Yep, still going through emails. This time I finally got back to something Brad Berens sent me back in April 07. You might remember that Sweetness was doing research on job hunting and job seeking online around then, and that some of her findings were published in this blog.
It turns out Brad, in a previous life, had written a piece about what a good resume entails, Your Resume Is Like a Screenplay. Brad wrote this when he was working as a script consultant (hmm...I wonder if he ever read any of the scripts my agent sent?).
It's a good read for people wanting to get their resume noticed.
One mystery solved in Brad's piece was why scripts I was reading were so completely different from the finished production.
Another reason the topic of resumes and job hunting is on my mind has to do with a conversation I overheard between a hiring manager and a potential employee when I was at a client site last week. As the hiring manager walked the potential employee to the elevator, she said that she was concerned the job would be too boring and that the potential employee would quit before giving the job a chance.
Think of this information exchange as a sales opportunity. Think of the hiring manager as a car salesperson and the potential employee as someone wanting to buy a car. Can you imagine a salesperson telling a prospect, "You're going to hate this car but I'll sell it to you anyway."?
There's got to be a better way to set expectations than "I'm worried you're going to be bored by this job and not give yourself time to get use to it." During the interview I can understand a statement like this. Prior to agreeing to hire the potential employee I can understand it. But after you've offered them a job?
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