Book: The Laidoff Ninja. Learn how to Find the names and email address of recruiters or HR people at any employer

- Saw a job that you liked?
- Find the names of recruiters or HR people at that employer
- Then find their email address
- Email them your resume, and go the head of the queue of thousands of people who will also be applying through some online resume-screening system.

This is just one of the many techniques you will learn from The Laidoff Ninja
I am one of the authors of The Laidoff Ninja, a book where we put in every technique we have learned and used successfully.

There is no other book like The Laidoff Ninja, and I just don't say it because I wrote part of it.

This book extensively deals with the stress and anxiety of not having a job. It goes to the depths of selling stuff on eBay to make ends meet. And all these came not just from academic exercises; this is the distillation of real-life experience of many, many members of The Layoff Support Network, a website that my friend Craig Brown (the other author of this book) and I founded.

We have many friends who had spent their careers as real "company men." They never had the need (or desire) to keep up with the latest job-searching tools. When they were laid off (many being at the same company for 20+ years) they had no idea how to conduct a job search, or even to survive without a job when the severance ran out and they were on inadequate unemployment.

In an effort to help, we built the Layoff Support Network: http://layoffsupportnetwork.com . It was our intent to create a social network specifically designed to provide information to job seekers. After hundreds of hours coding, we created the framework and began to add content. We found a number of career professionals who were willing to donate their time and contribute. We also began teaching free classes on modern job-searching tools and techniques. We offered these classes at libraries throughout New England.

With the recession, there are many smart people, some of them highly qualified, are competing for the few open positions. Even worse were the thousands of other unqualified people who `muddied the water" by submitting their resumes for the same job.

I will emphasize two points. The job market is very difficult and you will need all the skills of a "job-hunting expert" to help you land a new job. Some of these skills saved the house and family of some of our members. The Laidoff Ninja is not just a book about job searching, it is a survival manual.

In summary: The Laidoff Ninja is not just the ramblings of a "career expert" or even the job search tricks of two hackers. The Laidoff Ninja is the accumulated knowledge of hundreds of Layoff Support Network members. That is why there is no other book like The Laidoff Ninja.

You can buy it from Amazon ( http://www.amazon.com/Laidoff-Ninja-Craig-Brown/dp/1451558848 )