| If
you have prior offshore / maritime experience you know how valuable
that experience is.
Hiring managers and recruiters will be extremely busy in January, February, and March searching our resume database for candidates to fill their new job openings.
No doubt 2008 will be another banner year for the offshore job
seeker.
Recruiters
everywhere are looking for experienced personnel to fill a variety
of jobs, both in the US and overseas.
If your phone is not ringing off the hook with job offers it
is time to do some trouble shooting in your online job search
strategy.
We
suggest you stop what you are doing and have a look at what
you are doing before you make things worse:
- Do
a complete check up on your job search strategy
- It is
likely you are not doing things correctly
- You
could be sabotaging your efforts and not be aware of it
Bottom
Line: If you are not getting
the number and types of job offers and interviews you think
you should be getting, based on your experience, the problem
is probably going to be found in the way you present yourself.
Most of the time the problem can be found in your resumé or CV. This
is the area where most people have difficulty and more than
likely this is where your problem is.
The worst of it is so many never find out why they are not getting
any action in their job search. It's a shame, too, especially
with all the available jobs and recruiters crying for experienced
hands.
If you want your response rate to increase substantially then
hear us out:
More
than likely the problem is in your resumé or CV
Here
in Mississippi we have a saying: "The proof's in the pudding."
Some of you know what this means. For those who don't, the definition
is simple:
Does it work or not work?
Here
is a straight forward test to determine if your resumé
or CV is broken and preventing you from getting the job you
want. Be honest with yourself and answer this one question:
Are
you getting the number of responses, job offers and interviews
a person with your experience should be getting?
If
not, my recommendation is to let me have a look. I will tell
you straight up if it needs work, what it needs, how much it
will cost to fix, how long it will take, etc.
As a professional writer, I'm good at what I do. I have good
writing skills and can tell you in short order how to get your
job search working the way you want it to work.
In
this day and time, you will not get a second chance to make
a good first impression. Get it right the first time.
Don't
let the job you want go to someone else, maybe even someone
less qualified than you.
Resumé
/ CV problems are at the top of the list for job rejection.
"If
you keep going like you are going,
you will get more of what you already have"
Get
a second opinion
START the resumé / CV test!
PS:
If you have not already done so, please read
the instructions for this site.
PPS:
Be sure to sign up for your copy of "The Complete Offshore Employment
Handbook" written by myself, based on personal
experience:
-
This experience includes working in many of the world's offshore
oilfields, on just about every type of rig, in various positions
with a multitude of nationalities and living to tell about
it
- This
experience also includes 7 years online providing accurate
instructions on how to successfully use the internet to find
a job offshore
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