Third in a series:
So, former rock-n-roll star Jim Holvay is desperate and looking for a sales job. Even though he'd written a runaway hit song, "Kind of a Drag", his music career had dried up and he needed work.
He has an interview in a day, but his resume is in shambles and he needs help. That's where we pick up our interview...
"I have no money. Zero. I'm broke. But I know my resume needs a complete overhaul before I go into this interview. So I open up the phone book, looked under "resume service", and then looked for the smallest ad I could find. Finally, I find a place and call."
"An old guy answers the phone. After I explained what I needed, he says 'OK, come by and see me.' "
"So that afternoon I get into my 1965 Volkswagen and drive over to his office. It's in a broken down old building in a bad neighborhood. I find his office, and its so small that when I opened the door it literally almost hit the desk he was sitting at! There were boxes in the corner, old pizza cartons...it was a mess. And this guy has to be close to 70 years old...turns out he was a retired businessman.
"We start talking and he asks me, 'So what's the name of this outfit you need the resume for, sonny?' And I tell him I have an interview with Pitney Bowes, and he says "Oh, wow! That's a huge company!" I explained that I didn't have any sales experience, but needed a resume to get me the job.
"He knew just what to do, and started to create my fake resume. He told me I needed to call my brother in Chicago and get a bunch of company names and their phone numbers for the fake resume - and since I had told the lady I had sold clothing and cars, we needed to back that up. So I call my brother and start asking him for all these numbers and for names of car dealerships...he finally asked me, 'Jim, what the hell are you doing out there?!?"
"The next day, I paid the guy $25 and picked up the resumes. The guy was amazing...he had filled in 15 years of sales experience on a resume. No mention of the music career or the gold records. It got the job done."
Now comes the hard part: Acing the interviews at Pitney Bowes. How did it go?...Read the next post!
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