I quickly read JOB! with the intent of submitting (my resume) within a few days or even a couple of weeks. What ended up happening was a life changing experience.
–K.P., Job Seeker
Job Search Optimized
Rick Gillis helped usher in the age of online job search. As a result of his direct, hands-on involvement in the highly successful launch of the first job board in Houston, TX, Rick had a front-row seat to the revolution.
Recognizing these changes for what they were and their impact on job seekers, Rick created the first and only resume format designed specifically to successfully navigate the resume-filtering software that has been dubbed “the bane of all job seekers.”
Today your resume must be professionally tailored to successfully negotiate the software and emerge expressing your quantifiable value to management. This is Job Search Optimization.
- Did you know that the first resume arrives within 200 seconds of a job’s posting?
- Can you react fast enough with your current resume format to respond to those job alerts you receive? The readers of JOB! can.
Rick Gillis knows this stuff. His knowledge of how keywords worked prior to the advent of Google – which changed the way we search – is, counter intuitively, what makes this information so valuable.
The process of getting your resume into the hands of a recruiter is not that difficult. You just need to know a few job search secrets that Rick Gillis provides for you in JOB!.
Job Seeker Makeover
But even before you get to the resume, Rick provides you with the tools that will prepare you–the whole person–for world-class interviewing and salary negotiation. This course of action builds confidence, motivation and so much more. JOB! is the total job seeker makeover!
Job Search Expert
Rick has written four books on job search culminating with JOB! Rick has hosted employment-based talk radio and a cable TV show becoming a ‘go to’ expert for media in the US, Canada, Australia and the Caribbean.
Along the way Rick has personally counseled all manner of job seeker. From new grads to skilled trades to senior management, Rick worked with them all. He has coached four CEOs into their current positions as well as numerous other C-Suite positions, SVPs & VPs in multiple industries. Some of Rick’s favorite clients have been ‘professional moms’ (his term) returning to the workforce.
Rick shares with you the sourcing of your own best personal accomplishments, the technology and semantics of the hunt, résumé filtering as well as social media in job search. He shares it all with you in JOB!.