One client, Jeff R. from Prior Lake, Minnesota, hit pay dirt in February by networking among contacts most people would never consider calling. He contacted potential employers from his LAST job search – companies he had interviewed with but not accepted job offers from.

"I emailed a manager I had interviewed with two years ago, before my latest job. He had moved to a different part of the company, but he referred me to the right decision maker. That new person interviewed me and offered me a job," says Jeff.

Action Step: Don't forget to look both ways when you network — forward and back, all the way back to your college career office and internships, no matter how long ago you graduated.

And … don’t stop with your last job search. Ask your spouse/significant other, friends, family, neighbors if they have contacts from their last job search you could talk to. You’re sure to find something. But you have to ask!

Compliments of David Perry and Kevin Donlin

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Only 1% of  resumes that pass through a hiring managers hands grab their attention.  The 15-30 seconds scanning time mentioned by some is bunk! You need to approach the way you write a resume to be in that 1%.   Your resume needs to do only two things:

1. - 1st grab the reader’s attention in milliseconds, and
2. - 2nd give them sufficient rich content to make them call you.

Fail to achieve those 2 fatal requirements and your resume will be recycled.