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If you could find these employment agencies that have a direct contract with various companies, that is a gold mine in getting hired as a perm or temp position. Often, large companies typically fortune 500 companies or companies that may have a high turnover rate, or the company may just recently moved their company to a new location will have a direct working relationship with an employment agency. They may even house a small outside employment agency at their company headquarters to process the temp/perm positions. These companies will have many different job positions within the company i.e. accounting, customer service, finance, information systems.

As I mentioned in my previous post, you want to act as if you never signed up with the employment agency because chances are, you probable won't get one assignment. But you want to act as if you are hanging by their very last breadth and show every signs of desire and willingness, you will want to make you sure you follow up with them for the next couple of weeks. I always call the day after to thank them again for the meeting and to tie up any possible leads that they might have spoken to you about. I usually call about every other day for about a week in a half to let them know that I am motivated and interested in working with them and to show my commitment towards the job. If you haven't heard from them after two weeks of repeated calls and emails, then I usually call about once a week for a couple of more weeks.

I have to admit this - I hate employment agencies, with a passion. They never answer your phone calls and are never straight with you in answering your questions. But, they can be a good way to add another set of eyes so to speak, in helping you find jobs that normally aren't posted on any job sites. Often, companies strictly work with employment agencies instead of posting jobs on the internet or in newspapers so that these employment agencies will do a lot of the leg work in sorting through good candidates while keeping their identity concealed. I will talk more about employment agencies and their dirty tricks and tactics they use.

One certainty in life is that the future holds unpredictable changes. We all start each day with a degree of uncertainty and the lessons and opportunities that life brings to us aren't always welcome.

Even though unpredictability is an inevitable part of life, most of us are afraid to make changes. It's never easy! Change forces us to take risks, become vulnerable, and open ourselves to the unknown. But if you rise above the fear, you can begin to change as a good experience. Beyond every corner is an exciting, new opportunity waiting to be discovered.

It's hard to write a resume. Most of us are not "born salespeople." Just mentioning the word "sales" usually sends a shiver of fear up our spines. Add to this the fact that we are taught from childhood that it's not polite to brag about ourselves it's no wonder that when you're asked to "sell yourself" on a resume you freeze up like a deer in the headlights.

So instead of panicking let's take a resume apart piece by piece and explain how to write an effective resume. Hopefully this will eliminate some of the fear involved in "selling yourself" on paper.

Fact #1: Most resume's are boring. The average resume reads like an outline for a term paper. A,B,C, 1,2,3. BORING.

Fact #2: Most of us are not born writers and writing about ourselves is extremely hard.

So how do you outline all your great skills and assets in an interesting (if not exciting and dynamic) way? In this article we'll give you a resume sample to get you started. Let's begin with the basics and perhaps if you discover the "hidden writer" within you might work up to exciting and dynamic.

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How important is the cover letter (letter of introduction) that accompanies your resume? It’s possible that you have the very best written resume in the world and be the very best candidate for the job, but if your cover letter is poorly written, you can pretty much throw your chances out the window. The cover letter is your first, and sometimes your only opportunity to grab an employer's attention and let them know why your resume is worth reading. Remember – you have only a few seconds to grab that hiring person’s attention or you are just another resume to them.