Leaving Behind Your Calling Card
In the 19th Century, people never went anywhere without a personal calling card. About the size of today’s business card, the calling card was handy for givin
g people you address or leaving behind when you called on someone who wasn’t home. You can use a similar technique in the 21st Century. Create a job seekers calling card!
A job seekers calling card contains your name, telephone number and the career position you are seeking. It can also summarize your skills and qualities as a worker. You can easily create one on any computer and print out several using special business card or index card paper. For a more polished, and more expensive, card, you can take your text to a quick-print shop and ask them to typeset and print it.
Your calling card can be given to people who meet during the course of the day, even if they were unable to give you any names of suggestions during a conversation. They might think of something tomorrow and can use the calling card to get your phone number.
Attach the card to letters you send requesting informational interviews, job sharing, or telephone calls for career advice. If you fill out job applications, attach your calling card. Attach it to your resume, as well. Your resume will get filed, but your card can be sent along to someone else the HR office thinks might be interested in your skills.
