I.T. worker in Alaska? CEO for Home Depot? Attorney General?
But seriously folks, I don’t advocate putting anyone on the dole but there has to be a limit.
We all know that every resume you send out needs to have a cover letter. Even on an email.
Go from:
Dear Hiring Manager,
I am writing this letter as application for positions in your company.
To this (Yes, it is a poor example, but it is late) :
Dear Mr. Jones,
I am writing this letter as application for Web Development positions at Jobster.com .
How much time do you spend creating each letter to send to a potential employer. I discovered that I was spending at least half an hour on each application. So, I ended up with 2-3 cover letters that covered all job types that I would copy and paste address information into. Next I moved on to using Word to generate mail merged letters with address information from a spreadsheet.
This worked well unless I was sending the letter by email or was trying to do my job search away from home.
What I’ve done with JobSearchLog is to allow you to input information about the jobs you wish to apply for into a web database, create cover letters with tokens to show where information from the database should be included. This is done now through a Cover Letter Wizard which allows you to have complete control of the format and content of your letter and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete each letter.
You may create as many letters as you wish to meet your needs and a cover letter can be associated with a job, ad or company to email or print. JobSearchLog also keeps history of which letters were sent to a job or company.
Take a look and please let me know what you think.
Michael
Jump Start, Kick in the A$$, Being Thrown off the cliff, JobSearchLog.com has a way to get your job search off to a good start or breathe new life into a search that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
One complaint I’ve heard about using the pages (from a family member) is that it can be daunting to start. You must type in the places you look for work, create a cover letter to use to send to the jobs and keep track of the positions. I understand that it can be a time consuming startup but it is worth the effort the 1st or 50th time you look for the address for a contact or the original ad you applied to.
To make it easier to get started I created a page called the JSL Jumpstart where based on the information provided about geographic locations you are searching in, the pages you visit and the type of jobs you are looking for we will update a Job Search Log profile to get you going. If you provide a sample of your cover letter, we will create a cover letter that will pull the information from the jobs you enter into JobSearchLog (similar to a Mail Merge using the word processor software on your computer) but done entirely through the web. You will have the full capability to edit the information in your profile easily including the information in the cover letters.
In addition you will be able to create an unlimited number of job sources, contacts, cover letters and face no restrictions on the amount of jobs you apply for, letters you print and/or email, and report on your job search activities. This is all free for your use.
Enjoy the program and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any suggestions or complaints about the program and tell your friends.
This poor guy gets hundreds of calls on his cell phone every time American Idol is on (when isn’t it on) because they don’t use 1 when dialing the American Idol voting lines.
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The numbers are in. Right now on a good day, Firefox Usage is only at about 10% of the total browser types used for the day. I changed the pages for JobSearchLog.com to change the way links work.
#--------------------------------------------------------# Profile Name: jobsearchlog.com# Date Range: 7/6/2006 - 7/6/2006#--------------------------------------------------------
#--------------------------------------------------------# Browser Versions#--------------------------------------------------------Browsers VisitsInternet Explorer| 122Opera | 2Firefox | 2Safari | 1Netscape | 1
I am using browser detection to determine if the user is using Internet Explorer or not. If they are, the links will target the originating page. Otherwise a new tab is created for most links. This allows easier copying and pasting among other capabilities.
I am far from excited about having to make the change, but my fear is that it could be confusing IE users when so many windows are opened.
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DALLAS — A laptop containing personal information from thousands of blood donors _ including Social Security numbers and medical information _ was stolen from a local office of the American Red Cross, but officials said the information was encrypted.
How many of these stories have we seen in the last couple of weeks. It is beyond comprehension that these kind of things are happening as often as they are. And then a Red Cross Spokesman said: Local officials alerted police and national Red Cross offices, Lundy said. Donors were not notified about the missing information, and the Red Cross had no legal obligation to do so. That’s great to know they had no legal obligation. How about a moral obligation?
I was watching one day as my wife was entering in the information to sign up for a Paw Points campaign for Kitty Litter. It was your typical marketing campaign asking for names and information about everyone in the house. It is because of experiences like that I decided to ask for only the bare minimum of information to use Job Search Log.
It does seem rather limiting not to ask for more than a username and email address but it hasn’t limited what we are able to develop. Look for more features in the immediate future.
I’ve updated most of the pages so far to reflect our soon to be status as an affiliate with Indeed. Thais means that not only will I be able to receive income (limited as it may be) but it also works within the mission of the page.
The pages should be all set to go on Monday.
Visits & Pageviews for the last week. 