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Anatomy of a Cover Letter, Part II

In the previous post, I talked about making the most of your cover letter by making sure you have a good, solid introduction and that you demonstrate interest in the job and company. Paying attention to both these elements can help make your cover letter a job search tool that contributes to the success of your job search ...

Anatomy of a Cover Letter, Part I

Resume and cover letter. They go together like peas and carrots as Forrest Gump would say. A resume is always prefaced with a cover letter, but a cover letter can be the more difficult document to write. In a very small amount of space, a cover letter must accomplish several key tasks: introduce the job seeker; show interest ...

Hello and Welcome!

Hello new visitors and welcome to the Get Interviews blog. We hope to use this space to informally discuss job search and resume issues that concern you. With over eleven years in the careers industry, we have a great deal of experience dealing with nearly every job search situation that can occur. By talking about some ...

Your Own Best Sales Tool

I was listening to Paul Harvey yesterday as I was running some errands and he was talking about the founder of J.C. Penney. He quoted Mr. Penney as saying that you can't sell anything if you aren't sold on yourself and your product first. I was mulling that over as I was weaving through Saturday traffic and braving the ...

Why You DON'T Need More than One Version of Your Resume

I'm interested in taking my career in a couple of different directions in at this point. I think I need two different versions of my resume. That was the comment from John, a new client who had a fifteen year career in sales and marketing with an increasingly responsible career progression. John had started right out of ...

Boomers a Hot Commodity

One of the most common comments we receive from clients who are over 55 and making a job change is I'm facing age discrimination. The fact is, that might be true according to an article on FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243604,00.html ). The discrimination may not be negative, though. It may be on the ...

When in Doubt - Ask!

Is your resume working for you? Are you getting a good stream of first interviews? Great! Now, for the next question-are you getting second interviews? Many job candidates will go through a first interview (usually a telephone interview) and be left with the impression that they are going to be handed on up the ladder for ...

Telecommuting as a Resume Benefit

Everyone wants to work from home these days and with technology being what it is, it is very possible for many to work from home offices with only a couple of days in the office a week. Work from home is a big draw to employees and companies who offer that opportunity are in demand. Of course, there are always the work ...

An Equal-Opportunity, Self-Imposed Glass Ceiling

Everyone has heard of the term glass ceiling originally coined by the Wall Street Journal to describe the hiring/promotion discrimination against women in corporate America. With the notoriety of the term, companies started paying more attention to their promotion and hiring practices where women and minorities were concerned. ...

Education vs. Knowledge

Two of the most common concerns that we see among our executives clients are the fear of age discrimination and the fear of not having a degree. Both concerns, while legitimate to some degree are given more weight than they deserve in the effects these two issues actually have on job search. Today, I want to look at degrees ...

Delay Can Be Deadly

We all delay expenditures to fit our budget. Sometimes we are saving up for something special like a vacation or sometimes unexpected things happen that make us rearrange our monthly budget plans. Unfortunately, sometimes when we delay investing in something, the final expenditure is higher than the original cost. For ...

Could Your Spam Filter Be Sabotaging Your Job Search?

Here at GetInterviews, we send out a lot of emails and I mean a LOT. We don't have a subscription list for a newsletter or anything, but 99% of our business is completed via email from initial contact to final delivery. We are not spammers and never send out bulk emails in big batches. In fact, we don't send out bulk email ...

Scannable Not Text

Remember the days when the only format choice you had for your resume was whether it was done in Pica or Elite type and if it was typed on white or ivory paper? Boy, that's a blast from the past! Things are a lot different now than they used to be. Now, you have a myriad of design choices - hundreds of fonts, graphics, ...

Red Flag Issues

Nearly everyone has something in their career background that they really don't want to appear on a resume. It may be something innocuous like a mediocre college GPA or it may be something significant such as a prison term. A resume should be written to highlight the value of a candidate and downplay bits and pieces that ...

CV or Resume? What's the Difference?

Many people believe that a CV and a resume are the same document but that is far from accurate. Back in the good old days, which means in the last century, a CV (which stands for curriculum vita or life book) was used by all white collar professionals when applying for a job. Slowly, many professions went to a shorter form ...

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