Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting her Guerrilla Job Search, in mid-September.

Up to that point, 20 weeks of job hunting had produced zero job interviews.

Just 7 weeks later, she accepted a job on Thursday, November 12, as a marketing executive assistant.

How did she use Guerrilla job hunting tactics to find work 65% faster?

“I started with the Coffee Cup Caper. I sent a paper Starbucks coffee cup with my cover letter and Guerrilla Resume. I heard back from them a couple days later to get my first interview,” says Berman.

After her first interview, which went well, Berman followed up with panache.

“It was Halloween time, so I decided to send them a chocolate covered apple with my hand-written thank-you note attached. A friend of mine, who was off work that day, played delivery person and took it to [the employer]. That was a big hit — they were thrilled — and I got the second interview out of it.”

Berman’s second interview was with the executive vice president. Afterwards, she followed up diligently. “When I came home, I wrote a 30-60-90 day plan. I had taken copious notes during the interview and used that information given to create suggestions for what I would do in the first 30, 60, and 90 days. I sent that to them via FedEx with another thank-you note. And I got a job offer.”

Now. Let’s break this successful Guerrilla Job Search down …

1. Start smart

The Coffee Cup Caper — a paper Starbucks cup, full-color Guerrilla Resume, and a Guerrilla Cover Letter (asking to meet for coffee), shipped in a box — gets extraordinary results. By contrast, ordinary resumes and cover letters, sent by email, get ordinary results.

2. Follow up with style

Delivering a Halloween treat with her thank-you note was correct seasonally, if not politically. Use good judgment before sending items that might be perceived as bribes by employers sensitive to such things. In Berman’s case, however, it worked like a (chocolate-covered) charm.

And, leaving out the gift, could you arrange to have your thank-you note delivered by a courier, or a friend posing as one? Of course.

3. Give employers another reason to hire you

Mary did this in spades after her second interview, when she sent a written plan of action for her first 3 months on the job.

A 30-60-90 day plan is a way of proving you can do the work — before you’re even on the payroll — by describing how you would learn the job, build rapport with employees/customers, and contribute to the bottom line.

Mary’s plan was 8 pages long and took the better part of a Friday night to prepare. (Before you balk at spending an entire evening at home researching and writing a 30-60-90 day plan, ask yourself if you wouldn’t trade a night out for getting a steady paycheck again.)

4. Score style points with your delivery

Mary’s first follow-up, the chocolate-apple-thank-you note, was delivered by a courier, not by email. Her 30-60-90 day plan was delivered by FedEx, not by email.

Do you NOT see a pattern? Email should NOT be the sole delivery method for your career documents.

Bottom line: This smart Guerrilla had failed to get even one job interview in 20 weeks of conventional job hunting with conventional tactics.

After adopting unconventional Guerrilla tactics, she found work in only 7 weeks.

If Guerrilla job search methods can work in Michigan, where the unemployment rate tops 15%, they can work where you live. The only thing stopping you from thinking and acting like a Guerrilla is you.

The same Guerrilla Resumes and Cover Letters Mary used are here.

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A smart man once said that if you want to be successful you must help people around you to have success. When we seek a new job, the only thing that worries us is to find a good company, a high salary and to be hired in a top position in the hierarchy of the organization. In one word, we are only concerned about our own success. From this perspective the recruiter, who receives our resume and interviews us is an obstacle. He or she is an enemy, standing between us, and the sublime situation, in which we already have all the things listed above.

What I will propose at this moment is to try to change this paradigm, which is so widespread. As I said before, if we want to be successful we have to help others be successful. We wonder now how we could help, as a candidate, the recruiter in front of us to have success.

The answer is very simple if we try thinking the way they do. The recruiter is just a man whose job is to find suitable candidates. He wants to find them as easily and fast as possible. He wants to prove his boss that he is an efficient employee, which brings good results. His success is measured in the speed with which he manages to find and hire valuable candidates, who subsequently prove to be employees truly dedicated to the development of the company.

Therefore, if you want to help the recruiter to be successful you have to help him as much as possible to see that you are such a valuable candidate. The first step towards this goal is the way in which you write your resume. The recruiter does not have much time – help him to read as fast as possible your resume. Do not write the resume on more than two pages.

Format your resume so that the information is easy to find. The recruiter has a profile that he is looking for. You do not have to work with human resources to realize that if there is a sales position the recruiter will look after sales results previously obtained, or if a position is PR, he will look after the events in which you were previously involved. Try to sense the profile that they are looking for. Often, it is even published in the recruitment notice. Help him to identify this profile in your previous experience. You can even bold certain keywords if you consider it necessary.

The recruiter does not seek a job description – he is looking for a person, a man who got results, so give up copying your job description in your resume. There you can give details of the projects in which you were involved, the results obtained what you learned and the ideas proposed.

The recruiter wants to discover a candidate with personality. It does not mean that you come to the interview looking eccentric, but certainly, you can avoid writing your resume in the format of the European Union, for example.



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Everybody may consider useful some advice on how to make a resume. We are willing to provide some interesting pieces of advice that you must not ignore. If a company where you have worked in your country has had several names, choose the one that could have greater resonance. That name may sound like big company names around the world. If the company has been taken over by an international company, use the current name and especially the name of that international company.

Besides, write only the name of the company. Avoid writing the town and the country where the company is unless the company is important in EU countries: France, England, Germany, Spain, etc.

Try to think like an employer and understand what they want to read and write only those things. Try to insert in your resume descriptions of the different positions that you have found posted, because they want to read and are interested in such clichés.

Many employers get your resume in doc format and they hit search in the resume base using the keywords they want them, so respect their phrases in the position description. Learn to use copy / paste. In addition, to express what you have done in your country use international words and expressions to describe equivalent positions to you had done before. Just be careful that all the verbs are put in the past.

Try to keep the document as simple as possible, without many exaggerations, which may be annoying. Possibly save the document as an RTF format that is recognized by many text-editing platforms. Make customized resumes for each position where you apply, meaning that you mention only those things that match what the employer requires in the position description.

Try to keep a copy of resumes sent along with a copy of the position description and the company name. Later it will be much easier to identify what you have written and what you have to say at the interview to match the resume you have sent. Mismatches between the resume and the interview are the sure way to rejection.

Make a long resume with everything you consider useful and necessary to mention in the future personalized resumes. Later you will be able to obtain very quickly a custom resume only removing from the long resume everything that is excessive.

Many people come from environments where they are used to have their documents checked carefully. The work record is a document that proves qualifications, jobs, wages, etc. The entire professional life of a person is registered there in detail, sealed and authenticated. An employer can find out everything about your work just browsing it.

Fortunately, in many countries your previous work has no value. It is more important what a person knows and can do than their past positions. To draw the attention of an employer in most of the developed countries all you need is a resume, which should not follow your previous record of work. In the case of large companies for well-paid positions, however, specialized companies pay to check “Work History” as well as the studies reported in the resume, so be careful not to be caught with red handed. We can continue, but for now we stop here and we do hope this advice on how to make a resume can be helpful!

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Reason 1: You Are Going to Spend Lots Of Cash

Unless you learn how to make a resume, it will cost you lots of money for a skill that you really need to know first-hand. With the right reference materials, the essentials of resume writing can be learned in an hour or two. I offer an excellent book on this topic at my website, if I may say so myself. Of course, as you know, you can also visit almost any bookstore to find several other books that will bring you up to speed.

You will wind up paying anywhere from just over $100 to a few hundred dollars for an experienced professional to prepare a resume for you. You can find advertisements that post a lower price, but the saying “you get what you pay for” applies here, too. After all, the professional resume writer wants to make a good living, too. If the cost to you is exceptionally low, chances are it will be farmed out to a less experienced writer.

Reason 2: It Will Cost You Even More Money Later

Let’s say that you pay someone to prepare your resume for you. A bit painful to your pocketbook, but maybe not so bad depending on your budget. The problem is, in today’s highly competitive job market, you will need to do everything you can to increase your odds at landing a job favorable to your career. That includes tweaking and tuning your resume as the situation dictates.

As an example, let’s say at your current job you have been called on to handle a wide range of tasks – and you have carried them out exceptionally well. The problem is, you may not want to list all of those responsibilities in a single resume. That might give the impression that you are not focused on any particular expertise and that may put you at a disadvantage. Better to research what skill sets and what role the company you are interested in is looking to fill. Then, tune your resume accordingly. Takes more time? Yes. Gets better results? Absolutely.

If you paid to have someone write your resume the first time, you will no doubt lack the confidence to make significant changes to fit each situation. Sometimes you may just need a tweak – and you will handle that. Other times, it may take some serious changes to put your background and capabilities in the most favorable light. Going back to the professional writer to get this done each time is going to cost you!

Also, don’t forget cover letters. This is the best way to emphasize how you best suite each job opportunity. Even if you decide to stick with one version of your resume, each cover letter must be customized to be effective. Here again, you will start to feel pain in your bank account if you don’t master the skills to tailor your own resume and cover letters accordingly.

Reason 3: You Will Have To Do Most Of The Work Anyway

Even the best professional resume writer is not a mind reader. He or she cannot assemble the raw materials – the details of your background – without significant input from you. What you will soon discover is that this can be the most time consuming task of all. In other words, you are going to be put to work by the resume writer. And among the resume writing stages and tasks, this fact collection process can be the most time consuming.

So, let’s see…you will wind up doing the grunt work of collecting and organizing the “raw materials” for writing your resume. Then, you are going to pay someone else the big bucks to turn it into a concise summary. Not that great of a trade-off, if you ask me.

Reason 4: You Know Yourself – The Resume Write Does Not

Speaking of mind readers, who knows you better than you know yourself? You will have to convey your career aspirations, your likes and dislikes, your motivations, etc. This may take some deep thinking and reflection on your part. So here again, the burden is on you to shape this into your career objectives…all so the resume writer can simply summarize this critical information in a few bullet points.

Reason 5: You Need To Know Exactly What Is On Your Resume And Why

Obviously, you know what is on your resume, right? Not necessarily if you had someone else write it and you don’t review it very carefully. Keep in mind that many facts large and small went into the shaping of your winning resume. When the time comes to sit in front of a hiring manager for a face-to-face interview, you should not be hesitant about which facts made it onto your resume and which ones did not. Many things you say during the course of an interview will not match – and may even contradict – your written resume if you are not familiar with exactly what is on that resume. The best way to be on top of those details is to write your resume for yourself.

Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage, learn the art of writing a good resume now!

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