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.
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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. [...] If you can’t beguile them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls**t. (unknown) For years the joke has been: “Yesterday I was a truck driver. I passed a test today, so now I am an MCSE network technician. What’s a network?” If you started out as truck driver and worked your way up to become the COO of [...] A rotting fish does not smell better under the noonday sun. “You’ve done well on your second interview. I was told to expect a job offer for you in the next couple of days. Congratulations.” “Wow. Uh, Bryan, are they doing a background check?” “Yes. This is a bank.” “There’s one more thing you don’t know. I haven’t told [...] Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras) When is your resume being thrown away? Yesterday I gave the 4 major trashing points in your resume’s life. You have two ways to break through the cycle: Have someone give your resume directly to the boss with their recommendation. |
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