Get The Job Interview: Fill That Job

It’s nice when people have the resources to be able to take their time, locate, and fill a job or position that is their life calling, or at least utilizes their natural talents. Unfortunately, time restraints and finances often seem to catch-up with 21^st Century Americans. We often must simply find job openings and go after jobs, whether it is our calling or not.

To do this is a several step process. We must go online or look in newspapers or job boards to locate potential positions, have a solid resume written, send the resume to the potential employer or post it on a job board, and then begin to interview for interested potential employers.

In all of this, the resume is the key that opens the door. Resumes rarely if ever actually get jobs, but they secure the job interviews where we can sell ourselves and get the jobs. It is important that your resume writer or resume developer writes your resume with INTERVIEWS in mind, NOT JOBS.

A resume needs to be crisp, neat, attractive, grammatically correct, informative, precise, tailored for certain positions, have accurate dates and locations, include all education and training, demonstrate your skill set, and list all past positions, experience, and awards and exact achievements.

You see, your resume is your first assignment for a potential employer. To a great extent you are graded! Whether you delegate it or not, the buck stops with you, and you are in charge of developing your own resume via providing the writer with complete information.

Think about it from the potential employer’s point of view. If you won’t even put 100% into your own job resume for someone, what reason is there to believe that you will give even 75% for the employer? LITTLE.

What you need to know and do is where and how to locate suitable jobs, and then supply full and complete information to your resume developer to write-up a resume for that position. Be sure and state your objective and explain what skills you possess to make you successful at it.

Generalities simply will not get the job done, whereas specifics will. Be honest; be accurate; be sincere, and show yourself to be a great match for the available position you want to fill. GO FOR IT! Develop a great resume.

Finally, when you get that interview know the company and potential job before you walk-in. Be knowledgeable. Question the interviewer. Isn’t it a two-way street? They have an opening and you might be the best person to fill it and benefit them! GO FOR IT!

Jimmy Hall/ATLANTA (404-580-1501) is a writer of resumes, business plans, web content, letters, and other written projects…