Are Your A Cookie Cutter Job Seeker

Are Your A Cookie Cutter Job Seeker As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the question, Are you a cookie cutter job seeker? I encourage you to visit other members responses, linked at the end of my post! Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: #careercollective. Do you face each situation like the same cookie cutter?   Sometimes you need a different shape to best utilize the dough. Do you only search for one job title, like making a batch of all the same cut out cookie? Do you decorate your cookies or eat em plain? My boys love making cookies at Christmas because the get to put their individual mark on each one.   Loads of sprinklers (thats what they call them) are put on top of these cookies that make them uniquely theirs so that when we finally get to eat them, they recognize their decorated cookies like a long lost friend. I hope that you put the joy of cooking into your job search and make it a creation! Here are other wonderful posts answering this question from their perspectives! Career By Choices Expat Success Tips Ongoing Career management is No Longer Optional for the Expat in Todays New World of Work   Top Margin: Gayles Blog Sabotaging Your Prospects: Cookie-cutter Style CAREEREALISM: Cookie Cutters are for BakingNot Job Searching! The Emerging Professional: On the Cookie Cutter Approach to Job Search: Do You Need a Recipe? Sterling Career Concepts: Job seekers: Break out of the mold! Dawn Bugni The Write Solution: Dawns Blog Is your job search cookie-cutter or hand-dropped? Rosa Vargas, Creating Prints Resume-Writing Blog: Being a Cookie-Cutter Job Seeker is a Misfortune Heather Mundell, life@work: How Not to Be a Cookie Cutter Job Seeker Sweet Careers:Passive Job Seeker=Cookie Cutter Job Barbara Safani Career Solvers Blog Cookie Cutter Resumes Can Leave a Bad Taste in the Hiring Managers Mouth Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Career Trend Blog: Eating Bananas Doesnt Make You an Ape   Miriam Salpeter, Keppie Careers: How Can a Job Seeker Stand Out? Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips Blog:Avoiding Being a Cookie-Cutter Job-seeker In Your Resume and Throughout Your JobHeather R. Huhman, HeatherHuhman.com: Break the Mold: Dont Be a Cookie Cutter Rosalind Joffe, WorkingWithChronicIllness.com Forget the cookies! Start with vision