What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

Wild Life, by John Kovalic, ©1989 Shetland Productions. Reprinted with permission.
The brutal truth is, no matter how skillfully you write and post your
resume, some employers will like it, some won’t. Trouble is, if you’re
interested in some employer, you don’t know which category they fit into.
That’s why many job-hunters, if they use resumes, pray as they post their
resume: Please, dear God, let them be employers who like resumes in
general, and may the form of my resume appeal to those employers I care
about, in particular.
Whatever form you decide on, write the resume and then post it
everywhere you can, online: on the omnibus job-boards, famous jobboards,
community bulletin boards, and niche sites. For lists of such sites,
go to the LiveCareer website, which you can find at www.​livecareer.​com/​
quintessential/​indres.
Incidentally, if this all seems like just too much trouble, there are
resume distribution services that will do this blanket posting for you, if
you wish, sometimes without a fee, but most often for fees ranging from
$50 to $100. Whether it will pay you or not to use one of these services is,
in my opinion, largely a matter of luck. Blind, dumb, luck. Personally, I’d
always try to do this myself before giving money to anyone else.
If you decide to do this for yourself, my advice is: post it right on the
actual website of companies that interest you, if they have a site, and if
their site permits that. This, of course, assumes you have figured out where
you would most like to work, if they’ll have you (more on this later in the
book). In this post-2008 period, I recommend you pay particular attention
to small employers (first try those with 25 or less employees, then 50 or
less, and then 100 or less). Also you’re likely to have better luck with
newer organizations (7 years old or less).
If you post your resume on the sites of particular employers, large or
small, don’t count on any acknowledgment or reply. Just post the thing,