The 20SomethingRoast Podcast: Career Strategy for 20Somethings

The 20SomethingRoast Podcast: Career Strategy for 20Somethings


How bad writing can prevent your career from growing

May 20, 2014

Picture this:

You're scrolling through the world of online job sites like Indeed and Idealist and you come across your ideal dream job. The location is perfect, the salary is perfect, the company is perfect. It's the perfect job for you.

You send in your resume and cover letter and wait. Weeks past and you hear nothing. Finally you are sent a generic email saying you have been passed on.

You think you may have been passed on because of your experience or skill set. But what if the writing style of your resume and cover letter prevented you from locking down an interview at your dream job?

So in this episode of The 20SomethingRoast Podcast Show your host, Swim Karim, is joined by special guest New York writer, Gabriel Sistare, in finding out:

Are 20Somethings like you turning into bad writers and how it could be hurting our career
The shocking mistake 20Somethings are making when it comes to writing their resumes and cover letters 

If people like Swim (podcasters, radio hosts, movie makers) are doing a disservice to quality writings of the world 

Plus, Swim shares a quick story about doing an internship at the Charlotte Observer and how what he found out about the writing world changed things forever. You will enjoy laughing at what he quickly discovered.

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Resources for this episode include:

www.GabrielSistare.com

You can find today's episode directly on the website, right here--->http://bit.ly/BadWritingCareer

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