Creative Ways to Market Yourself
We meet weekly with a group of local resort job seekers to network with other job seekers, update resumes and improve interviewing skills. Last week we talked a bit about how in the last six months interviewing has changed and how best job seekers can now market themselves.
Many of the resumes that we are receiving are coming from a website called visual CV, http://www.visualcv.com/www/indexc.html. This website helps job seekers create an internet based resume that stands out from the crowd. Applicants email their link to potential employers showing past work samples, graphs and charts of past work, photos and videos. Very creative, very impressive for the employer.
Another idea that one of our recruiters came up with for a local builder out of work was to create business cards or flyers to present to potential employees that are somewhat of an origami box with instructions that turn it into a little house. Of course, the job seeker listed his name, contact information and past accomplishments on the card. Different, creative and I am sure this applicant’s information will get to the top of the employers pile of same-ol-same-ol resumes.