Sunday, February 25, 2007
Insomnia
I've been asked to write a resume and submit it to a company. It's an exercise in futility, since they wouldn't hire me anyway. I have exactly 0 things to offer anyone. Still, the very idea is keeping me awake at night. All I can think of is how worthless I am, and how anything I put down would be a lie. Knowing me, this will continue until it's too late, and I will have sabotaged any possibility I had at escaping my current position. This is just fundamentally something I cannot do. I can't praise myself. It's not built in. I can't reccommend myself. There's always that part of me that's saying "look, I'll be honest. There's thousands of people better qualified than me." Logically, I'm sure there's something I'm good at. But all I can see is that I suck at everything. This just circles around in my mind until I want to gouge my eyes out, or something. Welcome to the real world, Sarah. welcome to something you can't handle.
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Let me apologize first if I start not making sense, as I'm feeling like crap this morning. Two weeks of allergies turned into something worse. Anyway...
It's not actually necessary for resumes to thing of your own positive traits, a task that is indeed a challenge for most of us. You would have to do some of that if you were using a skill-based resume format, which I have adopted in lie of the more common experience based format. You can see what my resume looks like here. Of course this is geared towards art related jobs.
The more standard format, being experience based, exhibits little difference from most applications you have to fill out. Often times it's also refered to as a chronological resume. This really only requires you to list the duties of your previous positions. I often use the MS Word templates for starting such resumes. Also, you can check out bestsampleresume.com for specifically tailored samples. That's really all there's to it. Just get a template/sample, and replace the particulars with your own info. What does require more tooting of your own horn is the cover letter, but you may not even need to write one. Let me know if I can be of any help.
An exercise in futility eh? Just so you know most places don't call you to tell you to turn in a resume unless they already are sure that you have something to offer that they desire. If you need us all to help praise you in different ways so you can just take our comments and write them down I am sure we can come up with a ton. Let me start by saying you run the store better than I do. You come up with more solid ideas on improving sales and marketing than I ever have. You pay attention to all the details that I let slip by. You have more talent in your pinkie than some of the staffs put together in other stores. I don't lump us in there because we all rock. Just your writing skills alone would be a boon to any company. You have years of insight to what sells in this industry.
I went through the same thing trying to put my resume together and I still think it sucks. I don't know what I may have to offer to any of the jobs I am looking for but I have to try. If I don't I will be stuck in a place that drives me nuts. I don't want to see you do the same. We have seen you work for several years now. If you want a list of things you are good at we can make one for you in about 10 minutes. We will hand it to you and you just have to turn it into a functional resume. If you need help with that we can help there too.
What it comes down to is, YOU ROCK!
I have to get out of there because without our team I don't want to be there anymore. You all are so amazing no one could replace you guys. I don't want to try to replace you because this company doesn't deserve our level of badassitude. So get on the ball, get your resume rolling and lets get out of this hell hole together.
Well said Joe, well said.
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