"If it wasn't for bad
luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all." (Blues refrain.) Feel this is true
of your job search? Here are three
ways to make your own good luck!
What do Lady Gaga and your
job search have in common? The "von Restorff Effect"--being slightly
different from all the other candidates for a job can get you noticed. Now
clearly--I'm not telling you to dress up in a Gaga-esque outfit, or even to
typeset your resume in the dreaded Comic
Sans. There has to be substance behind
your idosyncratic, quirky personality if you are to be recognized in a good way.
Finally:
nobody is going to hire you because you can read Beowulf in the original Old
English: HWÆT,
WE GAR-DEna in geardagum, / þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon, / hu ða
æþelingas ellen fremedon! (Say what?)
But
an employer might be impressed with your ability to learn new things if you add
on a minor in computer science, or learn coding at http://code.org/.
Or perhaps you can add on some of the other things in this article to your standard-issue
English degree!
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