Summary Sunday Standing Out Among A Sea of Job Seekers

Summary Sunday Standing Out Among A Sea of Job Seekers Ive always said you shouldnt pay attention to the doom and gloom state of the job market reports. It can be discouraging and plants negative thoughts in your already vulnerable head. The realist is me, however, understands that there is a lot of competition for jobs. Rather than bemoan this fact, I would prefer you take control and action! Stand Outand for the right reasons! Thats what todays collection is all about! Every Sunday I rally up my favorite posts and share them here. Most of these Ive found on Twitter because I follow and read content being shared by people I consider knowledgeable. In other words, I trust that the information they share to be important. Theyve earned this respect because they have consistently shared quality articles and opinions based on logic and data. These knowledgeable people are kind, other-focused, and weve interacted/exchanged comments via Twitter, email or sometimes phone. Social media, creativity set students apart in job search from USA Today College What makes this post so wonderful, in my opinion, is that it provides a min-case study of one college student to went above and beyond to stand out! More importantly, it proves to me that anything is possible when you put your heart and mind into it! Here are some quotable quotes from this article: Instead of sending human resources a traditional black-and-white résumé and hoping for the best, Hussain, 22, wrote and designed an e-book â€"  7 Reasons Why HubSpot Should Hire Anum Hussain  â€" that landed her an interview and, eventually, the internship. Ellen Hanson, a human resources manager at Chicago’s  Walker Sands Communications, has received 300 résumés to date for a public relations internship opening at the firm. Hanson said that she prefers when applicants tweet at the company, rather than write a cover letter. Read the full post to understand WHY Anum Hussain sent an eBook and why it worked for her! And why tweeting with companies is another way of standing out! If you are looking for more information on how to get started with Twitter, check out these posts:  Be A Tweeter  and  Twitter In 3 Easy Steps How Recruiters Really Read Your Resume: 7 Steps in 7 Seconds  from YouTern This post was written by Harry Urschel (@HarryUrschel) Ive been following Harry for a really long time and always enjoy his straight forward posts!!!! If you truly understood the process and thinking of those people who receive and review resumes, maybe youd be better at catching their attention. (Of course, my first preference is for you to network prior to a job being available, my second preference is for you to get referred by an employee, but when you must send a resume, you gotta know this stuff!) Do small companies process resumes differently than large companies? What are they evaluating? And what are 5 things you can do to get noticed! What Not to Say in a Thank You Letter After an Interview by Miriam Salpeter of Keppie Careers Miriams post on US News World Report simply lays out the reason NOT to include these 5 phrases in your Thank You letter! I bet youve used at least one of them, go have a read! An Alternative for you Now, if you want to see what I share on Twitter, but you dont want a Twitter account, you can see a summary on RebelMouse. This is it and NOW you can get a summary emailed to you. Pretty nifty! All you have to to is open this in your browser then add your email address over on the far right near Get Alerts