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In my experience, the resume places will basically tell you all the same things which you’ve likely already found strewn across the internet (unless they aren’t used to creatives, then they’ll give you some bad advice).
The bigger hurdle is just having somebody on the inside who will vouch for you or at least have an active interest at looking at your book.
Submit, then send a love note to somebody on the inside telling them how much you admire their work and how you’d love to get them a coffee and pick their brain on getting through the initial phase of recruitment.
I can refer you to good remote control job position there’s no arm in trying again?
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I've been reading that timing is everything. Meaning, if you don't apply within the first few hours (or day or two max) your résumé will just get buried under all the other ones that come in before you. And if you are a hiring manager, and you see a few good resumes right away, you're not really going to put in the time to go through the other hundreds that are submitted. No matter how good they might be.
This is 100% right. If you get LinkedIn premium you can see the exact number that apply. Any decent creative gig has hundreds of applicants. Some thousands. Not hyperbole. So if you’re not applying within a few minutes of the job going live, you’re dozens behind. So yes - network network network. Try to find folks who know folks. Right now - it’s all about who you know. I recently went with this strategy and it’s paying off. No offer yet, but a lot of irons in the fire. Good luck.
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Network, network, network
Use ChatGPT to match your resume to the job description. That’s been helping me get interviews.
I used kantan hq because they had staff with agency experience. My writer was super helpful and asked a lot of good questions to add things I didn't think of which seemed to help.
I’ve hired people to rewrite my resume and got mixed results. One did an excellent job of showing where I made an impact and it was very clean, easy to read. Another added a very dense objective that made it overwhelming to read and it didn’t align with the jobs I was looking for.
I think if you’ve been hitting all of the bullet points and have experience with top agencies it’s probably not your resume. It’s who you know on the inside and timing. I feel like timing is everything!
You’re not alone. I’ve been running into the same thing for years. Waiting for the right opportunity and continuing to network as much as I can.
Are you looking forward to updating your CV/resume?