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Resumania
May 15, 1998
In terms of the hunt, your resume is your basic document.
It functions as a kind of advertising "flyer" and business card in one.
There are plenty of resources on the Web to help you create an effective
reume.
We were rather taken with Resumania. This is a
step-by-step reume builder operated by the University of Minnesota Employee
Career Enrichment Program.
There's a comprehensive FAQ, and a six-step program, which ranges from
asking the purpose of a resume to examples of what they believe to be
particulaly good resumes.
Resumix
has plenty of good advice on creating electronic resumes, including tips
from Joyce Lain Kennedy.
Resumix itself "...provides advanced Human Skills
ManagementTM solutions that enable organizations to
identify the most qualified candidates for hire,
promotion and reassignment quickly and efficiently."
This attractive site not only provides practical advice, but also lists job
opportunities within the company.
Jobsmart
May 14, 1998
We've said it before, but we'll say it again. Jobsmart is one of THE best
resources around.
It's full of useful tips and hints. One we particularly care for is Two Dozen Hot Resume
Tips from Yana Parker.
Yana Parker is the author of Damn Good Resume Guide, Resume Catalog,
Ready to Go Resumes and Blue Collar & Beyond, so she comes well-
recommended.
Presented in Question & Answer format, the twenty-four tips presented here
range from the obvious - like "What's the FIRST STEP in writing a resume?"
- to the less-obvious, like "Don't fold a laser-printed resume right along
a line of text". (Because "the "ink" could flake off along the fold.")
If you're really intent on creating a "killer resume" - and who isn't? -
you can visit Yana's Damned Good
Resume Books site, which not only gives you the lowdown, but also
offers Live Help With Your Resume. There's also an extremely useful
links page.
Check it out!
Get Your Wet Feet
May 12, 1998 Researching your target companies is as pleasant as a novocaine free dental visit. The folks over at WetFeet Press know this and have gone to great lengths to remove the "BS" from the process. The company publishes "Insider Guides" targeted at MBA graduates but useful for lots of other job hunters. The Website is more like the Web "ought to be" than most employment related sites and includes
Getting Flamed
May 11, 1998
If you broadcast your resume, you will get "flamed".
According to Joe Vitale, Houston net marketing specialist and author
of the new book, "CyberWriting: How to Promote Your Product or
Service Online (without being flamed)" (AMACOM, $18.95) there are
several appropriate ways to handle flames:
1. Remember the new prime directive of cyberspace.
2. Delete the message before reading it.
3. Forget it.
4. Save them for fun.
Vitale's 180-page new paperback also offers an adapted 1903 secrets for
making money online, shows how to write cyber-sales letters and
e-news releases, and describes a new formula for writing ads online
that get results.
"CyberWriting: How to Promote Your Product or Service Online
(without being flamed)" is Vitale's seventh book. He also wrote "The
AMA Complete Guide to Small Business Advertising" for the American
Marketing Association.
"CyberWriting" is published by AMACOM, the book division of the
American Management Association, and will be available in bookstores
on September 1st. It can also be ordered online at
http://www.amazon.com.
All in all, we think you'll find a visit to WetFeet Press worth the investment of time and a bright spot in your job hunt.
"Write in kindness," says the author. "As long as you soften your
heart, take a deep breath, and write a kind message back to the
flamer, you will end the flame war, neutralize the flame you
received, and make yourself and the flamer feel better."
"If the header on the message you are about to read says
something like 'YOU FOOL!,' you know you are about to read a
flame," says Vitale. "You would be wise to delete the message and
save yourself the aggravation of reading it."
"A fundamental truth in human psychology is that people
will defend to the death their belief that they are right," writes
Vitale. "You have to be secure enough in your own self-esteem to
let the flamer off the hook and not retaliate."
Did you know that Mark Twain and P.T. Barnum collected
crank letters with the idea that someday Twain would write a book
about them? Twain never wrote the book, but the idea made receiving
those awful letters easier.
Last Week On 1st Steps
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