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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Dark Days | |
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| Against All Odds � How Preparation Prevailed | |
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| 7 Danger Signals You May Soon Be out of a Job | |
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| Play for Keeps-Hold On to Your Job, A Survivor's Handbook | |
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| Quickie-How Bad Can Things Get? | |
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| Things Change � and It Pays to Know How | |
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| 12 Herculean Labors to Keep You on the Payroll | |
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| The Last to Learn | |
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| Quickie-Fine-Tune Your Job Description Without Being Asked | |
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| Yours to Lose | |
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| Quickie-Misery Is Contagious, Too | |
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| Beat Rejection Before It Beats You | |
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| Parting Words: Canned Remarks upon Getting Canned | |
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| Quickie-The Stretch Marks of Experience | |
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| A Checklist for Checking Out | |
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| Quickie-Crying Societies or Support Groups? | |
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| Gone to Potter | |
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| Reconstruct Your Attitude | |
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| Anger Is Only One Letter from Danger | |
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| You're Never a Failure Until You Think You Are | |
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| Being Your Best with Things at Their Worst | |
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| Pitchmanship: Applying Marketing Nichemanship to Job Hunting | |
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| Quickie-Should You Go Under the Knife After You Get the Ax? | |
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| The Continuity of Contrarians | |
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| Is This the Time to Get That MBA? | |
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| Quickie-The Lecture Room in Your Laptop | |
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| When It's OK Not to Act Your Age! | |
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| Quickie-Moonlighting: The Wisdom of Having a Second Skill | |
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| Electronic R�sum� Screening: Use Language That Computes | |
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| Quickie-The Acid Test for Hiring | |
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| Headhunters: Making Yourself Delectable | |
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| Re-employment: Your Extreme Preparation Guide | |
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| The Mackay Daily Planner for the Unemployed | |
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| Quickie-Million Dollar Baby! | |
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| Getting a Job Is a Job | |
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| Want to Become an Entrepreneur? Better Be One First! | |
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| The One-Stop Job Shop | |
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| Quickie-Rebirth Certificate | |
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| Use Your Head, but Follow Your Heart! | |
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| Adjust to What You Aren't: R�sum� Fine Tuning After Setbacks | |
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| Quickie-How Not to Waste Your Time on the Internet | |
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| Expose Yourself in the Privacy of Your Own Home | |
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| Quickie-Encore! Encore! | |
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| The Age of the Agile Exec | |
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| Mobilize Your Network | |
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| Job Hunting Is a Contact Sport | |
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| Quickie-Don't Lose Your Face in Facebook | |
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| Mackay's Deadwood Network Pruner | |
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| Quickie-Network to New Work | |
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| Bass Are Still Where You Find 'Em | |
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| Quickie-Ageless Alumni | |
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| The Octopus Exercise | |
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| Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Job! | |
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| Quickie-One Sweet Tweet | |
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| Don't Be Blackballed by Your Black Berry | |
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| Quickie-Twitter: Risk and Risqu� | |
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| Fill In the Blanks | |
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| Plugging Holes in Your R�sum� | |
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| Imagination: There's Just No Substitute | |
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| Psychological Evaluations: Shrink to Grow | |
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| Shrinks: A Skull Session | |
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| Quickie-Take Pride in Stride | |
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| Mackay 44 Interview Prep Checklist | |
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| Footlights and Footwork | |
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| Quickie-The Mother of All Questions | |
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| In a Job Hunt, Make Sure Your Ducks Are in a Row | |
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| Quickie-Rehearsing Job Interview Questions | |
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| 9 Motivators to Make Them Want to Return Your Call | |
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| Quickie-Lubricate Gatekeepers to Oil the Gate | |
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| No Isn't an Answer � It's a Question | |
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| D-Day: Plan the Attack | |
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| Bytes: Researching the Hands That Will Feed You | |
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| Early Birds Get the Worm, Late Birds Get the Job | |
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| Quickie-Pickiness Pays | |
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| A Winning Suit Trumps | |
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| Speed-Reading Reception Areas | |
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| A Business Lunch Is No Picnic | |
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| Art of the Ask: It's Not Just Your Answers | |
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| Quickie-One in a Hundred | |
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| Post-Interview Homework | |
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| The Mackay 22 | |
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| The Second-Round Interview: How to Get to the Finals | |
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| Get Hired | |
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| Job Search of a Twenty-Something | |
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| Shriveling Your Way into a Job | |
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| Quickie-What Personnel Types Prize | |
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| Fly Under Fetching Colors | |
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| Quickie-Timing Is Everything | |
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| Winning the Circuit: The Why Behind Multiple Interviews | |
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| Quickie-The Ninety-Day Guarantee | |
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| Landing the Ideal Job | |
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| Your Designer Job | |
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| Quickie-No One Is Immune | |
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| Negotiating Terms in Your Next Position | |
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| Before You Take the Job They Offer, Take the Job You Want | |
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| Stay Afloat | |
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| The Multi-Task Master | |
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| Quickie-Setting Clear Job Measurement Standards | |
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| Knowing When to Upsize: Asking for a Raise | |
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| Quickie-Peers and Partners | |
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| This Time Around: Swearing Off Career Obsolescence | |
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| Afterthoughts | |
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| Kurt Einstein's and Harvey Mackay's 20 Most Revealing Interview Questions | |
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| The Mackay Lucky 13: A List of Life-Changing Books | |
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| University of Southern California (USC)-MBA Commencement Speech, May 15, 2009 | |
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| Appendix: An Open Book | |
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| Index | |
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| Money-back Guarantee | |