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Dee Dee Oakey said:
> > A lot of what is said
> > goes straight over my head. However, I am striving to gain as much
> > experience as I can in my current position. I know until I get this
> > experience, my chances of getting different, better employment are few.
To which Tom Murrell responded:
> As I said above, sometimes, when you see a really interesting job, it never
> hurts to try for it, even if you think your chances are slim. For one thing,
> keeping your interviewing skills honed is not a bad thing. For another, until
> you talk to those with a position to fill, you won't always know how
important
> experience or even certain skills are to them or how much trouble they're
> having filling the position when asking for the skill/tool/experience/salary
> mix they're specifying.
>
> You never know...
I absolutely agree with Tom on this one. My first employer out of college was
looking for someone with 2 years of experience, and who had experience creating
online help. I had done a 8-month internship with Hewlett-Packard, and had
taken an online help design class as part of my degree study. I decided to
apply, anyway.
I went in like gangbusters. I somehow wrangled myself a copy of RoboHELP and
created an online help file of my resume, with pop-ups and links and such (this
was 6 years ago, so that was still fairly impressive). I personalized it so
that they knew this was a "custom job" just for them.
I apparently interviewed very well (or maybe I was just cheaper?) because I
ended up getting the job, even though some people with 3+ years of experience
had applied for the same job.
So, it never hurts to apply for a job. Make them say no; don't say it for them!
:-)
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