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Get a Great Job When You Don’t Have a Job

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Your Finished Power Proposition

You may have drafted this version of your proposition in a way
that’s very similar to the way it’s written here, or you may have
already chosen your own wording that you feel comfortable with.
As a test, please read the sentence as if you were an employer.
How long did it take you to read it? Three seconds? Ten sec-
onds? What’s important for you to understand is that in well
under ten seconds, you have already told the employer a lot about
you.
Traditional résumés may have taken two pages—about two
minutes past our employer’s initial attention span—to say what
you’ve said in less than ten seconds.
In fact, it is customary (though not always) for educational
qualifications to be left until the very end of the résumé. We don’t
want to take the risk that the employer won’t read all that way, so
we’re going to put your education into your power proposition if
it seems relevant, and it almost always does.

• You’ve already won your employer over. Congratula-
tions! She won’t have seen anyone give her so much
useful information—in fact, the exact information
she’s looking for—in so little time.

In the next chapters, we’re going to identify some of the skills
that form the foundation of Q statements. Then, we’re going to
put a “spin” on those penciled-in accomplishments that you just
wrote: we’re going to turn them into Q statements. Now let’s use
them to deal the final blow.

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