hey everybody Don Georgevich here
with job interview tools and today I
want to talk to you about your resume
and more importantly what your resume
should look like how does it look to
employers how does it appeal to
employers what do they think of it now I
can tell you if they're not calling you
back for job interviews they don't think
very much of it it's as simple as that
you're not connecting with employers now
I just got an email from a guy he says
hey Don I've sent out a thousand resumes
in the last year and not one single
phone call what am I doing wrong well
I'll tell you the first thing you're
doing wrong is you waited too long you
can't just send out a thousand resumes
and then decide a year later that hmm
maybe I'm doing something wrong
you need to know a lot faster you need
to know within a few weeks and you can
if you send out maybe you know 50
resumes in a month which which is a lot
that's just too many you should really
only send out about 10 but let's just
say you sent out 50 in a month and you
got zero response that should tell you
right there that you're not connecting
they don't like what they see you're not
connecting with that employer so how do
you connect with them what do you do
well I'll tell you the key lies in the
job description but what most people do
is they just take the resume they write
one resume and they send that same
resume out to every single employer they
don't make any changes to it maybe maybe
they'll change the cover letter and just
change the name of the company but
that's it they keep sending the same
resume out over and over and over again
and that's the worst thing you can do
and that's why it makes it so easy to
apply to maybe a hundred jobs in a month
because you're just taking one resume
taking there's one resume you have and
you're sending it out to a hundred
people it's easy to hit you know click
send click send click send but that's
the worst thing you can do what you need
to do is to carefully look at each job
that you apply for you need to print off
the job description that's right you
need to print it off put it on paper and
then
go through it line by line and find what
they're looking for look for the key
areas look for the skills they're
looking for the experience the
competencies and then put your resume
right next to that job description and
when they're looking for leadership can
you draw a line on your resume from
leadership over to that job description
so when they're looking for a specific
skill you need to be able to take that
skill on that job description and draw a
line over to where it exists on your
resume and you need to do that for each
of the key areas that they are looking
for if you can't do that then you need
to rewrite your experience so that it is
a match for the job description now if
you do that for each job that you apply
to I can tell you right now there's no
way you'll have the time to apply to a
hundred jobs in a month or a thousand in
a year like this other guy did you
simply won't have the time because it
takes effort it takes time and effort to
apply to each job posting you have to
put effort into it it might take one to
two hours to legitimately apply for a
job posting and you can't apply to every
possible job that comes through you
can't just look at it and say well I
think I can do that I'll apply yeah I
think I can do that all apply that
doesn't work you need to be a
laser-targeted
exact match for what they're looking for
if you're anything less than that don't
even waste your time because what's
gonna happen is you're gonna apply to
all these jobs that are just kind of
maybes and then what that does is when
you don't hear back that lowers your
confidence and it makes it harder to
apply for the next job because you're
thinking to yourself well we just
applied to a hundred jobs last week we
got no response why do we want to keep
applying to more jobs all it does is
hurt us and that's right
the more jobs you apply to and the less
response you get the more it hurts you
it it hurts how you feel about yourself
and
that's no good you want to feel good
about yourself you want to be able to
send out a job you want to be able to
apply to a job and send out your resume
and get a response back and that makes
you feel good when you get that call for
the interview and then now even if you
don't get the job it doesn't matter at
least you're getting telephone calls or
responses off of your resume that's what
you want that starts the momentum if you
have no momentum if you just keep
sending out resumes all the time and you
get no feedback on that nobody's calling
you that hurts us inside and that
inhibits us to continue our job search
we just kind of feel bummed out about
ourselves and I don't want you to feel
bummed out about yourself and then I
know you don't either so the next time
you are ready to apply for a job take a
careful look at that job description and
make sure that you are a super 8 plus
match to it and then make sure that your
resume is a reflection of what that job
description is and I guarantee this I
guarantee if you apply to ten jobs where
you have taken the time to manicure your
resume and make it fit make it match
what that job description is I guarantee
you're gonna hear back more than 50 60 %
of the time you are going to get the
phone call they're gonna call you up and
they're gonna want to schedule a phone
interview sure there'll be another 30 40
% of the resumes where you won't hear
back and there's all kinds of reasons
for that employers like to post jobs and
not not have interviews that they like
to just test the market and see what's
out there they have all kinds of crazy
reasons what fifty to sixty percent of
the time if you are match for what
they're looking for you will get the
phone call I guarantee it now I'll tell
you here's another thing there's another
thing that people do that doesn't really
benefit them they have someone else
write the resume that's right they hire
somebody else maybe for one or two
hundred bucks to write the resume
and I'll tell you right now that's
usually the worst thing you can do
nothing against the resume writers but
they don't know you like you know you
and they don't put that much effort into
writing your resume they basically take
your experience and they just kind of
massage it a little bit and throw it on
a piece of paper and say here you go
it's a resume and it's the worst thing
you can do now granted there are some
really really good resume writers out
there now if you're not spending maybe
five to seven hundred dollars to have
your resume written you're probably not
getting a experienced professional who
really knows what they're doing but all
that aside all that aside you really
should write your resume yourself
because only you can convey the passion
that's inside of you and put that on
paper when you hand that responsibility
off to someone else who does not know
you they're just gonna give you a
generic resume with your experience on
it and that's not what you want you want
to convey emotion and feeling and
experience and excitement on your resume
and only you can do that and I'll tie
this here's another thing there's
another reason why you should write your
resume yourself you see when you have
someone else write it and then when it's
time when it comes time to make some
changes to it to make it the model a
different job you're not you're the
worst person to make the changes because
you didn't write your resume in the
first place so now you're taking what
somebody else wrote and then you just
send that out to everybody and that's
the worst thing you can do and so now
when it comes time to apply for another
job
since you didn't succeed write your
resume in the first place
you're not very in tune with being able
to rewrite it to massage it to make it
fit another job description but when you
write it yourself when you write your
resume yourself now you're in a much
better stronger position to go through
it and to
make it match another job description
and then after you make it match one job
description you apply for another job
you make it match another that's how
successful job seekers win jobs it all
starts with your resume and you can do
it too it's not that hard just have to
put the initial effort into it once you
spend a couple hours working on your
resume and writing it you'll get better
at it sure it'll be awkward and you'll
feel uncomfortable at first but as you
go through the process you'll get better
and better and better now me I I wrote
my resume over a hundred times when I
look for jobs over maybe even 200 I
don't even know I was always always
always making changes every time I would
apply to a new job I'd make a couple of
changes every time and that all those
were just little building blocks they
just kept building on each other and my
resume kept getting better stronger and
more aligned with what employers were
looking for and then it actually got to
the point where I hardly had to make any
changes for any job that I sent it out
to I mean usually by that point I was
hired but you know I'm talking about
like for the for the next job give me a
couple years later when I started
interviewing again but every time you
make a little change it's a building
block in your resume it gets better and
stronger better and stronger and it
becomes more relevant to what employers
are looking for all right my friend I
hope this helps you I hope this helps
you make your resume well done it better
and stronger naughty now that you know
how to aim it a little bit and that you
have a benchmark for when you should
make changes or when your resume isn't
working
like if you if you're waiting a year if
you're waiting a year to decide your
resume isn't working you've waited way
too long
you should no more than a month if you
don't get any responses in a month your
resume isn't working it's not connecting
with employers you need to make changes
that's that's a message that employers
are sending you by not by not calling
you
that's a silent message that employers
are sending you that your resume is not
up to par with what they're looking for
now to help you go further to help you
go further in this process I've got a
great guide it's called
resume masterpiece now this book this
book has been around for about ten years
it will walk you through in detail how
to write your resume if you already have
a resume it'll show you how to make it
better it'll show you how to write
strong work experience statements strong
accomplishment statements it has a whole
section on just power words and adverbs
that you can use to make your work
experience statements stronger so that
they stand out and it's got tons of
examples it's got over a hundred
different resumes from 20 different
professions in it so whether you know
you're an accountant you're a government
worker you're in health care you're a
teacher you're an engineering you're in
finance it doesn't matter
this guide covers every possible
different occupation though I I'll tell
you I don't go into the medical field I
don't have any sample medical resumes
but that's really about the only one I
think I've got everything else so this
guide is gonna walk you through it's
gonna teach you how to write a good
heading it's gonna teach you how to
write an accomplishment section it's
gonna teach you how to write your work
experience how to lay it out and it's
gonna teach you how to overcome any kind
of work experience gaps that you have
maybe you have a two year gap in there
it'll teach you how to mask that so that
so that it's not as obvious to employers
it'll teach you how to write a volunteer
section it'll teach you how to write
your education section it covers
everything from start to finish on your
resume so if whether you already have a
resume it'll show you how to make it
better if you don't have one at all
it'll show you how to build one from
scratch it's a great guide it's
available you can get it in a hardcopy
just like this book right here I'll send
that out to you it's also it's also
available in eBook format it's the most
popular format it's a quick download
that you can get from job interview
tools calm and I'll actually I'll put a
link for that guy right under this video
and you can go check it out just go
check it out download it and see if it
helps you doesn't help you give you
money back no big deal
alright so
I hope this helps you today hope this
helps you go a little bit farther and to
understand what's going on on the resume
process so good luck and your next
interview and I will see you in the next
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