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‘Don’t blah blah blah’
An employer posted the following rant on Craig’s List about why 95% of the resumes he gets are dumped in the trash without a second thought. There’s some gems in here that every job-seeker should pay serious attention to!
Dear prospective job hunters.
Thank you for taking the time to look at our site, and thank you for being interested in working with us.
Most applications I receive go straight to the deleted-items folder because of a few simple mistakes. I’m beginning to feel bad, so if you are going to make the effort to apply for a job here, or anywhere else, I’d like to offer you some advice.
To successfully interest me in hiring you, you need understand what we as business owners face on the other side of the fence. Hiring is the most important task I face, but it is also 76th on my list of a hundred other things to do today. When we put a posting on Craigslist, we usually get around 100 responses within 48 hours. They flood into my inbox, and I have to push them aside until I have time to give them the attention they deserve. In the meantime, I have phones ringing, deadlines to meet, problems with our systems, employees with questions, and much more to compete for the limited capacity of my brain.
But, don’t let this put you off. It doesn’t take much to distinguish yourself. Here’s how :
He goes on to give 5 steps to getting noticed, with examples!
- YOUR COVER LETTER MUST ANSWER OUR NEEDS.
- Don’t blah blah blah.
- Don’t make the mistake of attaching your cover letter as a word document.
- Respond with the title of the job advertisement in the subject heading.
- Win me over by being open and honest.
See the full-post here, before it expires!
Hat tip to Steve Rubel which led me to LiveMarks, a live del.icio.us ‘viewer’… that’s how I found this post.
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