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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	You guys REALLY want to go that extra mile? Try this. This is how I learned it from career counselors. Come up with a list of companies that you would like to work for. Look up the person in charge of hiring for the department you want to work for at those companies (most of them will be there, with their phone numbers, usually). Call the whole list and give them your thirty second commerical where you tell them what you do and what you want to do. Then you ask them if you could set up a meeting with them for whatever day to discuss the best way to get into that field. When you do, you are NOT there for a job interview. You are there to get advice. But you have to make an impression on them just like it WAS a job interview. You also ask them to take a look at your resume for you. Don't take it back of course. If they try to give it back, take it, but hand them your nifty little business card (which you will have handy). That way, instead of trying to ask people if they know someone who needs a job, they will have you in mind and your contact info handy. There's more to the whole process of networking than that, but that is a good one. And even if, when they DO have a job opening, they don't call you, you still got advice on how to get into the field. By the way, don't try getting round the gatekeeper (secretary who won't let you talk to them directly). If they are running interference, ask THEM what is the best way they know of to get a meeting with so and so. If you do this, do NOT say Job. Instant transfer to human resources. [url=http://www.acinet.org/acinet]Here[/url] is a good place to find direct contacts for people in charge of hiring in just about every company in the U.S. Guess what?! It also has a section called "what it takes" where it explains the skills needed for just about EVERY job there is. I think I might have seen "stripper" in there. [img]http://www.theredninja.org/ninja.gif[/img] Loading...
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