Boost your Career - Really?

While scrolling through my Inbox, I saw a mail from one of the job portals that said : Boost your career.

The content read as follows:

Dear Sudhanshu,

Searching for the right job?

Here is what you will need:
- A resume that meets international standards, grabs employer’s attention and stands out in the crowd
- Direct reach to several top recruiters
End your search for the right job, get our Career Booster service – blah blah blah...

I am just thinking aloud here: Is it really a good/well written resume that gets one a dream job?! Here is what I think: Any man (or woman... sorry for the order) worth his salt and desirous of working for an organization of repute needs to be able to jot down what skills he brings to the table and then indeed, be able to demonstrate the same during interview and at job. To that effect, the resume only serves the purpose of enlisting the skill-set that a potential employee offers an employer. Unless you have trouble writing down what you have done and what you are capable of, do you really think you deserve that dream job of yours?! Now I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I really don't feel the need to hire one of these "Resume Writing Experts" (heck! why would someone want to specialize as a resume writing expert for god's sake!!)

In fact a friend of mine did cough up around 3000 rupees to get one of these professional resumes and (!@#$) the thing looked and read like a peace of ... you know what! The real value proposition these guys might be offering (my 2 cents really) would be to show up your resume in search results. That's all there is to it. God save anyone who falls for this!

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Insightful article from Laura Freschi:

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The Ant and the Grasshopper - 2.0

Got this through a forwarded email :

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An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying
up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or
shelter so he dies out in the cold.
Indian Version:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying
up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs &
dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to
know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are
cold and starving.
NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to
a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor
Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house!!!!
Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter!!!!!!!
Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.


Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not
upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper
(many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against
the wrath of God for non-compliance) .
Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for ' Bengal Bandh' in West
Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the
heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
Mamta Bannerji allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway
Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against
Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.


Kapil Sibbal makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & in Government Services.
The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay
his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over
to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.
Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
Mamta calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.


Many years later....
The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in
Silicon Valley ,
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in
India ,
......AND
As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,


India is still a developing country…!!!



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Although I hate to be a skeptic, most of the things said here force one to agree...