Thursday, May 31, 2007
When resume client statements unintentionally sound dirty
"In my personal time I enjoy showing my Giant Schnauzers."
Labels: not poetry, resumes
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I am unprofessional
So in case it's confusing based on past posts (and it very well might be), I have my own resume company, a 1-man operation, and I also work essentially full time as a resume manager for another, larger company. Therefore, while I'm still happy to take on orders through my company/website (more money, usually easier orders), I don't actively market it anymore, and I can't always answer the phone if I'm doing something on deadline for the other company.
Today I was doing just that and the phone rang, so I turned the ringer off. Typically the way this works is that the client/prospective client/whatever goes into voicemail and then either (1) leaves me a message that I return when I'm done with the deadline, or (2) gets redirected to the website by my voicemail message and can find out more information and send me an e-mail from there. Or, if the client's not really interested, he or she (3) hangs up and goes about his or her business.
In this case, when I was done with my order, I looked at my phone and discovered that the same number had called me about six times in 20 minutes and left a message on the last call. I called my voicemail and heard a man say the following (slight paraphrase): "I don't like leaving messages on telephone answering machines. You may write professional resumes, but it's really unprofessional to make me leave a message." Click. (The part where he calls voicemail an answering machine is NOT a paraphrase, by the way.)
Uh, boy, let me just express how sad I am that I didn't get to work with that guy.
Today I was doing just that and the phone rang, so I turned the ringer off. Typically the way this works is that the client/prospective client/whatever goes into voicemail and then either (1) leaves me a message that I return when I'm done with the deadline, or (2) gets redirected to the website by my voicemail message and can find out more information and send me an e-mail from there. Or, if the client's not really interested, he or she (3) hangs up and goes about his or her business.
In this case, when I was done with my order, I looked at my phone and discovered that the same number had called me about six times in 20 minutes and left a message on the last call. I called my voicemail and heard a man say the following (slight paraphrase): "I don't like leaving messages on telephone answering machines. You may write professional resumes, but it's really unprofessional to make me leave a message." Click. (The part where he calls voicemail an answering machine is NOT a paraphrase, by the way.)
Uh, boy, let me just express how sad I am that I didn't get to work with that guy.
Labels: not poetry, resumes
Sunday, April 22, 2007
My Expert Advice
I've been asked by the local branch of National American University to serve as the resume expert for a career fair they're doing. A lot of resume writers do this sort of thing (career fairs and affiliation with online job boards are two of the best ways to find clients), but this is the first time I've done it, and it was nice that someone actually sought me out to ask me. So for about two and a half hours in a couple weeks, I'll be sitting at a table and critiquing people's resumes and providing estimates for me to rewrite them. A nice opportunity to help people out a little bit and probably get a few business opportunities too. Bonus: the campus is so close by that I could walk there if I wanted.
Labels: not poetry, resumes
