I was checking out Employment Digest’s blog on 23 Creative Ideas for Job Finding and guess what was first on the list? Carry a business card; even if you are out of work…carry a business card. Which then of course begs the question: what do I put on the business card?

Well, I would say stack it with skills. Skills sell. Skills are always in demand. Business cards are tiny, so make it count. Sketch out your Top 20 career accomplishments and prioritize them down to 15. Keep paring them down until you have 5 career-making accomplishments.

Take those five and bullet-point them on your card with all of your contact information: phone number, e-mail, cell number…everything. The next time hiring manager or important networking contact sits at his desk wondering about the candidate he met at so-and-so’s party the other night, “Didn’t he have an engineering degree? What was it?” The answers will soon pop-up on the business card you gave him; the mad skills card that is still sitting in his wallet.

“Yeah…” he says to himself. “I’m going to give this guy/gal a call…”