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Career/Job Fair Tutorial


 

Career Fair Attendees Should Prepare Multiple Versions of Your Job-Search Resume

 

In the ideal world of job-seeking, when attending a career fair you would bring the following resumes with you:
  • Targeted by prospective employer -- where you identify the employer in your job objective ("wow, there's our company name!") and use some of the same language the employer uses in its corporate communications (Website, job postings, media releases, etc.).
  • Targeted by career/job focus -- when you have more than one career focus (such as brand management but also public relations), you should develop different versions of your resume for each career.
  • Standard resume -- your basic, nicely formatted resume... so that you are ready for any situation that may arise.
  • Text resumes -- text versions of your standard resumes on the chance that the recruiter prefers a version the organization can easily scan into a database.

 

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