insider secrets in Get Hired can help you to focus all your job search efforts, such as networking and even job interviews, on what is most important. Get Hired would be an excellent addition to books such as How to Answer Questions: 101 Tough Interview Questions by Peggy McKee or Knock Dead Job Interview by Martin Yate.Get Hired is written by Brian Harris who is an award-winning teacher and counselor. Brian has worked as a counselor in colleges, universities and community career centers and has taught career counseling courses at two prominent universities.

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Brian Harris has been involved in career and personal counseling at the high school and college level for more than twenty years. In addition, he has worked with thousands of unemployed adults in both workshops and individual counseling sessions. His career/educational planning books have sales of more than 500,000 copies. Brian has a B.A. with the major in psychology and a M.Ed. with the area of specializaition in counseling. In addition to writing books and presenting workshops, Brian continues to instruct part-time as a university professor teaching courses in counseling

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