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Welcome to Ghosted to Hired.

Thanks for picking up the book. Your download links are on their way to the email address you used at checkout — two files, the PDF and the EPUB. Open whichever fits the device you’re holding.

Where to find your book

Check your inbox for an email from Squarespace with two download links — one PDF, one EPUB. The PDF reads on any laptop, phone, or tablet; the EPUB is what you want for Kindle, Apple Books, or any e-reader app. Download both; they’re yours.

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  • Read on any device
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  • Yours forever
Don’t see the email after a few minutes? Check your spam folder first, then drop a quick note to john@skiptheresume.com and I’ll send the files to you directly.

Want to start strong? Read this first.

The book is short on purpose — you can finish it in an evening. But if you only have an hour, here’s the path that gets you to action the fastest.

  1. 1

    Before You Read This Book

    A short opener that reframes the entire job search before chapter one begins. Five minutes. Read it first.

  2. 2

    Chapter 1 — The Three Job Markets

    The map. Once you see the three markets and which one you’ve been working, everything else makes sense.

  3. 3

    Chapter 12 — The First Monday

    Your sixty-minute starter. Skip ahead and read this when you’re ready to act, even before you finish the middle of the book.

  4. 4

    Chapter 5 — Pressure Signals

    Your Monday-morning page from here on out. Keep it open as you scan. This is the chapter you’ll come back to most.

Know someone who’s been ghosted?

If you’ve been through a long, silent job search, you probably know someone else who’s in one right now. Forwarding this book to one person who needs it is the single highest-leverage thing you can do for them — and the single biggest help to me as the author.

“A friend just published a book on getting past the algorithm and into the room where hiring actually happens. Thought of you. It’s short, plain-spoken, and built for people who’ve been ghosted by a system that wasn’t built to find them.”

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One last thing.

If you’re reading this during a long, hard search, hear this directly from me: the fact that you’ve been ghosted does not mean you aren’t enough. It means you’ve been pushing on a door that was never going to open from the outside. There is another door. The work it takes to open it is real — but it works.

The next move is yours.

— John Madden

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