Job Seeker Decisions Guide • Resume, Cover Letter, Interview Prep (PDF)

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A JOB SEARCH IS NOT A TEST OF EFFORT. IT IS A SEQUENCE OF DECISIONS.

Most people pour in effort — more applications, a harder-polished resume, more networking — and stall, then conclude they are doing the work wrong. Usually they are not. The search stalled because the hard part was never the effort. It was the deciding: which direction, which roles out of the thousands you could chase, how to make a stranger see your value in seconds, when to push on an offer and when to close, and what to do when the role you wanted turns out to be wrong.

Get better at those decisions and the effort starts to pay. That is what this edition teaches — a better way of deciding, in the order a real search asks you to decide.

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WHAT'S INSIDE (112 pages · PDF + ePub)

This edition brings together — and goes beyond — all six Handbooks in the Job Seekers series:

▸ The First-Role Handbook — landing the first job, from study into work
▸ The Career Pivot Handbook — changing field or function, and translating what you've done
▸ The Internal Move Handbook — the promotion and the move up inside your own organisation
▸ The Rebound Handbook — the comeback after redundancy or a layoff
▸ The Return-to-Work Handbook — returning after a career break
▸ The Interview Handbook — the conversation that runs through all five

Then it adds what none has alone: the five paths read as one, the eight decisions beneath every search drawn out in full, and — at the end — the method itself, named and made portable, so it serves you long after this search is over.

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THE EIGHT DECISIONS

1 · Where am I, really?
2 · What am I actually deciding?
3 · Picking the right opportunity
4 · Translating yourself
5 · The room
6 · The offer and the close
7 · The longer game
8 · When you get it wrong

Underneath all eight runs one small habit you will use until it stops feeling like a method: Read. Name. Weigh. Commit.

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WHO THIS IS FOR

✓ Anyone job searching who wants a method, not a pep talk
✓ First-time job seekers, career changers, people returning after a break
✓ Anyone made redundant or laid off who wants a clear path back
✓ People moving up inside their own organisation
✓ Anyone who wants the decision-making skill that outlasts this one search

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WHAT YOU GET

▸ Decisions of a Jobseeker — 112-page PDF (6×9, selectable text) + reflowable ePub
▸ Instant download, available immediately after purchase
▸ Free access to all future editions
▸ Worked examples throughout — the thinking good choices rest on, shown not just told

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