Media Room
This web page is for members of the media who are seeking an executive search or recruiting industry and job search authority for interviews and expert opinion. The Wall Street Journal article on the Rogue Recruiter will give you an idea of the depth David’s experience.
The current recession is a game changer for employers, job hunters and recruiters. With 25 years in the business, more than 1000 search projects and a success rate of 98%, David can explain – in colorful detail – how to “Win the War for Talent” from both sides of the battlefield.
Clicking the links immediately below the video The Wall Street Journal will allow you to review press material on David’s 3rd book, “Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0″.
David welcomes inquiries and invitations for speaking engagements and media interviews. Reach David directly at 613-236-6995 x114 OR dperry@perrymartel.com
- With so many layoffs, the job market is becoming increasingly competitive.
“Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0” – PRESS KIT
How to use creativity, chutzpa and guerrilla marketing techniques to land a great job – even in the Great Recession of 2009.
- Book Overview
- Suggested Media Interview Questions
- Top Twelve Recommendations for Job Hunters
- Menu of Talks
Additional videos can be found at www.GM4JH.com. Check out the Put America Back to Work project.
Recent Media Coverage
Wall Street Journal
- To Fill That Open Position, These Guys Go to Extremes; Stalking on the Ski Slopes.
- Recruiter David Perry’s do-whatever-it-takes search style is in his blood.
How to Stand Out – Video interview
- Video interview with Sarah Needleman discussing Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0 and specifically how to stand out in a crowded job market.
Fortune Magazine
- To get a job, you have to find the openings that no one’s advertising, and really impress your potential employer.
- COVER STORY APRIL 2009 It’s brutal out there. But the people getting hired aren’t necessarily the most connected – they’re the most creative. From food diarists to Twitter stalkers to candidates tapping the “hidden” job market, here’s what’s working now.
- Ok you just got laid off. Now the good news…
Washington Post
It’s All About Who You Know — and Who They Know
- In job hunting, networking is the name of the game. And it’s also the name of the game at Facebook and LinkedIn, two of the most popular social-networking Web sites
ABC NEWS
Job Hunt Makeover: How Far Should You Go?
- David Perry, managing partner of Perry-Martel International Inc., a headhunting firm in Ottawa, Canada, agrees that a winning appearance is critical but warns that it won’t get you far if you don’t have the solid skills to back it up.
Christian Science Monitor
Extreme job hunt: Applicants ditch resumes for guerilla tactics .
- When traditional job-hunting methods fail, some are turning to the unconventional.
London Evening Standard
Learn how to jump-start your career
- He had read every book he could find about changing career, saved his money and finally drawn up a list of things he wanted to do. With this in hand, he resigned and began his long march away from Wall Street.To borrow a manufacturing term now widely used to describe career transformations, he set about “retooling” himself for the rest of his life.
Forbes
How To Make Your Job Outsource-Proof
-“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change,” Charles Darwin once wrote. In today’s global economy, when jobs can vanish down a fiber-optic cable to India before breakfast tomorrow, it’s not how strong or smart you are that matters. It’s how adaptable you are to change.
CIO Magazine
The Two Websites Every Job Seeker Needs to Join
- You probably know about one of these websites, but you may not know about the other. Neither is a job board.
- Flamenco dancers are sexy. So are languid summer nights and first dates with a new crush. But résumés? Not so much. If you want your résumé to get you to first base with a potential employer, it has to push the all the right buttons.
Globe & Mail
On the job hunt? Ditch the bunny suit
-Job seekers are resorting to extreme tactics to stand out. Pros evaluate memorable measures that hiring managers have seen
- Dawn Montgomery is a savvy saleswoman. Her product? Dawn Montgomery.
When skills aren’t a perfect fit
Buttondown firms want their MTV, too
Excerpt: “Your brand is your edge to stand out from the crowd”
- July Friday, July 10, 2009
Excerpt: “Handling rejection”
- Friday July 17th, 2009
Work Bloom
Three Networking Tips from the Pros