"YES, I will hire you today if you can produce more Sales or Profits for me."

ALL businesses are looking to hire people who can produce more sales or profits for them. How? By correcting or improving current operations or methods. Recession does NOT affect that kind of hiring.

Today's employers want you to address their needs and their self-interest -- NOT your own need for a job and an income. Employers are trying to stay in business and survive in this terrible economy. Many have been forced to declare bankruptcy. So, please write and speak and focus on what they want to hear. Ask yourself: WHAT WILL BE MUSIC TO A SPECIFIC EMPLOYER'S EARS IN 2011?

What are a particular employer's most urgent needs? If you can succeed in finding that out (or guess the most likely answer), you will be well on your way to getting hired. If you can help any employer to save or make money, you will be a valuable person to have on board -- in ANY economy. So put yourself into a make or save money mode every time you need to write or speak to any party who has the authority to hire you. Address these subjects in your resumes, cover letters and during all interviews and meetings.

Recently, the president of one New York company wrote a letter to the New York Times that contains valuable advice for every job seeker -- from entry-level to senior executive.

"All businesses are looking for people who can produce more sales or profits by correcting or improving operations. Recession does NOT affect that kind of hiring -- not even the Great Recession.

"If I had applicants who would 'ring the cash register' after they came on, and who would lower our operating costs or increase the productivity of our efforts, I would do a lot more hiring. So would many others. I know how Presidents and CEOs think...

"So, what can and should a job seeker like you do? TARGET a company you want to be associated with and study it. Research it. Talk to some of its customers. Try to analyze and find out what some of its problems are -- in your area of competency. Figure out how you would solve them...

"Search out the executive at the company who has responsibility over the area that interests you. Write to that person. Outline the problem you have researched and the solution you would propose. Present yourself as an applicant to handle that assignment and maybe others like it... Which employer will refuse to meet with you for a few minutes, if only out of curiosity?

"When you research the company, study its customers and their relationships with the company. Customers are one of the best sources of information about a company. If you explain what you are doing, they are often willing to provide the information you are looking for...

"PEOPLE WHO HIRE, RESPECT THIS APPROACH. IN FACT, WE ARE READY TO HIRE SUCH APPLICANTS."

During your meeting with such a prospective employer, an effective strategy might be to show him or her that you have already solved a problem or problems (challenges) similar to those facing him or her now and that you obtained very quick results.

But be very careful and tactful. You want to come across as someone who is capable of solving the particular problem (or rather, the challenge) without appearing to be a smart aleck or too "clever". No employer enjoys being told how to run his or her business.

Always remember, you are there to help and should not be seen as posing any threat (either real or perceived or imagined) to the person you are asking to hire you.

Bosses are under constant stress to meet or exceed their company goals and objectives. They also suffer from all sorts of hidden anxieties and insecurities, one of which is not having the latest college degree and/or not being too familiar with the state-of-the-art techniques being offered by recent and younger graduates. They also tend to be 45+ years old on the average. Most senior managers do NOT surround themselves with younger staff who might later outshine them. Only the stronger and very self-confident ones would risk that.

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SAMPLE RESUMES AND TEMPLATES HURT MORE THAN THEY HELP

In a recession or Depression or hard times, using sample resumes or resume templates will HURT your chances more than they can help. Why?

You may be copying blindly from someone else's resume without understanding why it was done the way it was done. That sample resume was once designed for someone else with a different work history and different resume problems or blemishes. It's like making your own diagnosis of what you need and then using the "medicine" prescribed for someone else's resume. This is not smart at all and it will HURT you. It will also cost you a few job opportunities.

In a Depression, there are fewer jobs to compete for and you can't afford to miss out on any.

Like most people, you have probably looked at one or more sample resumes to see how others have done it – to try to save a few dollars in this recession or Depression by doing it yourself. But how much can you really learn or copy or adapt from someone else's resume? Very, very little!

The sad part is that using sample resumes or a resume template will HURT your chances because you will innocently believe that you have constructed a good resume. Not so! It is highly unlikely that you have managed to write a winning resume. You will later find out the hard way that it WON'T get you job interviews. I see this all of the time. In the end, using sample resumes or a resume template may cost you much more than a revamped or improved resume done by a professional writer.

Why won't using sample resumes or a resume template work for you?

First, your own particulars and work history are NEVER the same.

Second, you CAN'T tell what information was included or omitted or downplayed, and so on.

Third, sample resumes do NOT reveal their construction and writing secrets to you. You see, it took a lot of thought and effort to create a "perfect" or winning resume (or to "paint"a woman's face and make her look beautiful)! What you are looking at in a sample resume is the final and "cleaned up" version of someone else's resume with all of the blemishes fixed or improved or downplayed!

This problem is very similar to trying to figure out any good-looking woman's beauty secrets. You simply CAN'T guess what she did to achieve that dramatic result. Have you ever seen the Before and After cosmetic and clothing makeovers on Oprah? That's what experts can achieve for you! The same applies to revamping or improving your job resume. A resume also needs a makeover.[See http://winning-resumes.com/resume_template_can_help_or_hurt.html]

Using a readymade RESUME TEMPLATE, is even worse in a recession. First, are you qualified to choose or select a suitable resume template to present your skills, strengths, experience, and education? I don't think so. I often see managers, sales reps and I.T. technicians presenting themselves in outdated, entry-level Microsoft Wizard formats. (These have remained unchanged since Windows 98 was launched. Besides,Microsoft are not experts on resume formats.)

Second, resume templates make your resume look exactly like thousands of others. That is terrible! Do you want yours to attract the attention of recruiters or not? Then it must be different!

To beat the competition for fewer jobs in this recession or Depression, your resume has to be carefully designed, written, and presented or reformatted and revamped.

It is all about the most effective presentation. Very few people can do this because it is seldom easy. Resume writing is an art. It is the art of self-marketing yourself on paper. In this recession or Depression, you need to sell yourself on paper more strongly than ever before.

To be successful, you must FOCUS your job search. What are you looking for? What is or are your most realistic option(s) in this recession or Depression? The more specific you can be, the more focused and successful your resume and job search will be -- even in this horrible recession or Depression.

The hardest job to find -- NOT the easiest -- is what anxious job seekers refer to as "any job".

As Yogi Berra wisely pointed out: "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." Either nowhere or in some McJob that pays you much less than you're worth AND WON'T PAY THE BILLS!

In today's recession or Depression, you can't go job hunting with your father's resume. Would you attend a friend's wedding today in the dress you wore to your high school graduation ten years ago? Would any bride trust herself to do her own wedding day makeup? Of course not! If you want to look your best -- in person and on paper -- you must ask a professional to help you. It is that important.

It is a fact that most home-made resumes and resume templates will NOT work in this recession or Depression. They don't look right and they won't impress a picky reader. Don't wait to find this out the hard way. How long can you afford to wait to get your own resume "fixed" professionally?

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BEST CAREERS IN A RECESSION

CNN (and the Bureau of Labor Statistics) has recently reported some of the best careers during a recession.

Here is CNN's list of the best careers during a recession:.

Financial adviser: 41% growth rate with a $74,000 median compensation. Reason: Boomers will retire and will need financial advisers.

Software program manager: 29% growth rate with a $103,000 median compensation. Reason: Complex reasons still need to be managed.

Database administrator: 29% growth rate with a $77,000 median compensation. Reason: See above.

Physical Therapist: 27% growth rate with a $67,000 median compensation. Reason: Boomers knees and backs will begin to fail as the years go on. (What about Sports Medicine to treat millions of fitness fanatics who jogged with the wrong equipment?)

Physician assistant: 27% growth rate with a $53,000 median compensation. Reason: Care companies like Physician assistants because they are less expensive then doctors. (What about jobs in the medical device self-testing industry which has shown explosive growth?)

Environmental Specialist: 25% growth rate with a $53,000 median compensation. Reason: Global warming is a big deal right now.

Hydrologist: 24% growth rate with a $59,600 median compensation. Reason: Water is scarce and it is a necessity for everyone.

College professor: 23% growth rate with a $79,000 median compensation. Reason: As the economy shrinks education increases.

Certified public accountant: 18% growth rate with a $64,000 median compensation. Reason: Do you want to read those tax codes and deal with audit regulators?

Teacher: 12% growth rate with a $48,000 median compensation. Reason: One word- Union.

I would add to their list, jobs in the alternative energy industry (such as windfarms which is one alternative to the struggling automotive industry) or Human Resource Restructuring (to handle the big changes in corporate headcounts and benefits in the wake of company layoffs) or the IT industry where specialists in handling Acquisitions and Integrations have become much sought after because of the way large companies have been gobbled up or forced to sell or merge in the present economic crisis. The Credit and Debt Collection field will also be booming.

After all, this recession is expected to be both "long and deep" according to Warren Buffet.

Let Matthew Greene assist you to construct the right kind of resume as he has been doing since 1984. Greene delivers superior quality resumes and cover letters for a very reasonable fee. He will help you succeed in the above occupations during these very uncertain and worrying times.

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