Staples’ free offer for job seekers
By Kate Lorenz on Apr 27, 2009 in Featured, Job Search
While we live in an age when the job search and application process is increasingly conducted electronically, there’s still a need for the old-fashioned hard copy résumé and business card.
We always tell job seekers to bring copies of their résumés to interviews. And these days you never know when you’ll meet someone who might be the key to that next job. Having something tangible to give to the people you meet makes you more memorable than your competition.
Enter Staples. From now until June 13, the office supply retailer is giving job seekers 20 free copies of their résumé and 40 free instant business cards as part of its Career Stimulus Program. Staples also joined CareerBuilder, Tory Johnson of Women For Hire and Southworth paper to compile the top tips for job hunters at www.staples.com/freeresumes.
The offer includes 20 free single-sided pages of résumé copies, printed in black and white or color, and 40 free instant business cards printed in store on standard stock. Staples offers business cards in minutes, making it easy for customers to design, proof and print professional-quality business cards in as fast as 30 minutes, versus the standard industry delivery time of three-to-seven days. The offer is limited to one-package per-customer.
