The marketing of Aaron Crowe looks to get a bit interesting this week as a guerrilla job search firm has offered to help me rework my resume. If I like the service, I’ll promote it here and tell my friends, family, etc. I was laid off more than six months ago and figure I [...]
A comment was recently made by a WalletPop reader on my story about callbacks for job interviews. He didn’t gain anything from the story, which is fine, and he made a point that I think is worth remembering in the search for a job. The full letter is linked to the story, but this [...]
One thing I was told again and again by friends and people I’d run into when discussing being laid off, at least in the early days of my layoff, was that things happen for a reason and that the best will come of this. I agree with fatalism to a certain point, but I also [...]
My job search now includes a podcast! I was at the CPC Job Connections weekly meeting on Saturday morning, where Ian Griffin of Executive Communications was giving a speech about how to do a podcast to aid in a job search. At the end he picked a name out of a hat to interview someone [...]
There are plenty of places to go for help in writing a resume if you’re willing to pay. And there are probably fewer, but still good, people who will help review resumes for free. Today I went to one of the free ones, and I’m happy to say that other than a few tweaks, my [...]