Business Cards - The Job Hunter's Calling Card

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By Sue Campbell, 1st-Writer.com

The job hunting business card highlights the skills and qualifications you possess for the types of jobs and industries you're targeting. It provides personal contact information, and omits current employer information. It's easy to carry, easy to use, and very discreet. It's a great option when a particular situation would make the offer of a resume inappropriate or inconvenient for the recipient, i.e.: social or professional gatherings (see Job Hunting for the Holidays), professional association meetings, career or job fairs (to provide to additional contacts and/or as a supplement to the resume), etc.

If you have a resume Web page, your job hunting business card should provide the URL to that, too. This provides easy access to your resume document by your recipient. Providing the URL to a PDF file provides the additional benefit of printing capabilities.

If you are actively networking (and you should be!), a job hunting business card can be provided to anyone who has the potential to help you in your job search. Who does this include? Just about everyone you know and meet.

Many job hunters will, smartly (and discreetly), contact friends, associates or colleagues to inform them of their job hunting status. Some will do this by submitting a letter of intent. But what are these friends, associates or colleagues supposed to do with this letter of intent? They certainly can't hand out copies of it to potential contacts or employers. And a letter of intent will often fail to indicate the specifics of a job hunter's skills and background, or the types of positions he or she is targeting. This leaves the responsibility to your network to remember what it is you have to offer, and what it is you're hoping to secure.

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