Job Reconnaissance Using Hacking Skills to Win the Job Hunt Game

Josh More President and Peon, Eyra Security CISSP, GIAC-GSLC Gold, GCIH, RHCE

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Job Reconnaissance Foundations

Job Reconnaissance Going Public

Job Reconnaissance When to Leave

Job Reconnaissance On Résumés

Job Reconnaissance On Cover Letters

Job Reconnaissance Telling Stories

Job Reconnaissance Talking About Yourself

Job Reconnaissance Socially Engineering Your Audience

Job Reconnaissance Targeting

Job Reconnaissance Stop!

Ethics Time!

Job Reconnaissance Google

Job Reconnaissance Other Search Engines

Job Reconnaissance Taking Notes

Job Reconnaissance Automated Searching

Job Reconnaissance Deeper Recon

Job Reconnaissance Company Finances

Job Reconnaissance Analyzing the Present

Job Reconnaissance Digging the Past, Projecting the Future

Job Reconnaissance Professional Analysis

Job Reconnaissance Metaphor Mapping

Job Reconnaissance Repositioning

Job Reconnaissance Phone Meeting

https://xkcd.com/1329/

Job Reconnaissance Portfolio

Job Reconnaissance Visual Design

Job Reconnaissance Total Compensation

Job Reconnaissance Interview Prep

Job Reconnaissance The Actual Interview

Job Reconnaissance The End Is Not The End

Job Reconnaissance Salary Negotiation

Job Reconnaissance Giving Notice

Good Idea Bad Idea Date Boss Name,

Boss Name That job. The one you want me to do? Boss Title Address Oh, that is bullcrap!

Boss Name, And you know what I think?!

This is my formal notification that I am I think this whole thing is a SETUP! resigning from ______. Date will be My last day of employment... That's right!

And you know what else?!

...renegotiate non-compete in exchange Screw you guys, I'm going home! for greater notice period...

-Cartman

Job Reconnaissance Counteroffers and Exit Interviews

Marianne Vitale’s “Burned Bridge”

Job Reconnaissance Resources Niche Searches Bing Events Search—www.bing.com/events/search Basic Searching Glassdoor - www.glassdoor.com Ask—ask.com Google Blog Search - www.google.com/blogsearch Bing –bing.com Google Code—code.google.com —www.blekko.com Google Groups—groups.google.com Duck Duck Go—duckduckgo.com Google Maps—maps.google.com Google –google.com Google News search—news.google.com Ixquick –ixquick.com Google Patent Search—www.google.com/?tbm=pts Yacy—yacy.net FollowTheMoney - www.followthemoney.org Yahoo –yahoo.com LittleSis—littlesis.org Yandex—yandex.com Open Secrets—OpenSecrets.org —search.yippy.com Pushpin.py—bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/pushpin

Search Filters and Manipulations Automated Searching Bing Operators - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx The Harvester—code.google.com/p/theharvester Google Hacks by Dornfest, Bausch and Calishain eSearchy –github.com/FreedomCoder/esearchy Google Hacking Volumes 1 and 2 by Long and others—1931836361 and 978597491761 eSearchy-ng—github.com/FreedomCoder/ESearchy-ng Google Operators -googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html eSearchy-mirai –github.com/FreedomCoder/esearchy_mirai Yahoo Operators - www.creativeconfusion.net/search_engines/yahoo-commands.html Fierce - ha.ckers.org/fierce Fierce2 - trac.assembla.com/fierce Deep Searching FOCA—www.informatica64.com/foca.aspx Ark—ark.com Maltego by Paterva - www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php Clusty—clusty.com NameChk—namechk.com Complete Planet—aip.completeplanet.com Recon-ng—bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/recon-ng/wiki/Home Contracting & Organizations Research Institute—cori.missouri.edu Scythe—github.com/ChrisJohnRiley/Scythe Deep Web Listing—deep-web.org/how-to-research/deep-web-search-engines Threat Agent –www.threatagent.com Entity Cube—entitycube.research.microsoft.com Market Visual—www.marketvisual.com Searching the Future NNDB—nndb.com Google Trends—www.google.com/trends NNDB Mapper—mapper.nndb.com Recorded Future—www.recordedfuture.com PeopleFinders—www.peoplefinders.com Silobreaker—www.silobreaker.com Scirus—scirus.com Trends Map—trendsmap.com Guide—www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html What The Trend—whatthetrend.com Social—so.cl Yahoo Trending Now—news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now Social Mention—socialmention.com [H2] Searching the Past Spokeo—www.spokeo.com Google Cache—google.com (click “cached button”) Wolfram Alpha - www.wolframalpha.com Internet Archive’s ’Wayback Machine—archive.org/web/web.php NeoDiggler—addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/neo-diggler

Job Reconnaissance [H2] Graphic Design Fonts Font Picker—www.fontpicker.net Julian Hansen’s Font Choice—julianhansen.com/files/infographiclarge_v2.png Klixo Font Chooser—klixo.com/tools/font_chooser.html Wordmark—wordmark.it Colors Colllor—colllor.com Color Combos Color Grabber—www.colorcombos.com/grabcolors.html Color Scheme Designer—colorschemedesigner.com Color Palette Generator—www.degraeve.com/color-palette Layout Tools Gimp—www.gimp.org Inkscape—Inkscape.org LibreOffice—www.libreoffice.org Scribus—www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

Reference Sources Bing Images—www.bing.com/images Creative Commons—search.creativecommons.org Exaled—www.exalead.com/search/image Flickr Search—www.flickr.com/search Google Image Search—www.google.com/imghp Pinterest Visual Résumés—pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes TinEye Reverse Image Search—www.tineye.com Visualize Me—vizualize.me Yahoo Images—images.search.yahoo.com [H1] Managing Money Resources [H2] Negotiation Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Fisher, Ury and Patton—0143118757 Search Suggesters How to Read a Person Like a Book by Nierenberg, Calero and Grayson—9780757003141 Google Keywords—adwords.google.com/o/KeywordTool The Art of Negotiating by Nierenberg—156619816X MW Thesaurus—www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thesaurus [H2] Cost of Living Calculators SEO Book—tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook Task Management CNN—money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living SEO Central—www.seocentro.com Trello—trello.com Best Places—www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/ Thesaurus.com—thesaurus.com Outlook Tasks BankRate—bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-living-calculator.aspx Uber Suggest—ubersuggest.org Google Tasks—mail.google.com/mail/help/tasks Salary.com—swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_start.aspx Visual Thesaurus—www.visualthesaurus.com Remember The Milk—www.rememberthemilk.com Payscale—www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator WordTracker—freekeywords.wordtracker.com Tasque—wiki.gnome.org/Tasque [H2] Getting Help Wunderlist—www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist CE-L freelancers list—www.copyediting-l.info Business-specific Search FedEx Office—www.fedex.com/us/office Book of Lists—www.bookoflistsonline.com Bookmark Trackers OfficeDepot Copy and Print - www.officedepot.com/a/design-print-and-ship Google Finance—www.google.com/finance Delicious—delicious.com OfficeMax Print Center—www.officemax.com/home/custom.jsp?id=m9540558 Hoover’s—hoovers.com Diigo—diigo.com Jigsaw—jigsaw.com Pinboard—pinboard.in [H1] Social Skills RapLeaf—rapleaf.com SEC filings site—www.secinfo.com Mind Mappers [H2] Networking Keywords Yahoo Finance—finance.yahoo.com Bubbl.us—bubbl.us “BNI” —coggle.it “Chamber of Commerce Events” Hiding Your Identity FreeMind—.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page “Jaycees” Golden Frog’s VyperVPN—www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn Mind 42—mind42.com “Networking” HideMyAss –hidemyass.com Mind Meister—www.mindmeister.com “Rotary” IPVanish—www.ipvanish.com XMind—www.xmind.net “Toastmasters” Rise Up—riseup.net/en “User Group ” The Onion Router—www.torproject.org Note Takers [H2] Communication and General Improvement EverNote—evernote.com Definitive Book of Body Language by Pease and Pease—0553804723 Time Management Google Keep—drive.google.com/keep How To Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie—1439167346 Focus Booster—www.focusboosterapp.com/live OneNote—office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by Zinsser—0060006641 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by Allen—0142000280 Soho Notes –www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohonotes.html Orbiting The Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by MacKenzie—0670879835 Kimai—www.kimai.org/en Spring Pad—springpad.com Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Reynolds—0321811984 Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Benson and Barry - 1453802266 Zotero—www.zotero.org slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Duarte—0596522347 Project Hamster—projecthamster.wordpress.com/about Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Hadnagy—0470639539 Rescue Time—www.rescuetime.com RSS Readers Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life by Ekman—0805083391 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Covey—0743269519 Bloglines—www.bloglines.com What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Navarro and Karlins—0061438294 The Dip by Godin - 9781591841661 Digg Reader—digg.com/reader Writing as Thinking by Jacobus—0023601604 The Now Habit by Fiore—1585425524 Feedly—cloud.feedly.com [H2] Interviewing and Job Hunting Techniques Tomato—tomato.es The Old Reader—theoldreader.com 201 Best Questions To Ask On Your Interview by Kador—0071387730 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Ryan - 0143112902 Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It by Klaus—0446692786 Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions by McDowell - 098478280X Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job by Fox—0786865962 How to Land Your Dream Job: No Resume! And Other Secrets to Get You in the Door by Fox—1401303048 Job Reconnaissance How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers by Poundstone—0316778494 Nail the Job Interview!: 101 Dynamite Answers to Interview Questions by Krannich and Krannich—1593160232 [H2] Storytelling and Metaphor I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World by Geary - 9780061710292 Images of Organization by Morgan—1412939798 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Heath and Heath - 1400064287 Master Metaphor List v2 –Lakoff, Espenson, Goldberg and Schwartz –araw.mede.uic.edu/~alansz/metaphor/METAPHORLIST.pdf Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson—0226468011 Pixar Story Rules by Coats—filmmakeriq.com/2012/08/the-pixar-story-rules Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by McKee - 9780060391683 The Golden Theme: How to make your writing appeal to the highest common denominator by McDonald—0984178678 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Booker—0826480373 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Pinker—0143114247 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Pressfield—1936891026 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Tufte—0961392126 Visual Story Lab’s 2013 Report—www.resource-media.org/visual-story-lab/report Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact by Simmons—0814409148 Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Cron—1607742454 [H2] Privacy Lockdown Google—www.google.com/goodtoknow/online-safety/security-tools/ Microsoft—www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/overview.aspx Yahoo—security.yahoo.com/ LinkedIn—www.linkedin.com/settings/ Facebook—www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&privacy_source=settings_menu MySpace—www.myspace.com/my/settings/account/privacy LiveJournal—www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=privacy SimpleWash—simplewa.sh Twitter—twitter.com/settings/account

[H1] General Business While the challenges facing your targets will be quite specific to them, there are some general resources that can help you to understand more general market conditions, how businesses work, and how they fail.

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Gawande—9780312427658 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Collins—0066620996 Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship by Khalsa and Illig—1591842263 Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Beckwith—0446672319 SPIN Selling by Rackham—0070511136 The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Christensen and Raynor—1578518520 The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Buckingham—0743261658 What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works by Charan—0609608398 [H1] Ethics While your ethics are your own, it can be quite useful to know how others expect you to act. It will vary by geographic region and by specific industry. In general, GIAC and (ISC)2 focus on the ethical use of information in a business context. The other resources help you determine, more specifically, what ethics others might expect you to follow. (ISC)2 Code of Ethics—www.isc2.org/ethics/Default.aspx GIAC Code of Ethics—computer-forensics.sans.org/certification/ethics Ethics Resource Center Ethics Toolkit—www.ethics.org/page/ethics-toolkit DoD View—www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/resource_library/resourcesindex.html Resources Fonts Font Picker—www.fontpicker.net Julian Hansen’s Font Choice—julianhansen.com/files/infographiclarge_v2.png Klixo Font Chooser—klixo.com/tools/font_chooser.html Getting Help Wordmark—wordmark.it CE-L freelancers list—www.copyediting-l.info FedEx Office—www.fedex.com/us/office Colors OfficeDepot Copy and Print - www.officedepot.com/a/design-print-and-ship Colllor—colllor.com OfficeMax Print Center—www.officemax.com/home/custom.jsp?id=m9540558 Color Combos Color Grabber—www.colorcombos.com/grabcolors.html Color Scheme Designer—colorschemedesigner.com Networking Keywords Color Palette Generator—www.degraeve.com/color-palette “BNI” “Chamber of Commerce Events” Layout Tools “Jaycees” Gimp—www.gimp.org “Networking” Inkscape—Inkscape.org “Rotary” LibreOffice—www.libreoffice.org “Toastmasters” Scribus—www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus “User Group ”

Reference Sources Communication and General Improvement Bing Images—www.bing.com/images Definitive Book of Body Language by Pease and Pease—0553804723 Creative Commons—search.creativecommons.org How To Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie—1439167346 Exaled—www.exalead.com/search/image On Writing Wellby Zinsser—0060006641 Flickr Search—www.flickr.com/search Orbiting The Giant Hairballby MacKenzie—0670879835 Google Image Search—www.google.com/imghp Presentation Zen by Reynolds—0321811984 Pinterest Visual Résumés—pinterest.com/rtkrum/infographic-visual-resumes slide:ology by Duarte—0596522347 TinEye Reverse Image Search—www.tineye.com Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Hadnagy—0470639539 Visualize Me—vizualize.me Emotions Revealed by Ekman—0805083391 Yahoo Images—images.search.yahoo.com What Every BODY is Saying by Navarro and Karlins—0061438294 Writing as Thinking by Jacobus—0023601604 Negotiation Getting to YESby Fisher, Ury and Patton—0143118757 Interviewing and Job Hunting Techniques How to Read a Person Like a Book by Nierenberg, Calero and Grayson—9780757003141 201 Best Questions To Ask On Your Interview by Kador—0071387730 The Art of Negotiating by Nierenberg—156619816X 60 Seconds and You're Hired! by Ryan - 0143112902 [H2] Cost of Living Calculators Brag! by Klaus—0446692786 CNN—money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living Cracking the Coding Interview by McDowell - 098478280X Best Places—www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/ Don't Send a Resume by Fox—0786865962 BankRate—bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-living-calculator.aspx How to Land Your Dream Job by Fox—1401303048 Salary.com—swz.salary.com/costoflivingwizard/layoutscripts/coll_start.aspx How Would You Move Mount Fuji?—0316778494 Payscale—www.payscale.com/cost-of-living-calculator Nail the Job Interview! by Krannich and Krannich—1593160232

Job Reconnaissance Resources Storytelling and Metaphor Images of Organization by Morgan—1412939798 Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Heath and Heath - 1400064287 Master Metaphor List v2 –Lakoff, Espenson, Goldberg and Schwartz –araw.mede.uic.edu/~alansz/metaphor/METAPHORLIST.pdf Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson—0226468011 Pixar Story Rules by Coats—filmmakeriq.com/2012/08/the-pixar-story-rules Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting by McKee - 9780060391683 The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Booker—0826480373 The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Pinker—0143114247 The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Pressfield—1936891026 Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Tufte—0961392126 Visual Story Lab’s 2013 Report—www.resource-media.org/visual-story-lab/report Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins: How to Use Your Own Stories to Communicate with Power and Impact by Simmons—0814409148 Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Cron—1607742454

Privacy Lockdown Google—www.google.com/goodtoknow/online-safety/security-tools/ Microsoft—www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/overview.aspx Yahoo—security.yahoo.com/ LinkedIn—www.linkedin.com/settings/ Facebook—www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy&privacy_source=settings_menu MySpace—www.myspace.com/my/settings/account/privacy LiveJournal—www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=privacy SimpleWash—simplewa.sh Twitter—twitter.com/settings/account

General Business Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Gawande—9780312427658 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Collins—0066620996 Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship by Khalsa and Illig—1591842263 Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Beckwith—0446672319 SPIN Selling by Rackham—0070511136 The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Christensen and Raynor—1578518520 The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success by Buckingham—0743261658 What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works by Charan—0609608398

Ethics (ISC)2 Code of Ethics—www.isc2.org/ethics/Default.aspx GIAC Code of Ethics—computer-forensics.sans.org/certification/ethics Ethics Resource Center Ethics Toolkit—www.ethics.org/page/ethics-toolkit DoD View—www.dod.mil/dodgc/defense_ethics/resource_library/resourcesindex.html Job Reconnaissance Resources

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