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Get your big break with Vault’s video resume challenge!

Filed under Resumes and Cover Letters, What's New
Posted by Libraries, March 14, 2007
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Vault’s March Big Break Challenge is a video resume contest to help job applicants put their name out there in a big way. The five winners of this contest will have their video and written resumes sent directly to Vault’s insider network of hiring decision makers. So get your cameras and start filming, because the deadline is coming up on April 1st!

For more information and to enter the contest go to: http://www.vault.com/membership/video-resume.jsp

To learn more about the recent emergence of video resumes on the job market, see this article from Time magazine:

“It’s a Wrap. You’re Hired!” By Cullen, Lisa Takeuchi. 3/5/2007, Vol. 169, Iss. 10, p51.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1592860,00.html

And for help with your resume, visit the Career Resource e-Library page at http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/
career/resumes.shtml or attend one of our workshops (http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/
career/workshops.shtml).

—Hagar Shirman