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  Step 8: Shortcut to Resumes & Job Search Letters

  

  Using XP Shortcut in your job search The most potent use of XP Shortcut for job hunters is the ability of XP Shortcut to open a file or generate ...more »

  

  Using XP Shortcut in your job search

  The most potent use of XP Shortcut for job hunters is the ability of XP Shortcut to open a file or generate text with a 3-key shortcut.

  Question: What document-related activities do job-searchers perform most often?

  Answer: Revise and send resumes, revise and send cover letters, and write follow-up emails and letters.

  Question: What do these tasks have in common?

  Answer: They usually involve the revision or customization of something that was already written or created.

  Question: How can the customization of these words or documents be made more efficient?

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  * By creating master templates.

  * By creating shortcuts to the master templates.

  * By creating an an efficient document work-flow.

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  Step 9: Apply for a Job Using Shortcuts

  

  Job hunting involves repetitive tasks. Streamline your job hunt by easily creating a set of 3-key shortcuts that will make often-performed tasks ...more »

  

  Job hunting involves repetitive tasks. Streamline your job hunt by easily creating a set of 3-key shortcuts that will make often-performed tasks execute in an eyeblink. Here are some tasks you can associate with 3-key shortcuts: open resume, open cover letter, open thank-you letter, open follow-up letter, load & paste often-used text such as for an email, navigate to websites and FTP sites, capture any part of your screen, open a new email, even pre-loaded with text.

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  Start a Job Search Management System

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, focuses on the idea that hunting for a job is not just a collection of activities. ...more »

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, focuses on the idea that hunting for a job is not just a collection of activities. A successful job search involves the deployment of a Job Search Management System.

  The job search management system need be neither expensive nor complicated, but when used properly, it can easily double or triple the effectiveness of your job search.

  The article is here:

  http://fastest-jobs-search.com/2009/11/step-2-start-a-job-search-email/

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  Successful Job Search in Four Months

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, discusses how and why it is not only possible, but guaranteed that, with diligent ...more »

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, discusses how and why it is not only possible, but guaranteed that, with diligent application of job hunting strategies, you can secure not only a job, but the right job for you, in only four months.

  It's here:http://fastest-jobs-search.com/2009/11/fastest-job-search/

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  Successful Strategies for Online Job Applications

  Unfortunately, many job applications fail even before a human being ever reads them. This article, part of a series on the job hunt at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, ...more »

  Unfortunately, many job applications fail even before a human being ever reads them.

  This article, part of a series on the job hunt at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, tells you how to avoid the pitfalls that can take your job application out of the game.

  It is at:

  http://fastest-jobs-search.com/2009/11/step-1-apply-online/

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  Find the Target Hiring Person

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, focuses on the critical need to find the actual flesh-and-blood human who is responsible ...more »

  This article, one in a series at www.fastest-jobs-search.com, focuses on the critical need to find the actual flesh-and-blood human who is responsible for hiring for your position.

  The article poses the premise that by establishing contact with this Target Person, one can boost their chances of success many-fold.

  Tactics, some of which require a bit of audacity, are discussed in the article.

  See it here: http://fastest-jobs-search.com/2009/11/step-4-find-the-target-person/

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  Job Search Email Reminder System

  iTickleMe Email Reminders provides a structure and framework for your job search campaign by enabling you to filter all of your job search activities ...more »

  iTickleMe Email Reminders provides a structure and framework for your job search campaign by enabling you to filter all of your job search activities and follow-ups through your most commonly used business tool - your email.

  With iTickleMe Email Reminders, you will never forget to follow-up on important job prospects, at just the right time.

  Every day of your job search, you will receive email reminders about who you need to contact, how you should do it, and what happened with that prospect in the past, so your follow-ups can be targeted, appropriate and powerful.

  Once your initial job application is filed, your most critical task for future success is proper follow-up. That is the strength of iTickleMe. www.iTickleMe.com

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  Fastest Job Search Management Tool

  Fastest Job Search provides instruction and tools to help speed and focus your job search, regardless of the type of job you are looking for. ...more »

  Fastest Job Search provides instruction and tools to help speed and focus your job search, regardless of the type of job you are looking for.

  Fastest Job Search approaches the job search as a marketing campaign, where the product is you!

  Fastest Job Search is a FREE step-by-step program designed to get you the job you want in the fastest possible time.

  http://fastest-jobs-search.com

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