This document provides an 8-step plan to help one get a new job within 20 weeks. The steps include: 1) defining your career goals and tailoring your resume, 2) improving your skills and knowledge, 3) establishing an online professional identity, 4) preparing professional references and networks, 5) creating targeted marketing materials to promote yourself, 6) negotiating job offers, 7) confirming your position in the first weeks on the job, and 8) scheduling tasks over the 20 weeks. Following this plan has helped nearly all past job seekers find new jobs within the 20 week timeframe.

1. PROMOTE YOURSELF
Get a job in less than 20 weeks :
it’s possible !
© Stephan Bellanger 2014 ©

2. 1 – DEFINE YOUR PROJECT
Make yourself standout !
a) Select the job that fits you the best ;
b) Be creative ;
c) Where, and with whom would you like
to work ?
d) Adapt your resumes (CV) to your
target ;
e) Set up your personal schedule for
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3. 2 – IMPROVE YOURSELF
Be attractive !
a) Don’t hesitate to work on your personal
presentation (keep fit and look after your
appearance, always dress appropriately) ;
b) Improve your professional experience
(foreign languages, terminology and skills) ;
c) Be enthusiastic about your subject
(read specific literature, always be ready for a
possible discussion with a manager).
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4. 3 – WORK ON YOUR E-IDENTITY
It takes about 4 months to establish your
Web identity !
a) If possible, erase all that is negative
in your profile on the Net ;
b) Create your own Web Identity ;
c) Participate in forums related to your
specific field of competence ;
d) Be present and active on professional
networks such as LinkedIn, GOOGLE +, etc.
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5. 4 – PREPARE YOUR TOOLS
Be professional in all circumstances !
a) Organize your network of references ;
b) Create your personal blog including links
to representative sites ;
c) Even if you are temporally unemployed,
stay involved (in associations, societies)…
and show it ;
d) Stay in (good) contact with your school,
university, ex-colleagues, ex-employers,…
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6. 5 – ADAPT YOUR PROSPECTION
Sell yourself as a product
(fit for purpose) !
a) Create your operational lists (with
names,
functions, telephone extensions, e-mails) ;
b) Send a promotional mailshot (or e-mail)
in order to incite your target to contact
you ;
c) Don’t go into too much detail at the6

7. 5 – ADAPT YOUR PROSPECTION
d) Your telephone conversation must only
focus on the organization of an
appointment ;
e) Don’t use this first meeting to
negotiate :
create a need ;
f) Be reactive, share your ideas ;
g) Never forget to prepare the next step
(date, questions to be studied).
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8. 6 – CONCLUDING AN AGREEMENT
The best deal is always the one that suits
both parties !
a) Before any negotiation, fix your red line
and be ready (prepare your answers to
questions and objections) ;
b) Stay calm and confident, smile ;
c) Conclude and make sure that all terms of
your agreement are perfectly clear.
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9. 7 – JOINING THE COMPANY
The first weeks within the company are
essential to confirm your position !
a) Be professional in your relationship with
your management, customers, colleagues,
but also with all employees ;
b) Respect the image that you have given
of yourself… and of your professional abilities ;
c) Stay in contact with your management to
facilitate your evaluation.
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11. 9 – CONCLUSION
Up to today, nearly all the job seekers
that followed this program found – or
created – their new job within this 20
week delay.
… And 100% of them attest that their life
has changed in a very positive way !
Just do it…
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