Re: advice for the job hunt

[Ned Allison <ned_a -at- ns -dot- net>]

Chris:

You don't say anything about your experience and skills, or your location 
and each of these can help in us making suggestions.

One thing, just submitting your resume to an agency is not enough, you have 
to call them, meet with one or several recruiters, and
make sure that they are going to market you, not just sit on your resume 
until they seem to have a match.  Most agencies treat a
resume like an egg with a very long incubation time.  They match database 
entries on orders and work for those they "Know".

Try focusing on a company you want to work for and seek to find or create a 
job with them.  Ask for an informational interview with
some department and get them to tell you what they want to see in an 
employee, and focus on becoming that person, as well as
continuing on with networking contacts with them.  Go to the major platform 
users groups and vendors meetings in your area and
talk to all of them, both presenters and audience members.  Network network 
network!

Consider rewriting your resume to change the target focus.  Get others to 
review it and make recommendations.  Develop a "60 sec Me"
speech telling people about who you are and what you do, and then give it 
to almost everyone you meet, you never know who might
know someone who knows about your next job!

If you want to focus on some specifics and want to keep the stuff off list, 
email me separately and I will go further.

Ned

At 03:09 PM 4/12/01 -0700, you wrote: