1. You don’t want to improve your processes.
2. You don’t like innovation and creativity.
3. Effectiveness scares you.
4. You want to be surrounded with “yes men”, not leaders.
5. You don’t want to make more money.
6. You like your employees unmotivated. Anyone who LIKES their work must be weird.
7. You like it when you have to keep a close eye on your employees.
8. You think that “employee loyalty” is a myth.
9. You don't know how to deal with someone who has personal integrity.
10. You think that teamwork belongs on a football field, not at work.
If any of these statements resonate with you, then don’t even think about hiring me.
Better to let your competitors have to deal with innovation and creativity than to burden yourself. Let them have to figure out what to do with the added savings and income.
Keep working long hard hours with “average” employees because you are used to that.
There’s nothing wrong with your fear of improvement. After all, change is a scary thing. Running an “average” business isn’t so bad. Why change when you can stay marginally efficient? The status quo is pretty comfortable.
However-
If you DO wish to hire me, then you need to understand something.
I am a Flight Controls Engineer working on the Space Shuttle and I am loyal to the Shuttle program, and to United Space Alliance.
I launched the first Shuttle and I intend to launch the last one!
SO-I will be available for hire only after my present company no longer requires my services.
You can expect the same dedication and loyalty if you decide to hire me.
Thank you for your consideration.
Darrell Gheen
(321) 544-1635
http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrellgheen
I wrote this to show that you can make your point in a creative way.
I love my job (and work in general) and this is one way to show it. A prospective employer can read your resume and it will probably look just like the hundreds of others they have seen - with minor exceptions. How can they tell what you are like from that?!
If your not memorable, your invisible! Well guess what? I have spent my life trying to be invisible. I do my job the best way I can, but I don't brag about it. I'm too busy rowing the boat to worry about such things.
If you need to get a new job, then you need to learn how to sell yourself - a VERY tall order for me as I have never had to do that before! People have always seen what I can do, then they ask me to join them. That's how I have gotten every job in the past.
How about you?
What makes you a great employee?
How do you deal with looking for a new job when the old one goes away?
If your not memorable, your invisible! Well guess what? I have spent my life trying to be invisible. I do my job the best way I can, but I don't brag about it. I'm too busy rowing the boat to worry about such things.
If you need to get a new job, then you need to learn how to sell yourself - a VERY tall order for me as I have never had to do that before! People have always seen what I can do, then they ask me to join them. That's how I have gotten every job in the past.
How about you?
What makes you a great employee?
How do you deal with looking for a new job when the old one goes away?
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