Resume Assistance For You
It’s Rough Out There; Your Resume’s Key to Job Search Success
Competition for jobs is now more nerve-wracking and even cut-throat than ever. There’s a dearth of good jobs and an excess of people trying to get them.
Resumes were always an important tool to help you get a job — at the pay you wanted — but now they are more important than ever. Where once you were competing against ten people, now you are competing against thirty or more.
So it’s time to get yourself a little resume assistance.
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You might think that it’s easy to write a resume. You just put your address at the top, list where you went to school and what jobs you’ve had throughout your career, and there you have it.
Not so.
Certainly the cosmetic look of a resume is easy. There are several sample resumes available in books on the subject, online, even offered by your word processing software in its template package. You just choose the one you want and take it from there.
But there’s more to resume assistance than help with how your resume looks! The information contained within the resume is all important.
Resume Content for the Electronic Age
We’re in the electronic age. So in addition to your home address and email at the top of the page, also include your website or blog, should you have one.
And if you don’t have a blog or website, get one. Web hosts are very inexpensive. You do want a web host, by the way. If you get one of those “free” webhosts, you’ll have all kinds of ads popping up on your site which will turn prospective employers off!
If you keep it strictly professional, a LinkedIn or Twitter account may be a useful addition as well.
You should also put your resume online, as part of your website. You can also link your entire portfolio to your resume, so that prospective employers can read or at least look at the material at their leisure. Just use phone numbers and email addresses specific to that resume, so you don’t get spammers or crank callers at your “real” addresses.
