Category Archives: Resume

Perfect Resume For Employment

A resume will make or break your employment status yet many people fail to put their best efforts towards a perfect resume. A resume that best reflects your personality, skills and goals, increases your chances in landing your dream job. The better your resume, the better your job offers get. You will see a gain in interviews being set up and increases in salaries.

Job recruiters see hundreds of resumes for every position they advertise. There is plenty of competition and you have to make yourself stand out. By writing an attention grabbing objective that fits their exact need, you improve your chances for an interview. Make sure your resume includes your strengths, skills and background. Any experience that makes you an asset to their company is an absolute must for any resume. Make yourself fit in their company by filling their needs. In order to get the best picture of what they require, read as much as you can about the company. Put more emphasis on their quarterly goals, whether it is monetary or finishing a project.

Write your resume like you are creating a resume advertisement. It is a way to market yourself to the masses and like an ad, it should keep the viewer focused and interested. Create visual imagery by including percentages and numbers to mix up the monotony of words. Use bullet points when you list out your skills. Remember to supplement your resume by creating a resume blog, put an advertisement on Facebook or if your job is related to design, create a resume with images.

Submit Your Resume To Job Sites Quickly

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When you first begin your job search, there is the tedious process of posting your resume to every single online job site. Why do we do this? Each job site has different job listings and you want to make sure your resume is available for all employers to see. By increasing your resume presence, you increase your chances of getting a job. The big problem is the time involved in doing so. It could take anywhere from 3 to 4 days of nonstop posting to get this done. That is over 80 hours of resume posting. Instead of spending 80 hours, I can take 5 minutes to post one resume and let Resume Rabbit send it out to 70+ job sites.

It was a 3 step process for me. First step is your basic email and user name registration.

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Next step is more detailed and ask for name and address. This is also the time for you to post your text resume and specific which sites you want the resume posted. You can choose part time, full time and intern positions. Make sure to figure out the job position you are seeking so this process can be completely in a very short amount of time.
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The final process is the billing. The price is $59.95. They say the resume will be exposed to over 1.5 million employers and recruiters. These are just a few of the job sites where they will post your resume.

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The hours I saved by doing this automatically are well worth the $59.95 price tag. I rationalize it by saying I spent less than $1 per site. Resume Rabbit also keeps everything manageable with logins and password. I know I would have hard time tracking passwords and login information. I don’t have to go to every single job site to login and check my status. Resume Rabbit keeps things centralized so I can access their site for everything. Additionally, each time my resume gets posted to a job site, the information is updated. Here is a sample of their centralized resume report each time a resume gets posted.
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I submitted a resume 3 days ago and I already have the resume listed on 30 sites. Not to mention the 4 replies in my email. Resume Rabbit

Advertise Your Resume on Facebook

Need a creative way to advertise your resume to the world? How about buying an advertisement for yourself on the internet? That’s what Eric Barker did and he got a job offer! He only spent $50 on Facebook ads and Microsoft replied and gave him a job. This is just one of the ways to get your name out there. You can create a picture resume or you can start a blog resume.

You can start your own Facebook resume ad too. But you need a couple of things before you start.

  • A good pitch

Create a good sales pitch and tagline to your resume ad. Make sure it’s targeted to your audience. Put your best skills on the ad without sounding too generic. Put the position you seek in the title and make sure your name is in the advertisement.

  • A picture of yourself

Get a professional photo of yourself and make sure you’re smiling. Everyone loves a happy worker.

  • A landing page

After you have the pitch and photo ready, you need a place for people to land after they click on your ad. You can create a blog resume and have it land there. Or you can post your resume on a job site like Monster.com and link to that page.

Then finally go to http://www.facebook.com/advertising/ and get started. You set your daily budget. You can pay per each click of the advertisement or each time the ad gets an impression. Set it low to like 5 or 10 dollars a day. Most importantly, target the ad to the right audience and geographical location. Someone under 18 will likely not offer you the job of your dreams, so don’t target that demographic.

Facebook Resume Posting Tips

  • It is not bad to post your resume on Facebook as long as you keep it professional and reveal only public information. Use an throwaway email address that can handle spam. These Facebook ads will be PUBLIC and possibly be forever stored in some database. Do not reveal more than necessary.
  • Make sure none of the information on your resume can be traced back to any answers for security questions such as “Where did you go to school?” or “What was your school mascot?” Your resume might reveal the answers so it is best to change your security questions on your bank or email accounts.
  • Remember to monitor your daily advertising spending. If you forget to put a cap on the spending, you will get a big bill that you would not expect.