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🧐 Is your thank-you note helping or hurting?
Plus: Recruiters only look at your resume for 6 seconds, here's how to make the most of it.
Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday!
In today's email:
Is your thank-you note helping or hurting? Here’s what to look out for.
A recruiter giving it to us straight. We’ve been trying to tell you this!
Resume formatting. Making the most of your resume.
Career WWYD. What would YOU do?
Bad ways to start a speech. And what to do instead.
Here’s what’s going on in the news (related to careers of course):
The minimum acceptable salary for men is much higher than that for women.
Elon Musk borrowed $1 billion from SpaceX.
Roku announced it will lay off about 360 people.
You’ve probably heard us talk about the importance of sending a thank-you note after an interview.
And if you haven’t, now you have.
After every interview you should be sending a thank-you note, if you don’t, it can hurt your chances in the hiring process. And while sending a thank you-note won’t guarantee you will be offered the job, it shows the employer you care and makes you more impressive.
However, writing a note that is sub-par won’t help you either. You should put some time and effort into writing these thank-you notes to impress the employer. We want to point out some common mistakes we often see in these types of notes. Use this as a guide to see if your thank-you note is ready to send!
A Recruiter Giving It To Us Straight! 👍😉✔️
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Resume Formatting! Your resume is a very important document in any job search process. However, recruiters have to look though many, sometimes hundreds, of applications and resumes when they are hiring for a position. This means they are only spending a few seconds looking at your resume. It’s crucial that your resume is formatted in a way that recruiters can read a lot of information about you in a short scan. This is how to format your resume, so you can have better chance at landing an interview:
🗎 Resume formatting tips.
🤨 Here’s why your resume isn’t working.
What Would You Do? Below is a work story that isn't true, but it could be! Read this workplace dilemma and then share what YOU would do by clicking the link and submitting your advice. We'd love to hear your response, and may even feature it in the newsletter!
Jose is passionate about fitness. He regularly bikes, hikes, runs, and does other outdoor activities. He fell over the weekend and got a black eye and badly scraped up face and arms. He came to work on Monday and his boss saw his appearance and said, “I can’t have you in the customer meeting tomorrow looking like that,” and then put someone else on the account. Jose was furious as he had done all the work for the presentation and didn’t think it would be a big deal to explain the injury was from a biking fall. But, when he went to HR, they told him his boss had the right to do so. Now Jose is so mad he wants to quit and leave his boss and team hanging in the wind because he knows they won’t be able to handle the client the way he can. But he doesn’t have enough money to save to be unemployed for more than a month. So, he needs to stay.
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The beginning of a speech can make or break the whole thing.
We’ve all listened to a speeches that where just “meh”. The speaker didn’t grab your attention and the rest of the speech just dragged on. Even if the topic was something that interested you, it was just too hard to listen to.
If you have to give a speech at any point in your career, you’ll want to have your audience engaged and interested in what you are talking about. The best way to grab their attention is by starting off strong with the beginning of your speech.
Here are four bad ways to start a speech, and what you should do instead.
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