Anyone on here able to get a interview without a resume? (employment, applying)
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Most employees have some sort of job application that you fill out, in lieu of a resume. But you still need to get off your butt and find someone who will actually give you an application to fill out if you are above having to do a resume. Good lord, at your age you should know nobody is going to come looking for you. If they ever do and check City Data, that would be a deal breaker for any company.
Of course why would a good looking women need a resume if she is interested in prostitution?
i'm talking about entry-level jobs, customer-service jobs, retail, fast-food, etc. It's easier for girls than guys to get those kind of jobs because so many hiring-managers, people in charge of human-resource departments, see and view girls as "Bait" to attract and lure more customers, more customers means more money, therefore more Business.
Never sent in a resume in my life. When I wanted a job I walked in and asked if they were hiring (auto mechanic jobs). When I was doing IT work I would research companies in my area and call them up and introduced myself. Only had one job that was from networking through friends. I refuse to work more than 20 mins from my home and have always had my choice of job offers to pick from.
I now own my own business but the last job I held working for someone else I had to choose between three offers. I obviously took the highest paying which was also the closest to home.
My personal opinion is E-mail resumes are a waste of time. I've helped a number of friends find work and my advise to them is to find a company they want to work for then deliver your resume in person in a nice binder or simply call the company and ask to talk to the HR mgr.
It's far too easy for E-mails or a single sheet of paper to get lost on a managers desk. A binder sticks out and delivering it in person shows that you are a cut above the rest and truly interested. Some people just send out countless e-mails and hope something sticks. This is not the way to do it. Every person I have helped has gotten a job in the first 5 attempts and is almost always called for an interview.
You've got it nailed. Everyone does the e-mailing route. When I show up with a 3 ring binder outlining my role at every job I've had, along with certifications, credits, and even samples of previous work, I become a 3 dimensional candidate to that HR manager. Sending an e-mail... Psh, NEXT!
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It really depends upon the industry ... Since I work in the public sector (education), I am expected to have a resume, application, cover letter and college transcripts as everything is done by the book. Usually, public sector jobs and large private companies are strict about the application process for jobs and rarely could you get a job through networking alone (although it HELPS to network).
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Originally Posted by andywire
You've got it nailed. Everyone does the e-mailing route. When I show up with a 3 ring binder outlining my role at every job I've had, along with certifications, credits, and even samples of previous work, I become a 3 dimensional candidate to that HR manager. Sending an e-mail... Psh, NEXT!
This might work for smaller companies. I once labored over my application and supporting materials and placed them into a professional binder. When I turned it into HR, the HR folks just dumped out all of my application materials out of the binder and handed me my empty binder back ... Having since worked in HR for a major city government, I know that the candidate's materials have to be copied and prepped for the various folks on the interview panel. We HATED having to remove the candidate's materials from those binders in the prepping process. The panel NEVER saw the slick binder but just a stapled stack of the candidate's materials.
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