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Paralegal Adds Video Cover Letter to Job Search Arsenal

By Lynne DeVenny

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If you think you've gone high-tech in your job search by using LinkedIn, Chicago paralegal Tara Kowalke's higher-tech approach might make you wonder if you're just doing the equivalent of banging out your resume on an IBM electric typewriter.

She's hired guugos.com to help her prepare a video cover letter, which she hopes will help her stand out from the competition.

For Kowalke's video cover letter, she spent twenty minutes being interviewed by the director -- mostly questions about her personality and background. Then the director edited together the best clips to make a 90-second video.
Now here's the catch, she can attach it as a link to the top of her resume.

Guugos says you can also link the "60-90 second video cover letter...to your emails, or to any of your LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social site pages."

Check out the featured candidate at the company's website. I'm interested to hear what you think. Is a video cover letter worth the $200 investment, and can it really help you - or hurt you?

Do you think that lawyers, human resource personnel and legal recruiters will embrace the concept as a way to "preview" candidates?

Source: My Fox Boston

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).