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Originally Posted by bossku69
That's the thing. In my field, there is really no way to stand out besides your LinkedIn profile or if somehow your name gets around. There are some "schools" that offer a bs in Internet marketing, but that's a joke.
The big issue is when its me vs. some smuck that has no experience, it comes down to who ever is hiring to make the decision. I spoke to a company today that I was trying to bring on as a client and the guy told me "it was between you and someone else, they had a masters in Internet marketing." BULLSHIT! there is no such thing!
Exactly. At a company I worked with in the past, I was running their Internet marketing division. We had to hire about 3 more campaign mangers and people would put they have a bs in this, or masters in this. Most people these days have a bachelors degree, but when you are 24 and have a masters in "marketing" that is a red flag for lie.
I have friends that did the same thing tho, lied about their education on a resume or even told the person they were interviewing. I guess as long as you dont have it on something that you sign, you can't get in trouble
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This might sound like a somewhat crazy idea, but you might consider hiring a publicist to help you put together a resume and press kit. When I left LA and eventually made my way back to Portland (after a few detours) I needed to get a job. This was pre-internet. I contacted a publicist I knew that worked for a record company I used to work for. I hired her for a few hours and she help me put together a kick ass resume/presentation. It looked like something you would submit to the Academy for Oscar consideration. It had information about me, clips of work I had done, a couple of pictures that were integrated and a synopsis of who I was and what my life was like. As she told me, it is easy to reject a piece of paper, not so easy to reject a person so give them your picture and make yourself a person to them. The thing came in a folder and looked great. I sent copies of it out to a handful of different companies and got a lot of response for it. Every single interview or conversation I had mentioned the resume. At the least it got me in the door and in front of them then it was up to me sell myself.