Archive for December, 2009
Send Thank You Notes
I don’t know how many times I’ve said it, but I’ll say it again.
Send a handwritten thank you note within 24 hours of your interview.
Over and over again, people tell me they never got a call back from an interview. When I ask if they send a thank you note and they shrug their shoulders, I know at least one reason they didn’t get a call back.
Don’t believe me?
Read these two articles that say what I’ve been saying all along: SEND THANK YOU NOTES! TO EVERYONE WITH WHICH YOU INTERVIEW!
http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2009/12/great-thoughts-on-thank-you-notes.html
http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/a-little-thank-you-goes-a-long-way/
Un-un-employed
The latest stats say that the unemployment rate went down last month. But what does that number really say? It does not account for people who aren’t collecting unemployment, those who have taken part-time jobs because they cannot find full-time professional work, or those that have pushed off entering the job market by staying in school.
Here’s a great little video from Mint.com that I found via Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck. I highly recommend reading this blog post which goes into some greater detail about the difference between being unemployed and underemployed and how the underemployed are not included in the peachy statistical analyses.
Resume Rehab by Colleen 