Harper's Rules
A Recruiter's Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship
By: Danny Cahill
Published: April 1, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
ISBN-10: 9781608321001
ISBN-13: 978-1608321001
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
"'There is no difference between making decisions in your career path and making decisions in your romantic life'", writes keynote speaker, recruiter, and the owner of Hobson & Associates Danny Cahill, in his fascinating and advice filled business fable Harper's Rules: A Recruiter's Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship. The author presents the fictional career change by successful business executive Casey Matthews, who through the guidance of headhunter Harper Scott, discovers the similarities of dating and finding the right job and for finding the right partner in both aspects of life.
Danny Cahill provides an important connection between dating to find the right life partner, with interviewing for several jobs to discover the best fit for a person's career. The author presents the similarities between these two often disconnected aspects of life through the engaging characters of the recently divorced job seeker Casey Matthews and experienced headhunter Harper Scott. Taking a unique twist on the concept of the dating rules, Danny Cahill demonstrates how the dating and employment seeking analogy helps clarify goals, provides a process to follow, and the tools for putting them all together. The author uses a delightful mix of humor and sound advice to share his proven techniques, that are as equally effective for finding suitable careers, as for meeting desirable marriage partners. This intriguing parallel gives the business parable depth and a relevance to everyone in either or both life situations.
Danny Cahill (photo left) offers valuable tips for transforming dating or job hunting into both a positive but an enjoyable, results oriented event. The rules are presented in a lighthearted manner, through sympathetic and likeable characters. Along the way, the author guides the reader through the mazes and potential pitfalls awaiting those in either the dating game or seeking a new career. A few of the rules help the reader to:
* Know when it's time to leave a job or end a relationship
* Say good-bye without burning bridges or causing heartbreak
* Job hunt or find dates through networking online and offline
* Send out the right resume or post the right dating profile
* Interview or date well putting your best foot forward
* Negotiate an offer for a job or decide to continue dating
For me, the power of the book is how Danny Cahill offers a unique concept for sharing real world tested job seeking advice through the remarkably similar dating analogy. The creation of a fictional story using the dual discovery of the ideal career opportunity and meeting the right life partner, helps emphasize the concepts. The rules appear in the two seemingly different life circumstances, and reinforce the ideas for achieving a successful resolution to seeking employment and finding a mate.
Just as Harper Scott guides Casey Matthews to a successful resolution to her job hunt, and an exciting future relationship, the reader learns how to achieve positive results as well. In creative thinking, it's a proven concept to compare two seemingly unrelated ideas to seek commonalities and parallels. The overlay of the rules of dating onto the world of job search provides a mutually reinforcing of the techniques, for the reader, as it did for Casey. The use of a business fable offers an enjoyable and entertaining format for learning some complex yet critical methods for enhancing both employment seeking and romantic relationships.
I highly recommend the engaging and idea packed book Harper's Rules: A Recruiter's Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship by Danny Cahill, to anyone seeking a different approach to finding the career of their dreams. Through the framework of a business fable, the rules of dating are transferred successfully to discovering and landing the ideal career.
Read the fun and witty book Harper's Rules: A Recruiter's Guide to Finding a Dream Job and the Right Relationship by Danny Cahill, and apply the proven tools and techniques to your own romantic relationships and employment seeking activities. This book will create positive outcomes in both aspects of your life.
