Job Fairs: Avoid The Cattle Call

It seems like every week, an ad appears in the newspaper for a job fair offering hope to unemployed people that they will get a job. Sometimes, tv news camera crew show the lines outside of people who want a job and hope it lies within the walls of that ballroom or convention center.

Yet the truth is that no one will be hired that day, you will be asked to hand your resume to someone who will put it in a pile with several hundred or several thousand others, you will try to get a few seconds with a recruiter who will trying to get away because there are 20 other people trying to get a few seconds of their time too . . . and that isn't the worst part. That can happen months later.

Resumes That Work: 3 Steps to More Interviews

All of us involved with helping you get a new job, whether as third party recruiters or as representatives of a company evaluating you for employment of all receiving hundreds of emailed resumes a day. Having done professional search work for more than thirty years, I have seen both resumes change and how they are delivered change. The change in delivery means that how you think of your resume being seen needs to change too. 

 

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