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Successful Resumes for Difficult Situations
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- How to Manage the Red Flags on Your Resume
- Resume Sample: Older, Laid-Off Job Seeker
- Resume Sample: Manager Who Was Fired from Her Last Job
- Resume Sample: Making a Career Change
Next week: Successful Job Interviews
Most employers do not like to take hiring risks,
especially in today's litigious society where employment laws may be loosely interpreted. Unless they have no other options, they move on to the next candidate when they see these elements in your work history.
The best option is to manage the elements of your work history that would raise their concerns. Your goal is to minimize or eliminate those elements that might move your resume to the discard pile. These strategies, described by Resume expert Susan Ireland, make those red flags less obvious and less threatening.
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James Z. Carpenter (not his real name) has had a very
successful career as a public relations and marketing professional. Then, he was laid off, losing his job with several other employees as his employer tried to reduce costs. When James wrote this resume, he faced three problems which he needed to resolve.
James needed to address these issues so that employers would see him as up-to-date (vs. old) and not assume that he used his period of unemployment as a vacation (the assumption many make). In this article, learn how James recovered and see the formal and the ATS versions of his resume by Resume Expert Erin Kennedy, addressing these issues.
Betsy Charles (not her real name) was fired because she
disagreed with her new manager. Betsy had never been fired before. After recovering from the shock, she realized she could turn her job termination into an opportunity to show potential employers just how much of an impact she could make as a Sales/Account Manager in a new organization.
In her resumes (both formal and ATS versions) by Resume Expert Erin Kennedy, you will see how Betsy handled the "you're fired" issue and also highlighted her best achievements so that employers wouldn’t focus on the fact that she was unemployed. Instead, the formal and the ATS versions of her resume focus on the fact that she had achieved amazing things in her career.
Joseph Monroe (not his real name) wanted a change. He had
worked his way up to an executive position in the healthcare industry but was, in his words, “not married to it anymore.” Since there is no way of removing healthcare from his resume, James used the skills he had gained through the years to transition himself for other industries -- to help open up his opportunities.
Joseph liked the idea of moving from healthcare to technology. The challenge was how to position his resume for technology since all of his experience was in healthcare. He had the basic operations foundation. Both versions of his resume, the formal and the ATS versions by Resume Expert Erin Kennedy, show the reader that he could do more than healthcare.
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