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Special Announcement - Graduation Specials on Knock Em Dead Books at Amazon

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:15:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Give the young person in your life the tools to launch successfully. From now until May 25th, you can get the newest Knock Em Dead career book, Knock Em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers on Amazon for a savings of 30% off the cover price.
The special also includes the latest companion books from the Knock Em Dead library: Knock Em Dead 2013 -The Ultimate Job Search Guide, Knock Em Dead Cover Letters and Knock Em Dead Resumes. Special offer for Kindle users, from now until May 27th Knock Em Dead Job Interview and Knock Em Dead Secrets & Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World are just $3.99 each.
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Interview Follow-Up Wins Entry-Level Job Offers

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:54:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

For most people job interviews are like dentist appointments: you agonize about it beforehand, suffer through it as best you can, and try not to whine about it afterwards. But the truth is that interviews don’t have to be torture and they don't end when you walk out the door. A successful candidacy requires putting yourself out there in a professional way and keeping yourself in the forefront of the employer’s mind.

How Entry Level Professionals Can Tap Into The Hidden Job Market

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:08:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

You glaze at your desktop cruising the job banks, wondering why you’re entering the second month of your job search and have yet to get a single bite. The problem could be that like most entry-level job hunters, you are confining yourself to the same low-risk and no-rejection strategies that everyone else does.
A successful job search is all about getting into conversations as quickly and often as possible with people in a position to hire you. These conversations just won't happen if, like all the other dummies, you rely on job sites, resume banks and your social media profile. Getting into conversation with the people who can influence your future is how you tap into the hidden job market, and get the jump on your competition.

New Job, First Impressions

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:52:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Starting your first job means crossing that final bridge to adulthood, and you’ve finally made it. You’ve got plans for your life, and you’ve got student loans to pay off, so before you even step into the office you’re probably already thinking about your first raise and promotion. But while eye of the tiger is a good thing, you should fight the urge to reinvent the corporate world immediately.
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Coping With Rejection in Your First Job Hunt - Turning Dead Ends Into Live Leads

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:07:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Job searches aren’t for the faint of heart.There is always plenty of disappointment and rejection when you are job hunting. How do you avoid becoming discouraged and feeling like a total failure, until you find the manager who recognizes that you are a winner?
The first step is to put feelings about rejection and discouragement in perspective. No one enjoys rejection, it's like having a giant pimple on prom night, it's embarrassing and it always feels very personal, but it isn't rejection of you as a person, it is rejection of your professional skill set - or at least the way you present it.

Starting Your First Job on the Right Foot

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:39:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

So you’ve started your first real job, and crossed that final bridge to adulthood. You want to prove yourself, start taking steps up the professional ladder and get your student loans paid off. But if you really want to start your career off right on the right foot, you need to avoid rewriting the corporate rulebook and blowing everyone away with your magnificence on day one.

Professional success is based first on knowing how to do your job and building a solid relationship with your colleagues and management.

Company Research Leads to Interview Success

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:27:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

As you sit down across from yet another interviewer, you feel strangely confident. After countless bad interviews you've fixed all your weak spots. Your resume is in good shape, you have an understanding of the job you’re applying for, and you can relate your skills and experiences to the requirements of the position. All the pieces are falling into place, and you know, just know, that nothing can go wrong this time. That’s when it happens. The interviewer looks up from your resume and asks: “Tell me what you know about our company.”
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When The Job Offers Come, Which Is The Right Job For You?

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:42:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Unlikely as it may seem right now, those first job offers will come along, and you need to be ready with some serious questions before deciding to sign over most of your waking hours to an employer.

Money is the least of your concerns, it's important of course, but getting your career off to a good start with the right opportunity is more important than starting salary.
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How To Build Local Job Search Networks That Pay Off

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:12:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

For many people, local community networking can be intimidating, it’s far less pressure to scroll through endless pages on job boards and social networking online where there’s no possibility of rejection or personal interaction. But putting yourself out there and making contacts with strangers in your local community—can be scary, and besides isn't it a bit old-hat now there's the Internet. Networking is a powerful job search tool and is essential to sustained employability in this increasingly uncertain world of work, and if you go about it the right way it doesn’t have to be painful. Online social networks are important of course, but let's look at some great off-line resources and how to make the most of them.

Give Yourself an Edge with a Video Resume

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:56:00 +0000

Martin Yate
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

You’re entering the world of work in the age of Facebook and Twitter, and as a recent graduate, you have an innate advantage over older job applicants: you grew up in the Internet era and understand it intuitively. You can leverage this knowledge by taking advantage of one of the most cutting-edge job search tools around: the video resume.
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The Importance Of Communication Skills In Job Search

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:44:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Imagine spending your life reading resumes. It's hell and it is what a recruiter does all day everyday. Your eyes are red and stinging, and the computer screen swims before you. You’ve promised yourself you’ll suffer through just one more resume, but it’s so badly written and ungrammatical that your head begins to ache when you read that this idiot has, “Superior comuniccation skills.” With a groan, you throw the resume in the garbage and reach for just one more…
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How To Get A Fast Start With Your First Job

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:18:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Ever wonder why some people seem to shoot right up the ladder of success while others struggle for years going nowhere? It would be funny, if it wasn't do sad, that the same people who complain about lack of opportunity, are all too often the ones who also complain, “That’s not in my job description.”
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How To Earn Your First Promotion

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

You're a natural achiever who sailed through college with a pristine GPA, you maybe excelled at sports and/or were social leader and now you're chomping at the bit to take on the professional world. Someone like you has the right to expect to move up the career ladder very quickly. Right? Wrong! Well, extremely unlikely. The reality is, your future promotions depend more on the foundation you lay with your day-to-day performance rather than on any laurel-resting from your college years.

Building Bridges To Your New Career

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:51:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

As an entry-level professional this year, you face a far more complex career landscape than any prior generation. Do you ever worry about your current career choice and that you'll change your mind about the career path you've chosen?

To Get A Job Fast, Learn How Companies Recruit

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:53:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

A successful job search requires more than trolling popular job boards and occasionally hitting the “send resume” button when the spirit moves you. As any good strategist will tell you, tactics are determined from a sound understanding of your opponents psychology and tactics. The same goes for job search, a smart plan of attack demands that you understand how companies go about recruitment and then invest your time accordingly. This is especially true for the 2012/2013 grads who are facing enormous competition for available opportunities.
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The Fastest Way To Get Your First Job

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:46:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Servies

Your resume is on resume banks, you've sent it in response to company job postings, and adapted and developed it to fit your LinkedIn profile. Each of these actions acts like a baited fishhook, but just sitting back and waiting for a bite isn’t the fastest way to land your first job, when everyone else is doing the same damn thing.
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How Recent Grads Can Step up Their Professionalism on LinkedIn

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:33:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

You’re fresh out of school and looking for your first professional job. As you struggle to learn the ropes of the job search process, some kindly soul tells you about social networking. “Great,” you think, “I love going on Facebook; now I can look at my friends’ spring break photos and tell myself I’m doing something productive!”

You Need To Develop A Professional Brand
Nice as that would be, social networking is a different beast when you’re using it for professional purposes. A Facebook account is worthwhile, but far more important is LinkedIn, which is different from Facebook in many ways, not least in the ways you communicate with and connect to others. You need to make a professional impression, and you need to understand the etiquette, if you want to get the most out of your LinkedIn presence.

Interview Success Is In The Details

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:13:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Provessional Resume Services

One day soon you are going to hang up the phone stunned. Once you've been out of college awhile you get a general sense that, following graduation, adults slip into the eccentric habit of occupying their daylight hours with activities which appear to have almost nothing to do with keg stands and video games. Much as you deplore such loose morals, you find yourself insensibly drifting into the bad habits of your elders, and next thing you know, you’re bookmarking job banks and sending out resumes. But as bad as things have gotten, you didn’t realize you’d hit rock bottom until you picked up the phone and the woman on the other end asked you to schedule an interview. What on earth are you supposed to do now?
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Do Recent Grads Have Room To Negotiate Salary?

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:56:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

You’ve got a cell phone bill, car insurance, and student loans of a magnitude calculated to stagger a third world nation. You’re just out of school and all you want to do is pay off your debts, move out of your parents’ basement, and start a life of your own. Then the impossible happens, through some mojo you didn’t know you possessed, you manage to trick some unsuspecting manager into offering you a job but the money's a little less than you'd hoped for. Now what? Do you jump at their first offer or try to hold out for more? What's reality in this alien professional world? How much bargaining power do you really have when you don't have experience?

How first-time job seekers build networking and mentor relationships

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:22:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Every new generation entering the professional world gets accused of lacking humility, poor work ethics, a know-it-all attitide
and sense of entitlement. Fortunately, this is all being said of your generation today, which is great, because you can leverage this bad press to your advantage in finding great mentors and building strong professional networks.
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Announcing Knock Em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:33:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

I am proud to announce the publication of the latest Knock Em Dead career book, Knock Em Dead - Secrets & Strategies For First-Time Job Seekers. I wrote this job search and career management book for success-minded graduate who fully intends to control his or her destiny, during a time and when competition has never been tougher or the future more uncertain.

Knock Em Dead - Secrets & Strategies For First-Time Job Seekers delivers a new approach to establishing economic stability and success by learning and applying the rules for success in corporate America, and then leveraging them to get what you want out of life. This book carries the reader through first job searches and lays out a unique blueprint for smart career management strategies that lead to a life of fulfillment and success: to living life you want.
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How Your First Professional Resume Can Tell A Compelling Story

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:10:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Servies

Writing a successful resume takes more than just acquiring the relevant skills and writing them down on a piece of paper.

Five Steps To Jump Start Your First Job Search

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:32:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

Graduation means it’s time to take control of your life and guide your professional destiny. This first job search will be the toughest of your life, because you are in competition with your entire generation. But learn professional career strategies now and your investment will pay dividends throughout your work life.

Over the fifty-year span of a typical career, you might well have twelve to fifteen job changes. So it makes sense to develop job-search strategies that will make it easier to get your first opportunity and will help you climb the ladder of success as your career progresses.
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How To Choose Which Company Is Right For You

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:04:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

It is great to have a job offer to consider, but what if you are in a position to keep your options open? You do not want to join the ranks of unhappy professionals who accept a job in haste, only to realize after the honeymoon that they'd made a terrible mistake. A bad match may genuinely catch you unaware, but you have a greater chance of avoiding career catastrophe if you learn to identify red flags about a potential poor fit by careful evaluation and asking the right questions .
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Resumes For First-Time Job Seekers

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Bestseller
Professional Resume Services

If you want your resume to succeed in today’s world of database-driven recruitment, you have three major considerations:

1. Your resume needs to be data-dense to be found in database searches
2. Your resume needs to be succinct and focused on a specific

target job
3. Your resume needs to be visually accessible and readable