David Perry - A veteran of more than 900 executive recruiting and search projects. Have negotiated more than $150 million in salaries AND created more than 2 dozen millionaires in the process.

Why You Need to Become a Guerrilla Job-Hunter

Under siege from layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, rightsizing, downsizing, and bankruptcies, America is in the midst of profound business transformation. It is the result of developments in information and communications technologies, changing human values and the rise of the global knowledge-based economy. The sheer complexity and technical sophistication of business has transformed the job market. Business is becoming knowledge based and technology intensive.

Knowledge workers are the backbone of the United States. They are employed in all sectors of the economy, most prominently in the information technology and communication sectors, but also to a growing extent in health care, manufacturing, education, finance, natural resources, defense and government--in any field that requires innovation to sustain competitiveness. Competitive advantage is rooted in the new ideas of these skilled workers.

Twenty to forty million Americans change jobs every year. Already reeling from the struggling economy, competition for the remaining jobs is tougher than ever, the rules for getting them have changed, and global competition ensures that the rules will change again tomorrow. Many people needlessly drift in and out of dead-end jobs because they don't know which industries have a future of how to present their value in the right terms to the people who can hire them.

To succeed in this new marketplace, you must have a plan. Your plan must be clear and detailed in every way. It must also be:

• Clever
• Results driven,
• Marketing oriented,
• Inexpensive to execute,
• Realistic and
• Achievable.