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Successful Resumes for Today
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- Avoiding the Resume Black Hole: Why 95% of Resumes Never Get Read, and What You Can Do About It
- How Employers Review Resumes and Applications: The Secret for Standing Out
- To Change Industries, Make These 5 Tweaks to Your Resume
- 24 Free Resume Samples
Next week: Successful Coronavirus Job Search
Ninety-five percent of resumes today never get read. The
reason is surprising -- it's because they are honest recitations of everything the job seeker has done and thinks important.
However, resumes work best when they tell compelling stories that match the job seekers' skills and experiences to the responsibilities and deliverables of the job. NY Times best-selling author Martin Yate shares the employers’ thought process when they are reading resumes and how to consider the process from the employer's point of view!
Unfortunately, an employer's only hope of finding the
qualified candidates in the hundreds of resumes is to reject as many as possible, as quickly as they can. Your resume may not be seen and, most likely, will never be read in its entirety.
So you can avoid having your resume end up in the discard pile, recruiter Harry Urschel shares the thought process when the employer is reading it is... “Is there anything in here that knocks this person out from further consideration?” Always consider the process form the employer's point of view! What do they want? Read how to address those issues.
Our resumes are the most financially important documents
we will ever own. When we want to change our industry sector as part of a strategic career move, our resume should reflect an understanding of the new target industry's issues and challenges.
All employers and all industries develop unique priorities, languages, and "ways of doing things" as a natural response to the challenges presented by the services they provide or products they deliver. NY Times best-selling author Martin Yate shares 5 essential tweaks to demonstrate your understanding of the new industry so you can make important changes to your resume to move to a new
industry.
In this section, find sample resumes for 12 different job
seekers. For each sample, you will find each job seeker’s background story and how it is presented in the resume. You will see 2 sample resumes for each job seeker: the "formal" (pretty) version of the resume plus the "plain" (ATS-friendly) version of the resume.
The samples include: average Joe job seeker, a career changer, an older job seeker looking younger, an unemployed job seeker with gaps in employment, an older laid-off worker, someone just fired, a mom returning to work, a college student, a new grad, a job seeker highlighting education, a non-profit executive with no degree, and someone with a chronic illness who is unemployed.
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