| Acknowledgments |
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| Preface |
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Against all Odds...How Preparation Prevailed |
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7 Danger Signals You May Soon be out of a Job |
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Play for Keeps---Hold on to Your Job, A Survivor's Handbook |
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10 | (4) |
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Quickie---How Bad Can Things Get? |
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12 | (2) |
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Things Change...and it Pays to Know How |
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14 | (2) |
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12 Herculean Labors to Keep You on the Payroll |
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16 | (5) |
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21 | (4) |
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Quickie---Fine-Tune Your Job Description Without Being Asked |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (3) |
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Quickie---Misery is Contagious, Too |
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27 | (1) |
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Beat Rejection Before it Beats You |
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28 | (4) |
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Parting Words: Canned Remarks upon Getting Canned |
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32 | (4) |
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Quickie---The Stretch Marks of Experience |
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34 | (2) |
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A Checklist for Checking Out |
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36 | (3) |
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Quickie---Crying Societies or Support Groups? |
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38 | (1) |
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39 | (4) |
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Reconstruct Your Attitude |
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Anger is only One Letter from Danger |
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43 | (3) |
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You're Never a Failure Until You Think You Are |
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46 | (3) |
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Being Your Best with Things at Their Worst |
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49 | (3) |
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Pitchmanship: Applying Marketing Nichemanship to Job Hunting |
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52 | (4) |
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Quickie---Should You Go Under the Knife Knife After You Get the Ax? |
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55 | (1) |
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The Continuity of Contrarians |
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56 | (2) |
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Is this the Time to Get That MBA? |
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58 | (5) |
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Quickie---The Lecture Room in Your Laptop |
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61 | (2) |
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When It's OK Not to Act Your Age! |
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63 | (4) |
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Quickie---Moonlighting: The Wisdom of Having a Second Skill |
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66 | (1) |
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Electronic Resume Screening: Use Language That Computes |
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67 | (3) |
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Quickie---The Acid Test for Hiring |
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69 | (1) |
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Headhunters: Making Yourself Delectable |
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70 | (9) |
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Re-employment: Your Extreme Preparation Guide |
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The Mackay Daily Planner for the Unemployed |
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79 | (4) |
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Quickie---Million Dollar Baby! |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (9) |
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Want to Become an Entrepreneur? Better be one First! |
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92 | (7) |
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99 | (3) |
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Quicke---Rebirth Certificate |
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101 | (1) |
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Use Your Head, but Follow Your Heart! |
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102 | (6) |
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Adjust to What You Aren't: Resume Fine Tuning After Setbacks |
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108 | (4) |
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Quickie---How Not to Waste Your Time on the Internet |
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110 | (2) |
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Expose Yourself in the Privacy of Your Own Home |
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112 | (5) |
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Quickie---Encore! Encore! |
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116 | (1) |
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The Age of the Agile Exec |
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117 | (10) |
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Job Hunting is a Contact Sport |
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127 | (4) |
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Quickie---Don't Lose Your Face in Facebook |
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130 | (1) |
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Mackay's Deadwood Network Pruner |
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131 | (4) |
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Quickie---Network to New Work |
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134 | (1) |
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Bass Are Still Where You Find 'Em |
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135 | (4) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (2) |
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Job! |
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141 | (5) |
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Quickie---One Sweet Tweet |
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144 | (2) |
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Don't Be Blackballed by Your BlackBerry |
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146 | (7) |
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Quickie---Twitter: Risk and Risque |
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149 | (4) |
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Plugging Holes in Your Resume |
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153 | (3) |
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Imagination: There's Just No Substitute |
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156 | (3) |
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Psychological Evaluations: Shrink to Grow |
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159 | (3) |
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162 | (7) |
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Quickie---Take Pride in Stride |
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168 | (1) |
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Mackay 44 Interview Prep Checklist |
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169 | (3) |
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172 | (5) |
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Quickie---The Mother of all Questions |
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176 | (1) |
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In a Job Hunt, Make Sure Your Ducks are in a Raw |
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177 | (4) |
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Quickie---Rebearsing job Interview Questions |
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180 | (1) |
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9 Motivators to Make Them Want to Return Your Call |
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181 | (3) |
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Quickie---Lubricate Gatekeepers to oil the Gate |
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183 | (1) |
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No Isn't an Answer...it's a Question |
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184 | (5) |
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Bytes: Researching the Hands that will Feed you |
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189 | (9) |
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Early Birds Get the Worm, Late Birds Get the Job |
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198 | (4) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (3) |
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Speed-Reading Reception Areas |
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205 | (3) |
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A Business Lunch is No Picnic |
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208 | (7) |
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Art of the ask: It's Not Just Your Answers |
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215 | (4) |
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Quickie---One in a Hundred |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (3) |
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222 | (3) |
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The Second-Round Interview: How to Get to the Finals |
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225 | (6) |
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Job Search of a Twenty-Something |
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231 | (9) |
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Shriveling Your Way into a Job |
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240 | (3) |
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Quickie---What Personnel Types Prize |
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242 | (1) |
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Fly Under Fetching Colors |
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243 | (4) |
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Quickie---Timing is Everything |
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246 | (1) |
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Winning the Circuit: The Why Behind Multiple Interviews |
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247 | (3) |
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Quickie---The Ninety-Day Guarantee |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (2) |
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252 | (5) |
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Quickie---No One is Immune |
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255 | (2) |
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Negotiating Terms in Your Next Position |
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257 | (3) |
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Before You Take the Job They Offer, Take the Job You Want |
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260 | (7) |
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267 | (4) |
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Quickie---Setting Clear Job Measurement Standards |
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270 | (1) |
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Knowing When to Upsize: Asking for a Raise |
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271 | (5) |
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Quickie---Peers and Partners |
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275 | (1) |
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This Time Around: Swearing Off Career Obsolescence |
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276 | (41) |
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Kurt Einstein's and Harvey Mackay's 20 Most Revealing Interview Questions |
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281 | (10) |
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The Mackay Lucky 13: A List of Life-Changing Books |
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291 | (12) |
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University of Southern California (USC)---MBA Commencement Speech, May 15, 2009 |
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303 | (14) |
| Appendix: An Open Book |
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317 | (2) |
| Index |
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319 | (11) |
| Money-back Guarantee |
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