Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Finding Good Jobs: The Changing Job-Hunting Process -- (START HERE IF YOU ARE JUST BEGINNING YOUR JOB HUNT.) -- 11 Hints for Job Hunting in a Tight Market -- When You've Lost the Spirit to Job Hunt -- An Overview of the Job-Search Process -- A Systematic Job Hunt -- What to Do If You Are about to Be Fired -- How Long Will It Take to Find a Job? -- PART TWO: Deciding What You Want: How to Select Your Job Targets -- (THIS TOPIC IS COVERED IN GREAT DETAIL IN OUR BOOK TARGETING A GREAT CAREER. IF YOU'VE COMPLETED THAT BOOK, GO TO PART THREE.) -- Targeting the Job You Want: An Introduction to the Assessment Process -- Preliminary Target Investigation: Jobs/Industries Worth Exploring -- Targeting: The Start of an Organized Search -- Target Selection -- Measuring Your Targets -- How to Change Careers -- Repositioning Yourself for a Job Change -- Summary of What I Have/Want to Offer-Target 1 -- Summary of What I Have/Want to Offer-Target 2 -- Summary of What I Have/Want to Offer-Target 3 -- PART THREE: Knowing the Right People: How to Get Meetings in Your Target Areas -- (IF YOU ALREADY HAVE MEETINGS SCHEDULED, GO TO PART FOUR.) -- Precampaign Planning -- Conducting a Campaign to Get Meetings in Your Target Markets -- Sample Targeting Map -- Research: Developing Your List of Organizations to Contact -- Campaign Checklist -- Getting Meetings and Building Relationships -- How to Network Your Way In -- Are You Conducting a Good Campaign? -- How to Contact Organizations Directly -- Targeted Mailings: Just Like Networking -- Direct-Mail Campaigns -- How to Answer Ads -- Getting Meetings From Job Fairs by Paul Cecala, Certified Five O'Clock Club Career Coach -- Discovering Spot Opportunities to Advance Your Career by Peter Hill, Certified Five O'Clock Club Career Coach.

Electronic Résumés, Online Company Applications, Answering Ads Online, and Having Your Own Website -- Using the Internet as a Job-Search Tool -- Social Media: Using LinkedIn to Advance Your Career -- How to Work with Search Firms -- What to Do When You Know There's a Job Opening -- Following Up When There Is No Immediate Job -- Following Up after a Networking/Direct-Contact Meeting -- How to Handle Rejection Personally and Professionally -- PART FOUR: Managing Your Campaign: Are You Conducting a Good Search? -- How to Handle the Phone: A Life Skill -- How to Control Your Campaign -- Current List of My Active Contacts by Target -- Current List of Active Stage-1 Contacts -- Current List of Active Stage-2 Contacts -- Current List of Active Stage-3 Contacts -- The Stages of Your Job Search -- How to Assess Your Campaign -- Stuck in Your Job Search? What to Do Next -- How We Respond to Life's Difficulties: The Most Important Factor in Success in Life -- Summary of Search Progress -- PART FIVE: Career and Job-Search Bibliography -- (LOOK AT THIS PART FOR HELP IN RESEARCHING A FIELD OR INDUSTRY.) Career and Job-Search Bibliography -- Section I: General References -- Section II: Professions, Industries, Interests -- Academic and Education -- Accounting -- Advertising, Including Graphic Art and Design -- Architecture, including Green Design -- Apparel, Textiles, Fashion, and Beauty -- Art and Design -- Automotive -- Aviation and Aerospace -- Banking, Finance, Investing, Securities, Trading, Credit, and Other -- Biotechnology -- Business -- College/Liberal Arts/Recent Graduates -- Construction and Building, including Green Building -- Consulting -- Disabled -- Diversity and Minorities -- eMedia, including Blogs, Social Media, Streaming Video, Web Design and IT -- Electronics and Digital Systems, including Games -- Energy, Alternative Energy and Utilities.

Engineering -- Entertainment, including Media -- Environmental and Green Careers -- Ex-Inmates -- Film, Video and Photography -- Food and Beverages -- Franchising -- Freelancing -- Government -- Green Careers -- Health Care and Medicine -- Human Resources -- Information Technology/High Tech, including eCommerce -- Insurance -- Journalism -- Law and Paralegal -- Library and Information Science -- Manufacturing -- Nonprofit -- Nursing -- Pharmaceutical and Medical Sales -- Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications -- Publishing and Writing, including Freelancing -- Real Estate -- Retailing -- Sales and Marketing -- Satellites -- Seniors and Those 40 and Up -- Small Businesses -- Summer Jobs and Internships -- Telecommunications -- Transportation (Shipping, Marine, Freight, Express Delivery, Supply Chain) -- Travel, Leisure and Hospitality (Including Hotels, Food Service, Travel Agents, Restaurants, Airlines) -- Veterans -- Vocational Training/No Four-Year College Degree -- Volunteering -- Wholesaling and Distributing/Importing and Exporting -- Section III: International Careers and Cross-Cultural Business,including Wholesaling and Distributing/Importing and Exporting -- PART SIX: What is The Five O'Clock Club? "Find your personal path in job search and career success" -- How to Join the Club -- Questions You May Have about the Weekly Job-Search Strategy Group -- The Five O'Clock Club's Job-Search Buddy System -- Using The Five O'Clock Club From the Comfort of Your Home -- When Your Employer Pays -- The Way We Are -- Lexicon Used at The Five O'Clock Club -- Application for Club Membership and Subscription to The Five O'Clock News -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author -- About The Five O'Clock Club and the "Fruytagie" Canvas.