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About the Initiative


The Get Back to Work Faster Initiative is focused on helping out-of-work professionals leverage job creation strategies to:

  • Identify & pursue income-producing opportunities.
  • Bring in money during their job search.
  • Land new positions that play to their strengths.
  • Become the "must hire" candidate, without competitors.

Best of all, these strategies keep individuals feeling vital, productive and sharp. This is crucial during this challenging time when they're fearful of running out of funds and never working again.

Launched in May 2009, the Get Back to Work Initiative offers job seekers fresh strategies and support via a downloadable book, monthly webinars with leading experts on hot topics and numerous resources.

How it All Got Started

When Jill Konrath, CEO of the initiative, started seeing her friends and family lose their jobs through no fault of their own, she decided to take action. After 20+ years as a business consultant, she'd mastered the ability to create jobs/projects out of thin air - even when there was no money in the budget. She also was acutely aware that the traditional job search model was grossly outdated and fatally flawed.

What started out as a plan to write a short ebook soon blossomed into much more — this website, a paperback book, and a webinar series featuring career experts who willingly share their advice.

Jill Konrath, CEO & Author of Get Back to Work Faster

Jill is the driver of the Get Back to Work Faster initiative & author of Get Back to Work Faster. She's also an internationally-recognized sales strategist & an in-demand speaker at annual sales meetings, kick-off events and professional conferences.

Her specialty? Helping salespeople, entrepreneurs and professionals crack into new accounts, create opportunities and win big contracts.

She's also the author of TWO bestselling sales books:

  • SNAP Selling, her highly-acclaimed new book on selling to crazy-busy people.
  • Selling to Big Companies, selected by Fortune as 1 of 8 "must reads" for salespeople and an Amazon Top 25 sales books for over 4 years.

Jill first started coaching people on job creation strategies over 25 years ago and has been practicing them herself ever since - doing work she loves in companies that she wants to work for. Over the years, she’s turned down many lucrative job offers, preferring to run her own business.

As a thought leader in the selling and marketing arena, Jill also publishes an industry-leading newsletter with nearly 30,000 subscribers from around the world. In addition, she's launched a number of initiatives in the past few years:

  • Selling to Big Companies: Check out Jill's website for articles, videos, audios and information on training programs or speaking engagements.
  • Sales SheBang: For women in sales; professional development, conference and community; features women sales experts.

Jill has written hundreds of articles on sales strategies and is frequently quoted in top business media. She's appeared in Success, Inc., WSJ Start-Up Journal, Entrepreneur, New York Times, Business Journal, Selling Power, Sales & Marketing Management as well as countless online publications and radio shows.

She and her husband Fred share their home in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with Cali, the cat. Their daughter Katie works in marketing and social media and their son Ryan just landed a job with the University of North Dakota Aerospace program.

Email: jill (at) getbacktoworkfaster.com    Twitter      LinkedIn

 

Jeff Ogden, the Job Seeker Profiled in Get Back to Work Faster

Jeff is an experienced sales and marketing professional. He spent many years selling to the software industry where he achieved some major successes. Most recently he headed up global sales and marketing for a UK firm, helping them become the 14th fastest growing company in Great Britain. During his job search, Jeff set up his own lead gen firm and wrote a white paper on "Finding New Customers."

In his spare time, Jeff coaches Little League Baseball and hangs out with his wife and their three boys.

Email: jeff.ogden@findnewcustomers.com    Website     LinkedIn

Press Releases & Media Coverage

Check out the latest news about what's happening at the Get Back to Work Faster initiative.

 

ABC NEWS: Tory Johnson from the Job Club interviews Jill about what job seekers should do to stand out in today's crowded job market.

ILostMyJob.com: Career Doctor Robert Shindell asks Jill numerous questions on what job seekers need to do differently today to create opportunities out of thin air & more. Check out the multiple interview segments.

Citrix Online sponsors free 'Get Back to Work Faster' webinars for job seekers

Citrix Online is sponsoring a free webinar series for job seekers that will teach professionals how to stand out to employers, identify & pursue income-producing opportunities, bring in money during their job search, land new positions that play to their strengths and become the "must hire" candidate without competitors

New book, Get Back to Work Faster, by Jill Konrath now free to job seekers

Jill Konrath, author of Selling to Big Companies, has written a new book designed to help out-of-work professionals put an end to their job search struggles. Get Back to Work Faster, which will will change how job seekers look at job hunting for good, is currently available for download free at www.getbacktoworkfaster.com.