Free webinanar for Resumes - tonight at 10pm EST (that's 7pm PST)

[Slinky]

His name is Ramit Sethi. I've watched this guy for other topics. He goes methodologically through materials (both free and commercial) on a specific subject, tries them out, then reports back on what works and what doesn't. This time he's doing resumes. I've found his stuff very useful. I thought some of you guys might want to watch this free webinar.

10pm EST/7pm PST at http://www.livestream.com/findyourdreamjob

I normally don't post stuff like this, but I've been quite impressed with his free stuff.

[Richardk]

Thanks for that link. I've watched three of his live webinars and have really enjoyed them. It's a different style but what he says makes a lot of sense.

[The Gorn]

I started watching but 10 minutes in it was really getting old fast. He seemed to be just positioning his own advice and prepping the audience, so I tuned out.

[Richardk]

There is that too. His ideas are useful but it's like 10 minutes of info stretched into 60 minutes.

I found his presentation interesting in that it 'appears' to be casual and off-the-cuff yet it's highly scripted and targeted towards the later half of the 20 something crowd. While it might be grating to us, I bet his target audience eats it up.

[The Gorn]

Thanks for the summary.

Yeah, I definitely couldn't do a schtick for that audience. It did nothing for me and since the guy's legend doesn't mean anything to me, I couldn't sustain the interest to watch it.

[I D Shukhov]

I'm coming around to the conclusion that job-finding and resumes aren't the most effective thing I can do at this point.   

I wonder how many 48-66 year-old IT workers are out there?   That would be how old baby boomers are this year.   I just don't see many people in this generation effectively going around to IT companies with resume in hand.   If they are already on staff, they may stay for awhile, but new hires?  A bit unlikely, even if they are up on current technology, because generational mixing does not work well -- less, IMO, than ethnic mixing.   I.e. a 60-year-old Indian and 60-year-old white person, who was born here, have more in common than a twenty-something, native-born American and a 60-something.

A more effective strategy would be for older IT workers to form exploratory business clubs.   Here they would kick around ideas for starting a business, and form learning communities focused on promising technologies.  People would then split off into subgroups with people whom they have vetted.  I guess it would be similar to start-up clubs, except for older people who have aged out of the job market.