Youâ€ve heard the news. It sometimes seems virtually impossible to land a job. Some employers are receiving 25,000 applicants and insisting NONE of them are qualified.

Maybe youâ€ve applied for 100 jobs and havenâ€t landed one interview?

You feel like you are wasting your time looking for a job, and you are ready to just have a job now.

This isnâ€t how looking for a job used to be.

Today, thereâ€s a lot to know before you look for a job if you want to avoid the feeling of banging your head against the wall. The alternative? You could be looking for a very long time.

Sound familiar?

Hannah Morgan (@careersherpa) and I have been working with and talking to a lot of job seekers just like you. We get frustrated when we hear from long-term job seekers who are at their wits end. When we learn more about their job search journeys, itâ€s clear to us why they havenâ€t found a job: they donâ€t know how to look.

The job search rules have changed, employers are looking for very specific information in some cases and many job seekers donâ€t know how to use the tools at their disposal to help them land opportunities.

We decided it was time to get together to create a guide to help job seekers cut through the muck. We compiled series of tips to  help you overcome job search overwhelm.

The result? Our eBook: You Need a Job: 5 Steps to Get One.

We offer 29 chapters of “top five” tips. We focused in on exactly what we think you need to know to get your job search going, from how to figure out what you need to know before you start looking, to how to introduce yourself, best ways to research organizations, how to follow up after a networking meeting, best interviewing tips, how to get recommendations, job search correspondence tips and how to use all the major social networks – just to name a few topics.

In short – this book cuts through all the extras and breaks job search down into exactly what you need to know about key job search topics that may be confounding you. We’ll be launching it on June 11th. Don’t miss Hannah’s post today — Two Heads are Better than One!

In the meantime, stay tuned for lots of advice and blog posts leading up to launch day!

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