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Create a New Year Dream Career, Gain Clients or Start a Business.
This Proven 4-Session Course Can Show You How!
Create your “Dream 2015 New Year” Career through learning the art of strategic, systematic and stealth connecting with folks in your fields of dreams. Move into your next greatest career Self-expression!
Darrell Gurney, veteran recruiter and career strategist, will support you to have the confidence and strategic approach to open the doors to take your career to exciting new levels…or into completely new directions in 2015!
Proven Tips, Tools and Tactics to Make Connections that Create Opportunities for You
| • Sales Professionals | • Administrative Staff | • Chief Marketing Officers |
| • Attorneys | • Non-Profit Executives | • Directors of Security |
| • MBAs | • CPAs | • CEOs |
| • Harvard MDs | • Engineers | • Hollywood Production Executives |
| • Chief Information Officers | • Directors of Manufacturing | • Human Resource Managers |
…and even relatively new college grads because it’s UNIVERSAL in its impact and success!
Watch this short video to understand why I wrote
Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest
Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest
Foreword by Dr. Ivan R. Misner, Founder of BNI; Endorsed by Harvey Mackay, Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive; Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone; Joyce Lain Kennedy, Tribune Media; T. Harv Eker, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind; Dave Logan, Tribal Leadership; Penelope Trunk, The Brazen Careerist; Mark Goulston, Just Listen; Joe Sweeney, Networking is a Contact Sport; Paula Fellingham, Women’s Information Network; Berny Dohrmann, CEOSpace Inc.; Lt. Col. “Waldo” Waldman, Never Fly Solo; Jim Cathcart, Relationship Selling; Greg S. Reid, Napoleon Hill’s Road to Riches and many more…
The problem with a book, even a great book,
is that it’s not HANDS-ON experience…and
it takes forever to get through it!
From: Darci O.
To: Darrell W. Gurney
Subject: Great research interview today!
Hi Darrell,
Today I interviewed a senior financial advisor (and CFO) for [confidential], where a good friend of mine works – and it was a great interview – he told me alot of interesting things regarding my questions, and SURE ENOUGH, he automatically asked me if I wanted to talk to their CEO and COO, as they have interesting perspectives as well.
So that will be set up shortly and I’m still over the moon about all this.
He also asked me if I was looking for a job, so I casually alluded to being available (not desperate though!). Then he remembered that a gal who was VP of Production at [confidential] just departed the company after 15 years. He didn’t know anyone directly, but gave me the name of the manager over there – so we’re probably talking about an unadvertised job at this point.
He also had a good look at my resume and said it looked great.
We really jived – but my friend knew we would because she’s known him a long while and he’s an inspired, networky type.
Anyway, I’m amazed!
When I leave these backdoor interviews I feel sooo good – there’s something highly worthwhile at play here (something dynamic).
Also, I feel when I interview with HR tomorrow at [confidential] where that other amazing backdoor connection happened last week, that I’m not nervous in the least – because I feel like i’m out there interviewing all over already…and I feel completely prepared! Thanks for this – it is the gift of self-esteem and self-worth in job search! 😀
All the best,
Darci
[NOTE: READ TO THE VERY BOTTOM OF THIS WEB PAGE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!]
How Often Do You Find Yourself Saying “I Wish I Knew Some Way to Get in That Field” or “If Only Someone Would Open a Door for Me”?
So, what do you get in 4 sessions over 3 weeks? You cover all of the questions, exercises and principles outlined in Never Apply for a Job Again. You find your own answers and understanding in a supportive environment such that you leave the course activated on all of it, with your plan in hand and meeting game-face on. 20 individuals will literally be in action out talking to people in their areas of passionate interest using this method before the course ends in the New Year…all within 3 weeks!
Here’s the schedule:
Session #1 – Tuesday, Dec 16, 5pm-7pm PST
• Breaking through “The Rules to Start Breaking”
Don’t Talk to Strangers
Mind Your Own Business
Wait Your Turn
Play Fair
Don’t Speak Until Spoken To
Don’t Toot Your Own Horn
Don’t Bother People
Don’t Stand Out
Stick With One Thing
Don’t Be Pushy
Avoid Rejection at All Costs
Do Things the “Right” Way
Don’t Ask for Favors
Important People Don’t Have Time for Me
Follow the Proper Channels
• Learning “The Evolution of a Hire”…which applies to business owners as well
• Understanding “The 4M Method of Career Management”…and how to implement it in your life
• Exploring the Trough of Transition…and how to let go and move on to your next greatest career.
Even this first session can have you create enormous career breakthroughs. Here’s another email I received recently from someone who had just heard me covering “The Rules to Start Breaking” that morning in a presentation:
From: Eric N.
To: darrell@careerguy.com
Subject: RE: Execunet Meeting Follow-up
Darrell,
Thanks again for your presentation this morning, and the nudge worked. I took it to heart an hour later: I had an opportunity to strike up a conversation with an incredibly successful businessman I met in OC and it turned into a 2 hour “chat” with follow up planned! Really an amazing opportunity that I almost missed, and I have you to thank. You just never know … I’d be honored to stay connected with you and will be pointing folks your way.
Eric
Session #2 – Tuesday, Dec 23, 5pm-7pm PST
• Activating the first 3 Principles of “10 Time-Tested Principles for Launching an Effective Stealth Campaign”
Principle #1: The Best Way to Get a Job is Don’t Be Looking for One
Principle #2: An Ounce of Research is Worth a Pound of Job Search
Principle #3: A Question-Able Person Creates Enthusiastic Relationships (this one is JAMMED with lots of insightful and probing exercises to get you absolutely clear on your passion and direction)
Session #3 – Tuesday, Dec 30, 5pm-7pm PST
• Activating the next 5 Principles of “10 Time-Tested Principles for Launching an Effective Stealth Campaign”
Principle #4: You Can Never Have Too Much Information, and the Higher the Altitude, the Better
Principle #5: A Friend in Need Doth Repulsion Breed
Principle #6: Call Me Expert, I’ll Open My Door
Principle #7: Eyes to Eyes Gets You the Prize
Principle #8: Building Relationship Equity…One Meeting at a Time
And then setting you up to go out and conduct your first 3 stealth meetings in the next week!
Session #4 – Tuesday, Jan 6, 5pm-7pm PST
• Sharing, feedback and coaching on stealth meetings conducted
• Activating the final 2 Principles of “10 Time-Tested Principles for Launching an Effective Stealth Campaign”
Principle #9: Top of Mind is Easy to Find
Principle #10: Treat Yourself Like a Business to Stay in Business
And then setting you up in mastermind Dream Teams to support one another in your campaigns!
Bonus #1) My new ebook, “Finding the S Spot: Career Pleasure Secrets for Merging Skills, Play & Pay” (Value: $20)…so you can get REALLY clear about the direction you want to take your career, which will make your experience in this 4-session course even more effective and fulfilling.
“Every so often along comes a book that feels more like a conversation with an old friend. It seems to know you, it asks all the right questions and at the end it holds up a mirror showing an insightful reflection. Finding the S Spot is that book! The questions keep coming, the sequence makes a lot of sense, the advice is priceless and the result is unexpected. It is well worth the read and the time invested. I enjoyed and I am sure you will as well.”—Alex Marinescu, MBA, Sales Manager/General Manager
“All of us are searching for our career sweet spot, but rarely know how to do it. Darrell gives you the tools and road map to find the optimal career and to do it on your own terms. For anyone wanting to better their life and follow their calling, this is required reading–whether you’re just entering the working world or retiring and beginning a second career.”—Joe Platnick, Partner, Venture Capital Firm
“Finding the S Spot playfully suggests insightful and clever ways of determining your next career move. As someone recently leaving undergrad, I would not have thought rigorously about my physical environment, for example, nor would I have united multiple job descriptins to create a new one of my own. Finding the S Spot is a useful tool on the path toward satisfying employment.”—Camille Bridges, New Grad and Management Consultant
“I really think it’s brilliant how Darrell packed so much empowerment in such a few pages! I can’t think of anyone who would ready this book and not have it make a profound difference in how they look at their choices in life, especially pertaining to careers, and how they could not walk away feeling uplifted, re-energized, and inspired! BRAVO!! This will benefit so many people in so many ways, I will be shocked if this isn’t a bestseller.”—Rafe Leyva, Founder, InnerVision Marketing and Mastermind
Bonus #2) My award-winning book, “Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters” (Value: $15)…because I want you to know how to make the best use of recruiters in these times where the right recruiter can be a Godsend (even though I’m going to teach you to be your own headhunter!)
Winner of the Clarion Award for Best Book
from the Association for Women in Communications
“Darrell W. Gurney’s friendly and concise Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets™ for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters is a welcome resource. With helpful checklists and bulleted summaries, Gurney explains in upbeat, chummy prose all there is to know about the recruitment process.”—Publishers Weekly
“Headhunters Revealed unlocks the secrets of finding a professional recruiter. Save yourself all the hassle of getting stuck with the wrong representation. Even if you aren’t in the midst of making a career change, it’s never too early to read this book.”—Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times Best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, including Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
“Executive Recruiters hold the key to the hidden job market. This straight-forward book shows you how to make this resource work for you.”—Wayne Cooper, CEO, Kennedy Information, publisher of The Directory of Executive Recruiters
“Headhunters Revealed is an excellent and much needed guide to tracking down and working successfully with recruiters when you are looking for new opportunities. Everyone tells you to connect with these professionals, but only Darrell tells you how.”—Margaret Riley Dikel, author of The Riley Guide and co-author, The Guide to Internet Job Searching
“Darrell’s expansive knowledge of the job search arena enables him to reach both the novice and experienced job seeker. The examples and illustrations are ‘on target’ with accepted career strategies. This book is a must read for unhappily employed and unemployed professionals at all levels.”—Howard Pardue, Fortune 500 HR Director and former Vice President/Managing Director of Right Management Consultants
Bonus #3)A full $50 Gift Certificate towards the upcoming 8-Week Career Transformation Program starting Jan 13, 2015 (Value: $50)…so that you can empower yourself even more with my popular and long-standing group webinar training program that gets you personally branded and even deeper into action and supported to create your “Dream 2015 New Year”.
Bonus #4) The book upon which this course is based, “Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest”(Value $15)…because I want you to have read it through and be ready to hit the ground running to put it into action when the course begins.
“Never Apply for a Job Again elaborates on a secret I’ve preached for years: in a job search, the best way to get to work is to network. Darrell Gurney will help you open the back door to your next career move.”—Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
“Whether it’s building wealth through a job or your own business, Darrell Gurney shares how to connect with people through whom that abundance will flow.”—T. Harv Eker, Author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
“Never Apply for a Job applies the basic truth of my own philosophy to your job search: relationships are the key. Whether it’s a job, a career change, or even an entrepreneurial venture, it’s the people who make anything possible for you. Anything!”—Keith Ferrazzi, co-author of the Bestselling Never Eat Alone
“Where there’s a way there’s a will. Most people don’t lack the will to network, they lack the way. Once people find a way that makes sense, feels right and is doable even by those who are a tad network challenged, they’ll jump on it in a heartbeat. That is exactly what you should do with Never Apply for a Job Again: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest. Don’t leave home without it.”—Mark Goulston, author of the International Bestselling “Just Listen” Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
“Never Apply for a Job Again applies tribal dynamics to communicate and get known. Future corporate leaders must have the ability to put ‘career tribes’ in place and start building teams even before they’re hired. This book shows you how.”—Dave Logan, New York Times #1 bestselling coauthor of Tribal Leadership and The Three Laws of Performance
Bonus #5) The Early-Bird “Dream 2015 New Year” Discount of $100 (Value: $100)…because I want you to have no excuses for not investing in yourself given the enormous value this course provides, even without this early-bird discount. The regular tuition, after the early-bird date of Sunday, Dec 7, will be $297. So, by taking advantage of the “Dream 2015 New Year” Special Offer now, you save a full $100 off of that already low regular tuition!
(Note: The “personal branding” Lee talks about isn’t covered in these 4 sessions,
but it is in the 8-Week program you get a discount to – Bonus #3)
Course Registration and Bonus Details
Course Dates: Dec 16, 23, 30, and Jan 6, 5pm – 7pm PST
Course Location: Your living room, kitchen table, or office…via GoToMeeting webinar. You’ll need to simply connect via the web and through your phone line (your long-distance charges apply).
Early-Bird “Dream 2015 New Year” Special Offer:
Register by midnight PST, Sunday, Dec 7, and get ALL Bonuses listed above (1 through 5).
Register within a week after that (if any spots are available), by midnight PST, Sunday, Dec 14, and get Bonuses 1 through 4, at the regular tuition of $297 (still an incredible value for 8 hours of coaching over 3 weeks with your own personal Dream Team to follow you into the New Year).
Register by clicking the “Add to Cart” button below.
[NOTE: All sessions will be recorded, in case you miss one. And, because the bonuses and discounts are significant, I’ll ask for a video testimonial from you during or after the course as part of the deal. Bonus books will be mailed and emailed within a few days of registration. Because of the immense value being offered and bonuses being sent out, refunds are not possible except in the case of the guarantee below. If you must cancel after registration, you will, however, receive full credit (less bonus values) for any future products or services from CareerGuy.com.)
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Serious About Wanting to Make Connections
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Start a Business?
Here’s How to Get Your Dream Career, Gain Clients or Start a Business!
Guaranteed… Or Your Money Back!
 Regardless of this incredible deal and my personal time with you, if you attend all sessions and still say at the end of the two weeks that you didn’t get any value, not one nugget of wisdom or nudge to move you forward (I can’t imagine that), I’ll refund the investment that you made in yourself and your career. |
Again, I’m making this very affordable to do my part to get you moving powerfully NOW when you can impact your New Year career. I expect the available spots to fill fast.
Here’s what some other course participants have said:
“What makes Darrell’s approach so great, is that it creates an opportunity for the job seeker to engage the executives in conversation on topics that are important to them. This results in executive taking the interest in, and liking, the job seeker, leading in turn in the job seeker being ‘top of mind’ for opportunities that would otherwise not be available.”–Alexandra K., MBA, SPHR, Human Resources Manager
“I recently attended Darrell’s webinar and loved it. I was in a tough working transition feeling like I had hit a wall in my industry. In the course Darrell brought out some ideas that helped me think outside of the box..and I found Darrell to be very personable coaching you toward your life goals. It was an awakening for me, giving me a fresh start. Upon taking the workshop I took some steps that I once felt was too risky..and now (3) different doors and opportunity have opened up to me. I am so delighted and highly recommend Darrell’s webinar and book “Never Apply for a Job Again”. BIG thanks Darrell!”–Gloria D., PR/Events Manager
“Stealth Campaigns….. Backdoor Meetings! Before your webinar I thought these terms were only used to describe espionage! Now I understand better that reconnaissance is indeed the KEY FACTOR in sales and finding work. I like the insight I got from realizing how I can easily gain access to high level executives by appealing to their egos and researching topics that will interest them. Armed with your insights, I can exponentially increase the visibility I have in my chosen field while creating win-win meetings as part of the process. This is a process-oriented endeavor, not a results-oriented approach. Clearly one leads to the other, but requires research as well as patience. Your approach reminds me of the Road Less Traveled! Bravo!”–John D., Hollywood Producer/Director
Here’s to a huge Dream 2015 for you!
P.S. Did you know that good people are always needed. Through the enormous wealth of contacts you can make through the backdoor rather than the front door (like everyone else), you will create huge opportunities to get known, liked and hired this winter! Plan NOW to get your campaign together through this program and you’ll be 10 steps ahead of your competition as you move into this hot season of hiring in the New Year. Many corporate fiscal years end in December. New Year = new corporate budgets = new hiring plans!
P.P.S. Remember the email from Darci above, about the way her stealth campaign was going? I received an update from her the very next day:
From: Darci
To: Darrell Gurney
Subject: follow-up
Guess what I came home to today? This email from my friend, who backdoored me into the meeting yesterday with the CFO.
Subject: research interviews
Darci –
I wanted to follow up with you regarding additional referrals for your research project. Colby has reached out to both Gary, President and Bob, COO here at [confidential] and each has agreed to meet with you for 20 minutes to discuss your questions. I am copying Beverly (Bob’s assistant) and Debbie (Gary’s assistant) as they can help coordinate separate meeting times. I believe that both are busy up through Thanksgiving so it would have to be after the holiday. No need to keep either Colby or myself on copy re the scheduling emails.
Thanks, and please let me know when you will be in our offices so I can make sure I’m around and available for a visit and/or lunch.
Take care,
Anne
Associate Vice President, Royalties
HOLY SMOKE! This back door method thing is really gaining steam and acquiring a momentum all it’s own!
All the best,
Darci
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