Looking For A First Job? Send Out Resumes In Bulk
29 September 2006Ask Uncle Bill has a good post with some advice for people who are first time job seekers. He suggests that in his experience, the HR people who put out those “1-2 years of experience required” statements on a job description don’t always stick to it – and don’t always have the final say on who gets hired. He says to send out a big stack of resumes to every place you can. That sounds about right, and having been on both the applicant side and the hiring end of that process myself it looks like many people use it, sending out resumes for jobs where they don’t really meet the requirements, but are relying on volume of applications to try to get someone to take a shot. I also remember, during college, being intimidated by the “1-2 year experience” thing myself. Pretty much every job listing had it, and I felt constrained to look only at the career fair-type things that came through the campus. This is a tip I think would have been really useful. Uncle Bill is promising a specific post soon on how his daughter got her first job, so watch for that too.
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