The rule of the day relates to a good idea that can help you network more successfully either when you are employed or unemployed.
Creating your own business cards for your personal use – a business card with your name and contact information and perhaps a few skills or your area of expertise shown – can be a great way to quickly exchange information with other people you are networking with or who you meet during the course of a day.
We’re not talking about getting 2,000 cheap looking, flimsy thin cards that you can buy for $10 from an Internet ad or anything like that, we’re talking professional looking cards on the same stock paper you’d expect an employer to print business cards on.
Having business cards for your personal use can help you remain top of mind after you’ve met someone who can positively influence your job search. You could also use them to hand to recruiters or other hiring authorities that you meet during an interview.
I can think of a few times that a job candidate came to interview with me and handed me a cheap looking business card where the text was a bit smudgy and it looked like they had printed the cards out on a home computer. This didn’t help their cause.
I also recall a few cases where the person handed me a personal but professional looking business card that included their name, contact info, university degree (ie. BSc Computer Science, MBA, etc) and a few bullet points regarding their skillset. I remember those people in a good way.
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