![]() ![]() Make sure the essential skills stand out.ĭo you show how you were successful? It is easy to write that you are highly successful. There are a couple that will land you a job and the rest are supporting information. If they are buried deep in the resume, there is a good chance you will be rejected before they are read.Īre your most important two or three skills clearly presented in these fifty words? You probably possess dozens or hundreds of different skills. Where on your resume are there 50 words? They need to be at the top if want them to be read. Stick with only the most important 50 words. I’m sure there is a lot of important info on your resume and 50 words won’t capture everything. Take a highlighter and highlight the phrases that best summarize your experience and accomplishments. Print out your resume and sit it in front of you. To avoid this, you need a quick to read, easy to understand and impressive description of your background and potential. Every second increases the odds the resume will be discarded. This forces a hiring manager or recruiter to spend a lot more time figuring out what the person is capable of doing. There are a lot of job seekers who create overly vague and confusing descriptions of their experience. I will be able to screen several other candidates in the time it would take me to pick up the phone, call this candidate and ask the basic questions like “what job did you hold at your last employer?” My final assessment is to move on to the next candidate. I can’t even tell if he’s been successful because I have no basis for determining the scope of his role. I can’t assess his performance relative to his peers, because I don’t know who his peers are. If I can’t determine what field the candidate is in, I can’t even start this process.Īfter reviewing the resume for a minute, I don’t know what job the candidate has held. ![]() The key to this is assessing the candidate’s capability quickly and comparing them to other candidates in the field I have assessed. If I can’t find something with some “wow factor,” I’m likely to move on. To make this decision, I look for something showing how a person stands out in their field – why they are better than their competition. ![]() I have to make a quick assessment if I can place the person and move on if I can’t. I don’t have time to spend a significant amount of time on each. I could be completely wrong.Īs a recruiter, what do I do with a resume like this? I receive a lot of resumes. It’s a guess as to whether this individual was really an operations manager and strategic planning analyst. The resume I received listed so many functions and never described what the core responsibility was. For example, “supported marketing with development of new product pricing.” This description may be completely accurate, but would not be representative of a lengthy career if you only did this for a few days. What you don’t want to do is include this as some vague description. This can be good experience and may show the versatility of your skills. For example, a staff accountant might work closely with someone in marketing or sales on a specific project for a few days. If you have been somewhere for ten years or more, you can talk about any functional area in your resume. ![]() It’s impossible to know what this guy really did.Įvery job will eventually touch on every aspect of a company. This puts the minor aspects of his role, tasks he might work on only a few times a year, on equal footing with the core of his job. The job seeker left out any description of the scope of his responsibilities or some statement as to what was typical. By listing anything and everything he did, it’s very difficult to understand what role he had. The thoroughness of the job seeker’s job description had an effect opposite to what he intended. He described every aspect of his employment, from core responsibilities to minor details. The only way to understand the positions is to read the job descriptions closely. It makes it very difficult to understand the background of a person quickly without some indicator of the type of role. He didn’t list any job titles, just the functional areas of his jobs, operations and strategic planning. The job seeker decided to take a short cut. Those are my titles – the closest I can come up with for the positions after reading the resume closely. The resume was from a manager who had worked as a strategic planning analyst and then as an operations manager. What do you do if you work in a role that has little or no equivalence to jobs at other companies? Do you list your job title, change the title to something more commonly used, or skip it entirely? The resume I read today struggled with this dilemma. Most jobs have well established titles and easy to understand responsibilities. ![]()
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