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Part 1 ➤ Plan to Succeed
Mini Leads to Maxi
After composing her resume (following), Marilyn designed a vertical
networking card that looks like a mini-resume. Notice how both the
graphic layout and contents of her card could lead a potential
employer to ask for Marilyn’s complete resume. Very clever!
Career Casualty Whether you lay out your information vertically or horizontally, it
should resemble a resume enough to stimulate the reader to ask you
Don’t put off creating a net- for the real thing.
working card because you can’t
decide what information to put
on it. Ask a friend, fellow job Double Your Networking Power
seeker, or professional resume
You can exploit your marketing real estate by putting information on
writer (someone who can be
both sides of your networking card. That way you can tell the reader
objective) to help you design
more and still have lots of white space around the print. Notice
and compose it.
Pamela’s double-sided networking card. See how she used an arrow in
the lower-right corner of each side to entice the reader to turn the card
over? That’s good marketing technique!
Marilyn Jenkins’s networking card.
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