By Kevin Donlin | May 22nd, 2009

David Perry and I were in yesterday’s Christian Science Monitor  in a story about extreme job-search tactics.

Here’s how one woman found work using our tactics:

Then there’s Jann FritzHuspen. After 18 months of
looking for work, in September she express-mailed a coffee mug along
with her application to three prospective employers, asking each if
they’d meet her for coffee. Two ignored her. The third agreed and, a
month later, offered her a job as executive director for a nonprofit
organization in Roseville, Minn.

Here’s more about Jann and how she got hired:

Ms. FritzHuspen wasn’t the first to send a coffee mug to
a prospective employer. The idea came from a guerrilla job-search boot
camp she’d attended, hosted by Mr. Perry and Kevin Donlin, author of
“51 Ways to Find a Job Fast – Guaranteed!” Mr. Donlin and Perry call
the tactic “the coffee cup caper” and claim it yields phone interviews
100 percent of the time and an in-person interview about 30 percent of
the time.

“This was just one of my tools in the toolbox,” says FritzHuspen.
“[I]f I didn’t set myself apart, I simply wouldn’t get myself in the
door.”

Jann was a member of our last job search bootcamp. Membership is
closed for now, but her “coffee cup caper” is described in full detail,
with step-by-step instructions, in our Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course.

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