I’m going to repeat something that I did about a year ago:
A very small, informal announcement: if you want someone to review your resume and give you some feedback or advice, send me your resume and I’ll help. If you would like to do a mock interview, send me a message and we can schedule a video call to practice. If we have never met before, that is okay. I’m happy to help you, even if we are total strangers.
To be clear: this is not a paid service, I’m not trying to drum up business for some kind of a side-hustle, and I’m not going to ask you to subscribe to a newsletter. I am just a person who is offering some free informal help. I enjoy helping people bounce ideas around, and people whom I’ve previously helped in this way seemed to have benefited from it and appreciated it.
A few related thoughts:
There are a lot of people that are looking for a job as part of a path to greater impact, but many people feel somewhat awkward or ashamed to ask for help. If I am struggling in a job hunt, I don’t want to ask friends or professional contacts for help due to shame; I worry that they will think less of me for not being competent. So asking a stranger that you’ve never met and that isn’t connected to your life can be a nice option.
There is a lot of ‘low-hanging fruit’ for making a resume look better, from simply formatting changes that make a resume easier to understand to wordsmithing the phrasings. Sometimes you just need a helpful person to look with a critical eye.
There is also something about ‘playing the game.’ I think of this something like informal coaching. Some people don’t know that when you are asked about a time you had an interpersonal conflict, instead of telling about a time you had an interpersonal conflict you should instead tell about a time you had an interpersonal conflict and you resolved it and it makes you look good.
I’m going to repeat something that I did about a year ago:
A very small, informal announcement: if you want someone to review your resume and give you some feedback or advice, send me your resume and I’ll help. If you would like to do a mock interview, send me a message and we can schedule a video call to practice. If we have never met before, that is okay. I’m happy to help you, even if we are total strangers.
To be clear: this is not a paid service, I’m not trying to drum up business for some kind of a side-hustle, and I’m not going to ask you to subscribe to a newsletter. I am just a person who is offering some free informal help. I enjoy helping people bounce ideas around, and people whom I’ve previously helped in this way seemed to have benefited from it and appreciated it.
A few related thoughts:
There are a lot of people that are looking for a job as part of a path to greater impact, but many people feel somewhat awkward or ashamed to ask for help. If I am struggling in a job hunt, I don’t want to ask friends or professional contacts for help due to shame; I worry that they will think less of me for not being competent. So asking a stranger that you’ve never met and that isn’t connected to your life can be a nice option.
There is a lot of ‘low-hanging fruit’ for making a resume look better, from simply formatting changes that make a resume easier to understand to wordsmithing the phrasings. Sometimes you just need a helpful person to look with a critical eye.
There is also something about ‘playing the game.’ I think of this something like informal coaching. Some people don’t know that when you are asked about a time you had an interpersonal conflict, instead of telling about a time you had an interpersonal conflict you should instead tell about a time you had an interpersonal conflict and you resolved it and it makes you look good.