This weekend I ran into a great opportunity to network at a party. Of course people ask what you do at these events. The guest of honor just happened to work in the industry and when the host introduced me she mentioned that I was looking in her field. Well that got us chatting and the guest of honor asked me for my resume' and cover letter. How gracious was that? I sent her my info the next day via the hostess. So you never know what will pop up.


I'll have my personal business cards soon. I created them on Vista-Print and ordered them up over the weekend. Probably see them delivered next week. While something is better than nothing (usually), some thought went into my process. I have designed many business cards (and other marketing materials) previously, but I always like to get a least one other opinion before I commit. We all have differing thoughts about marketing material and this card represents me in a small nutshell, so it needs to be potent. I got some honest feedback and I adjusted a couple of things - and left a couple of other items the way they were because I really liked them that way.


Today started out with a thorough update of my Linked-in profile. I imported my resume' and had to edit the page quite a bit. I wasn't sure about putting dates on all my old job and education posts. There seems to be some back and forth about putting age identifying information out there. I still haven't decided, and so it's on Linked-in but not on the resume' I will submit to job postings and print out. When I looked at resume's to hire contract people, I didn't want to know - so that I would limit any unconscious bias I might have.

I wrapped it up with applying for a couple more positions online. Each submission took time to compose a specific cover letter for. One asked for 3 references to be included with the initial submission. These were chosen specifically from a previously composed list for the position. BTW, I asked my reference people for their permission first and compiled a listing to choose from later, as appropriate.