Do you ever dream of landing a perfect job, the sort of opening that might have been designed with your unique and specific profile in mind, and yours alone? A position with a fantastic employer, one that pays you right at the top of the salary range and is as secure as can possibly be in today's unpredictable workspace?

Your dream job would be a perfect fit for your working style, allow you to use your highest-level skills, exploit your hard-won experience and tap into your full range of professional abilities. You'd reap exceptional opportunities for promotion and advancement - if that's what you wanted. Naturally, you'd be hired by a high-quality employer who gave you the freedom to work in a way you chose, respected your desire for a good work/life balance.

And, because this is a dream job-hunting scenario we're thinking of, you'd quickly acquire preferred-candidate status and breeze through the selection process. You’d face no competition from other candidates, get personally referred to hiring decision makers and deliver a knock-out interview pitch that had employers eating out of your hand.

So, here's the key question: is it possible to turn this theoretical dream into a practical reality? I'm happy to tell you that the answer is a big YES – but only if you decide to implement a perfect work-search strategy.

With that quick, affirmative answer out of the way, let’s unpack these ideas by summarising the headline features of this strategy.

• You’d start off by discovering some exciting and lucrative employment opportunities before anyone else that are perfectly suited to your talents, skillsets and ambitions, and with high-quality employers of course
• You’d totally eliminate all of the competition from other job applicants and become the only person being considered for the position of your choice
• You’d get personally introduced to influential company insiders, people who urgently need your particular skills and have the authority to employ you on the spot
• You’d seize the immediate attention of hiring decision makers by engineering personal referrals to hard-to-meet recruiters and interviewers
• You’d take charge of any kind of job interview, deliver a supremely-effective and highly-persuasive hiring pitch that electrifies any employer
• You’d negotiate a top salary package from a position of true power and strength
• You’d be in complete control of every key decision and action you take during the entire job hunt, which would inevitably allow you to assert agency over every aspect of your working life

The good news is that all of this describes not only the theory of a perfect work search but the reality of my Vocation Master strategy. Instead of following a conventional, reactive job hunt and allowing the employer to accept or reject you, you flip the deal and implement a proactive approach - you choose the job you want to do and select the organisation you want to work for, whether they're actively recruiting or not.

And here's some even better news - you're in control the whole way. You assert agency over every key part of the work-search process. You decide the parameters, actions and decisions of each stage of your job hunt. In effect you hire yourself a new employer and you’re about to learn how to do all of this right here, and during the FREE video workshop which accompanies this article - you can find details at the bottom of the page.

Job hunting can be tough at the best of times. If you follow the herd instinct by doing what nearly everyone else does, by choosing to adopt conventional job-hunting strategies, it’s even tougher. In today’s hyper-competitive employment market, this is particularly the case if you want to get hired by a reputable employer to do well-paid, secure and genuinely fulfilling work.

For starters, there’s massive competition for the best jobs with hundreds of people applying for even quite ordinary positions. You’ve got to hope that the right vacancy comes along at the right time, that you’ve got the right track record and that your CV or resume stacks up in the right way.

If things go wrong, if there are inconvenient gaps in your work history for example, or you apply for a job that isn’t a good fit, you face an uphill task when the screenings and checks kick in. With a bit of luck, you get invited to final interview, most of which are specifically designed to expose your failings and weaknesses. I’m sure you know the routine.

But what if you could avoid all of these problems? No competition, no CVs or resumes and no worries about glitches in your background. No application forms, no screening meetings and no standard job interviews. You remove all of the hassles and hurdles you usually get and take total control of any job hunt – that’s the essence of what my work-search strategy shows you how to do.

If you’re intrigued to learn about a radically different and hugely improved method of looking for work, you’ve come to the right place because I’ll be taking you through my alternative job hunting and interview system from start to finish in my FREE Job-Search Workshop - enrolment details are coming right up.

When it comes to specific work-search strategies, what sets the elite apart from the ordinary? What separates people who get high-paying jobs with fantastic employers from those who are prepared to settle for mediocre, or worse? How can you flip the switch from job-search loser to job-search winner? 

If you’re serious about managing the direction of your career, you have to understand what’s going on under the surface of nearly every conventional job hunt. You then need to adopt a strategy that eliminates all of the problems you’ve identified. 

This is what the most successful people do, the ones who never struggle to find the highest-quality jobs with the most prestigious employers. They see the glaring flaws in conventional job-hunting processes, then dodge these major negatives by positioning themselves as the sole candidate for any job they want to be employed to do. They get in front of the right people and create a powerful, narrative-based hiring pitch that cuts through interview resistance like nothing else. 

Allow me to emphasise the highlights of my strategy one more time, so that you’re quite clear about its benefits.

• Winning job hunters sidestep competition by identifying work opportunities before anyone else has found them
• They sometimes design a new role for themselves which didn’t exist before, and often with an employer who isn’t currently hiring new staff
• Elite work searchers grab the immediate attention of key decision makers by doing things differently and showing their authenticity
• They manoeuvre themselves into the orbit of influential insiders and facilitate direct referrals to hiring managers
• Not least of all, they crush any kind of hiring pitch or job interview - then negotiate a top salary and benefits package

Elite job searchers do things very differently such as ditching their CVs and resumes. They realise that these documents actually hold them back from achieving their objectives, and for a whole range of reasons. Nor do they submit themselves to the lottery of applying for openly-advertised vacancies that invariably results in a frantic scramble which leads to rejection, failure and disappointment. 

Above all, these people don’t have to go through any more negative and adversarial job interviews. Instead, they meet with potential new employers on a level-footing and don’t endure the usual sort of combative meetings that pick apart their work history and probe for personal failings and weaknesses in their candidature.

Elite job hunters build a powerful presentation pitch that grabs the immediate attention of hiring decision makers. They position themselves as highly-valued, and highly-remunerated, A-team players. They take control of every job change that comes along and effectively hire themselves a new employer whenever the need arises.

Asserting agency over decisions and actions is one of the defining characteristics of elite workers. It’s fundamental to a successful working life, but I’ll be straight with you. Not everyone aspires to become one of the elite because they aren’t prepared to consider, let alone implement an alternative strategy to the usual one. The fact of the matter is that most job hunters are happy to stick with the disadvantages and problems that are intrinsic to an old-school, dysfunctional method of work search.

Let me introduce myself. I’m Neil Grant, the person behind the Vocation Master training programme.

I've made it my mission to give ambitious job hunters all of the knowledge, skills and ammunition they need to give them a major advantage over ordinary work searchers. I provide a range of comprehensive work-search resources (including books, video courses and live training events) which enable you to turn the tables on recruiters, interviewers and any other sort of hiring personnel. No more frustration, rejection and disappointment because, from now on, you're the one in the hiring driving seat.  

I’ve got over 30 years’ experience in business management, recruitment and interview training, and I know that herd-instinct job hunters comprise upwards of 95% of the workforce. Therefore, I recognise that my work-search strategy will only appeal to free thinkers who forge their own paths, those who aspire to join the top 5% of employees who are open-minded enough to consider a very different (and far better) way of finding new jobs.

If you believe that you’re already part of this top 5%, or you’d like to join this exceptional group as soon as possible, I invite you to begin your journey towards better work by enrolling in my FREE Job-Search Workshop.

This is a complimentary 45-minute video presentation with no catches and no further commitment required from you. There are just two conditions to entry:

1. You need to be seeking an employed position with a private-sector organisation
2. You must be open-minded enough to consider a very different method of job hunting

If you qualify on both counts, this is what you’ll learn in my concise training workshop which is packed with actionable content that you can put to use straightaway:

• Why standard job hunting doesn’t work anymore, and what you can do about it
• How to take complete control of the entire job-search process, from start to finish
• How to eliminate all of the competition from other job applicants so that you’re the sole candidate for the position you want
• How to engineer personal introductions to hard-to-reach decision makers and get directly referred to hiring managers
• Why the perfect job-interview structure puts you in control of the agenda, format and outcome of crucial hiring meetings

Are you ready to join thousands of other job hunters who have transformed their career prospects by crushing any work search? If so, follow the link below to access my FREE Job-Search Workshop. I look forward to helping you transform your future too.

Regards,

Neil Grant, Vocation Master, London, September 2023