Jeff Altman - The Big Game Hunter

Survive a Layoff Like A Pro

Get Off Your Backside and Land On Your Feet!

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

My Story

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, has been a professional recruiter since 1971. He has more experience than most recruiters do. That experience allows him to understand what it is like for you at this time.

I've been in the job search business for what, at times, seems like 100 years. As I like to say, “I help the world find work and organizations achieve their objectives by hunting down leaders and their staff.”

I wasn't always mature about my work. As a matter of fact, when I started working in the recruiting industry as a 20 year old college graduate, I was pretty arrogant. I didn't really care about the people I was supposed to help and more interested in earning a commission, even if it meant doing things that, today as an adult, I am not proud of having done. .

I've easily spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at times when they were laid off, fired, or have just decided that the grass looks greener elsewhere.

When I was in my 40's, I thought of making a career change and becoming a psychotherapist in private practice, returning to Fordham University in New York City where I earned an MSW in Social Work (I say I earned an MSW because between working full time in as demanding a profession as mine. I concurrently attended classes and did field work 15 hours a week).

I met my wife, Sharon, in graduate school and put aside thoughts of being a psychotherapist full time but still wanted to look for ways to help people, beyond being a recruiter.

In 2006, I published “Get Yourself Hired NOW!: The Big Game Hunter's Guide to Head Hunting Your Next Job and Every Job After That!” (available in e-book and audio formats) and “Get Your Job Search Organized NOW!” (available in e-book format only). They are available at www.getyourselfhiredNOW.com

This special report synthesizes my experience as “The Big Game Hunter” (someone who I helped find work for described me as being like a big game hunter and the name stuck), an extremely experienced professional recruiter, with my Masters in Social Work and my experience as a psychotherapist.

I am not someone who is writing a book by going to the library, taking five books off the shelf and saying, “Okay how do you do this?” I'm someone who has been on the other end of the phone when a person has called after being laid off!

I'm the person who listens to them grieve their job loss, who takes them by the hand and helped re-construct their psyche so they could perform well on interviews, all the while, serving my corporate clients who are paying me to evaluate, assess, refer (and sometimes reject) people.

I can't say the all the questions here are mine.

Many come from listening to the experiences of people who have been through tough times and helping them get through the hard times so they can show their stuff on interviews and then excel at their next job.

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