Anyone know how to make a shitty resume look good? Or any kind of cover letter?
If I knew that, I would not be cashiering at Walmart, I can tell you that much. :/ That said, I've taken a class or two that covered the topic, so I'm not completely hopeless. What about your resume makes it shitty? There might be, say, a different way to format/structure it to emphasize something else.
I hate cover letters so so much, because I know you're supposed to use them to explain why you're Exactly The Most Perfect Candidate For This Position Ever, and mine always end up like yours: "Please, I can BE the most perfect candidate ever, just give me a chance and some training or really just hire me for anything at all, I don't even anymore, PLEASE." (For the record, I also hate the "why do you want to work here?" interview question, because I know "I just really need health insurance, like, so bad" pretty much sets the bar for wrong answers*, but it's always so much more difficult to come up with a right answer. Not having to deal with that question is just about the only upside to not having had an interview in forever, imo.)
*The other contender for "worst possible answer": I once answered this question in an interview -- for somewhere I did actually want to work, even! -- by accidentally implying they were a stepping stone to working somewhere else. Pretty sure that single question lost me my chance at the position. And I kind of can't really blame them. Clearly I fail at interviews. >_<
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If I knew that, I would not be cashiering at Walmart, I can tell you that much. :/ That said, I've taken a class or two that covered the topic, so I'm not completely hopeless. What about your resume makes it shitty? There might be, say, a different way to format/structure it to emphasize something else.
I hate cover letters so so much, because I know you're supposed to use them to explain why you're Exactly The Most Perfect Candidate For This Position Ever, and mine always end up like yours: "Please, I can BE the most perfect candidate ever, just give me a chance and some training or really just hire me for anything at all, I don't even anymore, PLEASE." (For the record, I also hate the "why do you want to work here?" interview question, because I know "I just really need health insurance, like, so bad" pretty much sets the bar for wrong answers*, but it's always so much more difficult to come up with a right answer. Not having to deal with that question is just about the only upside to not having had an interview in forever, imo.)
*The other contender for "worst possible answer": I once answered this question in an interview -- for somewhere I did actually want to work, even! -- by accidentally implying they were a stepping stone to working somewhere else. Pretty sure that single question lost me my chance at the position. And I kind of can't really blame them. Clearly I fail at interviews. >_<