Hey, it's great to see you again, everyone. In last week's video, I talked about a LinkedIn
ProFinder requests that came through for an Interview coach. It was an individual who
was struggling to get to the second round of interviews, and if you miss that video,
here's a link to it in the upper corner. But in today's video I want to talk about a different
LinkedIn ProFinder request that came through. On this one it's an individual who is looking
for a resume writer, someone who's knowledgeable about keywords and can help make their resume
stand out. Keywords are important,. Especially, in today's times with applicant tracking systems,
but also keep in mind that the average recruiter is not really reading your resume anymore.
They're scanning it, they're only spending about six seconds on it and they are looking
for a certain keyword. So this can be really important and there's a great tool out there.
It's called job scan. I'm going to share with you how job scan works. Use it as a resource
because it will definitely help move you to the top of the line when it comes to making
sure that your resume stands out. So, here we are on the homepage of job scan. It's
simply job scan.co. There is no com,. Be careful of that. But I'm also gonna leave
a link to the website in the notes section below. Job scan is actually an applicant tracking
system. It was built on the technology of I believed the top five applicant tracking
systems that are out there right now. And I, the last I candidate, I think there was
something like 20 different companies creating these applicant tracking systems. Keep in
mind also 90% of large companies and the last I read, 35% of small to medium sized companies
are using applicant tracking systems.
And these are, um, something that you're going to be faced nowadays when you're submitting
your resume. Essentially the, um, computer is taking your resume and it's matching it
up to the job description and it's ranking it. So it could be a couple of hours later,
it could be a couple of days later that the recruiter or hiring manager sits down at their
desk. They bring up the ATS and they say, let's see what resumes I have for this position.
And you can be the best qualified out there. But if you do not have the um, necessary keywords,
you may not even be considered because you've been ranked by the computer. I mean, think
about like, you know a Yelp and you're going to a restaurant and you see a restaurant that
has two stars and another one that has five stars. You're probably not even going to consider
the two star restaurant. You're just going to go to the five star or the four star.
Kind of the same way here. In fact, a lot of the applicant tracking systems, the output
have a ranking with star ratings. So the way this is used is essentially that you're going
to scroll down here and you're going to either copy and paste or you're going to upload your
resume and then you're going to copy and paste the job description over here. And so I have
a resume that I'm going to use in real time. This was actually a resume that was presented
to me, um, initially by a client. I've removed his name and the companies that he worked
for, um, would never release a resume like this, but I'm just using his resume. And this
was from a couple of years ago as an example of how jobs scan works. So what I would do
is I would go ahead and copy here and do this edit copy and I'm going to come over here
and edit and paste the resume.
Now what we need to do is we need to go find a job position out there. So he was looking
for a program manager. So let's do this list. Go to indeed, one of the largest job boards
out there. By the way, I'm not a big fan of job boards. I think we can do a lot better
than, um, you know, spending all our time searching job boards, but lets just for the
sake of it, let's find a program manager position, and I'm just doing an entire search in California.
Let's see if I can find something that would be, you know, uh, let's say senior program
manager, I'm just gonna use this as an example. I'm going to copy right there and edit copy
and I'm going to go back to the job scan. I'm going to do a paste right here and I'm
going to run a scan and let's see what happens. You've reached your limit. Please register
for more scans. By the way, jobscan does have a limit of five and then you can't
use it anymore. So I'm gonna pause the video here and it will be back in just a moment.
I just had to use different email account to go ahead and register this.
So, by the way, you can use job scan five times a month for free or they want to charge you
about $50 bucks a month after that. And it's an investment. You know, you may want to consider,
especially if you in your career transition. But anyway, what we've done here is I've pasted
the resume and I pasted of the job description. I'm going to hit scan and let's see what happens.
This is real time. I've not done this before, but here we go. That resume had only a 39%
match rate. And as we can go through here, it says you're missing 19 hard and soft skills
on your resume and we can go down and we can see exactly what it is that they're really
looking for.
In other words, this one must be a really important one, continuous improvement and
management experience here. That's a predicted skill. But let's take a look here. Metrics,
it's not mentioned at all on the resume. Presentations not mentioned at all in a resume. Um, so this
is Jobscan. None of these soft skills here, um, are mentioned on the resume, but yet they're
mentioned a number of times on the job description. So could go before I actually in this video.
And that is how made your resume stand out to a specific, uh, position that's out there.
You get called in for an interview. Don't forget, I have a free download in the notes
section below, "The top five interview questions that any hiring manager really wants to know
about you in the best practice answers to these questions." So check that out if you
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