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  Date / Time: 3/19/2009 10:40 PM UTC

  Qualified Job Candidates Don't Always Fit On An Easily Faxable One Page Resume
  

  Qualified job candidates don’t always fit on a one page easily faxable resume.

   If you are like me, you have no doubt experienced the 22 year old staffing agency recruiter who calls or emails after a two hour employment agency registration and testing process.  Invariably they all seem to have practiced saying in a sing song up beat kind of squeaky voice, “This is really great, but just one thing…I just need you to shorten your resume to one or two pages please.” 
  

   We chop up our resumes so they become easily faxable one or two pages, only to look like we are qualified for entry level summer jobs and internships.  After managing the hustle and bustle of interview scheduling, preparation, travel and the intense stress of talking with someone who is using our mutilated shell of a resume to guide their questions to us, the over 50 job candidate returns home frustrated, a little more broke and humiliated. 
  

   We wonder why we are over 50 with all this demonstrated experience under our belts and there is no place in the job finding process where anyone cares to learn exactly what kind of contribution we can make to their human resources pool.  No, we are not allowed to smash down the font to 8 points, remove all the lines between paragraphs and get 20 years of work experience on one page.  I tried that and got the squeaky voiced kid recruiter calling me again.
  
  Employer companies are an industry for which human resources products do not find their way to market.  Employers’ revenues are suffering because they never learn about our demeanors of strong work ethic, passion and professional humility which make us uniquely qualified to achieve the employer’s creative and profit making goals.  The heavily experienced over 50 job candidate with the maturity to appreciate commitment and longevity gets offered humiliating roles with no real ability to earn money or to bring quality of life enhancing employment experience to employer/economy markets.

   Today I started using the below form of cover letter and 6 page complete resume.  I posted the resume at my website as html so it is picked up by the search engines that seem to be picking up everything else.  Might as well let the power of the internet technologies expose what we want people to know about us.  When the kid recruiters tell me how interested they are but just need me to lop off 80% of the resume and then they can help me out with getting a job, I will politely say thank you but no thank you.  The resume stands.  I know I didn’t imagine doing all that work that enabled me to raise my family and enrich “many a company”.    I wish everyone over 50 strongest prayers and most positive thoughts for job finding.

  I am confident that exposure of administrative horror stories across all industries and systems; sharing and networking our suggestions and solutions will shine a healing light on U.S. Economic Recovery and we will be successful in achieving long term economic prosperity.  Here is the Administrative Challenge.  Here is where poor work ethic and variables of morality cause syphoning away from U.S. Economic Recovery.  By:  Roxanne Grinage -- Hire Roxanne Grinage if passion and insightful Administrative Tools Development and Implementation is necessary for your quality of life impacting marketing, careers, label or stores Strategic Planning and Presentation need.

   Feel free to use this form of cover letter for job finding.  HireLyrics Administrative Solutions. 
  

   Dear Sir or Madam,

               CNN reported that employers are shying away from hiring candidates over age 50 because we are viewed as somehow over qualified.  CNN reported that veteran professionals having the most to contribute in terms of expertise and professional humility are “taking it on the chin” in today’s economic crisis.

               Rather than chop off the portions of my work history that account for why I am a right fit for your advertised hiring opportunity, I decided to submit my full work history, skills and attributes.  As a seasoned administrative support worker over 50, I possess the strong skills set, work ethic, passion and professional humility that make me the wisest cost effective hiring choice.

                        I am only applying to job opportunities that resonate with my desire to contribute meaningful work contribution and those positions in which your performance evaluation of me will exceed expectations.

               My compensation requirements are open depending on employment arrangement agreed upon. I can comply with any required dress code. 

               Please consider expert professional certifications and demonstrated professional accomplishments for satisfying degree requirements. 

               Please contact me if you have interest in speaking with me.

   Sincerely,

  Roxanne Grinage

  229-395-0039

  
  
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