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Congratulations! You’re hired. We have an exciting new job that has been tailored specifically to your experience, unique skills, and past responsibilities. This exciting new job offers long hours, lots of stress, and horrible pay. The job responsibility includes only one task, find and acquire new avenues of employment. Not only are you an employee, but in this job you’re an unsupervised CEO responsible for all activities of the company. The job title for this new opportunity is UNEMPLOYED. Again, you’re hired.
Face it! Your new job sucks, but it is …

Working without a plan will get you nowhere. Build a plan and stay organized will help you stay productive while running your new business of finding a job. To help you stay focused we’ve outlined a few components of an organized balanced job search.
Tracking System: Develop a system for keeping track of the companies you’ve contacted or want to contact. Record who you spoke with and when. Record when a resume is sent. Record any response. Record your follow up efforts. Use this information to manage the number of contacts …

In past articles, we’ve discussed the basic structure of a cover letter. In this article, we’ll walk you through turning your basic cover letter into an impressive cover letter.
Your resume outlines your career, skills, and experience. It is the most common means of advertising to potential employers. Unfortunately, few hiring managers enjoy reading resumes.  Your cover letter is a short concise means of selling the hiring manager on reading your resume. They don’t have to commit much time to read over the cover letter, so they are highly likely to …

Choose every word in your cover letter carefully; you don’t have much room to sell them. Make sure your pitch is highly focused and maximizes the value you bring. The more valuable you appear in the cover letter, the more likely the reader will be to move on to your resume.
To help with choosing the best wording, we’ve included a few sample rewordings for your cover letter.

Job Requirement:

I am a people person

I fixed up two beaters I bought at a junk yard.

I like computers

I waited tables at a restaurant

Selling Phrase

I …

Every hiring manager wants to read a cover letter and think “This person is a perfect match.” The closer your cover letter is to the job listing the more likely the reader is to move on to reading the resume. You only have one paragraph to sell them so make sure you are using selling phrases in your cover letter and make sure your cover letter matches the target position.
Matching the target position: Start out by printing a copy of your best cover letter and a copy of the job …