Now is the time to work hard on preparing and sending letters and resumes. Making a follow-up phone call (after a week or so) is appropriate to ask if your letter was received, or if a position has been filled. Someone else may get the job because you waited. Don’t procrastinate-send that letter and resume today, not tomorrow.Set goals-goals are like magnets, and will pull you toward what you want.“You succeed because when you think about what you want, you realize your goals and have an unlimited mindset,” according to Brian W. Among the best principles and strategies to consider adopting are: Some useful information can be gleaned from the career-building advice geared toward the general public. 1 Electronic applications and communications are perfectly acceptable, while a possible follow-up measure would be to send a hard copy of your cover letter and resume to the potential employer.
It has been our experience that graduates who apply for potential jobs prior to their graduation were wasting their time-the computer sent the not-yet-graduated applicants’ on-line applications into the electronic trashcan. There has been a dramatic increase in the number of employers accepting on-line applications only. It might be useful to send duplicate copies of the letter and resume sent to a human resource office, the laboratory and additionally to the attention of the cytology supervisor, whether his/her name is known or not. Many hospital and laboratory human resource offices are populated with employees who have had very little explanation regarding the tasks and requirements of laboratorians. We have a unique set of talents and an expertise not well understood by non-medical personnel. Many career-building articles and websites are geared toward business graduates, not laboratory personnel.
Computer keyboards are ringing with the sounds of cover letters and resumes being tapped out, printers are printing, hard copies are anxiously put in the mail, electronic communications checked constantly….will the potential employer call? Will an interview be scheduled? The following strategies may help with the task of launching a new career. It is time for the 2007 cytotechnology program graduates to enter the workforce.
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