Creative Resumes and Outreach to Find a Job
Via the LinkedIn group LIS Career Options, I found a pointer to an article about 7 cool resumes on Pinterest. What makes the resumes cool is the person’s ability to showcase design or artistic skill or creativity, nontraditional layout of information, and use of color. A link took me to some methods people have used to find work that might be a wee bit too unusual for me to try: billboards, spelling out job wishes in holiday lights, and voodoo. The baked goods are more my style. I prefer to bring them to the office to share with coworkers. A video might not be such a bad idea (as long as I’m not afraid of someone discriminating against me because of what s/he might learn about my gender, age, race, religion, etc., after viewing me in the video—a concern experts in job seeking suggest considering before posting any photos online).
(Ok, well, I have this new category now, so I may as well use it, eh?)
Addendum: I forgot to mention LIS career group access might be restricted to members, but the other links should be publicly available as far as I can tell.
