1. 80% of jobs are filled before they are listed on the internet or in the paper. There is a proven way to find these jobs if you know where to look and whom to ask.
2. If you want to make a career change, your resume is not the best document to use to communicate your credentials. You need to avoid your present occupational stereotype.
3. Normally, jobs listed on any Web site or public notice posting represent positions which an organization has had difficulty in locating candidates. Everyone who applies is in competition with you.
4. Most unemployed persons who are good, loyal employees and managers are not experts in job hunting. They waste valuable assets, time and money in their pursuit of employment. Often if results do not surface in six weeks, they become discouraged and even depressed. If one uses a real estate agent to buy a house, a financial advisor to develop investment options, an attorney for a will, doesn't using a seasoned job hunting professional make sense?
5. In case you have unusual circumstances in your employment history which may be considered negative, we help you overcome these so they do not hinder your search efforts.
6. The initial visit to meet with a professional job hunting professional is free. Why not give it a try? Call 503-252-3495 or 1-800-245-1108 for a no-cost visit appointment. For out-of-city inquiries, a telephone visit is recommended. The consultation time is free; you pay only for the phone call.

What we have learned about Job Hunters:
Every person we meet is uniquely skilled with different employment goals. Not only are job expectations special to each individual, but also preferences regarding time and energy to conduct a job search.

We have found that there is no cookie cutter approach to job hunting, resume preparation and offer negotiating. Each of our clients prefers to choose the style, intensity and homework preparation according to their temperament and personality. That is why we have designed our services to include the following features:

Your budget:
Cost is very sensitive to unemployed job hunters. We offer very cost effective rates, probably the most reasonable in the area. Some clients actually get reimbursed for our service fees because we save them at least 30 days of unemployment or help them negotiate a higher paying salary.

Any professional service (law, accounting, nutrition, real estate, financial planning and others) should help you substantially more than you could accomplish on your own. You should also end up with a better job, faster than you could obtain on your own.

Your schedule:
We are aware that most everyone is busy with many commitments. Life does not stop when a person is unemployed. We have designed our services so that you can choose those times which best fit your calendar. Each of your weekly IDAK office sessions is supplemented by job hunting training exercises which you take home and complete at your own pace. You are free to take as long or as short a time, day or night, as fits your schedule.

Your level of commitment:
We have found by helping thousands of clients over the last 20 years that everyone's level of commitment to get a job, a good job, in the shortest time possible, varies. Some clients set aside 40 hours per week and are very proactive in calling employers to set appointments. Other clients prefer to surf the internet and read the paper, waiting for the right opportunity. We, therefore, divide our instruction into Basic Job Search Training and Advanced Job Search Training. We also separate the more aggressive proactive strategies from the more passive job search strategies. Our clients get the benefit of all the different options and then choose what fits their temperament and personality.

Our Job Hunting Services: Each of our clients receive one-on-one coaching and training (no group sessions). Each client receives take-home learning exercises and audio instructional cassettes which complement the weekly office sessions. We have both four-week and six-week instructional sessions.

We guide you to develop a personalized job search campaign for your chosen career target for the city/state of your choice (anywhere in the U.S.). Emphasis is on developing an in-depth search in a chosen career target as well as responding to publicly advertised vacancies. Your training will include two levels of instruction: Basic and Advanced.

Basic Job Search Training:

• Networking with friends and acquaintances
• Developing your Employer Contact List
• Best sources for internet job leads
• Responding to vacancy ads
• Preparing for interview questions
• Getting past the secretary and screening committee
• Developing your resume
• Cold calling employers
• Wardrobe analysis
• Job offer negotiating

Advanced Job Search Training:

• How to locate the hidden, unadvertised jobs
• Setting telephone appointments
• Evaluating growing companies
• Negotiating opportunities into offers
• Wardrobe analysis
• Scanning news sources and internet for information
• Coaching your friends and acquaintances to help you

How do we evaluate our success?
Unfortunately it is too expensive to hire an independent, unbiased consulting firm to survey our thousands of clients we have helped nationwide. Universities have the same problem in surveying all entering freshmen at the end of four years to determine who graduated and how many got jobs.

On a more practical level, we have a simpler approach. First, we look each year to see who is still listed in the yellow pages that provides career advancement services. Unfortunately, there is a high turn over in our industry among the start ups. Second, we listen to feedback from the 600+ counselors and consultants we have trained since 1985. Are they telling us that our systems work? Third, we rely on word of mouth from client successes rather than pay for expensive advertising. Fourth, and last, for our corporate clients we provide a special job hunting service which comes with a guarantee to stay with the client until hired. This service is outplacement and purchased by companies for their terminated executives and managers. We will work with these individuals meeting weekly until they are in their new job. This means that our system better work or we go out of business.

FREE JOB HUNTING TIPS
When unemployed, six things not to do, and more

1. The important thing during a job transition is how you manage the grief and the loss so as to improve your position. Once you have learned this, you will gain new confidence in your ability to buffet life's surprises.
2. Don't call friends and acquaintances about the terrible injustice you have suffered and ask them to help you find a job. These are your "golden nuggets" and they are too important to your future success. Wait until you have a well-planned strategy to ask them for help in the right way.
3. Don't just add a paragraph to your old resume to update and send it to everyone you can think of. Your new job search will require new adjustments and your new resume needs to be properly focused.
4. Don't send off responses to every internet and newspaper ad you can find. Your disappointment from rejections will begin to undermine your emotional stability.
5. Don't decide to take a long awaited vacation or become involved in remodeling your home. Save your vacation and your remodeling project until after you have found your new job. Then you can truly enjoy it. If you defer your job search, you will spend that time worrying and not building up your confidence.
6. Don't go on a shopping spree to make major purchases. Wait until your finances are evaluated and you know where you stand.
7. Don't go into isolation to contemplate your woes. Being by yourself and gathering self-pity will not get you started. You will lose a lot of valuable time. Be pro-active and get help to expand your network and make you search as easy as possible.
8. Get competent professional help to assist you in putting your best foot forward. There is no charge for the first visit to evaluate your job search. Call 503-252-3495 or 1-800-245-1108 for a visit appointment. For out-of-city inquiries, a telephone visit is recommended. The consultation time is free; you pay only for the phone call.
   

Contact our office at 503-252-3495 or 1-800-245-1108 for a free introductory visit to evaluate your job search and resume.