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Talk City presents

Martin Yate, Author of the Knock 'Em Dead Books
Online Job Hunting

January 17, 2001

Powered.com presents Martin Yate, best-selling author of the Knock 'Em Dead job hunting trilogy, who shares the advantages of his new Talk City course and how you can integrate online resources into your job hunt.

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Martin Yate: Hi there! Is your New Year’s resolution to get a better job? I'm Martin Yate, author of the Knock 'Em Dead Books and I'm here to chat with you and answer your questions about the joys and pitfalls of online job hunting. With me today is my friend and president of CareerBrain Terra Dourlain. We also have lifelines hooked up to career experts from around the country to cover all of your issues. The chat is about to begin. Start sending your questions now and at the end of our chat, be sure to sign up for our free course, 21st Century Job Hunting, and take control of your career in 2001. Hello everyone! Thanks for being with us! It's the beginning of the year, and the beginning of the new millennium. This is a time to give yourself a check-up, from the neck-up. Unless you've been living in a cave, or just been released from solitary confinement, you may have noticed the world has changed since last time you looked for a job. If you are making New Year's resolutions, a real smart one would be to say that in 2001 I'm going to learn a little more about taking control of my career, because the company is no longer interested in my loyalty. This means for us a couple of things. First of all, learning the latest new techniques about job-hunting -- and learning them in such a fashion that we can reuse technology one year, five years, and ten years down the road. Secondly, we want to start looking at job-hunting as a stepping-stone, or as a building block, in lifetime career management. We are all somewhere in the middle of a fifty-year work life. Those actions we take this year and also those actions we DON'T take this year will affect our professional growth and the quality of our lives outside of work for many years to come. Thanks for joining us, let's get the year off to a good start, and start taking positive steps to gaining control of our work life! Hallelujah!

Ron: How long is your course? How much time will it take me to get through it?

Martin Yate: The course is five segments, five lessons, two a week. The interesting thing about this course and why I built it is that I have been talking about the use of the Internet in job-hunting and career management in the Knock 'Em Dead Books for six years now. With the advent of Distance Learning it has become possible for me to say in the books I can tell you how to do these things, and I can tell you what this job bank looks like, or what that resume blaster will do, but now with this new communications medium instead of telling you -- with this course I can take you, and show you, -- and you can experience it for yourself. You can, of course, whip through the course a lot quicker than two and a half weeks. However, most of us tend to go off half-cocked when we get involved with a job hunt. I recommend to anyone here this evening who has signed up or is thinking of signing up for the course to take a deep breath, and say to yourself, "I don't have to send out a resume for the next two weeks, I don't have to send out a cover letter or make a call. What I have to do for the next two weeks is give myself a new foundation from which to launch myself into the new century." (Damn, he's a poet!)

Terra Dourlain: And he knows it!

Martin Yate: President of Career Brain, consider yourself having received a formal warning! (laughing)

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