Who Took My Million Dollar Job
t is obvious that many In lots of marketing events you
people go to colleges, will always hear the marketing
universities get their gurus say this. You need to
degrees and thought that life is differentiate yourself. You need
going to be good and the future to stand out from the rest. It is
is going to be great. It is after true. In every industry, only the
struggling to find a job for top 5 players can be guaranteed
months do they realize that it is of survival. Look around you and
not as straight forward as it you will realize that the smaller
seems. You might be a graduate players eventually fades off and
from MIT or even Harvard but if new companies start to come to
you don't have a good and the scene and this cycle just
professional resume, it will kill repeats itself ever since the
you. dawn of time.
You have invested in yourself by That's the reason why you need to
spending tens of thousands of stand out from the rest. It
dollars to get your degree. Your doesn't matter where you
whole life had been studying and graduated or how good your
learning to the point that you communication skills are. You
are ready to reap the rewards. need to be able to strike
What do you do then? Go to Google interest and gain the HR
and grab a resume template. It executive's attention. These
sounds really idiotic but just folks normally spend less than
wait a minute and ask yourself 30-45 seconds reviewing each
this question. Isn't everybody resume. You could expect at least
doing that too! Oh yes, you've 100-300 applicants applying for
just joined the me-too group of each job.
job seekers.
How Do You Get Your Resume
Noticed? perfectly readable. You can make
First of all, forget about cover their job easier by spell
letters. Who reads it anyway? checking.
Through my experience serving the
likes of large companies like 2. Never Use More Than 1 Font.
IBM, Accenture, HP, Unilever and A lot of times, I realized that
many more, there's one thing for most resumes that comes from
sure. You do not need to send a India has got this problem.
cover letter. This information Apparently there are 4-5
just helped you saved 100USD and different fonts with different
I hope the resume providers don't sizes hijacking the resume. This
hunt me down for sharing this makes my eyes pop up at times.
piece of information. Please avoid that. Don't use
fancy fonts as well.
I am going to share these trade
secrets with you and please read Drop the Cover Letters
it carefully. Instead of paying hundreds and
getting a 1-2 page cover letter
Step 1 that will confuse the HR
1. Do A Spell Check executives, choose to write a
HR executives hate it when small 1-2 paragraph of executive
applicants send word documents summary that is around 4-5 lines
that are not checked and you get telling the HR executives what
all sorts of red and greens from specific job you are applying and
the error from Microsoft Word. what are your strengths. Why no
Like I say before, they only cover letters? Do you know how
spend 30-40 seconds reading each troublesome it is to file two
email. Their job is to just send documents instead of one? I can
the resume to the hiring manager vouch that HR executives don't
and they need the resume to be read cover letters. Period.
to ask whether they know what
4. Use A Professional Looking they're doing about. It is better
Template to work with vendors who walk the
Please get a professional looking talk and preferably in the
template. If you want to get headhunting industry so that they
average returns, you can do know what they're doing. The job
whatever the others are doing. of the resume providers are there
Know the secrets of what those to fill the gaps and to
who work in large MNCs are doing. consult/advise you on how they
You need to have a resume that can best present you to the
will excite the HR executives. companies at large.
One that is so good that they
simply do not need do anything Coming back to the topic, 'Who
and can forward straightaway. Took Your Million Dollar Job'? I
would like to ask you this
5. Knowing What A Job-Winning question. Do you know of anybody
Resume Look Like who's in the same job as you who
If you are applying for a job of are making another $500 or $1000
an IT Consultant, you need to extra? What if you can get the
know what it looks like. same deal or even better? Imagine
Similarly for SAP, Oracle you having $500 more every month.
Consultants, Executive Director, This adds up to around $6,000 a
Sales Manager, CPA, year excluding bonuses. If you
Account...etc. You need to know were to multiply by 30 years it
what a job-winning resume look would add up to $180,000.
like. There are lots of bogus However, if you were to compound
resume providers out there. It's the bonuses over the 30 years,
simple to setup a website and you would be getting close to 1
boast you are the best or the Million Dollars. Now you ask,
cheapest. But you seriously need 'Who Took Your Million Dollars?'
how life sucks. I can assure you
The only fear is to sit around that a lot of them don't deserve
and do nothing. Here's the the jobs they have but are there
paradigm shift. If you always because they invested in
think the others are good and themselves. They are there
that's why they get good paying because they might have done
jobs then please go on something right. You might be
complaining and bitching about next.
About the Author:
Edmund Ng is the CEO of a consortium of Headhunting Firms. He also manages multiple job portals and the largest IT-Jobs Yahoo Groups in Singapore. He also runs http://www.PurchaseResume.com, a professional resume provider with more than 700 satisfied customers.
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