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How Not to Get a Job, Part 2
Monday, December 17, 2007 — posted by Alan Pringle
I would like to add some points to Sarah's list of poor job-seeking techniques:- Don't put an email address in your contact information if it contains some variation of a celebrity's name. It comes across as unprofessional (and a tad creepy, to be honest). Use some variation of your name and initials.
- Don't claim to do work you didn't do at a previous job, particularly when you're sending a resume to the person who actually did that work in the time period you specified. (Yes, that happened during our last round of resumes; I didn't react too well to seeing my work on another person's resume.)
- If the posting for a job says no phone calls, do not call about the job. Also, if you work for a staffing agency and call about a job posting that is labeled "principals only," you earn whatever curt responses you may encounter when you call the company or send swarms of email.
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