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Fearless Career Change

Experienced in midwifery assistance and prenatal and postnatal
care. Excellent grasp of massage techniques, basic herbology,
and interpersonal relations. Graduate of a certification course in
midwifery assistance. Experienced in assisting in breach and
other difficult birthing scenarios. Trustworthy, warm, empathetic.
Member of Midwife Society of America.

How to Submit Your Résumé
The ideal way to submit your résumé is to place a “warm” or “cold”
phone call to the decision maker (something we’ll discuss in the
section of this chapter called “How to Make Direct Contact with a
Decision Maker”). Second best would be an in-person interview, at
which you present your résumé directly to the employer at the time
of the interview.
When neither of those routes is possible, I’d like you to beat your
competition by using an alternative to the regular U.S. mail service.

Whether you are penetrating the unadvertised
job market or responding to the advertised job
market, sending your résumé by normal U.S. mail
is the least effective way to get it noticed.

Hiring managers are flooded with e-mail, which means that
although an e-mail message is fast—almost instantaneous—your
résumé will not receive the attention it deserves if you are up
against up to 300 other e-mails per day.
To sway the odds back in your favor, use one of these methods:

1. Send it via Federal Express (FedEx).
2. Send it through the U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail in a
Priority Mail envelope.
3. Fax it.

There is no mail that is opened faster than an
overnight FedEx package slated for arrival by 10
a.m. the next morning.

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