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HIRED (Second Edition)

The Job Search Playbook That Won Awards Just Got Deadlier. And Smarter.
In 2017, George Murray wrote the book that cut career search times in half.

Now he’s burned it down and rebuilt it for the AI era.

HIRED: Cut Your Career Search Time in Half (Second Edition) isn’t a refresh. It’s a revolution. Murray took his battle-tested methodology—forged through 19 months of personal transition and over 1,100 strategic network meetings—and fused it with the most powerful technological levers of 2026.

The result?

A hybrid playbook where timeless human strategy meets tactical AI execution.

What hasn't changed:

The mindset. The grit. The 48-hour reset. The “CEO of You, Inc.” discipline. The networking principles that built careers.

What has changed: Everything else.

  • Your LinkedIn profile isn’t a resume anymore. It’s a living, breathing opportunity magnet.
  • Your network card is dead. Digital-first networking is the only game in town.
  • Your competition isn’t just other candidates. It’s AI-powered Applicant Tracking Systems filtering out 92% of applicants before a human sighs.
  • Your advantage hasn’t disappeared. It’s just been waiting for you to upgrade your weapons.

Inside this edition, you'll discover:

  • The AI Co-Pilot Chapter — Use ChatGPT and Claude as your brainstorming partner, resume editor, and outreach strategist. Not to replace you. To free you for what only you can do.
  • The Laser Introduction — The 10-second surgical strike that replaces the dead elevator pitch. (Say goodbye to “I’m a results-driven leader.”)
  • The 90-Day Strategic Impact Plan — The document that turns final interviews into offers. Presented here with templates and real examples.
  • Hybrid Networking 2.0 — The 10-10-10 method updated for a world where some meetings are on Zoom and some are at coffee shops.
  • The Ageism Chapter — Straight talk about the elephant in the room. No sugar-coating. No surrender. Just strategies that work.
  • The #GetBetter Framework — How to keep your family, your health, and your sanity intact while you search. Because the job search isn’t the hard part. The isolation is.

Murray doesn't write from theory. He writes from the trenches.

Two transitions. Two decades of executive leadership. Thousands of conversations. And now, an AI-powered toolkit that makes the second edition exponentially more powerful than the first.

The first edition taught you how to find a job.
This edition teaches you how to become the person jobs find.