Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas, 02/01/10

Session 4 COMMUNICATION CONNECTION-How to Write Right

Learn how to communicate more effectively. Improve your written skills to get in the door and stay in the game.

• “If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.”-J. B. Phillips
  
• Networking is not a job search tool, but a life management tool
• Use bullets to highlight specific measurable value-added propositions
• Every great resume is dynamically written
• "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter." Unknown
• Don't express to impress, strive for clarity of communication
• Cover letter is to sell you for the interview, not to get the job
• When asked for references ask which ones and how many
  

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