How to Get a Job in the Worst of Times

Copyright © 2012 by Jay Michael Schechter.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Long-Term Unemployed

Short-Term Unemployed

Currently Employed

Veterans

College Students

Note To Employers

Employment At Foreign Companies

Both Domestically And Internationally

Appendix: List Of My Jobs Since College

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to acknowledge the assistance and encouragement of Michael and Glenn Boutté. I am glad both of you guys put up with my long readings over the phone and became the cheerleaders for my persistence in finishing the chapters. You were there from the beginning encouraging me to write this book. I owe a great deal to both of you. A shout-out goes to Gerald Williams for also encouraging me to write this book and for emphasizing the need of this book for all those hard-core unemployed out there. You reminded me of all the experiences the both of us went through, and as I was writing this book, I kept those thoughts in mind. In addition, all the people who thought it was necessary for me to write this book in the first place: the people I must mention—Mark Boutté, the people at the Tacoma Social Security Office, and, finally, everyday people who I run into on the streets. You are the inspiration for this book. I also wish to thank Xlibris Publishing for editing and publishing this book.

PREFACE

There are three types of people in the world. Those that make things happen. Those that watch things happen; and finally, those that don’t know what’s happening.

—John Madden

We’re not in a recession; your brain is in a recession.

—Glenn Boutte

An expert is a person who knows less about a subject longer than anyone else.

—Anonymous

This book is not a primer on how to get a job. There is no such book out. If there was such a book, it would be on the top of the best seller list, and everyone who has read it would find a job to their liking, and the United States would be close to full employment. I do not claim to be an expert on employment, nor will I give you a lot of facts and figures.

What I am saying is that those who take the initiative, don’t dwell on events (whether they are good or bad), and don’t listen to the so-called expertise of others are generally more successful in their employment pursuits.

If you want to confine yourself about other people’s ideas on cracking the job market, go right ahead. I am not claiming to be the sole authority on obtaining a job. What I am claiming is that due to my own history of pursuing and obtaining jobs, I feel I can give you some pearls of wisdom. I am imparting my wisdom as a lifelong pursuer of jobs, having not been unemployed for any long period of time. In about forty years of being a veteran of the job market, I have worked eighty-five different jobs and counting. Granted some jobs