Steve, I've tried twice to send off a zippy resume, based on the Harvard Busines= s School idea of a "Sales Brochure" about yourself. It had all the right attributes, clear , concise, positive and to-the-point. I received two replies: "Please send us a detailed CV". Maybe Australian HR folks aren'= t ready for this yet? regards John Brooke NEMMCO Melbourne 03 9648 8776 Information Services - Better solutions for a better market |---------+----------------------------------> | | "Steve Hudson" | | | <cruddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| | | u> | | | Sent by: | | | austechwriter-bounce@fr| | | eelists.org | | | | | | | | | 02/07/2003 07:42 PM | | | Please respond to | | | austechwriter | | | | |---------+----------------------------------> =20 >--------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------| =20 | = =20 | =20 | To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> = =20 | =20 | cc: = =20 | =20 | Subject: [austechwriter] Re: Resumes are a show case for a T= ech Writer | =20 >--------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------------------| I was specifically trying to talk about sending in a great resume with no= cover letter. The resume seems to be all the agencies want, so you do up = a good one and rip it off each time. No cover letter. Is this good enough? <shrugs> Steve Hudson Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia Tricky stuff with Word or words for you. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html Spellbooks: 728 pages of dump left and dropping... -----Original Message----- From: Michael Lewis Steve Hudson: > There's so many folk looking for work I guess a % of us feel like there= 's > little point in wasting too much time on something that has little chan= ce of > real success. So why waste your own time putting in a r=E9sum=E9 that's not intended to= =20stand a chance? Either do it properly or save the effort -- zipping off dud r=E9sum=E9s isn't doing yourself any favours. (Can you imagine a conscien= tious recruiter saying "This guy still can't write -- we'll give him a miss again"? I can.) ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field= . To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wit= h "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************** ------------------------------------------ This e-mail is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any = use, disclosure or copying of this document is unauthorised and prohibite= d. If you have received this document in error, please delete the email = and notify me by return email or by phoning the NEMMCO Helpdesk on 1300 3= 00 295. ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************