New Year, New Job! 101 Top Tips from Job-Hunt Experts for Your Holiday Job Search: How to Use the Holidays to Advance Your Job Search: Expert networking ... Online Job Search Guides Book 2)

Most job seekers think that “the holidays” at the end of the year are not a good time for a job search, so they take a holiday from their job hunting. Big mistake! The year-end holidays can be the BEST time to job hunt, MUCH better than January, because employers are trying to be fully staffed before the New Year.

During the holidays, fewer people are job hunting even though employers don't stop trying to fill their jobs, so holiday job seekers face less competition. With so many more people waiting until January to re-start their job hunting, the competition is much tougher AFTER the holidays!

§ Only 3% more jobs were filled in January and February of 2013 (vs. November and December of 2012). AND it is very likely that MANY of those job offers made in January were based on interviews that happened in November and December.

§ Only 1% more jobs were open in January and February of 2013 (vs. November and December of 2012).

In this short – but packed – ebook, Richard N. Bolles (author of "What Color Is Your Parachute?") offers his special holiday job search tip in the book's Foreword. Then, 26 of the job search and career experts who write columns for jobs portal Job-Hunt.org have contributed their tips for helping job seekers successfully continue their job search during the year-end holidays, from Thanksgiving through New Year's Day in the USA.

These are short nuggets of advice, easily digestible, and categorized by the kind of problem or issue job seekers face during the holidays, including:
• Beat the Blahs
• Handle Those Awkward Questions and Conversations
• Pre-Party Prep and Planning
• Painless In-Person and Social Networking

Special tips for Veterans and college students are also provided.

While these tips will help you through the year-end holidays, many will also come in handy during the rest of the year during other holiday events, networking opportunities, and anyone's typical job search.

In addition to Dick Bolles, the 26 experts contributing their tips to this book are (in alphabetical order): Jason Alba, Diane Hudson Burns, Dr. Jan Cannon, Laura DeCarlo, Dr. Kate Duttro, Parmelee Eastman, Megan Fitzgerald, Wendy Gelberg, Don Goodman, Meg Guiseppi, Stephen Hinton. Rosalind Joffe, Susan P. Joyce, Laura Labovich, Carol McClelland, Jeff Lipschultz, Hannah Morgan, Phyllis Mufson, Camille Roberts, Nan S.Russell, Barbara Safani, Miriam Salpeter, Laura Smith-Proulx, Harry Urschel, Joshua Waldman, and Daisy Wright.