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37signals, creators of some very fine Web applications, announced an opening for a designer last week. Take a minute to read the posting–this is not a run-of-the-mill, back office design job. Whoever lands this has an incredible opportunity to change the look and feel of this high-profile company:
You’ll have virtual free reign. We want you [...]
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The going advice for young job seekers (read: college grads) has been "keep a clean profile." Your online profile, that is. Be careful about what you post on your blog, in MySpace/facebook, on message boards, etc. The conventional wisdom has held that your paper resume is more important than whatever you’re doing online. Avoiding anything [...]
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I continue to recommend Dan Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko to just about all the young people I know. It’s such a quick, easy, and helpful (not to mention entertaining) read that it’s hard to pass up. The book is a great conversation starter about the nature of work and career, an [...]
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Garr Reynolds has just posted an overview of Dan Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko in, of course, the form of a presentation. The presentation has a manga feel to it, just like Dan Pink’s book. Very cool.
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Patti Becker, Human Resources Manager at Eaton Corporation in Lincoln, Illinois, spoke to one of my classes about employment communication (resumes, cover letters, interviewing) this week. Eaton is a global corporation with 79,000 employees worldwide. Patti has been involved with human resources at the 650-employee Lincoln plant for 20 years and brought [...]
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Students seeking a summer internship should check out One Day, One Internship. The site features a new internship opportunity every day so subscribing to the RSS feed makes good sense. And these are good internships–recent postings have featured jobs with American Express, United States Golf Association, and Harry & David (whose pears are [...]
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Yesterday we looked at a common error in internship cover letters, namely, seeing the internship as an opportunity to benefit the student while neglecting to show what the employer will gain. Today we’ll write a better cover letter.
The three parts of a cover letter
As I mentioned last week, a cover letter (and resume) [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot of internship resumes and cover letters lately, and I’m seeing a trend: students are asking for internships as though the potential employer were doing them a favor.
This approach is misguided. In this post I’ll explain why and then discuss what a proper cover letter should do. Part [...]
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A student recently contacted me with a question about the use of references on her husband’s resume:
I hear that putting references on your resume is a no-no. My husband is having to job-search again, so we are updating his resume. I was wondering if we should take out the references? [...]
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Brandon Laughridge is an ambitious guy: he wants to work with Seth Godin this summer and he’s set up a web site, SethsFavoriteIntern.com, in pursuit of that goal. Brandon read my post about Seth’s internship then contacted me and asked if I’d be willing to comment on his efforts. I said I’d be [...]
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