Never Apply for a Job Again!: Break the Rules, Cut the Line, Beat the Rest (29 page)

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About the Author

Darrell Gurney
is a 25-year veteran of career support and a licensed spiritual counselor. He has coached and supported thousands in making profitable, fulfilling career transitions or building thriving businesses. After 15 years as an executive recruiter, he authored the award-winning book
Headhunters Revealed: Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters
, which was reviewed in
Publishers Weekly
and won the Clarion Award for Best Book from the Association for Women in Communications.

In
Never Apply for a Job Again!,
Darrell takes off the recruiter hat and places it firmly on your head…so that you can now become your own effective career manager for life. As a headhunter, he gave you a fish—a job. Now he teaches you
how
to fish.

He is the founder of CareerGuy.com, a frequent speaker at professional events, and a contributor to the media in the
area of job search and career development. He has consulted for top organizations within the outplacement industry and also consults private corporations in the areas of staff and team development. His purpose is to elicit freedom and aliveness so that people and organizations can create inspired new futures.

Darrell is an avid writer, personal development sponge, outdoors aficionado, high-adventure junkie, karaoke addict, and his son’s assistant scoutmaster. He is currently completing his next book about mid-life empowerment and purposeful fulfillment in the second half of life,
The Back Forty: 7 Critical Embraces for Life’s Purposeful Second Half
. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.