Getting Hired: How to Prepare to Compete and Win the Job you Want Now and in the Future

by Paul McBlaine

Do you want to get hired? The Getting Hired Program in this book is your guide to beating your competition and getting the job you want. Imagine that almost every application you make results in an interview and an offer. That can be your reality if you are better prepared than other applicants. *PAUL MCBLAINE has worked on five continents and coached hundreds of professionals in many industries. Thanks to the depth of experience, he has developed universal strategies, tools, and behaviors that work across industry, levels, and roles. He spent most of his career either creating his transitions or helping others to design their futures. The result is a program that applies to job hunters at all stages of their careers to make successful career changes.

The Career Series is a complete guide to help you take control of your career and be successful, whether you are getting hired, leading, managing, consulting, or getting promoted, or retiring. This first book contains over 160 specific actions to help you create a powerful job-winning toolkit. The book includes writing winning resumes and cover letters, developing a personal marketing message, and optimizing your LinkedIn Profile. Everything you need to get noticed. The program doesn’t stop there.

Getting noticed and landing an interview is just the beginning. The program focuses on how to prepare yourself to crush all of your interviews. Getting Hired will be a life long roadmap for owning your career path and your future. Your career is your most important job. Unless you are an entrepreneur or independently wealthy, you will spend a considerable amount of time looking for employment throughout your career.

Even if you want a different job in your current company, you need to be prepared to apply and interview for your new position. If you are well prepared, you will get the job you want. Make no mistake; getting hired is a competition. This book will help you discover what you want and learn how to ask for it, compete, and win.

Perhaps you already have a job, but you are not happy in your current position; you might want a promotion, be out of work, or have just graduated. Further, you may not yet know what job you can do, what career will make you happy, or how you want to pivot your career. There is an infinite number of reasons you might look for something new, but you need to get hired to make a career change.

At some point in everyone’s career, they will need to change jobs, careers, or both. Nothing lasts forever, and you need to prepare for the change. There is, and will continue to be, enormous competition for jobs at all levels. You are not alone. There are millions of people in your position searching for a job, and millions of jobs available. Yet, there are still hundreds of thousands of open opportunities that go unfilled. Many well-qualified individuals won’t even get a response to an application or a simple screening interview. Why? Because they may lack focus, or are not prepared, or not going about their job search campaign in the best way. They don’t stand out from the crowd, and to be successful, you must stand out! Your challenge is to compete and win.

I created the Getting Hired Program to help my clients stand above their competition. The Program helps them be more confident by showing them how to conduct thorough research and job search preparation. There are generally two ways of finding a job: networking or applying to a job posting. The Getting Hired Program is a step-by-step guide to successfully managing careers using both approaches. Adequate preparation demonstrates to any employer that the candidate cared enough to do their homework. The rest of the decision comes down to personality. Well-prepared candidates will compete, win, and get hired.

188 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2020

About the author

Born in Champaign, Illinois, Paul's life changed forever when his father accepted a job in California working with the first computers. His family bravely undertook the cross-country road trip to California along Route 66, with three children under 12. His wanderlust was born on that summer trip.
He grew up in the town of Corona, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. After high school, he joined the Navy and was trained to repair cryptographic equipment. He was stationed in San Diego, San Francisco, Norfolk, VA, Morocco, and Japan and made side trips to Europe and the Philippines.
He was a voracious reader of English literature and was inspired to write. He kept extensive journals of his world travels, wrote poetry and short stories. Hundreds of unpublished pages works are still looking for a story.
Returning home, he earned Masters in Biochemistry and Biology before landing his first at Baxter Biotech as a researcher. While pursuing his MBA, he wrote a paper on the importance of owning your career.
True to his thesis, Paul pivoted his career more than 20 times over the next four decades. As a management consultant, he worked in the U.S., Australia, and London in multiple industries where he coached and mentored over 500 individuals to help them further their careers.
Paul and his wife Lili, make their home in Chicago, where he is the fourth generation to live, work and play.