in today's video, I wanted to talk about the five things recruiters look for in
your resume so that it would help you create a great credential for your
future employers to get in touch with you if this is a first time meeting my
name is Holly I'm a certified career coach and
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Tuesday recruiters generally spend five to ten seconds max per each resume they
scan through reason being is that they have a lot of applicants coming through
their inbox so you wanted to pay very close attention to the five things that
will help your resume stand out so that the recruiters will jump out of
their chair to get in touch with you let's start with the number one thing
perfect what do I mean by buzzwords let me give you an example assuming that I
am recruiting for software engineer for Amazon okay and I'm only interested in
Seattle based candidate assuming that this person will be coding in Python and
or Java preferably somebody with an e-commerce background and I'm looking
for someone who's fairly senior which means they must have data structure
algorithm or large scalable distributed system so here are some of the buzz word
example that I will be looking for and I would be able to see a lot of these
throughout the entire resume so assuming that you are either a technical program
managers or roles outside of the engineering spectrum you wanted to make
sure that your skills are highlighted throughout your resume
based on the job description of the role that you are applying to now that you
got the recruiters attention the next thing they look at is your position
title why your position title in point because this is allowing the recruiter
to see your career progression either you are a people manager or individual
contributor this is a good indication for the recruiters and employer to learn
more about your background and can get a sense of what is next for you next thing
a recruiter would look at is the company the company that you're currently
working in as well as your previous employer
this allowed the recruiter to see how big your environment is let me give you
an example if I'm looking for a technical program manager who has been
an amazon for at least two years I know that this individual have experience in
moving at a very fast pace and also have launched multiple products or services
here's a bonus tip if you're working for a start-up or an organization that your
future employers may not have heard of I would highly recommend that you write in
one sentence high-level explaining what the organization does and why is it
amazing to work there this will really help get the attention of your future
employer the number four things we could all look for is your academia background
although not all employers require a college degree but based on my
experience most tech company does require if not preferred to the reason
being is that if you are a programmer an employer would expect for you to have a
CS or computer science degree for software and an e or EE for hardware
this indicates that you have the epic Demyan assuming that this is your first
intern opportunity or your first role they know that you're coming with the
foundation of computer science in this case well now that you've got the
recruiters attention having the right position titles same
industry the academia background now the recruiter is interested to know if you
have the right qualification for the job here's an example for software
engineering here are some of the key points that our recruiters would look at
and to make sure that you have these on your resume now that you know the five
things recruiters look for in a resume I recommend that you check out my video on
how to create a professional LinkedIn profile after all this is the largest
platform for employers to connect with job seekers so you wanted to make sure
that your LinkedIn profile complements your resume in creating a brief
high-level of what you have done okay and if you are interested to connect
with technical professionals who are in similar situations I will leave the link
below to my Facebook group thank you so much for watching I will
see you next week bye
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