What kind of resume should I use?
Wed March 24, 2010
Good Lord are there lots of experts out there telling us exactly what our resumes should look like!! There is the new "Guerrilla Resume" which is part resume, part brochure, part graphic art. It certainly sets a resume apart from the pack...with cool graphics, corporate logos, nifty elevator speeches (better know what that is!)...and any HR drone sorting through 300 standard resumes is sure to pick it out. UNLESS...

Unless you are applying to a company that mechanically sorts out resumes...then fancy graphics and complicated type faces get the resume dumped. So the FIRST rule of job hunting is..companies hire people NOT resumes.

If you see a job that interests you, research it thoroughly and try to find a personal connection BEFORE you send in your resume. Did someone in the hierarchy go to your college, come from your home town, share a common hobby or sport with you? Be aggressively imaginative because any resume that gets handed to the hiring people by an insider, and tracked by them, has an advantage over the fanciest, niftiest guerrilla resume money can buy. Whom do you know who might know someone who knows someone that works there...six degrees of separation is no joke. Because the competition is so fierce the personal connection wins out every time.

My next blog will tell you why you should become a nurse!