Don't throw out that paper resume
The job hunt may seem predominantly online, but potential employers and networkers can still find many uses for the paper resume. Ashley Milne-Tyte reports why it's important to bring at least five copies along to an interview.
A paper resume (iStockPhoto.com)
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Bill Radke: FedEx Office is throwing its doors open to job hunters today. This is the company formerly known as FedEx Kinko's. It's letting people print 25 free copies of their resume on high-quality paper to impress potential employers. But hold on a minute -- the job application, that's mostly online these days, right? Marketplace's Ashley Milne-Tyte wanted to know whether resume paper has become passe, and she found an answer.
Ashley Milne-Tyte: Don't get rid of that paper resume.
Allison Hemming owns recruiting firm The Hired Guns. She says potential employers always need an electronic copy for their database, but:
Allison Hemming: Have a paper resume that you can bring to an interview -- in fact have five -- because what we often find is that people will forget their resume and then they have to ask the hiring manager to print it, and that steals five minutes of your time.
And the company's. She says being prepared only helps your case.
Peter Weddle of Weddles Research and Publishing says anyone attending a career fair also needs copies of their resume. And they'll come in handy at networking events.
Or alumni organization meetings, or even local church and synagogue groups. When they get together, they exchange resumes the old fashioned way -- with paper.
He says in the digital age, paper can actually help you stand out.
I'm Ashley Milne-Tyte for Marketplace.
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From MI, 03/10/2009
Good advice for the interview. In addition, those interviewing should 'think of yourself as a self-employed artist' and take along a portfolio of your work, evidence that your resume is a lot of fabrication: letters of reference, examples of your work, a hard copy of a PowerPoint presentation about yourself (demonstrating PP skills too), photos of your work if you make something, etc. I'd also have my own business cards to trade (every where you go you should) so that you have names of those you are meeting with, and contact info for followup.
Ken Soper
www.kensoper.com
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