Find a New Job With the Scobleizer

Posted on October 8, 2008
Filed Under Career Development

So the economy blows, inflation is threatening to run away with our money, home values are falling faster than Britney’s panties and now on top of that you may need a new job. Ugh! I’ve written scores of posts on do’s and don’ts, published a resume writing tool and reviewed any number of books on the job market; today a bit of a twist. Straight from the horse’s mouth some no nonsense advice on how to get your resume in the door for the job you want all courtesy of the Scobleizer.

If you don’t know who or what the Scobleizer is that’s OK. In a nutshell it’s the blog of Fast Company magazine blogger and tech evangelist Robert Scoble. Scoble has been around the block a few times with small little companies like Microsoft and NEC, so when it comes to technology, he gets it. Here’s a excerpt from a post he wrote recently about submitting your resume, to read the whole thing click here.

It’s very possible that in the next two years YOU will need a job too and will be facing that kind of competition (when I got my job at NEC, it was even worse, they said I beat 500 people for the job that I got). How do you get past the first stage?

First, based on the resumes I’m seeing, realize that 80% are crap and will be rejected out of hand. How do you get put into the crap pile? Here’s some ways.

1. Include only an attachment and don’t write anything in the body of the email.
2. Include a misspelling.
3. Apply for a job which you are clearly unqualified for (it stands out like a sore thumb).
4. Include a Word document that can’t be opened (one person sent one in Microsoft Word 2007 format).
5. Include only a resume and don’t explain why you think you are qualified for the job (believe it or not, a well written letter puts you to the top 20% pretty quickly).

Until next time…

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