Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You

by MacKay, Harvey

• ISBN13: 9781591843436
• ISBN10: 159184343X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-04
• Publisher: Portfolio Trade

Summary

"Harvey Mackay hits the bull's-eye. An important book for important times in our lives. The Shark Man at his very best." -Larry King Harvey Mackay returns with the ultimate book on how to get, and keep, a job you truly love whether you're twenty-one, fifty-one, or seventy- one. In this era of downsizing and outsourcing, you can never be sure your job will still exist in five years-or five weeks. So you'd better think of your career as a perpetual job search. That demands a passion for lifetime learning and the skills for relentless and effective networking. Uplifting, amusing, and jam-packed with proven tips, Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Doorwill guide you through the toughest job market in decades. It's also the definitive A-to-Z career resource for the rest of your life.

Author Biography

Harvey Mackay is the author of five New York Times bestsellers (three of which went to #1), in­cluding Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive. The New York Times also named Swim with the Sharks and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt as two of the fifteen most inspira­tional business books of all time. His books have sold more than ten million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-seven languages and distributed in eighty countries.

Mackay is also a nationally syndicated columnist for United Features Syndicate and one of America’s most popular and entertaining business speakers. He’s been named one of the top five speakers in the world by Toastmasters International.

Mackay is chairman of MackayMitchell Envelope Company, a $100 million company he founded at age twenty-six.

He has been married to his wife, Carol Ann, for forty-nine years. They have three children and nine grandchildren.