My career hit a roadblock when I decided to immigrated into the US in 2009 though I had well prepared for the change. I had finished an undergraduate program in English Linguistics and Literature in 2008 with a plan that it would be helpful for both my dream graduate program and my emigration. Also, I had changed my job to work for a multinational corporation in market research and consulting industry in order to add a good experience in my resume which I hoped to increase my change to get a good job when I migrated. My English was not very good but it was enough for me to get my job done excellently at my new workplace. Moreover, it was good enough for me get all straight A's in my master program. I graduated with high honors early this fall and began seeking for jobs.
Many people might wonder why I had not worked during the graduate program to get some more experience and earn some money to cover a part of expenses. The answer is that I got some project to do for my previous employer and some small translation project to work on which brought me a sum of money that I could help my parents in my home country and buy this laptop to use so far. After that, I decided to spend the latest one year on my schoolwork to overcome the language barriers and absorb all the knowledge that the program offered. There is no wonder why I always received the good remarks from all the instructors in twelve courses of the program. When I had free time like quarter breaks, I learnt something I thought it would be useful for my career such as Excel 2010 and Marketing Research by Alvin Burns and Ronald Bush. I mentioned this two resources because I have strong interests in working with Excel functions and other features, and marker research has been my choice of career since 2002 when my career began. I did plan that I would continue to work on them and some others like SQL or VB. However, I have not carried out my plan because I have to work on the so-called decisive thing, which is resume writing.
From my graduation ceremony to the present, I have applied for over five positions of market analyst. GFK, Nielsen, NPD Group, Target, Blue Cross Blue Shield are familiar names. Unfortunately, I have received no reply from these companies at all, so far. I have done some checks and found that some positions have been filled, some are continued to be advertised while I am still unemployed. I guessed that my resume was too bad to be considered by the employers. Therefore, I have done some searches to see if there was any excellent samples for the position of market analyst. I have found some good ones and done some changes accordingly, and submitted it on CareerBuilder.com, Monsters.com, TheLadder.com and so on. Then I received a horrible critique from TheLadder.com which describe my resume as one the worst ones in the world and offered resume writing service at a price. Of course, I have not paid for that kind of service. Meanwhile, I have downloaded a material from it site which analyzed strategy in resume writing, and I found some useful tips in it.
Nevertheless, while reading the material, I felt a deep sadness that instead of spending free time to learnt something practically useful to the dream career, job seekers is now investing in resume writing. This reflects the fact that career opportunities are now just for people who talk, not for people who truly walk.
Continuing to work on resume writing...
