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How to Fireproof Your Career and Chortle at Recession Worries

By Paul DeBettignies and Kevin Donlin

Bad job? No job? No problem.

Learn 5 high-tech and no-tech secrets to real job security from Minnesota Headhunter, Paul DeBettignies, and Star Tribune Careers columnist, Kevin Donlin.

Here they are ...

1) Get Real (5-10 min.) There's no record in human history of anyone being hired by a computer. What does that mean for you?

2) Get Social (10 min.) With proven career hacks for Twitter, Linkedin, etc.

3) Get Guerrilla (10 min.) Learn the "job in a box" trick that got one IT guy hired in Mesa, Arizona ... even though he used it on the wrong employer.

4) Get Recruited (10 min.) The care and feeding of recruiters. How to make them hate you. And like you. Tip: do the latter.

5) Get Smart (10-15 min.) Q&A on any career topic you can think of. If you stump us, we buy you lunch.

Featuring NO PowerPoint. You're welcome.

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About the presenter

Paul DeBettignies is Managing Partner of Nerd Search, LLC a Minneapolis IT search firm, Co Founder and Coordinator of Minnesota Recruiters and a frequent local and national speaker and article contributor on recruiter, HR, career, networking and social media topics. More at - http://www.mnheadhunter.com

Kevin Donlin is Co-director of Guerrilla Job Search International. Kevin is a contributing co-author to "Guerrilla Marketing for Job-Hunters 2.0," author of 2 other books, and writes a job search column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Examiner newspapers. More at - http://www.mynewjobhunt.com