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Learn From My Job Search Mistakes

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Brian Snedvig
Learn From My Job Search Mistakes

I’ve been without a job twice in my career, and now I’m a business owner with a team of five wonderful people who I would do anything for.

I clearly remember my first resumes. I opened up Microsoft Word, started typing in name + address at the top. Then followed by left aligned headlines with a couple of bullet points of each assignment I had.

If only I had spent more time on researching layout, formats, and read actual expert advice about how to write a resume. I would have made a more fitting resume to each job, to increase my chances, instead of my boring two pages of left aligned oversized text with bullet points.

I didn’t think about unique value propositions, quantifiable results, or anything like that. I followed the same boring and uninspiring standards that the local job center recommended. Sounds familiar?

As a job seeker there are several ways to start your job search, but one of the first steps should always be to create or update your resume. If you feel discouraged because you haven’t written or updated your resume in many years, I’d recommend contacting a professional resume writer.

I’ve got tremendous respect for professional resume writers. They’re able to tell your unique and fitting story to a potential employer in one or very few pages.

However, if you don’t want to pay for a resume writer, there are software that is designed to help you with your resume

So the idea came up:

Resume & cover letter building simplified and transparent as a service to job seekers.

There’s a popular saying: when you build a product, build it as if it were for yourself.

You can’t help everyone, or build something everyone finds excellent. But what you can do is, create something you would use yourself. Because there are many people around the world who have the same problem as you.

This realization reminded me of my previous struggles, and which steps I took when I was looking for a job earlier in my career. I would’ve loved to use a service like this, because it would have spared me for so much of the frustration that I experienced with the resume writing and formatting process. It would have given me a way to focus only on what I knew best; my data and my history.

The commitment

So, here we are. We’re building jofibo.com as a transparent resume service to job seekers and students.

We’re not done yet, but, we’re already helping thousands of people from around the world to create or update their resumes and cover letters in a simple and fun way.

So far we’ve had excellent feedback and results from many job seekers, and students who we’ve helped. The cool thing is that we work with our users to improve the experience for everyones gain, in a continued collaboration, which directly benefits the next generation of job seekers.

It makes us immensely proud, and we’ll continue to keep asking for all of your feedback, to help you get a job. We’re wholeheartedly committed to that purpose and are grateful for the support.

If you’re interested in staying up to date on our journey or looking for advice, follow us on Twitter: @Jofibocom where we share and engage on relevant topics.

You’re always welcome to ask us questions.

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