Advertise Self

Have you ever noticed how many times a product is shown or talked about in advertisement? Why do they spend so much money and time to get their product and name out? Because it gets us to buy.

You need to advertise and promote yourself. I would like to give you some key tips on how to get your name out.

1.) The biggest key is to make a signature. Your contact information seems simple enough, but I see so many resumes without it or with that information in only one spot. When I am talking about contact information I am referring to all.

Contact information on all areas

• Name
  
• Email
  
• Phone
  
• Address
  

2.) It seems obvious but make sure your contact information is on your resume. Also make sure it is on the second page. I have seen resumes get separated and not be able to be linked together.

3.) Contact information on cover letters.

4.) Contact information on your email and email replies as well.

5.) Your resume file is your name. (Example: DennisSchererResume.doc)

6.) Your email address reflects your full name (Example: DennisScherer@email.com)

How can this be useful? Let us consider that you are one of many resumes being submitted for a position. This will help you stand out. You are promoting yourself by getting your name in front of the hiring manager multiple times.

If they save your resume on their system, it will already be named, with your name, instead of just saying resume ( which most of the say.) By doing this, it will make it easy for the hiring person to call or contact you no matter where they are in the process.

I can tell you from my own experience, when I need to get people lined up right away, it is never funny if I have to go back to the original document or a prior email to look up a number.

Dennis