by Gordon Miller
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Product Description
A real world practical guide to dramatically increase your wages, as told by an average working stiff who quit four jobs in five years and tripled his pay!
The proven, step-by-step approach to strategically changing jobs and exponentially improving your salary and career.
The rules have changed. Mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, re-engineering, outsourcing, massive layoffs, and the global economy have reshaped the job market. It's no longer enough to work year after year for incremental pay raises in exchange for job security. Employers today are driven by the bottom line; by and large, company loyalty and commitment have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
To get ahead in today's world you have to manage your career like your finances, by constantly planning ahead for your next job. Quit Your Job Often and Get Big Raises shows you how to get ahead--and dramatically increase your salary--by changing jobs frequently and leveraging your current position for something better. It shows you why you should do it, when to do it, and how to do it.
You'll discover:
How to identify the industries with strong future growth
Why the ability to market yourself is crucial--and how to do it
When you should begin looking for your next job
How to hit the ground running when you do change jobs
And much, much more!
Amazon.com Review
Is the chance to triple your pay worth more to you than a gold watch or a crystal paperweight? Gordon Miller, the author of this book, increased his salary by more than $100,000 in just five years. But he didn't accomplish this by staying loyal to one company. Rather, he changed jobs nearly every year. He says that you too can vastly improve your salary, earn signing bonuses, and score stock options and a flex-time schedule by following his "Big Raise" strategies. Included in Quit Your Job Often are: - Tips on identifying hot industries and applying your skills to positions in those industries
- Ways to build your reputation at work and market yourself within your company
- Recommended Web sites for online job searches
- Specific moves to help you make an immediate impact on the job--and make sure management notices
- Advice to help you determine when it's time to move on to another job
While the advice in Quit Your Job Often isn't for everyone's stomach, it's certainly practical in these times of low job security. It'll be inspirational to anyone who's underemployed, has been laid off, or is otherwise in need of some career coaching--or for those who want to pick out their own gold watch.
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Average Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Good for encouraging you, not big on techniques., 2002-11-09
Lots of common sense stuff. However, if a refresher and "coach" would be helpful to you, then this is a solid book to read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 It really works!, 2000-02-03
"Quit Your Job..." is more than a how-to book, it's Miller's autobiography! Very easy and fast to read. I purchased the book in June 1999. Then got a NEW job in July 1999, leaving a job I'd held for nearly 6 years. Now in Feb 2000, I have ANOTHER NEW job! The first new job provided me with a 12.5% increase. This second new job is giving me a 33% increase over the previous job. When combining the increases from my two most recent jobs, I am now making 50% more than I was making at the old job I left only 7 months ago! Miller's advice works. I have watched friends change jobs frequently, and each time they gain substantial increases. Even if you do not change jobs, the book can help to give you a healthier perspective on WHY we hold down a job in the first place. My NEW MOTTO is this: "Work is a business partnership, not a lifetime marriage. I give my current employer 110% of my efforts. I am very hardworking and dedicated...while I'm there. Yet, my first loyalty is to myself and my family. I will always have one eye open for opportunities that will better my life educationally, professionally, and financially." And that really makes good sense if you think about your physical and spiritual health and well-being. Thank you, Mr. Miller!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
I don't know about the "dissing," but I like this book!, 1999-10-09
What's up with John from New York? Did he read the book? I thought this was a place to give a book review? Anyway, I did read the book. I really liked the part about NOT sending a resume but instead sending a job proposal. IT WORKED. I did what the author said and I got a great new job!
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
 Unbelievable Shill Reviews, 1999-10-01
I agree with the lady who posted a similar comment, and who was "dissed" by the next reviewer, who was obviously in the same publisher's camp as the other "reviewers". It is so very easy to distinguish the phoney reviews from the real. Amazon, please do something.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
I wish I had read it years ago!, 1999-09-28
I can now see why Japan's economy went in the tank! The person from that fine country who wrote the previous review must still be stuck in the "old school", which obviously isn't working for them! I loved this little book. I only wish I had read it years ago. Instead of buying the Corporate BS I continued to buy these last few years, I could be well ahead of the game. Both my neighbor and my wife also read the book and they too loved it!
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