Corporate Recruiter Tells All: Tips, Secrets, and Strategies to Landing Your Dream Job!

With job-hunting manuals as abundant as rejection letters these days, tips from a corporate recruiter might seem valuable. Unfortunately, Fisher provides a tantalizing title, but delivers little beyond the obvious. Fisher%E2%80%99s %E2%80%9Ctwelve-plus years as a professional recruiter%E2%80%9D have yielded an important insight: the key concern of employers is to avoid costly and embarrassing hiring mistakes. Since self-protective recruiters and companies look first for reasons not to consider applicants, what matters most is being seen as %E2%80%9Cleast likely to fail.%E2%80%9D If this makes the least objectionable applicant the strongest, Fisher says in effect: that%E2%80%99s tough; this is how employers really think. His initial prescription is %E2%80%9Ctrust through branding,%E2%80%9D which includes references, associates, schools, and previous employers. Left unexplained is how a candidate from a community college can bolster his brand to compete with a Harvard Law grad. Fisher focuses primarily on Silicon Valley and techies, leaving questionable how broadly applicable his ideas are. Overall, Fisher offers up a few nuggets of worthwhile advice, but his book fails to stand out in a crowded market.