Hump Day Hunting Help: Labor Day Edition

This week: More about the "invisible web," headlines, and leaving a voice mail without sounding like a goober.

• Does Your Cover Letter Contain a Headline?
  Metaphorical or literal?
• Using Job Clubs to Find Mentors
• What Are Resume Keywords and Why Are The Essential?Remember, for big companies, your resume may have to get pasy a scanner first.
• Finding Jobs in the Invisible Web
  Invisible being the part that Google doesn't show you.
• It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Action Words!
  Yes, they are like little capes and spandex suits for your resume.
• Six Steps for First-Time Job Hunters
• How To Leave an Effective Voicemail in Your Job...

This Week on HDHH:

Your resume is boring! How not to be a chicken with its head cut off. A video post about riding horses. Enjoy!

• Your Resume Is Boring — And How to Increase Your Career Opportunities
  Start here. Must read. Right now.
• Hiring for IT Jobs in Chicago Increases
  Get trained!!! Get these jobs!!!
• Should I Accept a Job I Don't Want?
  Ugh. This is a tough situation to be in...
• Should I Call the Recruiter?
  You submitted an application and no one's said anything to you yet...
• Ask a Manager on Preparing For Job InterviewsGreat post from a hiring manager
• Are you a headless chicken on Linkedin?
  Ha! Ouch! I hate it when the truth hurts...
• How a professonal...

This week: Someone plans world domination via LinkedIn, how to audition during an interview and giving away books.

• Resumes and Cover Letters: What Employers Want
• Send Congratulation Letters Before You Need a Job
• Being Successful: Get Organized
• Build a Killer LinkedIn Profile
• "When You Help Others, You Can't Help Helping Yourself"
• 10 Twitter Job Hunting Tips
  (Hey look! "Help others." It's like a trend...)
• How to Proove Your Worth in a Resume
• From the Counter-Programming Department: Personal Brands Are a Waste of Time
  (The lesson: Brands are abstract: be exciting and real)
• How to Respond to a Job Offer
• Following Up and Cold Calling
• Some Formatting Tips on...

How many books or web sites or white papers or articles or posts have you read in the hope of learning how to get a job? A dozen? A hundred? More?

Are you waiting for that one idea, fact, question or info-tidbit to change it around?

Stop waiting. It's time to just doing.

Go make a resume and a cover letter and a blog post and a business card and anything else, and start pushing them out NOW.

Getting a job isn't about a perfect resume, it's about always enhancing everything you are doing. Today, don't spend your time thinking about doing that perfect thing, just do something (anything) that moves you ahead.

If you are waiting for perfection, you are paralyzed....

Did you go watch fireworks this weekend? Or maybe set off some of your own?

Yes, we're all celebrating our first statement to the world (and Britain, which some percentage of American's don't know, according to well-quoted numbers) that we were going to do it our own way.

You know that July 4th was just the day we signed the Declaration of Independence, right? It isn't the anniversary or a battle or war won, or the day King George relented in his desire to keep us his sovereign subjects. It's just the day we loudly and publicly said "Thank but no thanks. We're going to be our own country and govern ourselves rightly or wrongly."

Saying we were independent didn't make us free. We...