A Seismic Shift for the 21st Century Job Search

By Rod Colón

Up until a few years ago, The Black Hole was the only game in town.  Today, that’s no longer true.  In 2004, I started engineering a whole new Job Search System for professionals who wanted to manage their careers in the same way a CEO manages a company.  

The system is logical, targeted, and driven by CEO-style business logic.  It leverages the power of advocates — people who will help you get connected to decision-makers or contacts who know those decision-makers — within a company that interests you.  It requires you to develop a powerful value proposition which, if designed correctly, will just about require any sensible decision-maker to grant you an interview.

The system is starting to pick up traction on blogs, networking and job search web sites, and local newspapers, but the message is really starting to gain attention on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

There’s a good reason for this:  It gets results.  In the past six months alone, our "landing rate" has almost tripled.

There are four key components to my Job Search System:  Users must:

• Develop their networking skills in order to form relationships based on mutual trust and reciprocity
• Adopt a CEO mentality in running their careers as a business 
• Craft a compelling value proposition that will attract the attention of any decision-maker
• Follow a precise 7-step job search methodology for carrying out their search

The work will be demanding.  There are no shortcuts or guarantees.   Your commitment to the program is purely binary:  You’re either in it to win it, or you’re not in it at all.  Let’s get started.