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Advanced Care Solutions is looking for an addition to our team. We are a close-knit website design and development firm in the Syracuse area. This is an in office part-time hourly position that may lead to full-time. Experience with office tasks, Word processing, and communication skills are essential. Please send your information via email to seo@acs-web.com

I know this really has nothing to do with web development but it is what I’m working on at the moment and I thought I would make my life easier and try to help some people out. We are currently hiring for web designers. I have posted the job description on our Facebook page so I’m sure you’ve seen it. If not take a look and if you know a top-notch designer send him our way .

That being said we are a small company and everyone has a variety of duties. One of mine is the office. I am your first point of contact if you don’t make it past me you’re not going to. Sorry, I have nothing to do with the candidate selection except to make sure the boss’ time is not wasted. Witch brings me to the first item on the list.
1) When responding to a job posting send your Resume.
This seems like a no brainer for me but we have people emailing for more information, if the position is still available, asking us to call them, ect… Your Resume is a digital file it takes two seconds to attach it to the email. Please do. This lends to the second item

2) Your email should be a professional cover letter. Yes this is only the email message to get your Resume to us but first impressions count. Which of course leads right into the third item.

3) Your email address should not be cute. You are applying for a professional position and while a cute email may get a chuckle around the office it does not give a good first impression.

4) This one is to make my life easier. I have covered that you should send your Resume. Please, please, please do not name that file resume. Use your name (first and last) so I can just save the file for review and I don’t have to rename it. We are going through ten to twenty resumes a day and this tends to get old.

5) This item is just a good practice in general. Do a search for yourself on the major search engines. What comes up? Is this the  impression you would like to give a potential employer? If not take steps to clean it up, we do look, and this leads into the next item.

6) Use all the resources available to you to give information about yourself. LinkedIn and online resumes are seen and used to gather information.

7) This one may not pertain to all job seekers but, if you have a portfolio please make it available. One of the best ways to get you in the door for the interview is letting us see what you can do. (p.s. if you do get an interview bring your resume and portfolio with you as well)

8 ) Another good practice is to research our company. You are trying to sell yourself. Find out who we are, what we do and what we are looking for.

9) This one is really just to help you out. If you get an interview dress professionally. This is a creative industry and we are all unique and talented. That taken for granted, this is a service industry and we work with clients on a daily basis. If you show up in a Ramones T-shirt and cut offs you are shooting yourself in the foot.

10) If you’re called for a second interview follow-up with the person trying to get a hold of you. There is a reason I am the point of contact. The boss is not going to email back and forth with you that’s my job.

As I said I know this post isn’t about Web Development and Internet Marketing but I hope it helps everyone involved.