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A 5000 email resume spam campaign may get you a job. That’s why there are people who will legitimately mail, email or fax your resume to a boatload of recruiters. If you want to spend the money on it, go ahead. Putting your resume on a hundred job boards may get you a job. On my blog [...]  The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. (Mark Twain) 12 words is the most that people will read on a billboard. (That was 12 words.) 1 ½ or 2 inches of print 12 to 15 seconds is all the time [...] Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Mark Twain) Facts would be nice Stephen King, author of more than 30 best selling horror books, wrote a book on writing. He says, “Get rid of adjectives.” This top author refuse to write, “She stealthily crept down the spooky staircase which [...] Great article on why resumes disappear when you submit them to large companies. It also gives you some hope for getting through all the filters. Here’s the link. Sometimes I forget to look at a resume and pretend I am a receptionist. This morning I talked with a very qualified friend who hasn’t been able to get a job. I took 10 seconds to look at his resume as if I were a receptionist or HR screener. There was a huge error that probably [...] I have seen all of these ways to sabotage your chances of getting a job. Experimenting can be your key to success. Here are 13 resumes that were way over the edge…and worked. Here is the link. The best book ever written on resume writing is available free for a few days. I have posted it at www.dilts.us/books/ When it goes on Amazon, it won’t be free anymore. Enjoy! Writers fall in love with their work. Every word is a work of art. When you put together your resume, you are even more in love with your work because it is about you. You can’t possibly leave out how you gave CPR to a chipmunk and saved its life. Leave it out anyway. Now do something even harder. This is a great article on how to get a job. It summarizes a lot of the ideas I try to get across. Here’s how a gentleman in the advertising business made it from the mailroom to the head of the company. I call it “Be a fish out of water.” And you’ll shortly see why. [...] |
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