I finished reading the book, Multiple Job Offers in 10 Days.  For various reasons, I felt like it wasn’t the right approach for me, but that doesn’t mean I did not get anything out of it.  I have a much better idea about marketing myself now.  In the current economic situation, any thing that can give you an edge is good.  However, I came up with some inconsistencies regarding resumes.  The author of the book claims all kinds of success using his method, so one would assume that he knows how to arrainge the most effective resume.  However, I spoke with a company that reports to be the one of the top companies in the world for resume writing, personal marketing, and job research.  Their methods are much different.  And they claim to understand and know what types of resume formats hiring managers favor today.  So what is a person to think?  I spent over an hour talking to the sales person from the marketing company.  He took me on a virtual tour of what they provide.  Their main product, which is to write a killer resume for you and comes in three flavors for different circumstances.  In the end I couldn’t see paying $900 for someone to write my resume for me.  Don’t get me wrong, I do believe they would probably write one better than I could.  They have you fill out questionairs that take you about 8-10 hours to finish.  You then meet with a marketing manager.  Finally they submit three resumes for your approval.  Any changes you want are completed and then you get your final product.  The questions for me were; how much better than I could they write my resume and was it prudent to spend that kind of money when I have very little savings and will be relying on unemployement from here on out?  I could spend the money with them and then have one or more companies call me the very next day from one of the jobs that I have already applied for, right?  As far as spending the money, well their arguement is, “how much are you losing every day being unemployed?”  Ouch!  True, but in the end I decided I could probably tweak my resume once again and use many of the ideas they presented.  So now to upload that new version to the job sites once again.  What’s that Monster password again…….

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