Comments on: Success & Motivation – A Great Letter Dissed

By: Martindale-Hubbell – irrelevant

Martindale-Hubbell – irrelevant — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:06:36 +0000

[...] For a similar take on a similar situation, see Mark Cuban’s blog post about a job search letter. [...]

By: drpx

drpx — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:23:14 +0000

Look, choosing a job is a complex process and it really is more than just money. Money is important – no doubt, but if you don’t have the skills (e.g., you’re short and have no athleticism, but love basketball or you want to be professor but don’t have a PhD) or your lifestyle doesn’t fit with the job, you’ll end up very dissatisfied. And the plum jobs are highly competitive, so you need to be creative about ways to get your foot in the door, like volunteering or going back to school. Indeed 95% of the jobs that people find are through networking and not the newspaper ads. While an imperfect process, I do agree that the job search process is based on the premise that your past predicts the future. From personal experience, however, it is those bosses that had faith in me, and gave me a shot that created the best environment for me to excel.

By: oneheartonemind

oneheartonemind — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:12:08 +0000

view:
http://www.poynter.org/article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?user=603200&id=169568

As long as journalist continue to believe “information has virtually zero marginal cost of production”. The road is not getting shorter.
Everything we do has a “return on investment”.

By: photography800

photography800 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:06:04 +0000

“Yes, I’m not supposed to mention money. But we’re both adults and recognize that, in the end, that’s what it comes down to”

I’ve always wanted to say this, but never had the guts. Maybe after 27 more years of experience, I can! Also, I love the NBA analogy. Very on point.

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By: hirecules

hirecules — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:14:28 +0000

One Job, Thousands of Applicants. How would you, as an applicant stay one step ahead of your competition? I like Mike Hendricks’ cover letter. An HR Manager reading his letter would either like it or hate it. That’s life. Then just send it to the next prospective employer.

I have done the same thing with my employment cover letter, and will continue to do so. Here’s what’s different with mine.

I pitch my 25 years of work experience to HR Managers, and if they don’t like it, I pitch my business to them within the same letter! It’s an on-line tool to assist HR Managers in pre-screening their candidates – http://www.Hirecules.com. So what have I got to lose?

Let me know what you think, below is my letter:

Subject : Hire Me or Use Me!

Dear Sir or Madam:

In response to your career vacancy, you could either: hire and pay me a salary, or, use my services on the web and pay me NOTHING! Please allow me to explain.

I have more than 25 years of solid work experience in the fields of Finance,Accounting, and Banking, as well as Information Technology. My demonstrated high skill set in financial analysis, reporting, general accounting, and budgeting will prove to be a value-add for your firm. As an added bonus, my considerable financial systems integration, business analysis, software and web
application development, and project management experience are a definite plus in which your firm can take advantage of.

Therefore, please find a URL link to my resume, or send me an e-mail should you prefer an attachment.

As you can see, I just don’t sit down and wait for things to happen, but I create opportunities, and make things happen. Hence, I authored and developed a simple web-based tool for candidates to get that dream job, and a cost-effective solution for employers to pre-screen candidates. You, as an employer, can post a career vacancy, and select an interview question type that
candidates would respond to when they use our Access-Anytime-Anywhere-Audio-Interview System! Please check it out at:

http://www.Hirecules.com (pronounced “haier-kyu-leez”, a variation of “Hercules”)

I strongly believe that I would be a great resource for your company, and therefore encourage you to schedule me for an interview.

However, should you feel that my qualifications and credentials do not appear to fit current requirements of any career in your company, please do consider using my candidate pre-screening tool at http://www.Hirecules.com. Built just for you, it’s like hiring an HR Assistant without ever paying a salary!

And whether or not I am hired, here’s my personal offer to you. If you post any one of your career vacancies using our website, I would be more than happy to put it in our “TOP TEN CAREERS” feature – it guarantees home-page exposure. But hurry, I can only accommodate this offer to the first 10 employers.

So either way, I definitely look forward to working with you!

Yours truly,

Edgar Enriquez
Founder and CEO, Hirecules.com
“Job Interviews For Smarter People”

By: josephwesley

josephwesley — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:02:43 +0000

I like it. Especially when he states in his response that he was trying a different tact. If you are sending out several job applications, why not mix it up and try something new. It didn’t work, but it was worth a shot. He definitely sounded like a bad ass in the process.

By: soiquitmyjob

soiquitmyjob — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:46:47 +0000

That guy’s just arrogant. It’s like he’s stooping to their level to make a few extra bucks. If he’s been such a great writer for 30 years, why is he in need a job?

Oh, and I don’t believe jobs are scarce, no matter what the TV tells me. Of course, if you believe they are, then you’re probably right.

By: Using the Right Executive Salespitch « CXO Footnotes

Using the Right Executive Salespitch « CXO Footnotes — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:42:04 +0000

[...] Cuban discusses this issue today in “Success and Motivation: A Great Letter Dissed”. It is refreshing to see some executives like Mark still prefer the direct approach. Possibly [...]

By: gooseniceman

gooseniceman — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:33:40 +0000

Everyone is in the PR business. Promoting oneself through action instead of big words and hype is key to maintaining integrity and dignity in the PR field (my opinion). Many overeducated MBAs focused more on PR, their own, than results over the past couple of decades. Spinning numbers, overlooking bad performances, cutting corners, and dumping ethics was littered with glitter and show in many American companies.

A book you may enjoy, while spending time at the islands , is Dropping Almonds by Bach Anon. A more realistic and honest assessment of how arrogant and entitled many workers (at the executive ranks have become). I say less emphasis on PR and more time getting the nails dirty.

Thanks for the post…