IF you are unemployed, you should be spending 35 hours a week on your search. If you are employed, spend 15 hours a week to get some momentum going. If you spend only two or three hours a week on your job search, you may complain that you have been searching forever, when actually you have not even begun. If you are employed, you can do most of your job hunting in the evenings and on weekends—research, write cover letters and follow-up letters. You can even schedule your meetings in the evenings or early mornings.

Some job hunters feel they don't have time for this, and simply want to go on job interviews (usually through search firms or answering ads). Others want to skip the assessment process (see our Targeting book), or don't even do the Seven-Stories Exercise. Their campaigns are weaker because they have no foundation.

The Five O'Clock Club offers job-search seminars across the United States for professionals, managers, and executives. Join us, and you may discover like many others that you will find a better job more quickly. 

The material for this entire course is just a small part of what we have to offer. The books are jam-packed with content, and a pleasure to read! All materials may be ordered from our web site. Read below what people are saying about us!

Attend your small group regularly. Your counselor and fellow group members will make sure you have not skipped your Seven-Stories Exercise, have a good Two-Minute Pitch and resume, are getting in to see the people you need to see, have six to ten things in the works, and know how to follow up on important contacts. Use the Five O'Clock Club jargon in your small group and stick with the process. It works!

You may purchase our books and audio CD's securely at a discount here.

"The Five O'Clock Club product is much better, far more useful, than my outplacement package."

-A Five O'Clock Club Member

"The Club meetings kept the juices flowing. You meet with people weekly, you're told what to do, what not to do. Job hunting can be very lonely. There were fresh ideas. I went through an outplacement service that, frankly, did not help. If they had done as much as the Five O'Clock Club did, I would have landed sooner."

-A Five O'Clock Clubber

"Most of the club's members are 35-55 years old and a third of them earn more than $100,000 a year. Rather than allowing jobs to define their lives, the [Five O'Clock] Club's members are encouraged to decide on their own goals--to imagine what sort of person they want to be in 40 years' time, for example--and then to design their careers around that goal. [The Club] has thrived because it is catering to fundamental changes in working life."

THE ECONOMIST, January 29th, 2000

"One organization with a long record of success in helping people find jobs is The Five O'Clock Club."

FORTUNE

"The Five O'Clock Club's arrival in D.C. reflects the growing importance of . . . career development."

The Washington Post

"Many managers left to fend for themselves are turning to the camaraderie offered by [The Five O'Clock Club]. Members share tips and advice, and hear experts."

The Wall Street Journal

"If you have been out of work for some time . . . consider The Five O'Clock Club."

The New York Times

"Wendleton has reinvented the historic gentlemen's fraternal oasis and built it into a chain of strategy clubs for job seekers."

The Philadelphia Inquirer

"[The Five O'Clock Club] will ask not what you do, but 'What do you want to do?' . . . [And] don't expect to get any great happy hour drink specials at this joint. The two-hour seminars are all business."

The Washington Times

"The Five O'Clock Club's proven philosophy is that job hunting is a learned skill like any other. The Five O'Clock Club becomes the engine that drives [your] search."

Black Enterprise

"Job hunting is a science at The Five O'Clock Club. [Members] find the discipline, direction and much-needed support that keeps a job search on track."

Modern Maturity

"On behalf of eight million New Yorkers, I commend and thank The Five O'Clock Club. Keep the faith and keep America working!"

David N. Dinkins, former Mayor,
The City of New York