Guaranteeing You Get the Interview

05.25.10

Permalink: Perfect Cover Letter Creative Fiction, Guaranteeing You Get the Interview, Misleading BS | (0)
WRITING THE PERFECT COVER LETTER by Kotow Shergar In my last article, I wrote about how to craft the perfect resume to land any job. Achieving this level of perfection will not guarantee you will get a job, but it will make you the ideal candidate and ensure that your failure to be employed is the fault of someone or something else. ... [caption id="attachment_182" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Is spelling really that important on a cover letter?"][/caption] . . To understand why you might need a cover letter, consider the following three scenari*: I) A potential employer is considering several candidates with powerful resumes. Let's say that you ...
05.25.10

Permalink: Interviewing Buzzwords, Covers, Guaranteeing You Get the Interview, Misleading BS | (0)
HOW TO INTERVIEW FOR ANY JOB, OTHER THAN AS A REPORTER I'm going to write briefly on an article I found on No Shortage of Work, which has no shortage of terrible advice on job-searching. Case in point is this article on How to Interview in which No Shortage of Work Grand Swindler Brooke Allen argues that you should "interview like a reporter." I'm not sure what you are supposed to gain by emulating low-level employees in a profession that never made much money to begin with and has been in a steady decline over the last two decades, but it sure ...

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