Today I went to a job-search-process seminar, in which I learned many things. For example, the average unemployed person spends five hours a week looking for a new job. The people who are most successful finding a new job they like, however, spend thirty-five hours a week looking for work, and have at least thirty networking-oriented conversations a week. They have a plan to market themselves as a hot product, and they have a ranked chart of where they want to work and who they know at those companies.
The seminar also forced me to look at my resume with new eyes. By the time it ended, I wanted to rush home and fix it immediately. I forced myself to go to the gym and run a couple miles first, but when I got home, the first thing I did was fire up OpenOffice.org and fix the problems I’d only noticed when I printed it out.
The new version has more concrete detail about my accomplishments and publications, but it may be too long. I’m sure I’ll learn later on this week when I get to the one-on-one resume counseling.
Secretly Ironic 